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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



Picsidcn:. rui-I'i-csidt-iil, Treasurer, 



J, W.ENERITT. W. _S. RENME, .lAMES STUART, 



Glen Cove, N, Y. 



Ross. Cal. 



Maniaroneek, N. Y. 



Secretary. MARTIN C. EBEI , Madison. N. J. 



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 Peter Duff. Orange. N. J.; William Kleinheinz. Ogontz. Pa.: Wm. Tur- 

 ner, Mendham. N. J.; Geo. W. Hess, Washington, D. C. : Tuhn H. Dcdds. 

 Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



To serve until 1916 — Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; Tohn F. Huss. 

 Hartford, Conn.; Jas. MacMachan, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. ; A". Bauer, Deal 

 Beach. N. J.; John W. Jones. Pittsburgh, Pa.; Alexander McPherson. 

 Washington, D. C. ; James C. Shield, Monticello, III. 



To serve until 1917— A. J. Smith. Lake Geneva, Wis.; Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis, MiTui.; Wm. Hetrick, San Gabriel, Cal.; Robert .'\ngus, 

 Tarrytown. N. Y. ; Robert Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn.; Alex. Fraser, 

 Newport. R. I. ; Arthur Smith, Reading, Pa. 



To serve as directors for three ye.Trs, until January 1. 1918 — William H. 

 Waite, Yonkers. N. Y. ; William N. Craig, Brookline. Mass.; Erward Kirk, 

 Bar Harbor. Me.; John W. Johnston. Glen Cove. N. Y.: Carl N. Fohn. 

 Colorado Springs. Cclo. : Peter Johnsen. Dallas. Tex.; Thomas Proctor. 

 Lenox, Mass. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



President, Secretarx-Treasurer, 



GUSTAVE X. AMRHYN, ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 



New Haven. Conn. Seattle, Wash. 



Vice-President.'!. 

 JOHN McLAREX. CARL W. FOHX, JOHN HENDERSON, 



San Francisco. Cal. Colorado Springs, Colo. Montreal, Canada. 



HERMAN MERKEL. CHARLES HAIBLE, J. H. FROST. 

 New York. X. Y. Newburgh, N. Y. Chicago, 111. 



\'ol. XIX. 



AUGL'.ST, 1915. 



Xo. 8. 



The remarks of President-elect Gray, of the .\mer- 

 ican Sweet Pea Society, suggesting co-uperation l)e- 

 tween the professional gardener and the amateur 

 gardener, and that the professional gardener be the 

 one to extend the helping hand, are most timely, and 

 should be carefully pondered over by all who have the 

 interest of horticulture at heart. \\'e have frequently 

 been severely criticized for endeavoring to form an al- 

 liance between the professional and amateur, and so 

 we are doubh- pleased to have this notice come from 

 a man who stands among the foremost in his profes- 

 sion. He speaks with authority, for he and the local 

 society with which he is prominenth- identified have 

 had much experience both with amateur growers and 

 with garden clubs and which has resulted in mutual 

 benefit to all concerned. The time is now most op- 

 portune to encourage and spread co-operation be- 

 tween the professional and amateur gardener for the 

 purpose of arousing a more widespread interest in 



ornamental horticulture in America, the accomplish- 

 ment of which must result in greater opportunities 

 for those engaged in the pr<ifession of gardening. 



The account appearing in the Jul}- Chronicle, of a 

 visit by a numl:)er of gardeners to a private estate on 

 the invitation <.if the (jwner, has evoked the sugges- 

 tion from several st)urces, that such "outings" not 

 ahjiie prove entertaining but instructive and that their 

 more frequent hajjpenings should be arranged for. In 

 and about Boston "Field Days" among the gardeners 

 have been popular for some time past, and during the 

 season visits are made to the private estates and also 

 to commercial establishments wdiere there may be 

 something of interest to observe for the gardener. 

 We have also read of a similar i)ractice on the Pacific 

 Coast, but it has not yet been introduced about New 

 York and elsewhere. The outing to Homewood was 

 ap])reciated by those who participated in it. The op- 

 piirtunity presents itself for some one else to extend 

 the invitation for a Field Day out of New York. We 

 feel sure that the response to it will not be disap- 

 pointing, whether it comes from estate owner or man- 

 ager, or comir.ercial establishment. 



THE LATE CHARLES L. SHEPPARD. 



It is with deep regret we have to record the passing of 

 Charles L. Sheppard, head gardener to Mrs. P. Cooper 

 Hewitt, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on June 16, after a brief 

 illness. The news of his demise came as a great shock to 

 the gardeners and his friends of Tuxedo Park. He was the 

 onlv son of Mr. L. Sheppard, head gardener to \'iscount 

 Gage, of Finle Place, Sussex, England, with whom he 

 received his early training as a gardener. After coming 

 to America, he secured a position as greenhouse assistant 

 at Castle Gould, Long Island, until two years ago, when 

 he came to Tuxedo Park as an assistant to Mr. William 

 Hastings. Shortly after that time Mr. Shejipard secured 

 the position he held at the time of his death. He was 

 still a young man, 29 years of a.ge, and on November 1 of 

 last year he married Miss r>. R. Turner, of Luton, Bed- 

 fordshire, England, and to whom the sympathy of all his 

 friends is extended at this the hour of her sad bereave- 

 ment. He was a very active member of the Tuxedo Hor- 

 ticultural Society and was ever willing to shoulder any 

 duties assigned to him. He was also a member of Tux- 

 edo Cricket Club, and was prominent m the atTairs 

 of the Men's Chib of St. Mary's Church, and a member 

 of the choir. 



( )n Sunday, June 20, the Tuxedo Horticultural Society 

 turned out in a body to attend the special memorial ser- 

 vice in St. Mary's Church, conducted by the Rev. R. S. 

 Wood, of Tuxedo. Interment took place in Evergreen 

 Cemeter\-. 



THE LATE DAVID ROSE. 



Another of the old-time gardeners of Tuxedo Park has 

 passed away in the person of David Rose, on June 18. 

 after a very severe attack of pleura pneumonia, which 

 lasted but a few days. He was 63 years of age. Mr. 

 Rose was gardener on the Price Collier estate for many 

 years and was very well known and much respected in the 

 district. He had the reputation ot a good vegetable 

 grower, who prided himself on some of his produce and 

 was also a great enthusiast on bees. Up till the last he 

 spent much of his spare time in nature's study, in which 

 he was very interested and had made it a life hobby, ^fr. 

 Rose left a widow and grown-up family to mourn his loss. 

 Internment was in Sloatsbura:h Cemeter\-. 



