THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, 



WM. H. WAITE. 



Yonkers, N. Y. 



Vice-President, 

 T. W. EVERETT, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y. 



Treasurer, 

 JAMES STUART, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 

 Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa. ; William 

 Duckham, Madison, N. J.; Alexander Mackenzie, Highland Falls, N. Y. ; 

 John H. Dodds, Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



To serve until 1915 — John Shore, Harrison, N. Y. ; Thomas Procter, 

 Lenox, Mass. ; William N. Craig, Brookline. Mass. ; Frank E. Witney, 

 FishkiU, N. Y. ; Robert Williamson, Greenwich. Conn.; F. Kirk, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.; James Bell, New York, N. Y. 



To serve until 1916 — Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; John 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, 111. 



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

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Wm. Iletrick, San Gabriel, Cal. ; Robert Angus, 

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

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



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



President, Secretary-Treasurer, 



GUSTAVE H. AMRHYN, ROLAND W. COTTERILL. 



New Haven, Conn. Seattle, Wash. 



Vice-Presidents, 

 JOHN McLAREN. CARL W. FOHN. JOHN HENDERSON, 



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



HERMAN MERKEL. CHARLES HAIBLE, T. H. PROST. 

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



Vol. XVIII. 



DECEMBER, 1914. 



No. S. 



Mankind is ready to acclaim Amen to the }'ear almut 

 to pass into history, which has witnessed the beginning' 

 of the most unhumanitarian conflict for supremacy in 

 the annals of the world's existence, the outcome of 

 which, and its consefjuent disastrous results tn the 

 European nations, no one can foretell, thouL;h no one 

 will contradict that it could not be worse. 



In our own glorious country we have been sufTerers 

 from political misdeeds and an economic strife, but yet 

 we have much to be thankful for. We have at times 

 within the year been confronted with critical situa- 

 tions which threatened warfare, but conservatism has 

 enabled us to extricate ourselves from these complica- 

 tions and to maintain our peace. As the new- year 

 approaches a wave of optimism over our immediate 

 future outlook is casting pessimistic sentiment aside, 

 and prosperitv again looms up for our \ast industrial 



enterprises. While our sympathies go out to our lui- 

 ropean brethren, with our wishes that peace for their 

 countries is not far distant in the new year, we extend 

 the season's greetings to our readers with a confidence 

 that a general prosperity will overtake our nation dur- 

 insj the vear 1915. 



"Freely you have received, freely give."' The demands 

 upon our people to aid in relieving humanitx's suffer- 

 ings caused by the European warfare have been great, 

 and have been liberally responded to. But to take the 

 bread from one to aid another is not charitable, nor 

 is it right. The press is exploiting the doings of our 

 wealthy classes in behalf of European charity, and 

 much undescr\ed ])ul>licity is gained by some. We 

 have an instance in mind where a wealthy estate owner 

 has cut the wage of his laborers one-third liecause, as 

 he says, the demands on him to aid the distress in 

 Europe is such that he must reduce his ex])ense else- 

 where, lie has been credited as a liberal contributor 

 to several funds, but is it his money which he donates 

 to this charity? A part, at least, is that of his working 

 class which has become a suft'erer as a cause of his lib- 

 erality in another direction through withholding what 

 they are rightfully entitled to for their hire. His 

 offense is aggravated by the fact that his resources 

 ha\e not been aft'ected by the war, but are being added 

 to through his business enterprises, which are directly 

 benefited by the demands of war. To such men we 

 say — let your charity begin at home. 



CO-OPERATION. 



There is nothing new or untried in the broad prin- 

 ciple of co-operation. In the last anah'sis, co-opera- 

 tion is only another name for civilization. As John 

 Stuart Mill has said: "Almost all the advantages 

 which man possesses above the inferior animals, arise 

 from his power of acting in combination with his fel- 

 lows, and (jf accomplishing by the united eft'orts of 

 numbers what could not be accomplished by the de- 

 tached efforts of individuals." From the dawn of his- 

 tory, men have co-o])erated to secure the benefits of 

 safety, progress and justice, and have called that co- 

 operation Government. The}- have united to produce 

 the manifold necessities and luxuries of life and have 

 called that co-operation Industry, They have talked 

 together of the eternal mysteries, they have gathered 

 together to worship the Supreme Being, and their 

 name for this sacred co-operation is Religion. The 

 greatest and most lasting undertakings of the human 

 f.niiily have come in accordance with the Biblical in- 

 junctions, "Bear ye one another's burdens." "Ye are 

 members one of another." 



What has been accomidished through co-operation 

 in other fields can be accomplished through co-opera- 

 ti(.in in the field of agricultural reform. All that is 

 needed is the intelligence to perceive the benefits to be 

 derived, and the determination to secure these 

 benefits. 



Our fields are fertile, our people are the peers of any 

 in intelligence and industry. And there is no better 

 cause in which to struggle than the cause which has 

 for its end the easing of the burdens which press upon 

 the heavy laden. And those who are engaged in the 

 good fight, who are dedicating their eft'orts to co- 

 operation as the surest and wisest medium of eco- 

 nomic progress, may well take for their motto the in- 

 spiring words of Edward Everitt Hale: 



"Look up and not down, look out and not in, look 

 forward and not back — and lend a hand." — Go?-. Glynn, 

 Xci.' York. 



