THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



42.1 



HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE 



DON'TS FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 



Nil (loiil)t some will woudcr nt tlic titli' t-liiisi'n lor my ^iilijcrt. 

 Wlii'ii w(> rememln'i' tliiit tlic iiiiijority of tlii' villi's iiiul ii'^uhi- 

 tiiiM.-i hiul iliiwn for our coiiiliii't, ever sinee the ereatioii of tlie 

 worlil, have eon-sisted of "Thou slialt not," for which "don't" is 

 our moilern substitute, 1 think we may iirolitably consider a few 

 "flon'ts" which peciiliLirly nffecf ourselves. Much has been snid 

 aiiil written aliout raisiiii; the status of the pardener. This nmsl 

 he done by ourselves. iiiili\ iiliiall \ mikI .olleil IvcIn . N'o one laii 

 do it for lis. 



Don't fail lo render [iruniin and cliccrful oliciliemr lo lliose 

 over you. This will help to lit you for the coniniaiid of others, 

 and the work will be more easily and quickly dom'. 



Don't lose au opportunity of learniiif;'. Knowledge i-- power. 



Don't be shy in askiiij; ipiestioiis resardiiii; your work. "He 

 that questioneth much shall learn mnch." 



W'lieu vvorkini; with others; don't always look for tlie "light 

 end." ]")() yonr share, and. if blessed with superior sliciifith, a 

 little more. 



When iirMiiiiii;, don't h'avc rammed ends; al»a\s nialsc ;i slioit 

 dean lilt. 



Don't, water a plant without lirst making sure it ici|iiiics it. 

 .\ good hand with the watering-can is very valuable. 



When planting don't turn the ends of the roots upwanls, it is 

 not their natural direction. 



Don't forget orders and instriu tions. it is a poor excuse foi 

 having failed in your duty to say 'I forgot." (Mir nieinories 

 are largely what we make them. 



When accidents happen, or crops f;iil to realize i\|icitatiniis. 

 don't blame subordinates until \oii lia\c fust exainiiied yoiu-clt 

 on tlie matter. 



When entering on a new situation, dou'l lin.l fault with every- 

 thing done by your jiredeeessoi. Kallicr h't your energies be 

 directed to obtaining better results, wliiili will speak for them- 

 selves and be appreciated in due time. 



When successful in growing any particular subject, don't juiii:) 

 to the conclusion tliat every metliod except your own must be 

 wrong. Itemeniber more than one road leads to Loiulon. 



Don't quarrel with your fellow workers. A (|iiarvelsome jiersoii 

 is neither loved, feared or respected. 



If successful in life, don't get swellcil head: but thank lliiu 

 from whom all blessings flow. — ('. I'lirlxiiiinilli. in Jiniriial uj liiit- 

 iffli (larilpnrrH^ Asanrititioii. 



FLOWER NAMES, ENGLISH AND LATIN. 



"l''lowers in litei;itiiie should In treated broadly and generally, 

 perhaps even vaguely — just as the eye drinks delight from a field 

 of jioppies or a wood car|ielcd with wild hyacinths." writes the 

 iiiglit lion, (leorge W. K. Uussell in a delightful essay on lloAvers. 

 'taking no account of genera or species and ignoring the jargim 

 of 'frond' and stamen' and 'pollen.' jMatthew Arnold w roti' to 

 his friend (Jrant-DulV: 'Yon lirst led me to try and know thi' 

 names and history of the ]ilaiits I met with, instead of lieiiig 

 content with simply taking jilcasure in the look of them: and 

 you lia\e at least doubled my enjoyment of them liy doing so.' 

 ISiil. with all deference to my great teacher. I doubt if this is the 

 coininon experience. Would Wordsworth really have enjoyed the 

 lesser celandine, or I'uriis the inonntaiii daisy, iiiore keenly be- 

 cause some iHitanically-mindcd fiinul liad IcrtmiMl on their char- 

 acteristics'?" "Scieiilific nonieiH lat'iic," Ihe wriler i-ontinnes, "is 

 al»:i\s hideous, and the botanical habit of labeling or libeling 

 inuocent flowers and plants with Latinized nicknames is even 

 ]iaiiifully incongruous. English names have a tenderness and 

 beantv all their own, simple and homely — yet romantic — rose and 

 ))ink and lily of the valley, and lilac (better pronounced laylock) : 

 ]n'iiiirose, ilalfodil and snowdrop, heartsease and pansy. cowsli]i 

 and buttercup ami forget-me-not. meadowsweet and lo\'e-in-idle- 

 ness. foxglove and bluebell, even clierry-|ne, dusty-miller, and 

 old-man's-bearil. Uver against such names as these sid fuchsia, 

 dahlia, calceolaria, pelargonium, ainpelopsis \'(dtcliii, odontoglos- 

 siim, niadevallia, llarryana, I'.lairii No. 2 and Dorothy Perkins, 

 and no one who has ears to hear can doubt that our hnglish fme- 

 fathers knew better than their descendants the true language of 

 leaf and flower." 



Hut this subject may be :iigiicd cpiite as wcdl from tlic- otiier 

 side. "Linaria, Saponaria, SaKici, .Ajuga, .Anthyllis, I'otcntilla 

 Artemisia — what could be more charming'/" asks (I. Klemwell in 

 his "Flower Fields of .Switzerland." .\re they not a thousand 

 times more iiesthetic, he asks, "than tlieir English coiinter)iarts 

 — Toadflax. Soapwort, Sage, liiigle, Kidney \etcli, Ciiupiefoil, 

 Wormwocid." A writer to the 'I'iiiicx. .\Ir. Fleiiiwell tells ns, "be- 

 moans the growing use of Sedum instead of Stoiiecro]). and of 

 .\iitirrhiiiutn instead of Snapdragon, ami lir calls it :iii 'iiiineccs- 



sary use of botanic ;il terms.' :incl thinks that 'the want of beauti- 

 ful English names to many beautiful flowers seems a reproach 

 to their beauty.' Hut there are other authorities, equally num- 

 erous, who hold a contrary view, considering that too much is 

 liidiig made of English names, and that 'confusion worse con- 

 founded' is a very natural consequence. One catches the sound 

 of more than two voices in the discussion: one hears not only 

 the several jdaints of bidanist and flower-lover, but also the 

 claims of the chainpion of folklore, the mere amateur gardener, 

 the nncoinpromising patriot, and the incorrigible sentimentalist. 

 .\nd something in reason is said by each one of them — although 

 honors are not so easy as to enable one to call it a ease of six 

 of one and half-a-dozen of the other. For. perhaps, those who 

 strive for a langue bleue in this domain and choose Latin have 

 the weightier cause at heart. 



"(ieorge Crabbe, the poet, once wrote an English treatise on 

 botany, but never published it, because of the remonstrances of 

 the JIaster of Trinity College, Cambridge, who objected to de- 

 grading the science of botany by treating it in a modern lan- 

 guage. Such rigorous adhesion to Latin is of the relatively nar- 

 row past : nor is this dead tongue likely ever again to be a subject 

 for such blind idolatry." Jlr. Fleinwell quotes Alphonse Karr 

 who, in "Les I'Menrs .\niniees," designates the men of learning as 

 "pitiless tyrants," who have "seized upon the frail daughters of 

 sky and dew" and "have thrown them into the crucible of ety- 

 mcdogy, . . . and as if to assure themselves of impunity, 

 they have hidden their victims beneath a lieaii of barbarous 

 names," "'All this is frightful, is it not? . , . Unfortunate- 

 ly it is all very necessary,' .M. Karr continues. 'To admire is not 

 to know. and. in order to know, system and method are indis- 

 ]iensablc'. . . Ibcw could we do without the help of etymology'? 

 Pardon, then, tlicse men of science, who have done nothing but 

 idiey the law of necessity, and enter into the beautiful domain 

 from which the> have dissipated the darkness.' This." Mr. Flein- 

 well says, "is delightfully put. and is all very true. Latin no- 

 menclature does tend immensely to disjiel confusion, though in 

 certain quarters it may wcniiid the sense of sentiment, and we 

 shall no doubt always Innc coiilinncd adherents of popular 

 names." — K.n hniKic. 



RECREATION WORK PROBLEMS OF PARK 

 BOARDS. 



{Continued jroin j^<i'^c 41cS. ) 



the renting per season of such luckers is justifiable at 

 any fee if the detnand for them exceeds tlie accommo- 

 dations. 



Refectory .^er\icc — iXn one. nf cc curse, will claim that 

 refreshments, outside of i;cicid drinkini;- vvater, should 

 be furnished gratis, but the claim is itiade by many 

 that such service slmuld be retidered at cost. 



I claim that all such service should be rendered by 

 jjark authorities through their own employees and not 

 through concessions: that all drinks and foods should be 

 served in the best jiossiljlc manner and must be of the 

 best quality; and that tlie\ shcuild be sold at a reasonable 

 profit to the board. 



The following reasons, 1 believe, will sustain my 

 views and claims in tliis matter. 



First — Park authorities should not enter into unfair 

 comjjetition with others who have to make their living 

 in that business. 



Second — The profits so earned can be used to ad- 

 vantage in the betterment of the service, equiptnent, 

 and ill other imi)ro\ements by wliich the jniblic will 

 lie benefited, 



[ am of the opinion that in charging reasonable fees 

 for such, and similar services rendered, as herein de- 

 scribed, we accomplish at least three distinct desir- 

 able tilings : 



First — We gain the means not otherwise obtainable 

 of rendering additional desirable service. 



Second — We secure those means through taxing peo- 

 ple who make use of that service and are thereby di- 

 rectly benefited. 



Third — We are better able to determine what serv- 

 ice is really needed, wanted and appreciated, and con- 

 sequently, we are less liable to spend labor and money 

 uselessly. 



