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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



OF AMERICA. 



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MARTI -^1 C. EBE.L, Managing Editor 



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Entered as second class matter Nov. 3, 1914, at the Post Office at New 

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 torial matter should be addressed to M. C. Ebel, Editor, Madison, N. J. 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 



J. W. EVERITT, W. S. RENNIE. JAMES STUART. 



Glen Cove, N, Y. Ross, Cal. Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



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



TRUSTEES FOR 1914. 



Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Kleinheinz, Oguntz, Pa.; Wm. Tur 

 ner, Meiidham, N. J.; Geo. W. Hess, Washington, D. C. ; John II. Dodds 

 Wyncote, Pa. 



DIRECTORS. 



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, III. 



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

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

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

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



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

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

 Ear Harbor, Me.; John W. Johnston, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Carl N. Fohn, 

 Colorado Springs, Colo.; Peter Johnsen, Dallas, Tex.; Thomas Proctor, 

 Lenox, Mass. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 



Fresidcnt, 



EMIL T. MISCHE, 



Portland, Ore. 



J. W. THOMPSON, 

 Seattle, Wash. 



JOHN F. WALSH, 

 New York, N. y. 



Vice-Presidents. 

 ALEX. STUART, 



Ottawa, Ont. 

 E. P. GRIFFIN, 

 East St. Louis, 111. 



Sccrctary-Trcastircr, 



ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 



Seattle, Wash. 



L. P. JENSEN. 



St. Louis, Mo. 

 EUG. V. GOEBEL, 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



\o\. XIX. 



NOVEMBER, 1915. 



No. 11. 



PRESIDENT'S THANKSGIVING 

 PROCLAMATION. 



"It has long l:)een the honored custom of our people 

 to turn, in the fruitful autumn of the year, in praise 

 and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many bless- 

 ings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that is 

 now drawing to a close since we last observed our day 

 of national thanksgiving has been, while a year of 

 discipline because of the mighty forces of war and of 

 changes which have disturbed the world, also a year of 

 special blessing for us. 



"Another year of peace has been vouchsafed us; an- 

 other year in which not only to take thought of our 

 duty to ourselves and to mankind but also to adjust 

 .ourselves to the many responsibilities thrust upon us 

 by a war which has involved the whole of Europe. 

 We have been able to assert our rights and the rights 

 X)f mankind without breach of friendship with the great 



nations with whom we have had to deal ; and while 

 we have asserted rights we have been able also to per- 

 form duties and exercise privileges of succor and help- 

 fulness which should serve to demonstrate our desire 

 to make the offices of friendship the means of truly 

 disinterested and unselfish service. 



"Our ability to serve all who could avail themselves 

 of our services in the midst of crises has been increased, 

 by a gracious Pro\idence, by more and more abundant 

 crops; our ample financial resources have enabled us 

 to steady the markets of the world and facilitate neces- 

 sary movements of commerce which the war might 

 have otherwise rendered impossible, and our people 

 have come more and more to a sober realization of the 

 ]jart they ha\-e been called upon to play in a time when 

 all the world is shaken b}- unparalleled distresses and 

 disasters. 



"The extraordinary circumstances of such a time 

 have done much to quicken our national consciousness 

 and deepen and confirm our confidence in the principles 

 of peace and freedom by which we have always sought 

 to be guided. Out of darkness and perplexity have 

 come firmer counsels of politics and clearer perception 

 of the essential welfare of the nation. We have pros- 

 pered while other peoples were at war, but our pros- 

 perity has been vouchsafed us, we believe, only that we 

 might the better perform the functions which war 

 rendered it impossible for them to perform. 



"Now, therefore. 1. Woodrow Wilson, President of 

 the United States of America, do hereby designate 

 Thursday, the twent_\-fifth of November next, as a day 

 of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people 

 throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupa- 

 tions and in their several homes and places of worship 

 render thanks to Almighty God. 



"In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 

 and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 



"Done at the city of Washington this twentieth day 



of October, in the year of (.)ur Lord one thousand nine 



hundred and fifteen and of the independence of the 



United States of America the one hundred and fortieth. 



[Signed] "Woodkow Wilson, 



"By the President. 



"KoiMCKi L.\.\siNG, Secretary of State." 



SUCCESS OF THE FLOWER SHOWS. 



Such glowing reports of the fall flower shows, as appear 

 elsewhere in these columns, assuredly substantiate the con- 

 tentions made in the past, that the public interest can be 

 aroused in flower shows if proper exploitation is given to 

 them. 



What other amusement or attraction is there that will 

 draw twenty thousand persons to its doors an hour for 

 four consecutive hours as was the case at American 

 Museum of Natural Histor\ in .New York, during the 

 show of the Horticultural Society of New York, or en- 

 tirely blocking the traffic of a city's prominent thorough- 

 fare, as was the case in Euclid avenue. Cleveland, during 

 one of the day's of Cleveland's flower show. Boston, 

 Chicago and San Francisco all report large attendances^ 

 while the "local" shows, those of the small communities 

 all appear to have been more successful than ever this 

 season, both in number and quality of exhibits and iri 

 attendance. 



The support that the fall shows have received from 

 exhibitors and trade, gives promise that the big spring 

 shows arranged for Philadelphia. New York and Boston 

 will be well patronized by all, directly and indirectly, in- 

 terested in horticulture. 



