THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 



President, 

 J. W. EVERITT, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y. 



Vice-President, 



W. S. RENNIE, 



Ross, Cal. 



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.; VVra. Tur- 

 ner, Mendham, N. J.; Geo. W. Hess, Washington, D. C. ; John H. 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. ; Tames C. Shield, Monticello, 111. 



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 Bottomley, 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, 

 Bar 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 



President 



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. 



Secretarv-Treasurcr, 



ROLAND W". COTTERILL. 



Seattle, Wash. 



L. P. JENSEN, 



St. Louis, Mo. 

 EUG. V. GOEBEL, 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



\'ol. XIX. 



DECEMBER. 1915 



Xn. 12. 



Boston has long been known among horticulturists as 

 "The Hub of Horticulture," but the visiting gardeners to 

 that city attending the convention of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners last week have affixed the word 

 ho.spitality and jiereafter Boston will be known to them as 

 "The Huh of Horticulture and Hospitality." For did not 

 the horticuhural interests of Boston and the local 

 gardeners' and florists' club, and the city's officials enter- 

 tain them as they never w-ere entertained before. Ban- 

 queted on the evening of their convention day and shown 

 Boston's Park System, the Arnold Arboretum and some 

 of the prominent private estates in the vicinity of Bos- 

 ton on an automobile trip the following day made the 

 gardeners' stay in that city a memorable one — one long to 

 be remembered by those who enjoyed Boston's genial 

 hospitality. 



"WHY 'WE ARE PROSPEROUS. 



We read that prosperity reigns in different sections of 

 the country. The West is prosperous because "more 

 than a billion bushels of wheat is indicated and more than 

 1,500,000,060 bushels of oats, record yields both, and 

 more than three bilhon bushels of corn, only a little be- 

 low the average." 



We read that the South is prosperous because "a rela- 

 tively reduced crop of cotton is putting the South in 

 funds." Thus we see that prosperity comes from small 

 crops as well as from large, which only goes to prove 

 that finance and financial writing possess intricacies that 

 have no necessary connection with common sense.— Life. 



Goodby, Old Year, Goodby! 



((Sl-D YEAR, the parting time has come. 



The time when we must say 

 "Goodby" to you, and shake your hand. 



And speed you on your zvay. 

 We'd like to see your stay prolonged, 



But all too zvell we knon- 

 Your time is up, the limit readied. 



And tticrcforc you must go. 



)'ou're been a I'ery friendly year. 



Considering all things: 

 )'on'z'e journeyed with us, hand in hand, 



lit all our zvanderings. 

 Through days of storm and days of calm 



You've always w-ith us gone, 

 .And oft at night you've zvith us zvatched 



For coining of the dawn. 



Witlt yon ti.'e'rc seen a lantcr go 



.4nd heard the robins sing: 

 IJ'ith you ice've fondly gaccd upon 



The beauties of the spring, 

 ll'ith you zve'z'e seen the summer come. 



In all its wealth of bloom, 

 .4nd zinth yon zve have wandered through 



The gardens of perfume. 



With you zee satv the autumn tint 



The leaves in colors bright ; 

 .hid you Zi'crc zcith us zvhen the frost 



Sj^read zvidc its deadly blight. 

 .-Ind zchcn the zcinter came again 



It found you still our friend. 

 Though zveary. faint and tottering. 



And zi'aiting for the end. 



Tzcelz'c montlis ago we zieelconicd you, 



irtien you zeere young and fair, 

 But jioic your once straight form is bowed. 



And zvliitened is your hair. 

 The time has come for you to go. 



And we can only sigh 

 .■ind shake your hand, and sadly say, 



"Goodby, Old Year, goodby!" 



— Theodore H. Boice. 



