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January, 1916 



same difficulties to contend with as himself, and that he can enjoy 

 all their benefits. We can read the experiences of a garden lover 

 in the City of Roses, and realize that all the way across the conti- 

 nent in the "other Portland" those experiences can be of value. 

 The Bureau of Biological Survey has brought us closer together 

 than we had deemed possible. 



^^ THAT gardens should be private, personal, and individual 

 ^^ doesn't mean that garden owners should not, and cannot, 

 advantageously cooperate. If proofs of this be wanted, look to 

 Mr. Weld's story of "How the Ridge Sprayed Its Trees" on page 

 191. As it happened, that was a community largely composed of 

 fruit gardeners; and spraying is not only an essential phase of 

 modern fruit growing, but also an activity in which cooperative 

 effort can be applied with especial force and economy. 



But the principle is no less applicable wherever there is a large 

 number of small jobs requiring more or less apparatus or materials 

 to be accomplished by a number of persons on a number of places. 

 Isn't this the actual conditions in any village or country town where 

 people own their own homes, and have trees, and lawns and gardens 

 of vegetables, fruit, and flowers? Yet how many individuals in such 

 towns want or can afford to buy a spray outfit suitable for the work? 

 It is true that in some cases the need is met by state, county, or local 

 officials who do the work at a nominal (but presumably profitable) 

 price. Where is the suburban community without its dozen, twenty, 

 fifty or more dwellers who regularly want hedges clipped, lawns cut, 

 gardens plowed, wood sawed, leaves raked up and — not burned but 

 composted — manure hauled, and other innumerable jobs done? 

 Most of these individuals have too little of such work to warrant 

 keeping a gardener permanently, or owning a plow or a team. Yet 

 by combining their interests and a fraction of the cash they spend 

 in daily wages and make-shift equipment during the season they 



could become cooperative owners of good, effective tools, purchasers 

 of economical amounts of fertilizer, seed, spray mixtures and the 

 like, and employers of a reliable man. 



Jfc THE WHITE Memorial Medal for distinguished services in 

 ^£ Horticulture (which is conferred annually by the Board of 

 Trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, acting as 

 administrators of the fund, is this year awarded to Ernest H. Wil- 

 son, of the Arnold Arboretum, "in recognition of the distinguished 

 service you have rendered to advance the interest in horticulture 

 in recent years." Mr. Wilson is at present contributing to The 

 Garden Magazine a series of articles of great importance to 

 American horticulture and his name is therefore familiar to our 

 readers. Receiving his initial training in gardening and botany 

 at Kew Gardens and the Royal School of Science, Mr. Wilson 

 began his real career when he started out to Western China sixteen 

 years ago to find the Dove Tree (Davidia involucrata) for Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Son. During that journey and three others to 

 China (two on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum) he found more than 

 eleven hundred new plants and successfully introduced them into 

 the gardens of Europe and America. Other collectors have found 

 and recorded new plants aplenty, but Mr. Wilson did far more in 

 actually bringing them into cultivation. 



A detailed account of his travels and experiences in those several 

 journeys is told in his book "A Naturalist in Western China," 

 published in two volumes. Some conception of the "services to 

 horticulture" may perhaps be measured by the statement that Mr. 

 Wilson has introduced into Northeastern America more woody 

 plants than were growing there naturally before, besides holding 

 the record of having introduced more new plants to cultivation 

 than any other man who ever went plant hunting into unknown 

 parts of the globe. ■ 



This map is not so formidable as it would seem at a first glance! It shows the "life" or "crop" zones of the United States and illustrates, that (apart from difference of temperature, 

 elevation, and soil) whole areas commonly thought of as being widely separated are, in fact, closely related in general or basic living conditions 



