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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



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Why We Do Not Print More 



Southern Articles 



HPHE Garden Magazine has a Southern 



A department and has printed a number 

 of articles on Southern gardening, and would 

 gladly print more if it could get articles by 

 skilled amateurs, such as Messrs. W. C. Egan 

 of Highland Park, 111., J. N. Gerard of Eliza 

 beth, N. J., and R. B. White of Ottawa, 

 Ontario. It wil} also welcome articles by 

 beginners if they are as interesting and prac- 

 tical as the other articles by beginners in 

 the magazine. We have often requested 

 Southern articles through the columns of 

 the magazine, and have written dozens of 

 letters inquiring for the names of home 

 gardeners in the South but have not succeeded 

 in getting inspiring and useful articles. The 

 Southern experiment stations and seedsmen 

 have been appealed to in vain. 



The following letter throws more light 

 on the situation than any we have ever re- 

 ceived: for obvious reasons, we withhold 

 the name and address of the writer. 



To the Editor : 



I am in receipt of yours of the 12th inst. 

 asking me to suggest the name of some 

 amateur to write on gardening in the South 

 for The Garden Magazine. After living 

 in the South twenty years and more, I have 

 come across no amateur gardeners. The 

 fact is, that outside of truck crop growing 

 in the tidewater section of Virginia and the 

 eastern sections of North and South Carolina, 

 there is practically no gardening done in 

 the South. 



Not one farmer in a hundred has a garden 

 for the production of the commonest vege- 

 tables, except to the extent of a few cabbages 

 or kale. He grows his corn and sweet po- 

 tatoes and peas in the cornfield, and knows 

 and cares for no other vegetables. 



Flower growing outside of the florists of 

 the city is unknown, except among a few 

 ladies in different sections. The men regard 

 it as something beneath their attention. 

 Even in our city parks we have no flower beds, 

 only grass and trees. 



Personally, I have been an ardent amateur 

 gardener all my life and still am devoted to it. 

 I am one of the very few persons (indeed, I do 

 not know of more than two or three others) 

 who have a greenhouse in this city, and my 

 neighbors all seem to regard me as being a 

 crank to spend my spare time in growing 

 flowers merely for my own pleasure. I am 

 often asked if I sell flowers and when I reply 

 "No," they express astonishment that I spend 

 time and money in producing them. 



