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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
THE 
GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 
OF AMERICA. 
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 
President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 
W. N. CRAIG, THEO. WIRTH, JAMES STUART, 
Brookline, Mass. Minneapolis, Minn. Mamaroneck. N. Y. 
Secretary, MARTIN C. EBEL, Madison, N. J. 
TRUSTEES FOR 1916. 
Peter Duff, Orange N. J.; William H. Duckham, Madison, N. J.; William 
Turner, Bernardsvillt, N. J. ; William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; John F. 
Huss, Hartford, Conn. 
DIRECTORS. 
To serve until 1917 — Win. Hertrick, San Gabriel, Cal. ; Robert Angus, 
Tarrytown, N. Y. ; Robert Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn. ; Alex. Fraser, 
Newport, R. I.; Arthur Smith, Reading, Pa.; Thomas W. Head, Lake 
Forest, 111.; L. P. Tensen, St. Louis, Mo. 
To serve until 1918— William H. Waite, Rumson, N. J.; William J. 
Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Edward Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; John W. 
Johnston, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Carl N. Fohn, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Peter 
Johnson, Dallas, Tex. ; Thomas Proctor, Lenox, Mass. 
To serve until 1919— John W. Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Thomas W. 
Logan, Jenkintown, Pa., Robert Cameron, Cambridge, Mass. ; James Mac- 
Machan, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal Beach, N. J.; David Fraser, 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; George W. Hess, Washington, D. C 
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 
Secretary-Treasurer, 
ROLAND W. COTTERILL, 
Seattle, Wash. 
President, 
EMIL T. MISCHE, 
Portland, Ore. 
J. W. THOMPSON, 
Seattle, Wash. 
JOHN F. WALSH, 
New York, N. Y. 
1 'ice- Presidents, 
ALEX. STUART, 
Ottawa, Ont. 
E. P. GRIFFIN, 
East St. Louis, 111. 
L. P. JENSEN, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
EUG. V. GOEBEL, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Vol. XX. 
.March, 1916. 
No. 3. 
WHAT OUR ADVERTISERS OFFER TO 
OUR READERS. 
VX/'E respectfully commend the advertising columns of 
this number to the careful attention of our read- 
ers, for therein are contained several offers to furnish 
some most interesting" literature on subjects of vital im- 
port to all gardeners — professionals and amateurs. You 
incur no obligation in requesting that the matter be mailed 
to you. 
The careful consideration and forethought given in 
these days to horticultural advertising copy make the ad- 
vertising columns of the horticultural press no less in- 
teresting, and in many instances no less instructive, than 
the editorial columns. 
They possess a merit which deserves your attention. 
BIRD PROTECTION FOR ST. LOUIS. 
P. JENSEX, chairman of the committee on bird 
preservation and propagation of the National As- 
sociation of Gardeners, has succeeded in interesting the 
park department officials of St. Louis in bird protection, 
and among those who have already enlisted in the work 
may be mentioned Park Commissioner Nelson Gunliff, 
Superintendent of Parks Ernest Strehle, the St. Louis 
Bird Club and the superintendent and principals of the 
public schools. Mr. Jensen has been requested to address 
two improvement associations on the bird subject, and 
recently addressed the St. Louis Park Association on 
"Bird Protection in the St. Louis Parks." There is no 
reason why the members of the National Association of 
Gardeners and American Association of Park Superin- 
tendents in other cities cannot and should not create a 
similar interest in this humane work. 
A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 
A BILL was recently introduced in Congress by Con- 
■^ gressman William M. Kent, of California, to create 
a national park service. Mr. Kent, writing us on the 
subject, says : 
"Of late, there has been a careful study made and a well forrnu- 
lated plan conceived looking toward the improvement, preservation 
and extension of the national park system. This is largely due to 
the services of Mr. Stephen .Mather, who accepted a post known as 
Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, and was immediately 
placed in control of the park service, by Hon. Franklin K. Lane, 
outside of forest reservations. 
•'.Mi. Mather evidenced his public spirit by securing funds, largely 
his own, to purchase the Tioga Road which goes across the Yosemite 
park ami which was an abandoned private enterprise. This has 
been put in lair condition by special appropriation and now fur- 
nisi.es one of the most wonderful drives in the United States. 
"Air. Mather furthermore studied out a system of concessions 
that will go far toward making the parks self-sustaining, while 
keeping all concessionaires under government control as to rates 
tn be charged to the visiting public, and quality of service to be 
rendered. 
"The present Superintendent of the Park Service, Mr. R. R. 
Marshall, who has shown great capacity as Chief Geographer in 
the Geological Survey, where he reorganized the entire topographic 
survey work in the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, has 
rendered eminent service in straightening out many complications 
that have arisen out of incoherent conditions. 
"We are certainly getting a sound nucleus of Park management 
which can only work out into a complete scheme under continuity 
of management. Should Air. Lane not continue as Secretary of the 
Interior, Mr. Mather as a matter of course would lose his position, 
as each Secretary of the Interior would choose for himself the man 
who holds such a confidential position. 
"But by the establishment of a Park Bureau. I cannot conceive 
of any future Secretary of the Interior parting with the service of 
a bureau chief with the knowledge, capacity and public spirit of 
Mr. Alather. 
"I only mention him as a type of man that could be retained in 
office under the proposed bureau system. It is the hope and belief 
of those who are backing this measure that it will not make any 
considerable increase in the cost of operating the parks, but that by 
following out Air. Mather's plans, so much saving will be made to 
concessionaires that they can well afford to divide their profits with 
the Government, to the end of further improvements which will 
benefit them, just as much as they will benefit visitors for whom 
the parks are established." 
The bill should have the support of all those who de- 
sire to see our national parks preserved and developed, 
and we suggest that those favoring it address their Sen- 
ators and Representatives urging the passage of the bill 
(Number H. R. 8668). 
Gardeners, park superintendents and all interested in 
horticulture should give their support to this worthy 
measure. 
