to replace those to-day engaged in the profession. Europe has in the 
past supplied the young gardeners who in time grew up to assume the 
head gardeners' positions. There is probably no other vocation where 
the response to the call to arms was in proportion to that of the 
young men engaged in the gardening profession both here and abroad. 
A large number now rest "In Flanders' fields where poppies grow." 
Europe can not suppty young gardeners to us as in the past, and so it 
remains with us in this country to attempt to arouse the interest of our 
young men in the work. There are many young men, both of Ameri- 
can and of foreign birth, who, on being graduated from school, do not 
want to enter the office or shop but would welcome a call to the 
great out-doors. Others, desiring to take up a profession, find that 
they cannot do so owing to their lack of resources, but gardening 
presents an opportunity to engage in a profession and "earn while you 
learn." 
To arouse the interest of these young men a carefully planned 
campaign is essential; first, to inform the educational sources of the 
country concerning the opportunity that professional gardening offers 
young men whose leaning is towards the art; second, to provide places 
on country estates where young men who desire to take up the work 
would be acceptable. Many estates have the facilities, or could readily 
install them, to house and board the young men. It has been sug- 
gested that community houses providing rooms, board, and study 
quarters, might be established where young gardeners who could not 
be cared for on the places, could be accommodated. 
There are advantages in employing these young men; first, from 
the point of view of economy, for the salary at which such young men 
couM be secured as apprentices, including their board, would be less 
than is paid to the laborer; second, a group of clean-cut young chaps 
with a good school training behind them and interested in their 
chosen vocation, would present a more pleasing adjunct to the sur- 
roundings than a gang of ignorant foreign laborers working in the 
garden, and they certainly should produce more satisfactory results. 
It remains with some one to start the movement to interest our young 
men in gardening as a profession. Who shall it be? 
Wliat is most necessary today to develop better and finer American 
gardens is a greater spirit of co-operation between garden owners 
and those men who are earnestly endeavoring to place their profession 
where it properly belongs as the oldest of all professions, in the front 
ranks of the sciences and arts. The question that is still unsolved is 
what would be the most desirable agency to bring about such co- 
operation. Possibly some member of the Garden Club of America 
can answer this question. 
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