Missouri Botanical 
Garden Bulletin 
ALUMNI NUMBER 
Vol. V St. Louis, Mo., March, 1917 No. 3 
GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 
Again it becomes my privilege as president of the Garden 
Alumni Association to contribute a few lines to the annual 
publication of our organization, and to extend to all members 
my sincere greetings and the wish that the year 1917 may 
bring them much joy and success in their various fields of 
endeavor. 
Our organization has passed the critical stage of its exist- 
ence and has demonstrated clearly that it can be of great 
benefit to the alumni of the Garden. However, in order to 
do still greater things we need the continued coéperation of 
all members, and I beg them to respond when called upon 
by the officers for assistance. The secretary has already 
issued a call for the next meeting. There is some important 
work to be done at this meeting, and every member must 
articipate in the discussions if he is to share in the resulting 
nefits. This is a day of specialization and organization, 
oe very little can be accomplished through individual 
effort. 
The profession of horticulture, with all its branches, has 
never been in a more flourishing state than now. With the 
great demand by the public for cut flowers and the ahah 
custom of establishing private estates with greenhouses an 
gardens, there is an ever-increasing call for men educated 
along practical and scientific lines. Here in New England 
we have always depended somewhat on the man trained in 
Europe, but since the beginning of the war none have 
come to fill the many vacancies which have occurred. At 
the close of the war the few trained men who will be left 
will be needed in their own countries, but by that time the 
American horticulturists, if they have taken advantage of 
their opportunities, will have developed their own ideas and 
methods and will not be dependent upon help from abroad. 
ARNO H. NEHRLING, 
President, Missouri Botanical Garden 
Alumni Association, 
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