60 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
efforts it would seem that greenhouses and their managers 
are not doing their best when operating under the handicap 
of poor walls and ends. 
ARTHUR H. SMITH, ’11. 
NOTES FROM THE SECRETARY’S DESK 
Word has just been received that Profesor Arno H. 
Nehrling, our president, has resigned his position as head of 
the department of floriculture at the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College to become president and general manager 
of the McDonald Floral Company, at Crawfordsville, Indi- 
ana. In addition to conducting a general wholesale and 
retail florist business Mr. Nehrling will open a landscape 
service bureau. All the members of the Alumni Association 
no doubt feel as I do, that with his usual aggressiveness, 
forethought, and the determination to succeed, he will keep 
on climbing as in the past, and will join me in wishing him 
success. 
Since the last alumni number of the BuLterin two of our 
associate members have completed the Garden course— 
Carl F. Giebel and Nestor S. Philippi. Mr. Giebel is now 
associated with Charles W. Fullgraff, 04, landscape archi- 
tect, 1104 Chemical Building, St. Louis, and Mr. Philipp 
has taken charge of the greenhouse and campus of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
Fred G. Grossart, 715, until recently head gardener, Val- 
halla Cemetery, St. Louis, is now engaged as a landscape 
gardener at the University of Nebraska. ; 
_ On September 1, 1916, your secretary resigned his post- 
tion as superintendent of Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, Mor- 
gan Park, Chicago, and opened his own office at 848 Penob- 
scot Building, Detroit, for the practice of landscape garden- 
ing. He is, however, still retained as consulting landscape 
gardener of Mt. Greenwood Cemetery. 
To all those who have not had the announcement of the 
next meeting framed and hung where it will attract atten- 
tion, we will repeat that our next meeting is to be held at 
the Garden on November 16 and 17, 1917. This meeting 
will be a “rouser.” Arrange to come, and bring your class- 
mate with you. Remember the date — November 16 and 17. 
With best wishes for a successful year, I remain, 
Sincerely yours, 
A. R. GROSS, ’91, 
Secretary-Treasurer, Missouri Botanical Garden 
Alumni Associatiwn. 
