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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



THE SERVICE BUREAU. 



The secretary will submit a plan to the executive 

 board of the association when it meets during the Inter- 

 national Flower Show, for its consideration to establish 

 a service bureau such as was authorized at the last execu- 

 tive meeting held in New York, in January. This plan 

 contemplates the establishment of an oiifice , to which 

 members of the association engaged in the profession 

 of gardening can look to for opportunity for advance- 

 ment. The plan provides for members to file application, 

 giving a full history of themselves as to past experience, 

 where engaged and previously employed, and full refer- 

 ences which will be investigated. Superintendents, gar- 

 deners, and also owners of estates may apply to the 

 bureau when they require the services of an assistant or 

 even a head gardener or superintendent, and a list of 

 desirable applicants will be supplied for consideration 

 from which to choose. Co-operation will be one of the 

 essential factors to make this service successful ; to keep 

 the bureau informed of the existence of or contemplated 

 vacancies, so that it may promptly ofifer its services. 

 Fuller details will be reported in the next issue of the 

 Chronicle, after the executive board has acted. As 

 previously reported it is not the sense of the executive 

 board to establish a bureau which may be in any wise re- 

 garded as a department to furnish "jobs" to the shift- 

 less : it is intended solely as an aid to ambitious young 

 men in the profession who are affiliated with this organ- 

 ization, and who are striving to advance. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following new members have been enrolled within 

 the past month : W. Carlquist, Lenox, Mass. ; M. Ander- 

 son. Riverdale, N. Y. ; Oscar Bjorkgren, Glen Cove, 

 N. Y. ; P. A. Bushele, Nyack, N. Y. ; Joseph Mooney, 

 Hastings, N. Y. ; M. Carlson, Riverdale, N. Y. ; Louis A. 

 Hubbard, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Thomas Shore, Kutonah, 

 N. Y. ; Edwin Forsey, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; George Mac- 

 donald. Great Barrington, j\lass. ; John A. Grant, Thomas 

 Page, Great Barrington, Mass. ; Ralph M. Ward, New 

 York, N. Y. ; T. J. Hopkins, West Orange, N. J. ; Thomas 

 Smith, Yonkers, N. Y. ; George Ashworth, Locust Valley, 

 N. Y. ; James Gordon, Oneonta, N. Y. ; Duncan M. Men- 

 zies, Yonkers, N. Y. ; W. Lefurgy, Ardsley, N. Y. ; Her- 

 bert Martin Blanche, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. ; ~D. 

 Gustafson, James W. H. Campbell, Ardsley, N. Y. ; Wil- 

 liam Michie, Lake Forest, 111. ; James Alichie, Sharon, 

 Conn. ; R. C. Cushman, Yonkers, N. Y. 



J. Edwards, Riverdale, N. Y. ; Ernest Miller, Yonkers, 

 N." Y. ; Charles Smith. George Moulden, Fred White- 

 bouse, Fred Hitchman, Edward Fitzgerald, George Bond. 

 John Clunas, Williams Ellis, Martin Fitzgerald, Robert 

 Forbes, Bryan Hathaway, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Arthur 

 Breare, Greenwich, Conn.; Charles Klose, Morristown, 

 N. J. ; John A. Watt, Washington, D. C. 



AN APPEAL TO GARDENERS. 



Fellow Gardeners. — Having been appointed manager 

 of the coming International Flower Show to be held in 

 the New Grand Central Palace, New York City, April 5 

 to 12, I am making this personal appeal to you to exhibit 

 in every class you possibly can, and I ask your co-opera- 

 tion in making this 'the best exhibition ever held, and at 

 the same time to uphold the dignity and honor of our 

 profession as gardeners. 



You can also greatly assist by influencing the other 

 g^ardeners in your vicinit\'. 



The opportunity presents itself, and I am counting on 

 your hearty support. Wm. H. Duckham. 



MR. HENRY COTTEREL. 



Mr. Henry Cotterel, a well-known gardener of the 

 old school, passed away on Wednesday, February 26, at 

 his home on St. Paul's avenue, Jersey City, N. J. He 

 was 74 years of age, and leaves a widow, two daughters 

 and one son. 



He was for 25 years on one place at Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 under three proprietors ; was for about five years with 

 Mr. F. L. Stetson, at Sterlington, N. Y., and for three 

 years with Mrs. Byers at Sewickley, Pa. During recent 

 years he devoted some of his time to jobbing gardening. 



He will be well remembered by the men of the pre- 

 vious generation, and also by many of the present day, as 

 a good type of the all round gardener. He was stead- 

 fast and loyal to his friends, and to his employers, and 

 his death will leave a vacancy in the gardeners' ranks 

 which will be felt. 



MR. THOMAS GILMORE. 



Thomas Gilmore, who for the past 25 years has been 

 head gardener on the estate of August Belmont, the well- 

 known banker and capitalist, at Hempstead, Long Island, 

 N. Y., died there on February 21, aged 76 years. He 

 was highly esteemed by Mr. Belmont, who being at Cape 

 Cod, Mass., immediately w'ired to Hempstead, on learn- 

 ing of Mr. Gilmore's death, to postpone funeral arrange- 

 ments until his return. Mr. Gilmore was a Scotchman, 

 a tall, gray-bearded and striking figure of military car- 

 riage and appearance. He was highly esteemed by all 

 who knew him. 



MR. ARCHIBALD ROBBIE. 



Mr. Archibald Robbie, for a number of years superin- 

 tendent of "Lyndhurst," the estate owned by Mrs. 

 Shephard, formerly Miss Helen Gould, died at his home 

 on the estate on March 13 from an attack of appendicitis, 

 follow-ing immediately on a recovery from pneumonia. 

 Mr. Robbie was in his 45th year. Funeral services were 

 held from his late home, attended by many members of 

 the Tarrytown Horticultural Society and IMason's Lodge, 

 with both of which he was prominently identified. 



MR. JEREMIAH CARTER. 



Jeremiah Carter, one of the old-time gardeners of 

 Newport, died at the Newport Hospital on February 13, 

 of pneumonia. He was for some years gardener for W. 

 Rogers Morgan, but for the past few years had been 

 w^ith his son, Benjamin Carter, who is head gardener 

 for Rev. Roderick Terrv at "Linden Gate." 



AMONG THE GARDENERS 



Mr. James Murray, late superintendent of the E. D. 

 Morgan estate at A\'estbury, L. I., has resigned that 

 position to accept the superintendency of the estate owned 

 by Professor H. F. Osborne, of Garrison, N. Y. 



The many friends among gardeners of Mr. J. Austin 

 Shaw will be glad to hear that he is recovering from the 

 serious illness which has confined him to the hospital for 

 nearly a month. We trust that he will have recovered 

 sufficiently to meet with the gardeners when they as- 

 semble in New York City at the International Flower 

 Show. 



