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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



The Goodsell $50 gold prize offered to the member 

 bringing in the greatest number of new members within 

 the year, which was won by Mr. James Stuart, of Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y., was presented to him by the donor, Mr. P. 

 Hamihon Goodsell, with a few well chosen remarks, stat- 

 ing that his only regret was that Mr. Stuart did not do 

 better by the association, which he might have done by 

 enlisting even a greater number. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



Frank Drews, West Orange, N. J. ; W. DeBree, East 

 Rutherford, N. J. ; Charles W. Cox, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 

 Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa. ; Ernest E. Stubbs, Far 

 Rockawav, N. Y. ; W. W. Vert, Port Washington, N. Y. ; 

 S. R. Hil'mers, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. ; Wm. Reid, Orange, 

 N. J. ; John Dunn, Madison, N. J. ; John ]. Johnston, Glen 

 Cove, N. Y. ; Robert Scott, Madison, N.'j-; Max Schnei- 

 der, East Orange, N. J. ; Percy D. Witney, Morristown, 

 N. J. ; Wm. Eccles, Oyster Bay, N. Y. ; Charles Adcock, 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. ; John B. Roy, Stamford, Conn. ; 

 William Wright, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. ; Stephen 

 Ager, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Matthew Brophy, New Ca- 

 naan, Conn. ; George Edmondson, New York, N. Y. ; 

 James Stevens, Dobbs, Ferry, N. Y. ; Ernest J. Brown, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Thomas F. Goldney, Hastings, N. Y. ; 

 James MacDonald, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Walter J. Dack, 

 New Canaan, Conn. ; Herman Siegle, Riverdale, N. Y. ; 

 Thomas Aitchison, Mamaroneck, N. Y. ; Alexander Ged- 

 dis, Stamford, Conn. ; M. A. Townsend, Portchester, 

 N. Y. ; Duncan McGregor, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. ; Andrew 

 P. Clarkson, Mamaroneck, N. Y. ; G. E. Baldwin, Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y. ; Walter M. Gray, Maplewood, N. Y. ; Jo- 

 seph Briggs, Westbury, L. I. ; Geo. Critchley, Ridgefield, 

 Conn. ; Alfred Beinlich, Stamford, Conn. ; Wm. H. Mc- 

 Ginnis, New Canaan, Conn. ; Edmund Lawrence, West- 

 port, Conn. ; David S. Miller, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. ; John 

 Hobson, Radnor, Delaware County, Pa. ; Frank Mac- 

 Nicoll, Cuba, N. Y. 



MINUTES OF THE SECOND ANNUAL CON- 

 VENTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSO- 

 CIATION OF GARDENERS. 



New Auditorium, Newark, N. J., Nov. 19, 1912. 



Annual convention called to order by President 

 Thomas W. Logan in the above hall at 2 ;30 p. m. 



The minutes of the first annual convention of the 

 National Association of Gardeners, under the charter 

 obtained from the State of New Jersey, held October 

 27, 1911, in the James Building, Madison, N. J., were 

 read. On motion seconded and carried they were ap- 

 proved. 



The minutes of the first meeting of the Executive 

 Committee, held in the Herald Square Hotel, New 

 York City, January, 1912; of the Spring meeting of 

 the Executive Committee which was held in Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., April 15, 1912; and of 

 the Summer meeting of the Executive Committee, held 

 in Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., July 13, 1912, 

 were read. On motion seconded and carried they were 

 approved. 



President Logan addressed the convention briefly, 

 recapitulating the work of the year. 



Mr. Wm. Kleinheinz called to the attention of the 

 chair the presence of Mr. John Shore, the first presi- 

 dent of the association. He was called to the stage and 

 introduced. 



secretary's annual report. 



It is with much satisfaction that your secretary can 

 make a report of great activit}- and an increasing in- 



terest within the organization during the past year. 



We have been successful in adding to our list of 

 membership the men who rank as leaders in the world 

 of horticulture and floriculture, both in private and 

 commercial fields, and in eliminating from it some 

 whose affiliations have been detrimental rather than 

 creditable to it. During the past year we have taken 

 on-202 new members, our roll at the present time com- 

 prising 460 members in good standing. To this may- 

 be added some two hundred additional who may re- 

 gard themselves as members, but who have not yet 

 qualified by the payment of dues or through proper 

 enrollment, as required in writing, of their intention, 

 to affiliate with the association under its reorganiza- 

 tion, but who were members under the former admin- 

 istration. The names of these are not included on the 

 membership roll. 



Your secretary was ambitious to have a complete list 

 of membership preparad to present at this convention 

 and made every eft'ort to accomplish this. Two letters 

 and a postal were sent out during the year to a list of 

 some 1,600 names, turned over to him when he' as- 

 sumed the office, in an endeavor to obtain an accurate 

 membership list. The percentage of the responses was 

 small and the list is as yet incomplete. To those who 

 have ignored these communications notice is given 

 that they are not enrolled in the N. A. G., but they 

 may reinstate themselves as members, if entitled to be, 

 by sending their names to the secretary's office. 



Three executive meetings were held during the year 

 and it was decided at the first of these meetings that 

 members be invited to attend them, and when pos- 

 sible, a little sociability instilled into these meetings 

 seemed desirable. 



The first meetings of the directors was held in the 

 Herald Square Hotel, New York City, January 12, and 

 was attended by members of the board only. The 

 Spring meeting was held at Horticultural Hall, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., on April 15, a good gathering of members 

 being present, and after the routine business was dis- 

 posed of, bowling on the alleys of the Philadelphia 

 Florists' Club followed by a dinner at Dooner's Hotel 

 was enjoyed. A fine exhibit of this season's novelites 

 was a feature of the meeting. The summer meeting 

 was held at the Massachusetts Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, July 13, and the business session was followed 

 by the members present attending the meeting of the 

 American Sweet Pea Society, to which they had been 

 invited. In the evening the visiting members were 

 the guests of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton at a banquet, and the following day became the 

 guests of the Boston Park Commission on an auto-^ 

 mobile tour of that city's extensive park system. 



The principal work of this office during the past year 

 has been confined to building up a membership of men 

 representative of the gardening profession. With this 

 accomplished it will then be possible to take up the 

 issues and problems of the profession and to promote 

 for it a general uplift in all phases of its work. There 

 is opportunity for improvement in its every branch, 

 and conscientious effort on the part of all members of 

 the association can accomplish much to bring about a 

 better general condition for the profession. It needs 

 to be established on a basis where the skill of the gar- 

 dener who is thoroughly familiar with his calling, will 

 be recognized and rewarded just as is the skill of any 

 other profession. The science of floriculture and hor- 

 ticulture is not as yet as well known as are the other 

 sciences, but it is gaining recognition by leaps and 

 bounds in this country at the present time, and thus 

 the opportunity is presenting itself to the gardener to 



