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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



ASSOCIATION NOTES 



M. C. EBEL, Secretary, MADISON, N. J. 



EXECUTIVE MEETING OF THE N. A. G. 



A meeting of the trustees and directors of the N. A. G. 

 was held at the Grand Central Palace, New York, on 

 Monday afternoon, April 7, preceding the regular meet- 

 ing of the association. The following trustees and di- 

 rectors were present : John Shore, Harrison, N. Y. ; 

 Robert Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn. ; Alexander Era- 

 ser. Newport, R. I. ; James Stuart, Mamaroneck, N. Y. ; 

 James Bell, New York, N. Y. ; R. M. Williamson, Green- 

 wich, Conn. ; T. J. Kempton, Baychester, N. Y. ; E. 

 Trethewev, Tarrytown, N. Y. ; John Huss, Hartford, 

 Conn. ; James C. Shields, Monticello, 111., and M. C. Ebel, 

 Madison, N. J. 



In the absence of the president, Mr. John Shore was 

 requested to take the chair. 



The routine business being disposed of, a letter re- 

 ceived from the Horticultural Society of New York, in- 

 viting the National Association to hold its fall conven- 

 tion in New York at the time of the fall flower show of 

 the Horticultural Society and to meet in the Museum of 

 Natural History, was favorably acted on and the secre- 

 tary instructed to acknowledge acceptance of the same, 

 with the thanks of the executive board. The exact date 

 of the meeting of the convention will be decided at the 

 next meeting of the executive board. 



An invitation from the Panama-Pacific Exposition 

 Company to the National Association to hold its 1915 

 convention at San Francisco during the time of the Ex- 

 position, was referred to the regular meeting for action. 



The matter of a Service Bureau was next taken up 

 for discussion, and it was decided that the secretary be 

 empowered to carry out the plans submitted for the es- 

 tablishment of the bureau, to which members of the Na- 

 tional Association may look for opportunity for better- 

 ment. The secretar}' was instructed to make an an- 

 nouncement of the plans in the next issue of the 

 Chronicle. 



A committee consisting of the president, secretary and 

 treasurer, was appointed to decide on the meeting [jlace 

 and date for the summer meeting, and to report its de- 

 cision through the Ciiromicle. 



After disposing of other otificial matter before the board 

 the meeting adjourned. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETING. 



A meeting of the National Association of Gardeners 

 was held in the Lecture Hall of the Grand Central Palace. 

 New York City, on Monday afternoon, April 7, at 2 

 o'clock, following a meeting of the Executive Board of 

 the Association. President William H. Waite was in the 

 chair, and after welcoming the visiting members, intro- 

 duced President J. K. M. L. Farquhar, president of the 

 Society of American Florists. ATr. Farquhar ,lauded the 

 gardeners on their splendid exhibits, which, he said, made 

 it possible to produce such a magnificent show as they 

 were assembled at, following with a forcible address, 

 summarized as a heart-to-heart talk with the men of the 

 gardening profession, in which he urged the cultivation 

 of a closer confidence between the gardener and his em- 

 ployer. 



-\lr. Farquhar was heartily applauded at the conclusion 



of his rem^arks. Mr. Wm. J. Kennedy, president of the 

 Boston Gardeners' & Florists' Club, was next introduced. 

 Born, as he said, a gardener, he spoke enthusiastically of 

 the development of the profession, endorsing all the pre- 

 vious speaker had to say on the opportunities which are 

 presenting themselves for the advancement and elevation 

 of it. ]\Ir. Kennedy also spoke of the great interest which 

 has sprung up over the activities in the National Associa- 

 tion, and pledged his efl:orts to its further progress. He 

 was followed by Mr. John Shields, of Monticello. 111., 

 one of the directors of the association, who spoke of the 

 pleasure it gave him to be able to come a distance to at- 

 tend the meeting and view the magnificent floral display. 



Mr. J. J. MacKay, also of Monticello, was next intro- 

 duced. He spoke of the great development of agriculture 

 in the West. Mr. H. H. Bartsch, vice-president of the 

 Boston Florists' and Gardeners' Club, was the next 

 speaker. Mr. Harry Bunyard followed, and after an- 

 nouncing that owing to sudden sickness in the fam.ily of 

 Mr. Felton, of London, England, who was to lecture at 

 the meeting, he was prevented from sailing for this side 

 at the last moment ; he spoke of the vicissitudes of show 

 committees. 



The secretary was called on next to report on the meet- 

 ing of the executive committee. After briefly reviewing 

 the financial condition of the association, showing a most 

 substantial balance in the bank, he read a communication 

 received from the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 inviting the National Association of Gardeners to hold 

 its annual convention in New York City this fall, in con- 

 nection with the fall show of the Horticultural Society, 

 and reported that the invitation had been accepted. 



Mr. Farquhar, as president of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, then extended an invitation to the Na- 

 tional Association to hold its summer meeting in Boston, 

 in July, at the time of the summer show of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, and in conjunction with 

 the Sweet Pea Show of the American Sweet Pea Society. 

 This was favorably acted on immediately by the commit- 

 tee, which reported its decision to hold the summer meet- 

 ing in Boston in July next. 



An invitation was read from President C. C. Moore, 

 of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, repro- 

 duced elsewhere in the Chronicle, addressed to the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners, to hold its 1915 conven- 

 tion in the city of San Francisco, during the time of the 

 Exposition. It was referred to the members for action, 

 and on a motion a resolution was adopted, extending the 

 thanks of the association to the Exposition Company, 

 and that the association go on record that it is the sense 

 of the meeting that the 1915 convention be held in San 

 Francisco. 



An invitation from Mary Helen Carlisle, the famous 

 English painter of English gardens, tendered to the mem- 

 bers to visit her exhibit of paintings in a body during the 

 show was read, and the secretary instructed to acknowl- 

 edge the same with thanks. 



The ratification by the Board of Directors of the plans 

 for the establishment of a Service Bureau to provide a 

 source to the younger men in the profession to which 

 they can look for opportunity for betterment, was re- 

 ported to the meeting. 



Adjournment followed. 



