THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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ASSOCIATION NOTES 



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



N. A. G.'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION. 



Each and every member of the Xational Association 

 of Gardeners should let his New Year's resolution be — • 

 that he will enroll at least one new member in the asso- 

 ciation during the first month of the year. It will entail 

 more work on the secretary, but, oh ! how he will en- 

 io\- it ! 



PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. 



I have a_L;'ain to thank you all as members of the Na- 

 tional Association of (jardeners for the honor you have 

 conferred upon me, and I promise you 1 shall do my best 

 to forward the interests of the association. 



It is well that at the close of the year we should pause 

 and ask ourselves the very important question, what have 

 we accomplished and what are we doing to further the 

 cause of our association ? We have increased our mem- 

 bership, that is true, and that we have made great progress 

 since the society was incorporated I am quite prepared 

 to admit, but we are still a long way from having at- 

 tained some of its principal aims. 



But how are we to attain the desired results? Unity 

 is strength in the horticultural profession as it is else- 

 where. What has made the other professions and their 

 national associations so powerful? It has been by 

 organizing one great body of men, all interested in the 

 same object and all using the same means of gaining like 

 ends — not by organizing many small and independent 

 associations all over the country, each one trying to reach 

 the same object by the use of different methods, but by 

 unity of effort, through the guidance of their national 

 body. It is only by united eft"ort that the gardening pro- 

 fession, or any other calling, can make its influence felt. 

 Recognition by all the Irtcal societies and co-operation 

 with our national bod\- would be a great step forward 

 in the right direction and ways and means should be 

 adopted to bring this about. 



It has been a pleasure to note the marked improve- 

 ment that has taken place in our official organ. The 

 r,.\RDENER.^' Chro.vici.k. and I should like to see the 

 luembers take a greater interest in it. There are many 

 who are well able to write on interesting topics that 

 might use its pages and thus make it the gardeners' 

 chronicle in fact as well as name. 



That each member will have a bright and prosperous 

 Xew Year is the wish of vour president. 



W. II. Waitk. 



APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT WAITE. 



The following directors have been appointed by Presi- 

 dent Waite to serve for three years, from January 1, 

 1914: 



A. T. Smith, Lake Geneva, Wis. ; Theodore Wirth, Min- 

 neapolis. .Minn.; William Hertrick, San Gabriel. Cal. ; 

 Robert Bottomley, New Canaan, Conn.; Robert Angus, 

 Tarrvtown, N. Y. ; Alexander Fraser. Newport, R. I. ; 

 Arthur Smith, Reading Pa. To serve for two years, to 

 fill the unexpired term of John \\'. Everett, elected vice- 

 president, James Mac]Mahon, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



ihe Lxecutive Board for the year 1914 is now com- 

 posed as follows : 



I'rcsidont, William 11. Waite, Yonkers, X. Y.; vice-president, 

 .Joljii W. Everett, Glen Cove, N. Y.; treasurer. James Stuart, 

 ilamaroneck, N. Y.; secretary, Martin C. Ebel, Madison, N. J. 



Trustees for 1014— Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.: William Klein- 

 heinz. Ofjontz, Pa.; William Dnokham, Madison. N. ,J.: Alexander 

 ihuKenzie, Highland Falls, N. y.; John H. Dodds, Wvncote, Pa. 



Directors, to serve until 1915— John Shore, Harrison, N. Y.; 

 Thomas Proetor, Lenox. Mass.; William X. Craig, Xorth Easton, 

 Mass.; Frank K. Witnev. Fishkill, N. Y.; Robert Williamson, 

 Greenwich, Conn.: F. Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; James Bell. Xew 

 York, X. Y. 



To serve until 1916— Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; John 

 F. Huss, Hartford, Conn.; James MacMachan, Tuxedo Park, X. Y.: 

 A. Bauer, Deal Beach, X. J.; .Tohn W. Jones, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

 Alexander McPherson, Washington, D. C; James C. Sliield, Monti- 

 cello, 111. 



To serve until 1917— A. J. Smith, Lake Geneva, Wis.: Theodore 

 Wirth. Minneapolis, Minn.; William Hertrick, San Gabriel. Cal.; 

 Robert Bottomley, Xew Canaan, Conn.: Robert Angus. Tarry- 

 town. X. Y.; Alexander Fraser, Xewport, R. 1.: Arthur Smith, 

 Reading, Pa. 



MEETING OF EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



President Waite has called a meeting of the officers, 

 trustees and directors to meet on Thursdav, Januarv 8, 

 1914. at three o'clock sharp, at the Murray Hill Hotel, 

 Park avenue and Forty-first street, New York City. 

 Important matters will be brought before the meeting 

 for action by the Executive Board, and President Waite 

 urges the attendance of all members of the board. 



BY-LAWS COMMITTEE. 



The meeting of the By-Laws Committee, appointed at 

 the convention in November, to revise the by-laws for 

 publication in book form, was held in New York re- 

 cently. The committee expects to have its work com- 

 pleted and tile by-laws ready for distribution before the 

 spring meeting occurs. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following new members have been added to our 

 roll during the past month : John Boddy, Cleveland, 

 Ohio; i\lax .Schling, New York, N. Y. ; Julius Roehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J.: George Breed, Stockbridge, Mass.: 

 Henry Edward Holden, New York, N. Y. ; Thomas 

 Booth de Forest, New York, N. Y. ; William R. Fowkes, 

 Port Chester, N. ^'. : George McKenna, Milburn, N. J.; 

 William Brown, Pocantico Hills, N. Y. ; Arthur Griffin, 

 Newport, R. I. : Thomas Stokes, Stamford. Conn. ; 

 Harry A. Barnard. London, England ; William W. Perry. 

 Moosic, Pa. ; James Rust, Sand Springs, Okla. ; Guido 

 Mayer, Manchester Depot, Vt. ; Erich Keppler, Osprey, 

 Fla. ; Bert Berg, William Graham, W. S. Patterson, John 

 Rutherford, William Wagstaff. Patrick H. Flaherty, of 

 Greenwich, Conn.: Willjam Morrow, Stamford, Conn.; 

 John Conroy, New Rochelle, N. Y. 



WHY PROCRASTINATE? 



There are some gardeners who have not yet joined 

 the National Association, but who have made up their 

 minds to do so. Let them begin the new year right by 

 filling out the application blank on page 754 and sending 

 it to the secretary's office. 



