THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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ASSOCIATION NOTES 



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



The executive board has selected the Aliirray Hill Ho- 

 tel, on Park avenue and Forty-first street, New York City, 

 as the National Association of Gardeners' headquarters 

 during the week of the International Flower Show. This 

 hotel is conveniently situated to the Grand Central Palace ; 

 it is only five short blocks from the exhibition hall and 

 the same distance from Broadway, so that it is also within 

 easy approach of the city's amusement center. The man- 

 agement of the hotel has made a rate of $2 per day for a 

 single person, and S3 for two persons in a room, including 

 privilege of bath. It has been arranged to set aside the 

 men's dining hall as a rendezvous for members and their 

 friends, where they may congregate morning, noon, and 

 night; breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in this 

 hall at reasonable prices. The hotel management has 

 assured the committee that it will provide every facility 

 to make the hotel a hospitable hostelry during the gar- 

 deners' stay in the city. Alembers can communicate di- 

 rect with the hotel for reservation of rooms. Those who 

 intend to attend the International .Show will do well to 

 reserve their rooms at an earlv date, as a big crowd is 

 looked for, and as the headquarters will be a popular 

 place, those that apply late may find they cannot be ac- 

 commodated. In writing for rooms mention the N. A. G. 

 so as to get the special rate. 



The bowling committee, in charge of the National 

 Gardeners' and Florists' bowling tournament, which is to 

 be held under the auspices of the National Association, 

 has secured the entire floor of Thum's bowling alleys, 

 Broadway and Twenty-ninth street, for Wednesday, 

 April 9. The tournament will begin at nine o'clock in the 

 morning and continue until six o'clock in the afternoon. 

 The committee will meet on the 25th at the Murray Hill 

 Hotel, New York, to complete the details for the event. 

 which will be published in these columns in the March 

 issue. The committee solicits prizes for this event, and 

 if any member is disposed to contribute, he can notify the 

 secretary accordingly. 



The membership contest for the Goodsell prizes of 

 $25, $15 and $10, gold, which closes on October 1, has 

 stirred up considerable interest, and your secretary is glad 

 to report that some of our members have become quite 

 active in this competition. The list of new members for 

 the month, published elsewhere in these columns, will in- 

 dicate to you that the interest towards our association is 

 no longer local, but is becoming national. 



This office can only report progress at this time in the 

 formation of the .Service Bureau, which your secretary 

 was instructed to organize by the directors at their first 

 quarterly meeting. The March issue, however, will con- 

 tain a more detailed account of what has been done, and 

 it is hoped by then that the problem will have been suffi- 

 ciently solved to make a thorough report on what the 

 purpose of this bureau will be. 



During the past month the following new members 

 have been added to our list: S. Mendelson Meehan, 

 Germantown, Pa.; George V. Nash. New York, N. Y. ; 

 William Tricker, Arlington, N. J. ; John Ingram, Oyster 

 Bay, N. Y. ; Nicholas Butterbach. Oceanic, N. J- ; Ed- 

 ward Earnshaw, Paterson, N. J. ; H. V. F. de Thestrup, 



William MacDonald, Francis Drexler, William Muir, 

 Peter ^Morrison, Robert Johnson, L. Milliot, and Thomas 

 Mahoney, Yonkers, N. Y. ; John Macindoe and George 

 Mentipley, Kidgefield, Conn. ; William Miller, Monticello, 

 111. ; Stanley Jorden, Watcrford, Conn. ; G. C. Allen, New 

 Rochelle, N. Y. ; William Mills, Riverdale, N. Y. ; Robert 

 Barton, Rye, N. Y. ; Robert Grindrod, Robert Purshall 

 and Alexander McLeod, Lenox, Mass. ; Frank C. Luck- 

 enbacher, Hartsdale, N. Y. ; George White, Westbury, 

 N. Y. ; Frank Strnad, \\'esthampton Beach, N. Y. ; Jacob 

 A'atter and Joseph Skalberg, Oconomowoc, Wis. ; Andrew 

 Martinsen, Okauchee, Wis. ; John D. Whittaker, Elkins 

 Park, Pa. ; Henry Gibson and George S. Peach, Attica, 

 N. Y. ; Ernest A. Lunberg, Hartsdale, N. Y. ; James S. 

 Bache, Sharon, Conn. ; Peter Waddell, Tuxedo Park, 

 N. Y. ; Robert Scott, Pittsfield, Mass. ; James Cant. New 

 York, N. Y. 



.\fter a persistent "following up," your secretary has 

 obtained definite assurance from the officials of the city 

 of .\sbury Park to the etifect that it proposes to pay tHe 

 prize money, won by the outside exhibitors at the 1912 

 Summer show, before the end of this month. 



Asbury Park was unfortunate in its first effort to 

 run a big flower show. It admits its costly experience, by 

 which it has learned, and is going to try again. We wish 

 Asbury Park all success in its next flower show venture. 

 It can count on both the association and the columns of 

 the Chroxicle to help boost its next flower show when 

 it is again ready to undertake it. 



The unavoidable delay in paying the 1912 premiums is 

 fully explained in the following communication received 

 from the director of its publicity bureau : 



Asbury Park, N. J., February 1, 1913. 

 Mr. 3iIarti\' C. Ebel, 



Madison, N. J. 



Dear ]\Ir. Ebel: I have just had a conference with 

 Mayor Bennett and Mr. Winans, chairman of the City 

 Finance Committee, with regard to your letter of January 

 15 to Mr. Winans about the payment of the prize money 

 won at .Asbury Park's Summer flower show. A'ouchers 

 for this prize money were drawn last December, but the 

 balance to the credit of my appropriation at the end of 

 the fiscal year was insufficient to meet the obligations, 

 and payment had to be deferred until the 1913 appro- 

 priations were made. 



.'\rrangements have been made to pay a large amount of 

 this prize money at the meeting of the City Council on 

 February 24, and vouchers will be sent out by the city 

 treasurer on the 26th or 27th to the following: . . . 



The total amount of the above is $815. The remainder 

 of the prize money won is due to local gardeners, and they 

 have agreed to wait until a little later in the season for 

 their money, but all will be paid in full. 



There has never been the slightest disposition to evade 

 or compromise the payment of this prize money, but the 

 financial results of the show were so unexpected that it 

 has been difficult to make the payments as promptly as 

 has been our desire. We have a great degree of appre- 

 ciation for those who helped to make the Summer show 

 the artistic success that it was, and it is fully intended 

 that .•\sbury Park shall become famous for its flower 

 shows of the future. A lesson was learned, even though 

 costly, and in the future .Asbury Park can be depended 



