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I Office: 286 FIFTH AVE., NEW YOKK 



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President — W X. Craig, Brookline. Mass. 

 Vice-President — George H. Pring, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Secretary— M. C. Ebel, 286 Fifth Ave., New York. 

 Treasurer — Peter Duff, Orange, N. J. 



TRUSTEES (For 1921)— William H. Waitf, Artliur Smith, D. L, Mack- 

 intosh, New Jersey; L. P. Jensen, Ernst Strehle, Missouri. 



DIRECTORS (To serve until 1922) -George Wilson. Illinois; James 

 Stuart, New York; William Kleinheinz, Pennsylvania; John F. Huss, 

 Connecticut; Edwin Jenkins, Massachusetts; Carl N. Fohn, Colorado; 

 Joseph Tansey, New York. (To serve until 1923) — Robert Williamson, 

 Connecticut; Robert Cameron. Massachusetts; Theodore Wirth, Min- 

 nesota; George W. Hess, District of Columbia; Daniel J. Coughlin, New 

 York; John Barnet, Pennsyhania; Montague Free. New York. (To 

 serve until 1924) — William Gray, Rhode Isand; William Hertrick, Cali- 

 fornia; .\lbin Mortini, Iowa; Thos. Hatton, Connecticut; Robert Weeks, 

 Ohio; VV. H. Griffiths, Michigan; Thos. W. Head, New Jersey. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



\'cw i'nrh — Mrs. J. T. AlbriEht, Georae F. Baker. Edwin S. Bayer, 

 Albert OavburE, W. R. Coe. Mrs. F. A. Constable. Paul D. Cravath. 

 Mrs. W. Ravard Cutting. Mrs. Charles Daniels, Cleveland H. Dodge. Mrs. 

 David Dovvs. Frank J. Dupignac. Mrs. Coleman du Pont, Childs Prick, 

 W. H. Gratwick, Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. W. D. Guthrie, Mrs. William 

 P. Hamilton, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, T. A. Havemeyer, Mrs. L. A. 

 Hermann. B. H. Howell. C O. Tselin. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Frank B. Keech, 

 W. Eugene Kimball, .Adolpli Lewisohn, John Magee, Mrs. Julius McYicker, 

 Morton H. Meinhard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer. Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs. 

 J. Pierpont Morgan, Stanley G. Mortimer. Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, John T. 

 Pratt, E. F. Price. Mrs. William A. Read. H. D. Roosen. Charles A. 

 Sherman, Mrs. Samuel Sloan. Benjamin Stern, Mrs. W. Stursberg, Daniel 

 Tatum, ilrs. R. M. Thompson. Mrs. Edwin Thorne, Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, 

 Caril Tucker, Samuel Untermyer, Mrs. Harold T. White, Mrs. Payne 

 Whitney. Xcw Jersey — A. Albright, Jr., Charles A. Bradley, Josepli P- 

 Day, James B. Duke, Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham, Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen. 

 Mrs. K. S. Goodrich. Mrs, Gustav E. Kissel, C. Lewis. Mrs. Paul Moore, 

 Hubert T, Parson. Mrs. Manuel Rionda, P. .S. Straus. Mrs. John I. Water- 

 bury. Pennsylvania — Samuel T. Bodine, Gen. Richard Coulter, Mrs. J. D. 

 Lyons, R. B. Mellon, Gifford Pinchot, George F. Tyler, Edward A. Woods. 

 Delaware — Irenee du Pont, Pierre S. du Pont, Harry G. Haskell. Con 

 necticut — E. C. Converse. Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Farnam, George M. Hendee, 

 Miss A, B. Jennings, W. H. Truesdale, William Ziegler, Jr, Rhode Island 

 — Gov. R, Livingston Beeckman, George P. Wetmore. Massachusetts — 

 Harrv E. Converse, Mrs. Henry C. Frick, Mrs. Louis Frothingham, C. H. 

 Hutchins, Mrs. C. G. Rice, Prof. C. S. Sargent. Mrs. J. .\. Spoor. Ohio — 

 F. F. Drury, H. S. Firestone, Mrs. Frances F. Prentiss. John L. Severance, 

 H, S. Sherman, H. L. Thompson. Indiana — Theodore F. Thieme. 

 Michigan — E. D, Speck, J. B. Schlotman. Illinois — A. Watscn .-Krmour, 

 Harrv B, Clow. A. B. Dick, (Ilavton Mark, Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Mrs. 

 F. W. Upham. IVisconsin — F. D. Countiss. Minnesota — Mrs, Chester A. 

 Congdon, F. H. .StoUze. lozi-a — Mrs. d. B. Douglas. Missouri — .-\ugust A. 

 Busch. Dr. George T. Moore. Virginia — Miss Grace E. .\rents, JV, Vir- 

 ginia — Mrs. .Arthur Lee. Kentucky — F. M. Sackett. Georgia — C. H. 

 Chandler. E. H. Inman. .9. Carolina — Robert S. Mebane. 



NEW SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



F, H, Stoltze, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. K. S. Goodrich, 

 Cranford, N. J. (John Thompson, gardener); Harry G. Has- 

 kell, Wilmington, Del. (John T. Whittaker, gardener), have 

 become sustaining members of the association. 



PUBLICITY FROM NEW YORK FLOWER SHOW 



The booth maintained by the National Association of Gar- 

 deners at the International Flower Show, Grand Central 

 Palace, New York, last month, brought considerable pulj- 

 licity to what the aims and purposes of the association are. 

 Estate owners from different parts of the country visited the 

 booth to learn of the association's activities. A large quan- 

 tity of paiTiphlets, briefly outlining the association's aini.s 

 and containing the list of sustaining members, were dis- 

 tributed; also pamphlets on the association's campaign to 

 suppress the sign board nuisance along our highways, which 

 aroused much interest. Although the Secretary was unable, 

 owing to a physical breakdown, to attend after the second 

 day of the Show, his able assistants, however, proved capalile 

 of handling the association's affairs. 



NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE. 



Many members were disappointed in the postponement of 

 the New England conference which was to have occurred on 

 April 8 in Boston in connection with the Spring Flower 

 Show of that city. When it was learned that the Secretary 

 could not attend owing to ill health, it was decided to jiost- 

 pone the conference until a later date, at which time he could 

 be present. .As this was a last minute decision, it could not 



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be made known to members at large, with the result that 

 about one hundred members, some from a distance, visited 

 the Show on .\pril 8 with the intention of attending the 

 conference. 



THE NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y., LOCAL BRANCH. 



The promoters of the Nassau County branch of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners have decided to call a meet- 

 ing the early part of May to organize and to pass on the 

 activities the branch is to engage in._ The meeting has been 

 set for that time to enable the Secretary to be present to 

 answer questions pertaining to the work of the association. 



THE COMMITTEE ON TRAINING YOUNG MEN 



A meeting of the committee on training young men for 

 the gardening profession, was held in New York during the 

 Flower Show, at which meeting Montague Free of Brook- 

 lyn, Vice President George H. Pring of St. Louis, and H. 

 Ernest Downer of Poughkeepsie, were present. Tentative 

 plans for an educational program were drawn up which will 

 be submitted to the next convention for consideration. 



THE SIGN BOARD CAMPAIGN 



The Sign Board Committee has issued an interesting 

 pamphlet on the campaign to suppress the sign board 

 nuisance along the highways. Thousands were distributed at 

 the New York Flower Show, and also at the Boston Flower 

 Show. That the public is thoroughly aroused is made evi- 

 dent by the many offers of co-operation that have already 

 come to hand from influential people, and also from institu- 

 tions. Members desiring these pamphlets to distribute in 

 their communities, can secure them by addressing the Secre- 

 tary. The Committee seeks the co-operation of every member. 



The following interesting communication appeared in 

 The Garden Magazine for .\pril: 

 To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



Having read of the resolution condemning billboards 

 adopted by the National Gardeners' Association, at their 

 meeting at St. Louis, I thought it would interest you to know 

 that wheii traveling to Salt Lake City, to attend the sessions 

 of the Farm Women's National Congress, we were so an- 

 noyed by the big sign boards that spoilt so much of our view 

 of the scenery, that we hurriedly drew up a short resolution 

 e.xpressmg our feelings. We were plain' farm women, and 

 used no extra phrases, just short and to the point; we did 

 not know these sign boards had annoyed any one else as 

 they did us. One of our party exclaimed, "I never will buy 

 a * ■* * car, because I will always think how that big sign 

 board up on the mountain side cut off the scenery so many 

 many times."— Mrs. Theodore Saxon, Topeka, Kan. 



AMONG THE GARDENERS 



Robert Crcighton has accepted the position of gardener on 

 the Mrs. Joseph H. Choate estate, "Naumkeag," Stock- 

 brid,ge, Mass. 



Frank Darrah secured the position of superintendent on 

 tlie estate of E. Richard Meinig, Wyomissing, Pa. 



William Portman accepted the position "of gardener to 

 A. W. Tuthill, Sioux Falls, S. D, 



Wilhain J. Chalmers, formerlv of the William E. Iselin estate, 

 .\ew Rocbellc. N. \ ., accepted the position of gardener to A K 

 Lawne, Williamstovvn, Mass. 



J. C. Armstrong secured the position of superintendent on the 

 ''«'f,?„pf- ^f"- George W. Elkins, Ways Station, Ga. 



William Thomson accepted the position of gardener on the 

 J;mics C. Brady estate, "Hamilton Farms," Gladstone, N, I. 

 ^ Donald P.. Sutherland has been appointed head gardener to the 

 Christian Science Benevolent Institution, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 



Charles Valentine, recently gardener on the ]. A. Forster 

 estate, Hackensack, X. J., accepted the position of "superintendent 

 to E. D. Mor.gan, Westbury, L. I. 



.Xlexander White secured the position of gardener to John 

 Gribbel, Wyncote, Pa. 



Theodore Petcr.wn secured the position of superintendent on the 

 1. L. Kuscr estate, Bernardsville, N. J, 



