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National Association of Gardeners 



Office: 286 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 



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President — L. P. Jensen, St. Louis. Mo. 

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

 Vice-President — D. L. Mackintosh, Alpine, New Jersey. 

 Trustees — T. W. Head. Lake Forest, IlHnois. 



TRUSTEES (For 1920)— Peter Duff, William Waite, Arthur Smith. Xew 

 jersir> ; Robert Weeks, Ohio; W. H. GrifTiths, Michigan. 



DIRECTORS (To serve until 1921)— William N. Craier, Massachusetts; 

 William Hertrick, California; William Gray, Rhode Island; G. Hennen- 

 hoier, Montana: Thomas Hatton, Connecticut: Albin Martini, Iowa; A. 

 C. Jordahn, Florida. (To serve until 1922) — George Wilson, Illinois: James 

 Stuart. Xew York; VVilliam Kleinheinz, Pennsylvania; John F. Hiiss, 

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

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

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

 nesota; George H. Pring. Missouri; George W. Hess, District of Colum- 

 bia; Daniel J. Coughlin. Xew York; Jolm Barnet, Pennsylvania. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 

 AVai York — George F, Baker, W, R. Coe, Mrs. T. .\. Constable, Paul D. 

 Cravath, Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs. David Dows, 

 Frank J. Dupignac, Mrs. Coleman du Pont, Childs Frick. W. H. Gratwick, 

 Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. W. D. Guthrie, Mrs. William P. Hamilton, Mrs. 

 John Henry Hammond, T. A. liavemeyer, Mrs. L. A. Hermann. B. H. 

 Howell, C. O. Iselin, Otto Kahn, W. Eugene Kimball, Adolph Lewisohn, ilrs. 

 Julian Mc\'icker, J. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs. T. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. 

 Harold I. Pratt, John T. Pratt, E. f. Price. Mrs. William A. Reed, H. D. 

 Roosen, Charles A. Sherman, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. 

 W. Stursberg, Mrs. R. M. Thompson, Mrs. Edwin Thorne, .Samuel Unter- 

 myer. Mrs. Payne Whitney Xc'v Jerse\ — .'\. Albright, Jr., Charles A. Bradley, 

 Joseph P. Day, Tames B- Duke. Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham, C. I^ewis, Hubert 

 T. Parsons, Mrs. Manuel Rionda. Pcnttsvh'ania — Gen. Richard Coulter, Mrs. 

 J. D. Lyon, R. B. Mellon, Edward -\. \A'oods. Delaware — Irenee du Pont, 

 Pierre S. du Font. Connecticut — Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Farnam, (ieorge M. 

 Hendee, Miss A. B. Jennings, W. H. Truesdale. William Zeigler, Jr. 

 Rhode Island — Gov. R. Livingston Beeckman. Massachusetts — Harry E. 

 Converse, Mrs. tienry C. Frick, C. H. Hutchins, ^Irs. C. G. Rice, Prof. 

 C. S. Sargent. Mrs. J. A. Spoor. Ohio — F. F. Drury, Mrs. Francis F. 

 Prentiss, Jchn L. Severance, H. S. Sherman, H. L. Thompson. Indiana — 

 Theodore F. Thieme. Michigan — E. D. Speck. Illinois — Hairy B. Clow, 

 .-\. B. Dick, Mrs. F. W. Upham. Wisconsin — F. D. Countiss. yiinnesota — 

 A. C. Loring. Jowa — Mrs. G. B. Douglass. Missouri — August A. Busch. 

 Virginia — Miss Grace E. Arents. Kentucky — F. M. Sackett. Georgia — 

 E. H. Inman. 



and visit to Missouri Botanical Garden and Country Estates. 

 8 P. M. — Annual Banquet. 



ANNUAL CONVENTION 



MARQUETTE HOTEL, .ST. LOUIS, SEPT. 14, 15, 16. 

 Tuesday, Sept. 14. 

 10 A. M. — Executive meeting of trustees and directors. 

 2 P. M. — Convention convenes. 



Address of Welcome — Dr. George T. Moore, Director of 



Missouri Botanical Garden. 

 President's address. 

 Secretary's report. 

 Treasurer's report. 



Reports of Committee on Service Bureau Publicity Fund, 

 Committee on Quarantine Bill No. 37. Committee on School 

 Gardens, Committee on Interesting Young Men in the 

 Gardening Profession, and Committee on Co-operation with 

 Federal Vocational Board. 

 Communications and resolutions. 

 Consideration of next meeting place. 

 General discussion. 

 S P. ^L — Illustrated lecture on "Rock Gardens" — Montague Free, 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Wednesday, Sept. 15. 

 9 A. M. — .Address — Hon. Fred W. Pape, Park Commissioner of 

 St. Louis. 



Untini.ihed business. 

 NomiuatioM of officers. 

 Subjects for discussion — 

 Examination for and Classification of Gardeners. 

 Inducements for Young Men to Take up the Gardening 

 Profession. 

 2 P. M. — Subjects for discussion — 



The Threatened Food Crisis: How Can the Gardeners and 

 their .Association .\ssist in Relieving It? 

 Will Farmerettes Solve tlie Problem of Help Shortage on 



Country Estates' 

 The Sign Board Nuisance Defacing our Highways; How 

 Can It Be Combated Effectively? 

 General discussion. 

 8 P. M.— Shaw Banquet. 



Thursday, Sept. 16. 

 9-9:30 A. M. — Polls open for election of officers. 



Unfinished business. 

 10 A. M. — .Adjournment for inspection of St. Louis Park System, 



Members should communicate with George H. Pring, Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, St. Louis, for hotel accommodations without 

 delay. Members going from New York and vicinity will leave 

 Sunday afternoon, Sept. 12, and should address the secretary for 

 further information as to time of leaving and Pullman accommo- 

 dations. 



Members who cannot attend the convention, and may have 

 ideas or suggestions to be brought to the attention of the conven- 

 tion, should communicate with the secretary at his New York 

 office before Sept. 1. 



Amendments to By-Laws. 



Notice of proposed amendments is here published as called 

 for by the By-Laws. 



To amend Article 2, by adding two sections (Section 7 and 

 Section 8) as follows : 



Section 7. Applicants for active or associate membership shall 

 be passed on by a membership committee to consist of the secre- 

 tary and any two members of the executive board, on whom the 

 secretary shall be authorized to call, to pass on applications. An 

 applicant for active membership must provide the membership 

 committee with a complete record of his gardening experience 

 and references as provided for on the application blanks. 



Section 8. The E.xecutive Board, or its authorized committee, 

 shall have the power of refusing to admit an applicant to member- 

 ship, and shall be empowered to expel from membership any one 

 guilty of unprofessional conduct .or other conduct, calculated to 

 reflect adversely on the association. The executive board shall 

 be under no compulsion to give any reason for its action in 

 refusing an applicant to, or expelling a member from the associa- 

 tion, either to the individual concerned or to the association. 



To' aiTiend .Article 3, Section 1, by making the dues $5.00 a year 

 instead of $3.00 a year as now provided. 



To amend .Article 3, Section 3, by making dues for lite member- 

 ship $50 in place nf $25 as now provided. 



A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT. 



Those of you, who have not been alile tu attend previous 

 conventions may fail to recognize the importance cf t'lese 

 events, to your self and the profession at large. Questions of 

 vital importance to the profession of gardening and to you as 

 a gardener are to be brought up and discussed at the coming 

 convention in Saint Louis, and I would like to impress upon the 

 individual member the importance of a large attendance. 



We need your personal attention and council if we are going 

 to be successful in solving our problems pertaining to the better- 

 ing of our conditions individually and receive the recognition as 

 a body of men, whose service is indispensable to the welfare of 

 our country. .A well trained gardener has often, in the past, been- 

 regarded as a "Jack of all trades," whose experiences and years 

 of study were considered as of less value than tliat of less trained 

 men in other professions. The real gardener is worthy of just 

 recognition for his years of study and work, but interlopers have 

 been permitted to usurp their places, at considerable cost to the 

 employers and a sul)sequent loss to the gardener. 



These conditions can be changed only by serious deliberations 

 at the conventions, and really constructive work can be accom- 

 plished only when the professional gardener realizes the im- 

 portance of the issues. It is for this reason imperative that you 

 exert every possible effort to be with us in Saint Louis on Sep- 

 tember 14, 15 and 16. 



By getting out of the everyday run of things, and coming in 

 contact with your fellow worker in the field of gardening, hearing 

 and seeing what is going on elsewhere, you will broaden your 

 vision of your own activities, and cuter your work with renewed 

 enthusiasm. For these, and other reasons too numerous to men- 

 tion, I urge you to go to Saint Louis, and assist in, not only 

 elevating your profession to a higher plane socially, but what is of 

 equal importance, financially as well. 



Let us get together and make our meeting a memorable one 

 in the history of gardening and a credit to ourselves and the 

 profession which we represent. 1 liid you Welcome to Saint 

 Louis. L. P. Jexsex, President. 



