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



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



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



Treasurer — T, W. Head, Red Bank, X. J. 



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

 Jersey; Robert Weeks, Ohio; W. H. Griffiths, Michigan. 



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

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

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

 C. Jordahn, Florida. (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 H. Pring, Missouri; George W. Hess, District of Colum- 

 bia; Daniel J. Coughlin, New Yorli; John Barnet, Pennsylvania. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



.Will i'or/,-— Mrs. T. I. .\lbriglit. Georse I'. Eakcr. \\'. R. Cue. Mrs. T. .\. 

 Constable. Paul D. Cravath. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting. Cleveland H. Dolge, 

 Mrs. David Dows. Frank T. Dupignac. Mrs. (^oleman du Pont, Childs Flick, 

 W. II. Gratwick. Daniel Guseenheini. Mrs. W. D. Guthrie. ^Irs. \\'illi.''-m P. 

 Hamilton. Mrs. Jolin Henry Hammond, T. A. Havemeyer, Mrs. L. A. 

 Heiniann, B. H. Howell. C. O. Isehn, Otto Kahn, W. Eugene Kimball, 

 .^doh»h I.ewisohn, Mrs. JuHus Mc\'icker. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr., J. Pier- 

 pont Morgan. Mrs. T. Pierpont Morgan. Stanley G. Mortimer. ^Irs. Harold 

 I. Pratt. Tohn T. Pratt. E. F. Price, Mrs. William .\. Reed. H. D. Roosen, 

 Charles .\. Sherman, Mrs. Sai-niel Sloan, l^enjamin Stern, Mrs. W. 

 Stursberg, Daniel Tatum, Mrs. R. M. Thcmpson, Mrs. Edwin Thorne, 

 Mrs. Henry M TiVford, Samuel ITntermyer, Mrs. Payne Whitney. Nczo 

 Jersey — A. .\lbright. Jr.. Cliarles A. Bradley. Joseph P. Day, 

 James B. Duke, Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham, Mrs. Frederick Freling- 

 huysen, Mrs. Charles Giiggenheimer, Mrs. Gustave E. Kissel, C. Lewis, 

 Mrs. Paul Moore. Hubert T. Parsons. Mrs. Manuel Rionda, 

 Mrs. John I. Waterbury. Pennsylvania — Samuel T. Bodine. Gen. 

 Richard Coulter. Mrs. J. D. Lyons. R. E. Mellon. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Edward A. W'oods. Delaware — trenee du Pont, Pierre S. du Pont. 

 Connecticut. — E. C Converse, Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Farnam, George 

 M. Hendec. Miss .\. B. Jennings. W. H. Truesdale. William Ziegler, Jr. 

 Rhode Island — Gov. R. Livingston Beeckman. George P. Wetinore. ^lassa- 

 chusetts — Harry E. Converse, Mrs, Henrv C. Frick, i^Trs. Louis Froth- 

 ingham, C. H. Hutchins, Mrs. C. G Rice. Prof. C. S. Sargent, ilrs. J. A. 

 Spoor. Ohio — F. F. Drury, Mrs. Frances I"". Prentiss, John L. Severance, 

 H. S. Sherman, H. L, Thompson. Indiana — Tlieodore F. Thienie. Michi- 

 gan — E. D. Speck. J. 1'.. .Sclilotman. Illinois — Harry B. Clow. .\. B. 

 Dick, Clayton Mark. Mrs. F. W. Upham. Wisconsin — F. D. Countiss, 

 Minnesota — Mrs. Chester A. Congdon, A. C. Loring. lozca — Mrs. G. B. 

 Douglass. Missouri — August A. Busch, Dr. George T. Moore. Virginia — 

 Miss Grace E Areuts. IV. Virginia — Mrs. Arthur Lee. Kentttchy — F. M. 

 Sackett. Georgia — C. H. Candler, K. H. Inman. 



NEW SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



George P. W'etmore, Newport. R. I.; Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, 

 Tuxedo Park, N. Y. (Joseph Tansey, superintendent) ; Daniel 

 Tatum, Glen Cove, L. I. (Daniel J. Maclennan. gardener); 

 Charles H. Candler, Atlanta, Ga. (Paul Hamer, superintendent); 

 Joseph B. Schlotman, Detroit, Mich. ( Arthur Jackson, superin- 

 tendent) ; Stanley G. Mortimer, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. (Anton 

 Bauer, gardener); S. T. Bodine, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Paul 

 Moore, Convent, N. J.; Gifford Pinchot, Milford. Pa. (Peter 

 Stroyan, superintendent) ; Mrs. Chester A. Congdon, Dululh, 

 Minn. (Donald F. Shepherd, gardener) ; Mrs. Frederick Freling- 

 huysen, Flberon, X. J. (George Masson, superintendent): Dr. 

 George T. Moore, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Louis Frothingham, 

 North Easton, Mass.; Clayton Mark, Lake Forest. 111., have be- 

 come sustaining members of the-association. 



ANNUAL CONVENTION HELD IN ST LOUIS 

 SEPTEMBER 14-16, 1920 



Officers elected for 1921— President, W. X. Craig, Brook- 

 line, Mass,; Vice-President. George H. Pring, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 Secretary, M. C. Ebel, Xew York, N. Y.; Treasurer, Peter 

 Duff, Orange, N. J. 



Trustees for 1921— William H. Waite, Arthur Smith, D. L 

 Mackmtosh, New Jersey; L. P. Jensen, Ernest Strehle, 

 Missouri. 



Meeting place 1921 convention, Xew York City. 



The ninth annual convention of the National Association 

 of Gardeners (since its reorganization) was opened at the 

 Hotel Marquette, St. Louis. Mo., on Tuesday afternoon, Sep- 

 tember 14, by Dr. George T. Moore, director of tlie Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, who welcomed the members to the city of 



St. Louis, jocosely remarking that, while he did not have the 

 key of the city to present to them, he felt certain the visitors 

 would find the freedom of the city was theirs during their 

 stay. Dr. Moore spoke of the interest horticulture holds in 

 and about St. Louis, and referred to the changeable climatic 

 conditions and the smoke unisance the}- have to contend 

 with in plant cultivation, which do not exist in many other 

 places. Xevertlieless, he said, St. Louis would have much of 

 interest to show the visiting members. In concluding his re- 

 marks. Dr. Moore introduced L. P. Jensen, president of the 

 association, who, on taking the chair, called on M. C. Ebel, 

 of Xew York, secretary of the association, to reply to Dr. 

 Moore's words of welcome. 



PRESIDENT Jensen's address 



In his address to the convention President Jensen said: 

 Large and important issues have been before us during the 

 past year, and many of these will be brought forward at this 

 convention for our discussion and solution. I feel quite 

 confident in asserting that this meeting in St. Louis should 

 prove to be the most important one to our profession ever 

 held. The reasons for this are many. We have entered into 

 the reconstruction period following tlie greatest of conflicts 

 of nations. Conditions are as yet unsettled, and we have 

 gathered here to discuss the ways and means by which we 

 may, on the one hand, help to restore a healthful balance of 

 conditions pertaining to the welfare of the people of our na- 

 tion at large, and on the other hand, how we may utilize 

 this period for the uplift of our profession, and the bettering 

 of the social and economic conditions of the professional 

 gardener. .\ fi)Uiidation has been laid for a larger, stronger 

 and more powerful association, which if we do not relax, but 

 continue to build on wisely and with deliberation and 

 thought, will enable us to enter into questions of national 

 importance to horticulture and gardening, which those en- 

 gaged in commercial horticulture, for many and obvious 

 reasons, are not in position to handle, but which we, who 

 have no axes to grind, may take up and adjust with a fair 

 assurance of success. 



He referred to the reports of the various committees to be 

 submitted, and to the subjects to be brought before the con- 

 vention for discussion, urging that they receive most careful 

 attention. If we can, he said, in the short time at our dis- 

 posal at the present convention, work out a feasible and 

 sensible solution to each and all of these questions, even 1 if 

 the final solution of some of them will mean a lapse of tiiiie 

 and a contribution of individual exertion in time and ma- 

 terial, let us put the shoulder to the wheel and keep the 

 good work going, step by step, but each step an advance. 

 Then this convention will have been a success and a mile- 

 stone in horticultural progress. 



President Jensen recommended what seemed to him of the 

 greatest importance to the future growth and efficiency of the 

 association, and tliat is, to get in close toucli witli the local 

 gardeners' organizations throughout the country and permit 

 them to affiliate with the national body. .-V nominal annual 

 dues should admit such associations to membership and en- 

 title them to a delegate at the convention. This seemed 

 particularly desirable because of the many and varying con- 

 ditions under which the .-\merican professional gardener 

 works. The problems of gardening in llie East, as com- 

 pared with the West, X'orth or South, are lUtirely different 

 both as regards culture and .general practice. Our strength 

 as a national organization will depend largely on how nearly 

 we are alile to help solve the problems of the gardeners in 

 each and all of these sections. 



secretary's and tke.vsuuer's reports 



The secretary, in his annual report, showed that 190 new 

 members were enrolled and 66 suspended for non-payment 

 of dues during the year. 76 owners of country estates sub- 

 scribed as sustaining members, which mcmbersliip list would 

 have been materially increased if the active members liad 

 made greater efforts to interest their employers. Most of the 

 sustaining members were enrolled through a direct invitation 

 from the secretary's office. 



