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hoped that the situation will be modified so that importations 

 may be made. Perhaps it might be arranged for these institutions 

 to separately import plants, etc., by arrangement with the Horti- 

 cnltural Board, upon their guarantee to guard against any new 

 bugs or diseases. These great institutions should be permitted to 

 continue their collections of plants. 



I hope you will take soine action in s'upport of this idea, not of 

 fighting quarantine, but of having quarantine sanely administered 

 with reasonable consideration. 



M. C. Ebel ofi'ered the following resolution, which was unani- 

 mously adopted : 



VVheke.\s, The National Association of Gardeners in convention 

 assembled has witnessed the beneficent and notable work accom- 

 plished and being continued by the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 which in common with the Arnold Arboretum, the New York 

 Botanical Garden, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and similar in- 

 stitutions, has brought to notice after adequate testing many im- 

 portant plants, shrubs and trees of notable value, and whereas un- 

 der the practical operation of Quarantine i7 declared by the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board further additions to the fiora of America 

 of plants from abroad are made virtually impracticable, and 

 whereas the National Gardeners' Association, while recognizing 

 the necessity and value of a reasonably administered quarantine 

 against the introduction of insects and diseases injurious to plants, 

 feels that the great educational institutions of America should not 

 be checked in their important work with plants, 



Therefore, Be It Resolved. That we urge the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board to so arrange its regulations under Quarantine 37 

 as to permit the resuinption of plant importations by the Missouri 

 Botanical Gardens and similar educational institutinns upon guar- 

 antees from such institutions to so inspect and treat such importa- 

 tions as to allow no new insects and diseases to be disseminated. 



Executive Meeting 



An executive meeting of the trustees and directors was held 

 at the Hotel Marquette, Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, at which 

 the business presented for the lioard's consideration and to be 

 acted upon, was disposed of, and the secretary's financial state- 

 ment and the treasurer's report were audited. 



(Owing to a misunderstanding with the reporter of the meeting, 

 who gained the impression that the copy of the convention report 

 was not required immediately, and proceeded to a convention in 

 another city, before transcribing the notes for the gardeners' con- 

 vention, the above report of the meetings had to be compiled from 

 the secretary's recollection of the proceedings in order that the 

 publication of the G.vrdeners' Chronicle would not be delayed 

 any longer. If there have been omissions of importance they will 

 be reported in the November issue.) 



THE CONVENTION ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES 



When the delegates arrived at the convention city on Monday 

 evening, they found the arrangements committee awaiting them 

 at Union Station to escort them to their hotels, and to announce 

 to them that the program of tlie business meetings w-ould be 

 carried out strictly according to the schedule, and that the 

 sessions would open each day promptly at the hour set. The 

 members were requested to he punctual in their attendance so 

 that the important business, which was to come before the 

 convention might be properly disposed of. 



It was not expected, however, that the entertainment com- 

 mittee would be as exacting in the carrying out of its program 

 but it was none the less so with the result that there was not 

 a flaw in either the business or social functions of the conven- 

 tion and the various committees, which comprised the profes- 

 sional gardeners, the stafi of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 the Park Department, the commercial growers, and the retail 

 florists, not omitting the women's auxiliary, showed that by 

 harmonious team work the usual delays in convening" convention 

 meetings and in the entertainment, can lie wholly avoided. 



On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings the women's committee, 

 composed of Mesdames Jensen, Pring, Rowe, Strehle, Baumann 

 and Gerney, met promptly at the hotel headquarters at ten 

 o'clock to take charge of the women delegates to the conventioii. 

 These two days were devoted to automobile tours along the 

 Mississippi River, to Jetiferson Barracks, Grant's Farm, the old 

 birthplace of General Grant and now the country estate of 

 August A. Busch, through the foot hills of the Ozark Mountains, 

 and other points of interest in the surrounding country, with 

 luncheon parties at the country clubs, returning to the hotel in 

 the evening at the hour at which the lousiness sessions adjourned. 



The general entertainment provided for an illustrated lecture 

 on "Rock Gardens," by Montague Free of the Brooklyn Botanical 

 Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y,, which was given in the ball room of 

 the hotel, and was appreciated by the large assemblage present. 

 After the lecture, the St. Louis Gardeners' Association tendered 

 a reception to the visitors, followed by a dance in which the 



younger folks participated, while the older folks were gathered', 

 at the tables arranged along the sides of the ball room, and 

 enjoyed the refreshments. 



After the adjournment of the business session at five o'clock 

 on Wednesday, President Jensen announced that the Shaw 

 Banquet, at which the members of the National Association of 

 Gardeners were to be guests, would be held in the Floral. 

 Display House at seven o'clock, and that all were requested to 

 be at the Botanical Garden. Promptly at the hour named the 

 doors were opened and the guests escorted to their places at 

 the tables. The lianqnet was a most unique affair, with the 

 setting of the climbing and many tropical plants along the sides 

 of the house, giving an appearance of a tropical garden, as the- 

 picture produced on another page illustrates. It was the first, 

 time that any banquet had ever been held, as far as was known 

 to any one present, in a house of this kind, and the first time 

 in the history of the Shaw banquet that women had attended. 

 It has always been customary to hold the annual Shaw Banquet 

 in one of the hotels, but the idea suggested itself to Dr. Moore, 

 Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, that the Display 

 House would be the most appropriate setting with the visiting 

 gardeners as guests this year. An excellent orchestra furnished 

 music, while a no less excellent menu was being served. 



When the inner man had been satisfied, Dr. Moore announced 

 that as the supply of after dinner speakers is no longer as. 

 abundant as it has been in the past, he would omit the time 

 honored custom of having after dinner speeches by limiting it 

 to a few remarks from M. C. Ebel, Secretary of the National 

 -\ssociation of Gardeners. Dr. Moore then called on Dr. Hermaa 

 von Shrenk, who entertained the guests with a most interesting: 

 illustrated lecture on "The Trees of the Pacific Coast." After 

 the lecture the dinner guests walked through the Garden to 

 Tower Grove Park, where they viewed the illuminated aquatics. 



Precisely at the hour of eleven on Thursday morning a pro- 

 cession of thirty odd automobiles, furnished by the horticultural 

 interests, started from the library square for a tour of the city 

 and inspection of the country estates and park systems. The 

 freedom of the city was the visitors' for the day, for at every 

 traffic point until five in the afternoon, when the tour terminated, 

 police were stationed to give the right of way to the line of 

 cars. At noon the party became the guest of the St. Louis. 

 Garden Club at Bevo Mill, where it was greeted by Dr. von 

 Shrenk, the President of the Club. Montague Free of New 

 York responded for the members of the association. From Bevo- 

 Mill the automobiles proceeded to the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den, and from there the tour of the parks was continued, ending 

 at Forest Park at five o'clock, where the party became the guest 

 of the St. Louis Park Department Association. An old-fashioned 

 barbecue was the form of entertainment planned for that eve- 

 ning. The Park Department had declared a holiday to permit 

 the employees to attend the picnic in honor of the visiting gar- 

 deners, at which it was estimated some twelve hundred people 

 attended. 



Too much credit cannot lie given to the various committees of 

 \yhich G. H. Pring, E. Strehle, H. C. Irish, L. Baumann, HugO' 

 SchafF and J. Moritz were the respective chairmen. 

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Of Interest to Country 

 Estate Owners 



I The National Association of Gardeners takes | 



I this opportunity to place its Service Bureau at i 



I the disposal of owners of country estates when | 



I requiring thoroughly competent gardeners — in | 



I the capacities of superintendents, head gardeners | 



I or assistant gardeners — thoroughly qualified in | 



i every particular to assume the responsibilities | 



I the positions call for. | 



I The Association seeks the co-operation of 1 



i country estate ow-ners in its endeavor to estab- I 



i lish a reliable source to which they can apply | 



I with every confidence to secure the services of 1 



I gardeners truly efficient in their profession. | 



I The Bureau is maintained entirely at the ex- j 



I pense of the association and makes no charge to I 



I the employer it may serve, or to the member I 



I it may benefit. i 



I Those desiring to avail themselves of the serv- | 



I ices of this Bureau should apply to — | 



I M. C. EBEL, Secretary | 



I National Association of Gardeners, i 



j MADISON, N. J. I 



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