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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



The Sign Board Committee, which has distributed about 20.000 

 circulars, has brouglU quite some pubhcity to the association 

 from ditferent parts of the country. 



A recent editorial which appeared in one of the Western 

 papers on professional gardening brought many letters to the 

 Secretary's office from young men, having passed through schools 

 and colleges, who decided after reading what the editorial had 

 to say about prolessional garden.ng. that that would be a work 

 they would like to engage in, if they could be located in a posi- 

 tion where they could study. 



I feel that this report would not be complete if I did not refer 

 to the able way in which the association's affairs were looked 

 after by mv assistants during my absence of four months from 

 the office this Spring, due to sickness, I at times being in such a 

 condition that I could not be consulted. 



PRESIDENT CR.VIG: You have heard the reading of oiir 

 Secretary's report. Are there any remarks? If not, those in 

 favor of acccptmg the report as read will kindly signify by saying 

 "aye." Contrary? The motion is carried. 



President Craig: We shall next hear the secretary's financial 

 statement. 



SECRETARY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



New York, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1921. 

 Receipts. 



On hand, Sept. 10, 1920 $620.43 



Received for delinquent dues 22.00 



Received for 1920 dues 428.00 



Received for 1921 dues 4,62d.0i) 



Received for life memlierships 350.00 



Received for 115 sustaining memberships 1,150.00 



Received for Service Bureau Fund 70.00 



$7,286.43 



Expenditures, 



Deposit vouchers to treasurer Nos. 197-215 $5,394.00 



On hand 892.43 



^$7,286,43 



Expenditures of the Secretary's and Service Bureau office from 

 August 24, 1920, to October 1, 1921, have been as follows: 



Postage $149.10 



Telephone and telegraph 209.90 



Stationery l^-^5 



Office incidentals 58.95 



Clerk hire 1,145.00 



Expenses of Secretary 328.65 



Total $1,910.45 



M. C. Ebel, Secretary. 

 President Craig : You have heard the reading of our secretary's 

 financial statement. Are there any remarks? If not, those in 

 favor, signify by saying "Aye." Contrary, "No." The report is 

 accepted. We shall now hear the report of the treasurer : 

 TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Englewood, N. J., October 10, 1921. 

 Receipts. 

 Balance in bank, Sept. 10, 1920 (Gen'I. Fund) . .$1,664.75 

 Balance in bank, Sept. 10, 1920 ( Reserve Fund) . . 367.06 

 Deposit vouchers, Gcu'l. Fund, No. 197 to No. 215. 5,394.00 



Interest, General Fund 23.18 



Interest, Reserve Fund 22.44 



$7,471.43 



Disbursements. 

 Vouchers Nos. 300 to 352 ; 355, 356, 357 ; as follows : 



Chronicle Press, Inc., subscriptions $1,521.00 



Chronicle Press, Inc., office rental (Sept., 1920-Oct., 



1921) 325.00 



Chronicle Press, Inc., printing proceedings St. Louis 



convention 102.00 



Advertising account. Service Bureau 250.00 



Robert S. Dennison & Co., printing and stationery 197.95 



Madison Eagle, printing 50.00 



M. A. Brennan, reporting St. Louis convention 75.00 



Barnett & Draddy, multigraphing 2.25 



Metropolitan Letter Co., multigraphing 4.05 



Diedges & Clust, medals 63.50 



International E.xposition Co., rental space at Flower 



Show 212.00 



Merchants & Mfg. Exchange, rental furniture for 



Flower Show 49.00 



Maurice Bateman, gold lettering 3.00 



Appropriation voted to Secretary 1,000.00 



Expenses of Secretary's office and Service Bureau 1,910.45 



Total disbursements $5,765.20 



Balance in bank, Oct. 8, 1921 (Gen'I. Fund) $1,316.73 



Balance in bank, Oct. 8, 1921 (Reserve Fund) ... 389.50 



1,706.23 



$7,471 43 



Ln'vestments. 



Third Liberty Loan Bond $1,000.00 



Peter Duff, Treasurer. 



President Craig: You have heard the treasurer's report. If three 

 are no remarks, those in favor, please signify by saying "Aye." 

 Contrary, "No." The report is accepted. 



We will next have the report of the Committee on Service 

 Bureau. 



Report of the Committee on Service Bureau 



The Service Bureau has had a busy year, though its accDm- 

 plishments have not been just what may be desired, due to gen- 

 eral business conditions and the lack of demand for efficient gar- 

 deners. There have been many calls during the year for handy 

 men and for gardeners who had wives that might serve as cooks, 

 but, of course, the Service P>ureau was never interested and did 

 not attempt to fill such positions, explaining to the inquirers that 

 our interest is entirely in professional gardeners, and only such. 



The advertising of the past is still :naiiifesting itself among 

 estate owners, for calls have come to the office from all parts 

 of the country for skilled men. The most important develop- 

 ment, however, is that when gardeners hear of a position and 

 apply they are frequently asked if they are members of the 

 National Association of Gardeners and whether they can refer 

 to the association for references. This has recently brought a 

 number of men to the office who had not been members before, 

 hut who have discovered that to be regarded as a professional 

 gardener it is becoming necessary to belong to the national asso- 

 ciation. 



There are indications that a change for the better is at hand. 

 Many of the trade interests that cater to the estate owners for 

 improvement and construction work are reporting an increasing 

 number of inquiries, and feel sure that this coming Spring is going 

 to see renewed activity on many estates. The general slogan this 

 year has l)ecn "(jO slow, keep expenses down," but we feel op- 

 timistic that a change will soon be at hand. 



Many estates have been bought on which no work has been 

 done and which are still in carekeepers' hands, and these, of 

 course, will oll'er opportunities for some gardeners when work is 

 commenced. 



PRESIDENT CRAIG: You have heard the report of the 

 Committee on Service Bureau. .Are there any remarks on this 

 report? 



MR. GR.AY : How manv positions were filled this year? 



MR. FIBEL: I could not answer that without looking it up, 

 Mr. Grav : I could not answer that offhand. 



MR. STEW.VRT: I would like to call attention to a fact that 

 is worth taking notice of, that is, the standing that the National 

 -Association of Gardeners seems to give to the professional gar- 

 deners. The reference made in the report in regard to people 

 asking if 'hey were members of the Association is most important 

 and I think that is goin.g to be a splendid thing in the coming 

 days. A committee might be appointed to look after that part 

 of the work, to state whether a membt-r is worthy or not of get- 

 tin.g endorsement from the Association. 



MR. BRING: I certainly agree with the last speaker in em- 

 phasizin,g the point that the National Association of Gardeners 

 stands for the best of the professional men in the country. Gar- 

 deners in general have to wake up to the fact that in order to 

 uplift the profession throughout the country they will have to 

 affiliate with an association which is working for the uplift of the 

 profession. 



I believe that the gardeners, when advertising for positions, 

 should advertise themselves as gardeners, not as laborers. In the 

 local paper I saw an ad inserted by a man who wanted a position 

 as gardener, or he would attend furnaces in the Winter. That is 

 where the gardenrs make a mistake. They are either gardeners 

 or laborers : they cannot be both. 



MR. MICHIE: Referring to Mr. Stewart's remarks with re- 

 gard to a committee being appointed to endorse the applications, 

 I believe we have a committee, and the same applies to these local 

 bran-hes. As Mr. Ebel's report states, we had a local branch 

 organized this year and we have a Committee on .Application. 

 Thfv have to get endorsement before they can become members. 

 In that way we can be certain of getting the best men into the 

 .Association. We don't believe it is a wise policy to take every- 

 body, and we want the National .Association to stand for the best 

 men of the profession, men who will not lower themselves and 

 go down and use a pick and shovel and attend the furnace, wash 

 windows, etc. We do not believe in receiving that class of men 

 into the .Associati.on. 



;\1R. STEW.ART: .Along these lines, I think we have to use 

 a little care 1 can recall men who came to this country as 

 laborers and became very much interested in plants, and the 

 head .gardeners arc encour.lging these men to go into the work 

 hy promising to promote them to positions in which they can 



