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National Association of Gardeners 



Office: 286 FIFTH AVE., NEW YOKK 



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President — Robert Cannron, Ipswich, Mass. 



Vice-President — John Barnet, Sewickley, Pa. 



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



Treasurer — Montague Free, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 TRUSTEES (For 1921)— William H. W.iite. .\rthur .Smith. D. L. Mack- 

 intosh, New Jersey; W. N. Craig, Massachusetts; H. E. Downer, New 

 York. 



DIRECTORS (To serve until 1923)— Alexander Michie, Long Island; 

 George F. Stewart, Massachusetts; Theodore Wirth, Minnesota; George 

 W. Hess, District of Columbia; Daniel J. Coughlin, New York; John 

 Barnet, Pennsylvania; Montague Free, New York. (To serve until 1924) 

 — VViUiam Grav, Rhode Island; William Hertrick, California; Albin Mar- 

 tini, Iowa; Thos. Hatton, Connecticut; Robert Weeks, Ohio; W. H. 

 Griffiths, Michigan; Thos. W. Head. New Jersey. (To serve until 1925)- 

 George Wilson, Illinois; James .Stuart, New York; William Kleinheniz, 

 Pennsylvania; John F. Huss, Connecticut; Edwin Jenkins, Massachusetts; 

 Carl N. Fohn, (Colorado; Joseph Tanscy, New Y'ork. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



A'l'if York — Mrs. J. J. Albright, George F. I'.aker, Edwin S. Bayer. Henri 

 Bendel. Albert Clayburgh. W. R. Coe. Mrs. V. A. Constable, Paul U. 

 Cravatli. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Charles Daniels. Cleveland H. 

 Hodge, Mrs. David Dows, Frank J. Dupignac, Mrs. Coleman du Pont. Childs 

 i'rick, W. H. Gratwick, Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. W. D. Guthrie. Mrs. B. .\. 

 llaggin, Mrs. William P. Hamilton. .Mrs. John Henry Hammond, T. .\. 

 Havemever, Mrs. L. A. Herman, Anton G. Hodenpyl, B. H. Howell. C. O. 

 Iselin. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs. Frank B. Keech. W, Eugene Kimball. 

 L C. Ledyard. Jr., .\dolph Lewisohn, John Magee, Mrs. Julius Mc- 

 X'icker, Morton H. Meinhard. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr., J. Pierpont 

 Morgan, Mrs. T Pierpcnt Morgan, Stanley G. Mortimer. Mrs. Harold 

 I. Pratt, John" T. Pratt, E. F. Price. Mrs. William A. Read. H. 

 I). Riiosen, Charles A. Sherman, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, Benjamin Stern. 

 Mrs. W Stursberg, Daniel Tatum, Mrs. R. M. Thompson, Mrs. Edwin 

 Thome. Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, Carll Tucker, Samuel Untermyer, Mrs. 

 Harold T. White, Mrs. Payne Whitney, E. L. Young. New Jersey — A. 

 Albright, Jr.. Charles Bradley, Joseph P. Day, James B. Duke, Mrs. 

 Lewis L. Dunham, Mrs. Frederick I'relinghuysen, Mrs. K. S. Goodrich, 

 Mrs. C.ustav E. Kissel. C. Lewis, Mrs. Paul Moore, Hubert T. Parson, 

 Mrs, Manuel Rionda, Leland H. Ross, P, S. Straus. Mrs. John I. Waterbury, 

 Mrs, Ridley Watts, Sanders Wertheim. Pcniisvl-.'aiiia — Samuel T, Bodine. 

 Gen, Richard Coulter, Mrs, I. D, Lyon, R, B, Mellen, GifTord Pinchot, George 

 F. Tyler, Edward A, Woods. Delaware — Irenee dn Pont, Pierre S. du Pont, 

 Harry G. Haskell. Ct-iuiecticut — E. Dinan Bird. Dr. Tracy Farnam, Mrs. 

 Tracy Farnam, George M. Hendce, Miss A. B. Jenninjs. H. F. Schwarz, W. 

 H. Truesdale, Edward L, Wemplc, William Ziegler. Jr. Rhode Island — Gov. 

 R. Livingston Bceckman. Massaeluisetts — Miss M. R. Case. Mrs. William 

 C. Conant, George P, Dike, Mrs. Henry C, Frick, Mrs. Louis Frothingham. 

 Henry S, Ilunnewell, E. K. Lawrie. jNIrs. C. G. Rice. Prof. C. S. Sargent. 

 Mrs. T. .-v. Spool, Mrs. Bayard Thayer. New Hamf^slnrc — F. G. Webster. 

 Ohio^F. F. Drury, H. S. Firestotie, Mrs, I'rancis F. Prentiss. John L. 

 Severance, H, S, Sherman, H. L. Thompson. Micliiguii — J. B. Schlotmann, 

 E. D. Speck. Indiana — Theodore F. Thieme. Illinois — .S. Watson .\rmour, 

 Harry B. Glow. .-\. B. Dick, Clayton Mark. -Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Mrs. F. 

 W. Upham. Minnesota — Mrs. Chester -\. Congdon, F. II, Stoltze, Iowa — 

 Mrs. G. B. Douglas. Missouri — August A. Busch. Dr. George T. Moore. 

 Virginia — Miss Grace E. Arents. IV. Virginia — Mrs. Arthur Lee. Georgia 

 — E. H. Inman. 5. Carolina — Robert S. Mebane, 



LOCAL BRANCHES 



Newport, R, I.: .Andrew L. Dorward, chairman; Frederic 

 Carter, secretary, 



St. Louis, Mo.: George H. Pring. chairman; Hugo M. 

 Schaff, secretary. 



Nassau County, L. I.: Jolin T. Everett, Glen Cove, chair- 

 man; John McCulloch, Oyster Bay, L, I,, secretary. 



Boston, Mass.: Robert Cameron, chairman. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



Leland H, Ross, Madison, N. J. (Williain Lund, gardener) ; 

 Edward L. Wemple, Greenwich. Conn. .( M. C, Redlich, gardener) ; 

 Henri Bendel, Great Neck, L, L (Carl Peterson, gardener) ; Mrs, 

 B, A, Haggin. Tannersville, N. Y. (James Warr, gardener) have 

 become sustaining luenibers of tlie association. 



NEW MEMBERS 



The following new members have recently been added to the 

 membership of the association: H. D, Prosser, Islip, L, I, ; 

 A. Bulpitt, Port Washington, L. L; Alexander D. Elder, Oyster 

 Bay, L. I.; William Thomas, Great Neck. L. I,; Steve Dom- 

 browsky, Locust Valley, L. I. 



N. A. G. BOSTON BRANCH 



A meeting of this recently organized branch was held at Horti- 

 culture Hall. Boston, on the afternoon of the second day of the 

 Spring Flower Show of the Mass.achusetts Horticultural Society. 

 About fifty members were present when the chainrian, Robert 

 Cameron, called the meeting to order. W. N. Craig was appointed 



secretary. Members were present from New Bedford, Haverhill, 

 Manchester, Willesley, I'Vainingham, Natick, Newton, and other 

 points ; also from Newport, R, I. The coming Boston convention 

 was discussed, and unless some important events necessitate a 

 change, September 12, 13, 14, 15 will be the dates; the first 

 two for business, the last two for sight-seeing. A set of by-laws 

 for the use of local branches was submitted and discussed to be 

 taken up further at the next meeting, and amendments to the by- 

 laws relative to the reserve fund of the society and other mat- 

 ters pertaining to the finances of the society, as well as the Service 

 Bureau and its value to inembers, and the proposed course for pro- 

 fessional gardeners at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, Mass. The meeting lasted over two hours and was 

 interesting throughout. The ne.xt meeting will be held about the 

 last of .\pril, while several inembers of the association will attend 

 and speak before the North Shore Horticultural Society, Man- 

 chester, Mass., and endeavor to secure new members there, and 

 perhaps institute a branch of the N, A, G. 



W. N. Cratg. Sec>-. pro ten:. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS' BOOTH 

 AT THE FLOWER SHOW 



The booth at the International Flower Show this year again 

 demonstrated the fact that it is a worth while source of bringing 

 publicity to the association. Estate owners from all parts of 

 the country called for information regarding problems arising on 

 their places, and to discuss the possibility of engaging efficient 

 men. -\ number of people called at the booth to inquire just what 

 the association was, as they had vague and often incorrect ideas 

 as to its aims and purposes. Satisfactory explanations were 

 given to them by those in charge. Attractive pamphlets, setting 

 forth the aims of the association were distributed in large quan- 

 tities from the booth. These pamphlets can be had from the 

 office of the association if any member desires to obtain some for 

 distribution among his gardening" friends in an endeavor to interest 

 them to become members. 



SIGN BOARDS 



Froiu one of the association's niembers located in St. Louis, the 

 following interesting news items regarding the abolishment of sign 

 boards along the Missouri highways, has been forwarded : "The 

 State Highway Commission today adopted a resolution to enforce 

 a provision of the new highway law, under which advertising 

 matter cannot be posted along the state highways. .'\11 the 

 numerous highway associations, automobile clubs and old trail 

 associations, for the time being and until otherwise ordered by the 

 commission, are authorized to remove all advertising matter on 

 the right-of-way of the state highways and to substitute finger- 

 boards showing the direction and distances to various cities. Later 

 the commission will make some designations relative to imparting 

 information to travelers on the highways regarding distances to 

 cities, direction, etc., of a more peniianent nature than it is an- 

 ticipated the various associations will make. The prime object 

 at this tiiTie is to get rid of the advertising matter now so gen- 

 erously displayed on trees, fence posts and billboards along the 

 highways." 



The attention of the Secretary's office was also called to a story 

 which appeared in one of the New England newspapers, which 

 tells of the stand taken by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce 

 to rid the Cape of unsightly billboards and advertising signs which 

 disfigure the highways. "The first step in this campaign was the 

 preparation of a petition addressed to certain conspicuous ad- 

 vertisers and advertising" companies using these billboards. This 

 petition, which was very largely signed through the Cape, was 

 based on a plea to protect the picturesque landscape of the Cape." 



OPENINGS FOR APPRENTICES 



In answer to the appeal made by the Secretary's office for 

 opportunities for young men who are desirous of locating on 

 private estates as apprentices, several superintendents and garden- 

 ers notified the Secretary that there were such opportunities on 

 places of which they are in charge, and young men were sent 

 out by the Secretary's office to fill these vacancies. The Secre- 

 tary still knows of several desirable young men who would like 

 to become apprentices on private estates, and if any member 

 can provide for one or two young men, the Secretary will be 

 glad to hear from him. 



