For June, 1922 



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Office: 286 FIFTH AVE., NEW YOKK 



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President — Robert Cameron, Ipswich, Mass. 



Vice-President — John Barnet, Sewickley, Pa. 



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



Treasurer — Montague Free, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 TRUSTEES (For 1921)— William H. VVaite. Arthur Smith. D. L. Mack- 

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

 Vorl<. 



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

 George F. Stewart, Massacl.usetts; Theodore Wirth, Minnesota; George 

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

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

 — WiUiam Gray, Rhode Island; William Hertrick, California; Albin Mar- 

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

 Griffiths, Michigan; Thos. W. Head. INIew Jersey. (To serve until 1925)— 

 George Wilson, Illinois; James Stuart, New York; William Kleinheinz, 

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

 Carl N. Fohn, (Colorado; Joseph Tanscy, New York. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



Nezu York — Mrs. J. J. Albright. (it-Mr^e ¥. Baker, Edwin S. Bayer, Henri 

 Bendel, Albert Clayburgh, W. K. Cot-, Mrs. F. A. Constable, Paul D. 

 Cravath. Mrs. VV. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Charles Daniels, Geveland H. 

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

 Frick, W. H. Gratwick, Daniel Guggenheim. Mrs. W. D. Guthrie, Mrs. B. A. 

 Haggin, Mrs. William P. Hamilton, ^Irs. John Henry Hammond, T. A. 

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

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

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

 V'icker, Morton H. Meinliard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr., J. Pierpont 

 Morgan, Mrs. J Pierpont Morgan, Stanley G. Mortimer, Mrs. Harold 

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



D. Ruosen, Chas. A. Sherman, ^Nlrs. Sam. Sloan, Benj. Stern, Mrs. W, Sturs- 

 berg, Dan. Tatuni. Mrs. R. M. Thunipsun. \\'ni, Boyce Tliunip^i.m. Mrs. Eilw. 

 Thorne, 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. Gustav 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. Pennsylvania — Samuel T. Bodine, 

 Gen. Richard Coulter, Mrs. J. D. Lyon, R. B. Mellen, Gifford Pinchot, George 

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

 Harry G. Haskell. Cmmeetient — E. L>inan Bird, Dr. Tracy Farnam, Mrs. 

 Tracy Farnam, George M. Hendee, Miss A. B. Jennings, H. F. Schwarz, W. 

 H. Tniesdale, Edward L. Wemple, William Ziegler. Jr. Rhode Island — Gov. 

 K. Livingston Bceckman. Massachusetts — Miss M. R. Case, Mrs. William 

 C. Conant^ Cieorge P. Dike, Mrs. Henry C. Frick, Mrs. Louis Frothinghani, 

 Henry S. llunnewell. E. K. Lawrie, Henry Penn. Mrs. C. G'. Rice. Prof. C. 

 S. Sargent, Mrs. J. A. Spoor, Mrs. Bayard Thayer. New Hampshire — F. G. 

 Webster. Ohio — F. F. Drury, H. S. Firestone, Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss. John 

 L. .Severance, H. S. Sherman, H. L. Thompson. Michigan — J. B. Schlotinann. 



E. D. Speck. Indiana — Theodore F. Thieme. Illinois — .-\. Watson Armour, 

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

 W. LFphara. Minnesota — Mrs. CThester A. Congdon, F. H. Stoltze. Iowa — 

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

 Virginia — Miss Grace E. Arents. W. I'irginia — Mrs. Artlnir Lee. Georgia 

 — E. H. Inman. S. 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.: John T. Everett, Glen Cove, chair- 

 man; John McCulIoch, Oyster Bay, L. L, secretary. 



Boston, Mass.: Robert Cameron, chairman. 



THE ANNUAL CONVENTION 



The local committees for the convention to be held at Boston, 

 September 12 to IS, are busy laying out an interesting program 

 for the members at large who anticipate attending the 1922 con- 

 vention in that city. A joint meeting of the convention commit- 

 tee,^ under W. N. Craig, who is the general chairman, will be held 

 this month and a definite program will be agreed upon which will 

 l)e announced in the July issue of The G.^rdeners' Chronicle, 

 together with the hotel that has been selected as the headquarters 

 of the association at the convention, hotel rates, etc.. and to whom 

 to apply to for reservations. 



The members of the association in and around Boston are most 

 enthusiastic to make the 1922 convention, which will be the second 

 N. .\. G. convention held in that city, a rousing success to show 

 how the association has progressed since the first Boston conven- 

 tion was held there. 



Interesting and instructive trips to inspect the many fine estates 

 and historic landinarks of that part of Xew England where the 

 convention will lie held are being arranged, as well as lively busi- 

 ness sessions for the discussion of problems of vital interest to 

 the members of the gardening profession. 



N. A. G. ADOPTS GARDENING COURSE 



The Board of Trustees and Directors have endorsed the pro- 

 IKised course for training men in the gardening profession to be 

 established at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, .\mherst, 

 Alass.. under the supervision of a committee of the National .\s- 

 sociation of Gardeners and the college authorities. It is antici- 

 pated that this course will commence with the terms opening this 

 coming September. In accepting this plan the Board of Trustees 

 and Directors was unanimous, as it felt that the National Asso- 

 ciation of Gardeners was taking a step in the right direction to 

 give men interested in making gardening their life profession an 

 opportunity to gain both a theoretical and practical knowledge of 

 gardening under proper supervision. 



The course as proposed is briefly outlined as follows: 



Piirfose. — The basic iaea o£ this plan is to combine the benefits of scientific 

 college training with practical apprenticeship m gardening under the joint 

 supervision of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and the National 

 Association of Gardeners. 



Qualifications. — PUi>ils must have common school education, reasonable com- 

 mand of the English language, some practical e-xperience in the field ot 

 horticulture and show a distinct aptitude for horticuhural pursuits. 



First term of theoretical instruction comprises 12 weeks beginning late in 

 September. 



Second term of theoretical instruction comprises 12 weeks beginning Tann- 

 ary I. 



Summer season is from April 1 to September 20 and will be spent at a 

 good horticultural establishment where the student will gain practical 

 experience under the joint .supervision of the College and Committee ..f 

 the watiimal Association of Gardeners. 



Third term of theoretical instruction comprises 12 weeks and begins kite 

 in September. 



Fourth term of theoretical instruction comprises 12 weeks beginning Tanu- 

 ary 1. o b j 



Fifth term of theoretical instruction begins about the middle of March and 

 covers 12 weeks. 



Apprentice year.~At the conclusion of the above program the students 

 showing zeal, innustry and merit will be placed in a horticultural es- 

 tablishment to gam varied and effective exiierience under the supervision 

 of the College administration and the National Association of Gardeners 

 Ihe api-renticeship year will not be less than 12 months. 



txammatwn of students— Al the end ci the apprenticeship period an ex- 

 amination in practical and theoretical horticulture will he given 



Students' certihcatcs.—Studems who satisfactorily pass the examination will 

 receive suitable certificates from tie National Association of Gardeners 

 and the M.issachusetts Agricultural College 



THOMAS HATTON 



The association deeply regrets that it must announce the sudden 

 death on June 8 of one of its directors, Thomas Hatton, following 

 an operation at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City 

 Mr. Hatton had not been in the best of health for the past year 

 but complained of feeling considerably worse three weeks pre- 

 vious to his operation. His death came as a shock to the many 

 tnends he had in the gardening profession who regarded him as 

 being in the best of health. For the last seven vears Mr. Hatton 

 was superintendent of Sea Acre, New London,' Conn., the beau- 

 tiful estate of Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Farnam. which position he 

 accepted after resigning as superintendent of Greystone, the estate 

 of Mr. Samuel LIntermyer, Yonkers, N. Y. 



He is survived by Mrs. Hatton, one son and two daughters. 

 Mrs. Hatton and her children have the heartfelt sympathy of the 

 members of' the association in their bereavement. 



AMONG THE GARDENERS 



Word has just reached the Secretary's office that D. L. Mackin- 

 tosh, of Alpine, N. J., a trustee of the association, met with a 

 serious accident the first part of May when he was run over liy 

 an autoinobile. Mr. Mackintosh was confined to his bed for more 

 than four weeks and is only now able to move about on crutches, 

 and it will be some time before he will be able to go about again! 

 The Secretary's office is sure all the members of the association 

 will indeed l>e sorry to learn of Mr. Mackintosh's misfortune. 



Roderick M. Crocket, who just recently started in business for 

 himself, came to this country in 1908 after serving his apprentice- 

 ship in England and was employed by R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 Boston, until 1917, when he went with Cadweli & Jones, of Hart- 

 ford, Cotm., for three years. Mr. Crocket returned to Farquhar 

 & Co. in 1920 at the call of the late Mr. John Farquhar to under- 

 take some work, but which did not materiali;?e because of the 

 death of Mr. Farquhar. In May of this year Mr. Crocket resigned 

 his position to engage in business in- the horticultural field for 

 himself at Cranford. N. J. 



