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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 I'iJi)— Willuini 11. Waitr, Arthur Smith. 1>. 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) 

 — William Gray, Rhode Island; William Hertnck, California* George H. 

 Pring, Missouri; 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 Klein heinz, 

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

 Carl N. Fohn, Colorado; Joseph Tansey, New York. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



New York — Mrs. J. J. Albright. George F. Baker, Edwin S. Bayer, Henri 

 Bendel. Albert Clayburgh. W. R. Coe, Mrs. F. A. Constable, Paul D. 

 Cravath, Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Charles Daniels, Qeveland 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, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, T^ A. 

 Havenieyer, 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., Adolph Lewisohn, John Magee, Mrs. Julius Mc- 

 Vicker, Morton H. Meinhard, 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. Roosen, Chas. A. Sherman, Mrs. Sam. Sloan, Benj. Stern, Mrs. W. Sturs- 

 berg, Dan. Tatum, Mrs. R. M. Thompson, Wm. Boyce Thompson, Mrs. Edw. 

 Thome, Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, CrtU 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 rrelingbuysen, Mrs. K. S. Goodrich, 

 Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel. C. Lewis, Mrs. Paul Moore, ^Kubert T. Parson, 

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

 Mrs. Ridley Watts, Sanders Wertheim. Pennsylz'ania — 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. Cctmecticul — E. Dinan Bird, Dr. Tracy Farnam, Mrs. 

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

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

 R. Livingston Beeckman. Massachusetts — Miss M. R. Case, Mrs. William 

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

 Henry S. Hunnewell, E. K. Lawrie, Henry Penn. Mrs. C. Q. Rice, Prrf. C. 

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

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

 L. Severance, II. S. Sherman. H, L. Thompson. Michigan^]. B. Schlotmann, 



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

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

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

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

 Virginia — Miss Grace E. Arents. \V. Virginia — -Mrs. Arthur Lee. Georgia 

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



LOCAL BRANCHES 



Newport, R. L: 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 McCuIloch, Oyster Bay, L. L, secretary. 



Boston, Mass.: Robert Cameron, chairman; \V. N. Craig, 

 temporary secretary. Brookline. 



Western Pennsylvania: Manvis Curran, chairman, Sewick- 

 ley; Henry Gnodhand, temporary secretary, Sewickley. 



OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1922. 



John Barnet, Sewickley, Pa President 



John H. Francis, Cleveland, Ohio -Vice-President 



Martin C. Ebel, Summit, N. J Secretary 



Montague Free, Brooklyn, N. Y Treasurer 



Boston most assertively demonstrated its right to its claim of 

 being the horticultural hub, at the convention of the National 

 Association of Gardeners. Chairman W. N. Craig and the mem- 

 bers of the various committees are to be congratulated at the 

 great success of the convention, the banquet, and the two days' 

 automobile trips among the famous estates surrounding Boston, 

 and the many historic points that were visited, which proved of 

 immense interest to the visiting members, as proba1)ly at no other 

 place in the country could such highly interesting and instructive 

 entertainment be provided to a gathering of the gardening profes- 

 sion. Briefly summarized, tlie Boston convention was a great 

 success. 



DIRECTORS' MEETING 



The Board of Directors and Trustees met in the forenoon of 

 Tuesday, September 12, at the Hotel Brunswick, the following 

 members being present, Robert Cameron, presiding: George F. 

 Stewart. Henry E. Downer, William Kleinheinz, Thomas W. 

 Head, James Stuart, John Barnet, W. N. Craig, Alexander 

 -Michie, D. L. Mackintosh and -M. C. Ebel. 



The purposes of establishing branches, including the resolutions 

 of the Newport, R. I., branch, were fully discussed and it was 

 decided to submit the views of the directors to the convention. 

 The future policy of the Service Bureau also received careful 

 consideration which was to be discussed further at the business 

 sessions of the convention. 



The Board generally discussed what the future policy of the 

 association should be and recommendations are to be made from 

 time to time when the right opportunity presents itself to put 

 them into effect. 



James Stuart. Tliomas W. Head, Henry E. Downer were ap- 

 pointed a committee to audit the books of the Secretary and the 

 Treasurer, following which the meeting adjourned. 



TuESD.w Afternoon Session 



The convention w^as called to order at 2 :30 P. M., W. N. 

 Craig, of Massachusetts, acting as chairman, who addressed it as 

 follows : 



I am very glad to welcome you, on behalf of the local branch 

 of the National Association of Gardeners, to our convention here. 



The first convention of this association was held in Boston at 

 the time of the National Flower Show in 1908, with an attendance 

 of six. and we held a convention in 1915 also, when Mr. Curley 

 was mayor. Our membership is now about eleven hundred, em- 

 bracing a large number of the best professional gardeners of the 

 United States. This organization came into existence as a sincere 

 effort to elevate the standing of professional gardeners, not as a 

 trades unit, hut as such a unit as would appeal to employers of 

 estates throughout the country. We want to work in co-opera- 

 tion with the estate owners, and have done so successfully, as is 

 proven by the fact that we have on our list a large number of the 

 most prominent estate owners of the United States. 



We have several^ prominent speakers here this afternoon to ad- 

 dress us and 1 don't want to take up any more of your time. 



I am sorry that I cannot introduce to you as the first speaker 

 the Honorable James M. Curley, of Boston. He is unable to be 

 here because politics are humming now and politicians are busy. 

 This is Prima'-y Day. But Mr. Curley has sent here E. Mark 

 Sullivan to take his place. Mr. Craig introduced Mr. Sullivan. 



Mr. Sulliv.an Spe.\ks for the Mayor 



Mr. Sullivan, welcoming the attendants to the convention, and 

 expressing regrets that Mayor Curley could not be present, said : 



Now the Mayor feels, out of a keen appreciation of the impor- 

 tance of your work, that this convention held in our midst merits 

 the formal acknowledgment of the government of the city of Bos- 

 ton, and he regrets exceedingly that the immeciiate necessities of 

 the great issue which is before him and the electorate for decision 

 prevents his being present on this occasion to say such a word as 

 would be becoming to the chief executive of the city. 



However, I want to assure you that I come instead not as a 

 mere perfunctory and one without keen sympathy for your great 

 work. L too, bear close kindred to your work. "There comes from 

 my native town the president of this association, Mr. Cameron, 

 who is now located there, the tow-n of Ipswich, and as far back 

 as I can remember my father was either park commissioner or 

 cemetery commissioner of our town, and in fact, the entire work- 

 ing force of both departments. 



So that the work that you men are accomplishing in a large, 

 scientific way, my father performed within his small village in a 

 less skilful, but a most industrious manner. 



Your work is something more than a mere livelihood to you 

 men. You speak in various languages to the great public that 

 rushes by in the train or rushes by in the automobile, giving a 

 casual glance at these great works that you have laid out with so 

 much thouglit, pains and care. And after all, they represent your 

 creative work. From recent philosophy we understood there were 

 several contributing causes to any work, and the main cause was 

 the method cause, the conception, and yours is translated into 

 these magnificent plots, of so many of which Boston can boast. 



