For Se/jtember, 1922 



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TREASURER'S REPORT 



Engi.ewood, N. J., Oct. 10, 1921. 

 Receipts 

 Balance in Bank, Sept. 10. 1920 (.Gcn'l Fund) .$1,664.75 

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

 Deposit vouchers, Gen'l Fund, No. 197 to 215.. 5,397.00 



Interest. General Fund 45.04 



Interest. Reserve Fund 22.44 $7,496.29 



Balance in Dank, Sept. 1, 1922 (Gen'l Fund) . .$2,318.08 



Balance in Hank. Sept. 1. 1922 (Reserve Fund) 397,28 $2,715.36 



Disburse. \iEXTs 

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



Chronicle Press, Inc., subscriptions $1 



Chronicle Press, Inc., rental oflicc space (Sept., 1920- 



Oct., 1921 



Chronicle Press. Inc., printing proceedings St. Louis 



convention 



Advertising Account, Service Bureau 



Robert S. Dennison & Co., printing and stationery 



Madison Eagle, printing 



M. .\. Brennan, reporting St. Louis convention 



Barnett & Draddy, multigraphing 



Metropolitan Letter Co., multigraphing 



Dieges & Clust, medals 



Internat'i Exposition Co,, rental space at Flower Show, 

 Merchants & Mfg, Exchange, rental furniture for 



Flower Show 



Maurice Bateman, gold lettering 



Appropriation voted to Secretary 1 



Expenses of Secretary's office and Service Bureau 1 



Member's check returned "no good" 



Bank's charge 



,521.00 



325.00 



102.00 



250.76 



197.95 



59.10 



75.00 



2.25 



4.05 



63.50 



212.00 



49.00 



3.00 



,000.00 



,910.45 



5.00 



10.00 



Total Disbursements $5,790.06 



Balance in Bank. Oct. 8, 1921 (Gen'l Fund) . . .$1,316.73 



Balance in Bank, Oct, 8, 1921 (Reserve Fund) . 389,50 $1,706.23 



$7,496.29 

 Investments 



Third Liberty Loan Bond $1,000.00 



Peter Duff, Treasurer. 



Boston, Mass,, Sept. 12, 1922. 

 We have completed our audit of the accounts of your treasurer 

 up to October 10, 1921, and are pleased to report that we find the 

 statement as rendered above to be correct, 



James Stuart, 

 Thomas W. Head, 

 Henry E, Downer, 

 Auditing Committee. 



TREASURER'S REPORT 



Brooklyn, N. Y., September 1, 1922, 

 Receipts 

 Balance in Bank, Oct, 8, 1921 (Gen'l Fund) ,. .$1,316,73 

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

 Deposit vouchers, Gen'l Fund, Xos. 216 to 225. . 4,932.00 



Interest, General Fund 46.69 



Interest. Reserve Fund 7.78 



Interest. Liberty Bond 63.75 $6,756.45 



Disbursements 

 Vouchers Nos. 353, 354; Nos. 358 to 405, as follows: 



Chronicle Press, Inc., subscriptions $1 



Chronicle Press, Inc., rental office space 



Chronicle Press, Inc, partial printing N, Y, convention 



Advertising Account, Service Bureau 



Robert S. Dennison & Co., printing and stationery 



Dieges & Clust, medals , 



Internat'i Exposition Co., rental space at Flower Show. 



Master Reporting Co.. reporting X, Y. convention 



Royal Typewriter Co., typewriter 



A, Warendorff. publicity flowers 



McArdle Seed Store, funeral wreath for Robt, Wil- 

 liamson 



Long Beach Willow Furniture Co., rental furniture 

 Flower Show 



I. Bergman, repairing furniture 



Mullens & Tutrone, printing 



Multi-Service Bureau, multigraphing 



Kee Lox Manufacturing Co., typewriter supplies 



Manhattan Exp. Const. Co., constructing booth at 

 Flower Show 



Expenses of Secretary's office and Service Bureau 1 



L. C. Smith & Bros., repairing typewriter 



Member's check returned "no good" 



464.00 

 200.00 



75.00 

 200.00 



90.05 



70.50 

 208.00 



78.40 

 115.00 



10.50 



15.00 



30.50 

 8.00 



39.25 

 7.50 



11.00 



12 40 



.395.99 



5.00 



5.00 



Total Disbursements $4,041.09 



$6,756.45 



In'VE.STMENTS 



Third Liljerty Loan Bund $1,000.00 



Montague Free, Treasurer. 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1922. 

 We have completed our audit of the accounts of your treasurer 

 up to September 1. 1922. and are pleased to report that we find 

 the statement as rendered above to be correct. 



James Stuart, 

 Thomas W. Head, 

 Henry E. Dowxer. 

 Auditing Committee. 



Mr. Downer then presented the report of the Service Bureau, 

 which follows : 



THE WORK OF THE SERVICE BUREAU 



■"PHIi Service ilureau has not been as active this year as in pre- 

 vious years due, of course, to the fact that there has been a 

 small demand for gardeners of the efficient type. There are 

 always more or less calls for what might be termed the mediocre 

 gardener. When such inquiries come, the Service Bureau does 

 not attempt to !ill them, but attempts to educate the estate owners 

 by apprising them what really constitutes a true gardener. We 

 have at times been ridiculed for endeavoring to present gardeners 

 as of a professional rank. On the other hand, on a number of 

 occasions, we were successful in interesting the estate owners to 

 try a more efficient gardener than they had been accustomed to. 

 The reports which come to us have been that the experiment 

 proved most satisfactory. 



Early in the year there were quite a number of inquiries for 

 highly efficient men to superintend the development of new places, 

 the positions to be filled this Spring, but in each case when Spring 

 came, the ovvners had reached the decision not to go ahead until 

 general conditions are improved. 



There is no doubt that the Service Bureau is the most difficult 

 of all the departments of the association to operate. Those who 

 have anything at all to do with the operation of the Service 

 Bureau show no favoritism but select the men whom they be- 

 lieve are best fitted for the positions, and that they are not far 

 wrong in their judgment is substantiated by the splendid record 

 that the Service Bureau has established among many estate ovvners. 



The association is eager to conduct the Service Bureau on the 

 highest plane possible. If it can be improved, and as stated at 

 previous conventions, if there is any member who has constructive 

 suggestions to offer, the association will appreciate receiving them. 



M. C. Ebel. 



The President: You have heard the reading of the Service 

 Bureau report. Are there any remarks? This is a good time to 

 discuss things if you have anything to say. 



Mr. Mackintosh : It seems funny that no one wants to say 

 anything, that no one has any kick. I rise to luove the adoption 

 of the report as sort of an introduction. 



I did happen to be in the Secretary's office now and again up 

 until five months ago, and I can assure you gentlemen who live 

 a distance away that it is no joke what the Secretary tells you 

 about i>eople coming in. In fact, when I am in the neighborhood 

 I run in to say, "flow are you?" and when he is busy I go right 

 out. 



As to the jobs, that is a thing you can't help. You know every 

 man thinks himself about the "best there is, better than ]Mc- 

 Phearson or John Thompson, and he don't see why he shouldn't 

 get the job, and so on. But I think that as far "as the Secre- 

 tary's report goes, all the men that have been placed through the 

 Bureau have given satisfactoin. I don't think that the .Associa- 

 tion could e.xpect anything more. 



The Secretary: Mr. Chairman. I would like to say that this 

 would be a good time to make suggestions of how the Service 

 Bureau ought to be conducted. The criticism pretty generally is 

 that it is not conducted right. When they come to me and say 

 that it isn't conducted right, T ask them how they would do it, 

 and they say. "I don't know, but you are not doing it right. You 

 are not satisfying the gardeners." 



X^ow, I am conducting the Service Bureau to the best of my 

 ability, as far as I know. Every convention we ask for sugges- 

 tions and ideas, but we dou't get them. 



The report was accepted as read. 



As there were no resolutions, the next business in order was 

 the nomination of officers for the year 1923. 



Nomination of Officers 

 Mr. Michie nominated John Barnet for President. 

 The nomination was seconded and motion made nominat'ons 

 close. Carried. 



Mr. Head nominated John H. Francis, of Cleveland, for Vice- 

 President. The nomination was seconded. 



