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Mr. Stewart nominated William Gray, of Xeuport, R. I. The 

 nomination was seconded. 



Moved and carried, nominations be closed. 



Mr. Head nominated M. C. Ebel as Secretary. 



The nomination was seconded and moved that it be closed. 

 Carried. 



Mr. Stewart nominated Montague Free for Treasurer. 



The nomination was seconded ; moved that it be closed. Carried. 



The President: There are now live Trustees to be nominated 

 for the year 1923. 



Mr. Ebel announced that, according to the charter of the Asso- 

 ciation, it is compelled to nominate three Trustees for the State 

 of New Jersey, and nominated Mr. Head, Mr. Mackintosh and 

 Arthur Smith from New Jersey as the New Jersey members and 

 Mr. Cameron as one of the two Trustees-at-Large. 



Mr. Stuart nominated Andrew- L. Dorward, of Newport. 



Moved the nominations be closed. Carried. 



The President announced the next thing on the program was 

 the consideration of the meeting place for next year. 



Mr. Donald proposed Pittsburgh. 



Mr. Barnet presented a personal invitation from the branch in 

 Western Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Stuart moved the nominations be closed. 



The President: Jt has been moved and seconded that the 

 nominations close. All those in favor will please signify by say- 

 ing, "aye" ; contrary, "no." It is a vote. 



Under the head of New Business, the President inquired: Has 

 any one anything to bring up before the meeting at this time? 



^Ir. Downer: I make a motion that a recess be taken. The 

 motion was seconded. Carried. 



RECESS 

 The President called the meeting to order to consider New 

 Business. 



New Business 



Mr. Downer: The Board of Directors recommends to the 

 convention here now assembled that an honorarium of $1,(XX) be 

 paid Mr. Ebel. 



Mr. Cr.\ig : Mr. President. I don't know whether the mem- 

 bers all heard that or not. It was that the Board of Directors 

 recommended that the convention award an honorarium of $1,000 

 to Mr. Ebel for his services. 



The recommendation was seconded by Mr. Head. Carried. 



Mr. Downer: The Board of Directors also recommoids that 

 from now on the Secretary shall receive a salary of $3,000 a 

 year, to be paid in monthly instalments ; the Service Bureau 

 as now conducted, as a separate unit, to be discontinued. The 

 Secretary's salary shall cover office rental, clerk hire, telephone 

 and telegrams, postage, traveling expenses and all other incidental 

 expenses connected with the office and work of the Service Bureau. 



Mr. Head: Mr. Chairman, for the benelit of the members as- 

 sembled — some perhaps did not hear well enough and perhaps 

 do not realize what we are trying to do — the point of issue is to 

 get the Association on a financial basis. The Association has 

 been in existence a good many years, and up to date there has 

 been no financial standing ; that is to say, we haven't been put on 

 a good financial basis. 



Now, the main thing is to get the -Xssociation on a good finan- 

 cial basis, and the first thing to do is to have your Secretary paid 

 a sufficient salary so that he can conduct the business in a busi- 

 nesslike manner. 



Then, the Board of Directors has also thought over the Service 

 Bureau, and from what we could gather the Service Bureau has 

 been a bill of expense to the Association, without getting the re- 

 sults that we thought we would. So, therefore, we are going to 

 cut out the Service Bureau as it is now being run, and will leave 

 the Service Bureau end of it with the Secretary, to carry on as he 

 sees fit. That is to say, should a position come in, should a lady 

 or a gentleman a.sk for a gardener from the Service Bureau, it 

 would be the Secretary's business to assist that party in getting 

 a gardener from the National .Association, but not to run the 

 Service Bureau the way we have been running it. at such a big 

 cxiiense without getting very much for it. 



The main thing is to get the whole thing down on a good 

 financial basis, so that we know where we are at. It is like any 

 any other business. There is the reason for the recommendation. 

 and I hope, fellow members, that you will sec it in the same light 

 that we have seen it. We sat down and talked it o\cr. It isn't 

 only today that we have talked it over, hut we have been consid- 

 ering it for some time ; Ijut we got together today and formulated 

 this plan, and we think that $3,000 ought to lie enough to carry 

 the thing along. 



Mr. Mackintosh : The only thing about that is that the 

 members present and those who hapnen to nad abt ut this must 

 not pet away with the idea that the Service Bureau is to be elimi- 

 nated, because it will not be. and the same services that were 

 given before will be given ir«m now on. and Mr, Ebel, as Secre- 



tary, will use his good offices as Secretary of the Association the 

 way he used to use them as Secretary of the Service Bureau. It 

 is a case of amalgamation. We are going into a trust. Nobody 

 is to go away with the idea that there is to be a discontinuation 

 of the Service Bureau, because if any of you want any advice 

 or want any men, the service will be just exactly the same as 

 heretofore, only not as a separate thing. 



The recommendation was favorably adopted. 



Quarantine 37 



Mr. Ckaig: Mr. President, you, in your Presidential ad- 

 dress, like a wise man, changed your mind from last year. Last 

 year you got on the floor and you applauded tjuarantme 37. In 

 your Presidential address you thought it was a great iniquity. 

 A wise man changes his views, and this shows that you are one. 



I think this Association ought to go on record again as opposed 

 to Quarantine 37 as at present on the statute book. We know 

 that a good many commercial interests applaud it for certain 

 selfish reasons. The body of men which formed the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board, composed of etymologists, bacteriologists, and 

 others, were put there to bar out injurious insect pests and dis- 

 eases. They formed themselves into a Tariff Board to keep out 

 all products from abroad that we need here in our gardens. Now 

 the commercial interests, in a large measure, applaud that because 

 for some of the material they have on hand they can get hand- 

 some prices from the ultimate consumer, and therefore, as your 

 President said, the prices have been immensely increased to the 

 buyer, the amateur, the gardener, and we ought to go on record 

 as demanding" a moderate modification of Quarantine 37 as at 

 present on the statute book. 



It is unfair to the great horticultural interests of America that 

 they should suffer because five men were put there to keep out 

 insect pests and they formed themselves into a tariff commission, 

 and because the bulk of the nurserymen, and some florists, who 

 are just as bad as the nurserymen, think that they ought to bar 

 all foreign products and by doing so get a higher price for com- 

 modities here at home. 



It is not fair at all, and we ought to go on record as a Na- 

 tional Association as demanding a modification of Quarantine 37. 



A lively and most interesting discussion arose, following Mr. 

 Craig's remarks, in which a number of members participated, all 

 against Quarantine No. 37, and many points not heretofore brought 

 to light were presented, showing the unfairness and unreason- 

 ableness of this Act. Space will not permit publishing the many 

 experiences related. They will, however, be handled as a separate 

 subject in the next issue of The Gardeners- Chronicle. The 

 principal points of the discussion were that the Quarantine was 

 a tarifl' protective rather than a preventative against insect pests 

 and diseases in this country ; that many nurserymen were taking 

 advantage of the situation to phice prohibitive prices on their 

 stock, and that, contrary to the claims of the Federal Board that 

 many of the liarred plants have already been propagated in this 

 country, the reverse is the case. 



Mr. Craig, who took an active part in the discussion and in his 

 usual forceful manner, whenever the issue is before him, con- 

 demned many of the practices now licing resorted to under cover 

 of Quarantine No. 37, continued that the .■Vssociatiou should at 

 least ask the Federal Horticultural Board to import, under care- 

 ful scrutiny, new, rare and desirable plants, without Ijonds. "Vou 

 and I," he said, "have boys who perhaps want to follow this 

 profession, but we want them to obtain new, rare and interesting 

 material. Vou think we can propagate everything. We cannot." 

 Mr. Craig moved that the National .Association of (jardeners go 

 on record as demanding a fair adjustment of Quarantine No. 37 

 to permit amateurs to introduce new, rare and desirable plants 

 without having to give bonds for same, after careful inspection. 



The motion was seconded and c.irried. 



Resolution of Western Pa. Branch 



.Mr. I'arnet submitted the following resolution which was ap- 

 proved by the recently organi/i d Western Pennsylvania Branch 

 of the National .Association of Gardeners: 



"The memliers of this branch are pleased to note the tendency 

 for closer co-(jpcration between our .Association and tlie various 

 Garden Clubs throughout the country. 



"We feel that this cordial relationship should be st'dl further 

 encouraged and, with this objecl in view, bring before this assem- 

 bly for its consideration and approval the following suggestion: 



"That the .Association engaui- a competent lecturer, who sliall 

 apiiear before these Garden Clubs, presenting our aims and ob- 

 jects, soliciting still closer co-operation in matters that affect 

 the mutual welfare of the memliers of the x.nioU'; Inidies con- 

 cerned. 



"We believe that a campaign .ilong these lines, or similar lines, 

 wfiuki very materially enhance the prestige of our Association." 



(.Signerli Committee, Westkkn Pennsylvania Branch, Na- 

 tional Association of Garhenkrs. Marcus Curran, John 

 Cah.man and ITenrv Gooini\Mi. 



