For January, 1923 



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National Association 

 Of Gardeners 



Secretary's Office, 286 Fifth Ave., New York 



1923 Convention, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Date not decided.) 



The aims of the association are to elevate the profession of gardening 

 by improving conditions within it. — To cement a closer bondship among all 

 engaged tn, and interested in, gardening — to create a greater confidence be- 

 tween employer and employee. 



Co-operating with the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the association 

 conducts a course in training young men for the profession, whereby they 

 obtain theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience. 



OFFICERS 1923 



President \'ice-President 



John Barnet, Sewickley, Pa. William Gray, Newport, R. I. 



Secretary Treasurer 



M. C. Ebel, New York, N. Y. Montague Free, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



TRUSTEES (For 1923)— Thomas W. Head, D. L. Mackintosh, Arthur 

 Smith. Xew Jersev: Robert Cameron, Massachusetts; Andrew L. Dorward, 

 Rhode Island. 



DIRECTORS— (To serve until 1924) William Hertrick, California; 

 George H. Pring, Missouri; Robert Weeks, Ohio; Thomas Wilson, New 

 York; Harold Bryant, Connecticut; Harry Cartwright, Michigan; H. Ernest 

 Downer, New York. (To serve until 1925) George Wilson. Illinois; James 

 Stuart, New York; William Kleinheinz. Pennsylvania; Edwin Jenkins, 

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

 Tonkin, Pennsylvania. (To serve until 1926) Alexander Michie, New York; 

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

 Hess, District of Columbia; R. P. Brydon, Ohio; William C. Rust, Massa- 

 chusetts; Charles Schrall, Wisconsin. 



SUSTAINING MEMBERS 



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

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

 Cravath. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Charles Daniels, Cleveland 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. 

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

 Islin. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs. Frank B. Keech. W. Eugene Kimball, L. C. 

 Ledyard, Jr., Adolph Lewisohn, John Magee, Mrs. Julius McVicker, Morton 

 H. Meinhard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs, J. Pierpont 

 Morgan. Stanley G. Mortimer, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Tdhn T. Pratt, E. F. 

 Price, Mrs. Wm. A. Read. H. D. Roosen. Chas. A. Sherman, Mrs. Samuel 

 Sloan, Benj. Stern. Mrs. W. Stnrsberg. Daniel Tatum. Mrs. R. M. Thompson, 

 Wm. Boyce Thompson, Mrs. Edward Thorne, Mrs. Henry M. Tilford, Carll 

 Tucker, Samuel Untermyer, Mrs. Harold T. White, Mrs. Payne Whitney, 

 E. L. Young. Nczv Jersey — Charles Bradley. Joseph P. Day, James B. 

 Duke, Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham, Mrs, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Mrs. K. S. 

 Goodrich, Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel, C. Lewis, Mrs. Paul Moore, Hubert T. 

 Parson, Leland H. Ross. P. S. Strauss. Mrs. John I. Watt-rbury, Mrs. 

 Ridley Watts, Sanders Wertheim. Pcmisxlzanw — Samuel T. Bodine, Gen. 

 Richard Coulter, Mrs. J. D. Lycn, R. B. Msllen, Gifford Pinchot, George F. 

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

 Harry G, Haskell. CouJiccticut — E. Dinion Bird. I>r. Tracy Farnam, ^Irs. 

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

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

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

 C. Conant, George P. Dike, Mrs. Louis Frothingham, Henry S. Hunnewell, 



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. Schlotmann, E. D. 

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

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

 Upham. Minnesota — Mrs. Chester A. Congdon, F. H. Stoltze. Icni'a — Mrs. 



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

 W. Virginia — Mrs. Arthur Lee. Georgia — Asa G. Candler, Jr., G. Gumby 

 Jordan. Soitth Carolina — Robert S. Mebane. 



LOCAL BRANCHES 



NEWPORT, R. I.: Andrew L. Dorward, chairman; Frederic Carter, 

 secretai y, 



ST. LOUIS, MO.: George H. Pring. chairman; Hugo M. SchafiF, 

 secretary. 



NASSAU COUNTY, L. L: James Duthie, Oyster Bay, chairman; John 

 McCulloch. O^'ster Bay. secretary. 



BOSTON, MASS.: Robert Cameron. Ipswich, chairman; W. N. Graig, 

 Weymouth, secretai y. 



WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: Manus Curran, Sewickley. chairman; 

 Henry Goodband, Sewickley, secretary. 



PRESIDENT BARNET'S MESSAGE 



Fellow Members: 



1922 is now history. We as an association have ac- 

 complished a great deal and learned much. If we are to 

 continue to make satisfactory progress, I ask at this time 

 that you all put your shoulders to the wheel and keep up 

 the steady growth so ably maintained in the years past. 



Your president alone does not make the association 

 and can accomplish very little without the aid and co- 

 operation of the rank and file. This means you. 



With the increase in local branches and a better dis- 



semination of information success is assured. As to local 

 branches, I believe they offer a splendid opportunity for 

 the advancement of the association and the profession it 

 represents. Members can get together easily at any time 

 to discuss N. A. G. matters, and get more real knowledge 

 at a small meeting than one would feel disposed to ask 

 at a convention. All that is necessary is to appoint a 

 chairman and secretary, the latter keeping in touch with 

 the national headquarters. It is now squarely up to the 

 localities to do their bit. and I shall be very much dis- 

 appointed if we do not hear from places like Chicago, 

 Cleveland, and Detroit this year. 



In making appointments for 1923, it will be noted that 

 some of the younger men are included which I hope will 

 cause greater interest among the young men in the affairs 

 of the association. The time is close at hand, if not now 

 here, when a new order of things will take place. With all 

 due respect to the men of today, we must look to the 

 rising generation, both employer and employee. Where 

 would we have been had forethought and labor not been 

 expended in our favor. 



Interesting young men in the profession we represent, 

 is going apace since the inauguration of the co-operative 

 training by the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 Prospects are very bright and other colleges will surely 

 follow. 



Some gardeners do realize, but all must, that, due to 

 acts of war, conditions have changed in gardening as they 

 have in every other line of endeavor, and when a man 

 finds that things are not as they used to be, he should not 

 act too hastily. Many men have given up positions only 

 to find that they have had to accept less comfortable and 

 less remunerative ones after being out awhile. Prosperity 

 is usually manifested on country estates, following a busi- 

 ness boom, while retrenchment is always the order dur- 

 ing unsettled times. 



For obvious reasons which might prove profitable, I 

 suggest that gardeners interest themselves in civic mat- 

 ters towards the beautification of communities, home 

 grounds, etc. Also urge increased production of vegetables 

 to help relieve the possible vegetable shortage of crops, 

 due to scarcity of farm labor next season. This, of 

 course, applies more to those localities where there are no 

 horticultural societies which may now be actively en- 

 gaged in such work. It offers a fine opportunity to any 

 group of gardeners, no matter where located, and may 

 incidentally help influence employers who still think a 

 gardener a gardener only as they know him. 



Our committee on Quarantine No. 37 reported progress 

 and is optimistic as to modification in some form. W'hile 

 the horticultural interests in general are divided on the 

 question, there is no doubt in my mind about the garden- 

 ers' or their employers' hopes for modification or total 

 abolition. Therefore, let us as an association continue 

 to co-operate with any and all organizations until the 

 desired end is attained. 



Our next convention will be held in Pittsburgh before 

 the middle of August, when I hope to welcome a very 

 large delegation. We are most centrally located ; it has 

 been said that Pittsburgh is only a night's ride from any 

 place. Don't hesitate to come, even if it takes two or 

 three nights' ride. Many no doubt are wondering what 

 there is to be seen in and around the "Smoky City." We 

 have several interesting -things to show here which can- 

 not be seen anywhere else in the country, if not in the 

 world. It will' at least be a change. Bring the ladies 

 along, who will be well taken care of. 



In conclusion, allow me to say a word about our official 

 organ, the Gaedeners' Chronicle of America. A paper 

 is in a measure just what its readers make it and I am 

 sure our worthy secretary would only be too willing to 



