For September, 1923 



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National Association 

 Of Gardeners 



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



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

 tween employer and employee. 



Co-operating with the Massachusetts .Agricultural College, the associat'^' 

 conducts .1 cour-ie in tr.iining young men for the ]irofession. wherehv they 

 obtain theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience. 



OFFICERS 1923 



President Vice-President 



John Barnet, i'ca'iVfe/sy, Pa. I<)i:i.ri P Bk-.do.m, Clc:clai;d, O. 



Secretary Treasurer 



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



TRUSTEES (For 1923)— Thomas \V. Head. D. L. Mackintosh. Arthur 

 Smith, New Jersey: 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 

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

 Stuart, New Y'ork; William Kleinheinz, Pennsylvania; Edwin Jenkins, 

 Massachusetts; Carl N. Fohn, Colorado; Joseph Tansey, New Y'ork; John 

 Tonkin, Pennsylvania. (To serve until 1926) Alexander Michie, New Y'ork; 

 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 York — Mrs. J. J. .\lbriglit. .Mrs. Robert Bacon. George F. Baker. 

 Edwin S. Bayer, Henri Bendel, .Albert Clayburgh, W. R. Coe, C. A. Coffin, 

 Mrs. F. A. Constable, Paul D. Cravath. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. 

 Charles Daniels. Arthur \'. Davis, Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs. David Dows. 

 Mrs. Coleman du F'ont. Childs Frick, W. H. Gratwick, Mrs. C. Douglas Green, 

 Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. W. D. Guthrie, Mrs. B. .\. Haggin, Mrs. William 

 P. Hamilton, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, T. A. Havemeyer, Mrs. L. A. 

 Herman, G. W. Hill. Anton G. Hodenpyl, B. H. Howell, Otto H. Kahn, 

 Mrs. Frank B. Keech, W. Eugene Kimball, L. C. Ledyard, Jr., Adolph 

 Lewisohn, John Magee, Mrs. Julius Mc\'icker, Morton H. Meinhard, Mrs. 

 Eugene Meyer, Jr., T. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Stanlev 

 G. Mortimer, S. C. Pirie, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, John T. Pratt. E. F. Price. 

 Mrs. Wm. A. Read, Miss J. G. .Seaman, Chas. A. Sherman. Mrs. Samuel 

 Sloan, Sigmund Stein, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. W. Stursberg, Daniel Tatum, 

 Mrs. R. il. Thompson, Wm, Boyce Thompson, Mrs. Edward Thome, Mis. 

 Henry M. Tilford, Carll Tucker, Samuel Untermyer, Mrs. Harold T. White. 

 Mrs. Payne Whitney, E. L. Young. New Jersey — Charles Bradley, James 

 B, Duke, Mrs. Lewis L. Dunham, Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen. Mrs. 

 K. S. (^odrich, Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel, C. Lewis. Mrs. Paul Moore, 

 Hubert T. Parson, Leland II. Ross, P. S. Strauss, Mrs. John I. Waterbury, 

 Mrs. Ridley Watts, Sanders Wertheim. Peitnsvh-ania — Samuel T. Bodine, 

 Gen. Richard Coulter, Mrs. J. D. Lyon, R. B. Mellen, Mrs. WaUer S. 

 Mitchell, Miss L. T. Morris, GifFord F'inchot, Charles M. Schwab, George 

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

 Pont, Harry G. Haskell. Connecticut — E. Dimon 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 — R. Livingston Beeckman. Massachusetts — Miss M. R, Case, Miss 

 Mabel Choate, Mrs. William C. Conant, George P. Dike. Mrs. Louis Froth- 

 ingham, Henry S. Hunnewell, E. K. Lawrie, Arthur T. Lyman, Henry 

 Penn, Mrs. C. G. Rice, Prof. C. S. Sargent, Mrs. J. A. Spoor, Mrs. Bayard 

 Thaver. A'czv Hampshire — F. G. Webster. t>hio — Mrs. A. D. Baldwin, Frank 

 B. Black, F. F. Drury, H. S. Firestone, Charles K. King, Mrs Louise C. 

 Moore, Rlrs. C. A. (His, Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss. John L. Severance, 

 H. S. Sherman. Miss Belle Sherwin, L, E, Sisler, H. L. 'Thompson. Michigan 

 ■ — J. B. Schlotmann. E. D. Speck. Indiana — Theodore F. Thieme. Illinois 

 — A. Watson Armour, Harry B. Clow, A. B. Dick, Clayton Mark, 

 Mrs. Julius R'osenwald. Minnesota — Mrs, Chester A. Congdon, F. H. Stoltze. 

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

 Moore, IV. Virginia — Mrs, Arthur Lee. Georgia — .\sa G. Candler, Jr., G, 

 Gunby Jordan, South Carolina — Robert S. Mebane, 



LOCAL BRANCHES 



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

 secretaiy. 



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

 secretary, 



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

 McCuIloch, Oyster Bay, secretary, 



BOSTON, MASS,: Robert Omeron, Ipswich, chairman; W, N. Craig, 

 Weymouth, secretaiy, 



WESTEJW PENNSYLVANIA: Manus Curran, Sewickley, chairman; 

 Henry Goodband, Sewickley, secretary. 



CLEVELAND, O.: R. P. Brydon. chairman; Arthur Brown, secretary, 



NORTH SHORE OF ILLINOIS: James A. Wilson, Lake Forest, diair- 

 nian; J'lhii K. Clarke. Glencoe, secretary, 



MONMOUTH & ELB£RON, N. J.: Thomas W. Head, Red Bank, 

 chairman; Frank T, Edington, Red Bank, secretary. 



OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1924 



President Vice-President 



Robert P. Brydox, Cleveland, O. James Stuart, Mainuroneek.X . Y. 



Secretarj' Treasurer 



M, C, Ebel, Summit, N. }. Moxt.\gue Free, SrooA'/_v", A', )', 



TRUSTEES (For 1924)— D. L, Mackintosh, .\Ipine. K, J,: 

 Percy Hicks, Oceanic, N. J. ; Donald Crighton, Convent. N. J. ; 

 John Rarnet, Sewickley, Pa. ; WilHam E, Fischer, Chagrin Falls, O, 



THE 1923 CONVENTION 



Pittsburgh's Welcome to the Gardeners 



The opening session ot the twelfth annual convention of the 

 National Association of Gardeners convened at two-thirty o'clock 

 on Tuesday, .\ugust 14, 1923, at the Fort Pitt Hotel, PiUsburgh, 

 with Manus Curran of Sewickley, Pa„ presiding as temporary 

 chairman. In calling the convention to order. Mr. Curran asked 

 the assemblage to rise and observe silence while George F. Stewart 

 of ^Yaltham, Mass,, offered an invocation in memory of our late 

 President, Warren G, Harding. 



After the invocation, Mr, (Turran introduced H, M, Irons. City 

 Solicitor, who in the absence of the Mayor, represented the City 

 of Pittsburgh and on w^hose behalf he extended the official wel- 

 come, ^ While Mr. Irons stated that Pittsburgh is more generally 

 recognized as an industrial center and would have much in that 

 respect to show the gardener, horticulturallv it would probably 

 not measure up to some other cities they had visited. Neverthe- 

 less, he believed the gardeners would find much of interest in 

 Pittsburgh's parks and on the beautiful estates in its out-lying 

 districts, Mr, Irons admitted his slight knowledge of gardening, 

 though, he could, he said, distinguish between a rake and a hoe 

 and considered gardening a most healthful recreation and its pro- 

 fession one of the noblest, one full of inspiration which does much 

 to uplift the humdrum existence of mankind. He added that an 

 organization, such as the gardeners' national association, could 

 find many opportunities to take part in civic activities, tending to- 

 wards community improvement. 



E. J. McCalium, representing the Pittsburgh (Thamber of 

 Commerce, who was the next speaker introduced, after welcom- 

 ing the gardeners on behalf of the organization he represented, 

 elaborated on the suggestion of Mr. Irons that the gardeners 

 interest themselves in civic affairs. He spoke of the home gar- 

 dens in which he believed interest should be revived to make them 

 as important factors today as they were when they were known 

 as "war gardens," emphasizing their value in food production 

 which is again being restricted because of labor shortage, Mr, 

 McLallum also stated that no more healthful recreation could be 

 found than that which may be derived through gardening, for 

 young and old. 



Robert P. Brydon of Cleveland, Ohio, vice-president of the asso- 

 ciation, in responding to the addresses of welcome by Mr, Irons 

 and Mr. McCallura. said : "We are here today for several pur- 

 poses. We are assembled here in convention to discuss the prob- 

 lems which are of interest to ourselves, to discuss ways and means 

 for bettering our conditions, but we are also here to see what the 

 City of Pittsburgh has to offer us. We are here to see your 

 buildings, your industries, your parks, your private estates, any- 

 thing that will be of general interest to our profession. We are 

 not only interested in gardening, but interested in everything else. 

 On the other hand, it has occurred to me that it may be possible 

 for us to leave something with you. In 1919, the National Asso- 

 ciation of Gardeners met in Cleveland. The inspiration that went 

 out from that meeting created one of the finest and best move- 

 ments in school gardening in the history of the United States. As 

 a result of that convention, Cleveland has the finest school garden- 

 ing course and greenhouses for the purpose ; it has also a fine 

 nursery ; it teaches propagating, grow-ing of plants, marketing, and 

 everything that pertains to that line. -\s I have said, the inspira- 

 tion has come from our association. Now is it not possible for 

 us to leave something like that with the City of Pittsburgh? Is it 

 not possible for you to get something from us so that we may 

 feel that we have come here for some purpose, to give as well as to 

 receive ?" 



Mr, Curran next introduced John C, Slack, a member of the 

 Garden Club of America and of the Garden Club of Allegheny 

 County, w-ho bore greetings and welcome, Mr, Slack is a man 

 well versed in the art of gardening and botany. In welcoming 

 the gardeners to Pittsburgh on behalf of the organizations which 

 he represented. Mr, Slack said : "In this day of sordid, narrow, 

 self-interest and strife for advantage in almost every relationsship ■ 

 of life, the devotion shown by each of you to the promotion of 

 the beautiful, and the wider enjoyment of it, has formed a tie 

 and a fraternal spirit with the Garden Club members, which has 

 brought to them joy and happiness heretofore unrealized in the 

 lives of many. Vou are truly missionaries, working in a fruitful 

 and promising field, with sincerity and singleness of purpose in 

 the work, and forgetful of the sordidness and commonplace in 

 life. — forgetful of mere personal aggrandizement, — approaching 

 your work in a spirit of the creative artist, enjoying the gratifica- 

 tions of a new contribution to beauty which you so generously 

 give to the world without thought of reward, and thereljy better- 

 ing and uplifting those about you. Because of all this, the 

 Garden Club members feel that they are led and stimulated by you 

 to work together for the betterment of the world, and are first 

 to acknowledge a debt of gratitude and appreciation due to you. 

 hv which they have so wonderfully profited. I am also directed 



