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to tender on behalf of the Garden Club members tlie freedom of 

 their gardens, and to deliver to you the heartiest invitation to 

 visit them." 



President Barnct also received a message from Mr. Sanuul 

 Sloan, president of the Garden Club of America, as follows: "May 

 I send you all my best wishes for a successful meeting, and my 

 congratulations for what the association has accomplislied in tlie 

 past." 



In responding to Mr. Slack's greetings, William .X. Craig of 

 Weymouth, Mass. said: "It was a delight to listen to the remarks 

 of the previous speaker. He represents the Garden Club of Amer- 

 ica, a club which has done more to stimulate, to ujiliold, and to 

 advance horticulture than any organization I know anything of 

 in recent years. It was the ladies who planned and started and 

 are the bulwark of that body. A poet has well said the following: 

 Where is the man who has the power and skill 

 To stem the torrents of a woman's will. 

 For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. 

 And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't? 



"We would have but little horticulture, very little floriculture 

 in America but for the ladies, God bless them ! Vou will iind 

 in any part of the country you may reside in, that the men, the 

 bulk of them, arc too busy amassing riches to think of the liner 

 arts of horticulture and floriculture, but we are advancing, and 

 the Garden Club of America, working in combination with the 

 various florists' and gardeners' clubs, and this association and 

 other bodies, does a great deal to stimulate horticulture in its 

 best sense. I have great hope of any country where the children 

 in the schools are taught nature studies and where horticulture 

 and the love of horticulture are inculcated in their veins while 

 young. ShakesjKjare has also well said that 'Gardening is an art 

 that doth mend Nature, change it rather, but the art itself is 

 Nature.' .And can you think of any occupation in the world more 

 interesting, more refining, more spiritual than gardeiiing? 



"The Garden Club of .-\merica has done more than we ap- 

 preciate in bringing together the estate owners and the gardeners. 

 Gardening is a tine art which requires a vast amount of care and 

 forethought, ladies and gentlemen. The gardeners are oftimes 

 not sufficiently appreciated, but since the advent of the Garden 

 Club of America better relations have existed between the em- 

 ployer and employe, and the growth of this Garden Club, with 

 the continued growth, as I hope, of our association, will still 

 tend to foster and uphold the great profession of gardening, the 

 advancement of our country, and the making of a more beautiful 

 America." 



Following Mr. Craig's remarks, Mr. Curran turned the meeting 

 over to President John Barnet who presented his address, (It 

 appears on page 207 of the .August issue) after which Mr. Barnet 

 introduced George H. Wirt, Chief Forest Fire Warden of the 

 State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Wirt addressed the convention on 

 the subject of forest conservation. (His address appears on page 

 J26 of this issue.) In concluding, Mr. Wirt reterred to the 

 remarks of a previous speaker who laid the credit of the organiza- 

 tion of garden clubs to the ladies. He then asked if the gardeners 

 had ever stopped to consider who really was the first gardener, 

 suggesting that if they had their Bibles with them, they read the 

 first and second chapter of Genesis. "It was not .Adam, but some 

 one before. God planted the first garden and placed man in it. 

 Then when reading, very carefully note who was responsible for 

 the second gardener losing his job. Now, thanks to the first 

 (kirdener. He has instilled in the minds of our women folks, the 

 very right-idea that we come back to God through Nature, and 

 they are doitu? the gracious act when they help you and me to 

 find a place in the sun raising garden, making thiiigs beautiful 

 and making ourselves worthwhile." said Mr. Wirt. 



Thomas "W. Head of Red Bank, New Jersey, thanked Mr. 

 Wirt for his illuminating address and recalled an address he had 

 heard sometime ago by Congressman M. L. Davey in regards to 

 our forests and how they were becoming denuded, and .stated at 

 that time he thought what a wonderful oi>portunity the gardeners 

 had. Mr. Hc-ad admitted, however, that he did not realize then, 

 and he believed that not many others realized, how much work 

 there is to be done along this line. Mr. Wirt's address showed the 

 work before them and opened the way. 



After several announcements were made by President Barnet, 

 referring to the business sessions and the entertainment features 

 of the convention, the opening meeting was adjnnrned. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION 

 The second session of the co:ivention opened at nine thirty 

 o'clock on Wednesday morning, .\ugust 15, with President John 

 Barnet, presiding, who called upon Secretary M. C. Ebel for his 

 annual report (It appears on page 208 of the August issue) and 

 for the Secretary's financial statement which follows: 

 Secretary's Financial Statement 



New York, N. Y.. August 1. 1'>2,S 



Cash on hand, Sept. 1. 1922 $1 .0.^VS,-? 



Received for 1921 Dues lO.i.nn 



Received for 1922 Dues 620.05 



Received for 1923 Dues 3,045.00 



Received for 1924 Dues 10.00 



Received for 92 Sustaining Memberships 920.00 $5,733.88 



Payments to Treasurer, Voucher No. 226, Slips Nos. 1-19. $5,733.88 

 .Appropriation voted to Secretary for office rent, assist- 

 taiit s salary, printing, postage, stationery, telephone, 

 telegraph, and other expenses pertaining to the op- 

 eration of the Secretary's office, at the Boston, 1922, 



convention, and paid by the Treasurer $3,000.(X) 



M. C. Ebel, 



Secretary. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., August 14, 1923. 

 We have completed our audit of the accounts of your Secretary 

 up to August I, 1923, and are pleased to report that we find the 

 statement as rendered above to be correct. 



George F. Stewart, 

 Robert P. Brydon, 

 James Stuart, 

 Auditing Committee. 



It was regularly moved that the Secretary's report and financial 

 statement be received and placed on file. 



President Barnet then called on Treasurer Montague Free for 

 his report which follows: 



Treasurer's Report 



Brooklyn, N. Y., August 1, 1923. 

 Receipts. 

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

 Balance in Bank, Sept. 1, 1922 (Res. Fund).. 397.28 

 Deposit voucher No. 226. Slips Nos. 1-19 



(Gen'l Fund) 5,738.88 



Interest, General Fund 19.89 



Interest. Reserve Fund .' 16.84 



Interest, Liberty Bond 42.50 $8,533.47 



Disbursements. 



Vouchers Nos. 406 to 431 as follows : 



The Multi-service Bureau, Inc. Voucher No.- 406 $.5.75 



Dieges & Clust, medals 14.00 



Chronicle Press, Inc.. rental ofiice space 



Voucher No. 408 100.00 



Chronicle Press, Inc., for advertising 



Voucher No. 409 20.00 



Secretary, for office expenses Voucher No. 410 116.25 



Secretary, honorarium (for 1922) 1,000.00 



The Convention Reporting Co. Rcpt. Boston 



Convention 85.40 



Secrctarv's Appropriation : 



Sept. i, 1922 to Aug. 31, 1923 $3,000.00 



Less vouchers Nos. 406, 408, 409, 



410 240.00 2,760.00 



.American Surety Co., premium on treas- 

 urer's bond ._ 7. .SO 



The Chronicle Press, Inc., subscriptions 1,399.50 



Treasurer's postal expenses 1.28 



Exchange charges .40 



Member's check return 'no funds" 5.00 5,513.08 



Balance in Bank, Aug. 1. 1923 (Gen'l Fund). 2,143.27 



Balance in Bank. Aug. 1, 1923, (Res. Fund).. 877.12 3,020.39 



3,533.47 



Investments. 



Third Libertv Loan Bond 



$1,000.00 



Montague I'-ree. 

 Treasurer. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 14, 1923. 

 We have completed our audit of the accounts of your treasurer 

 up to Aug. 1, 1923, and are pleased to report that we find the statc- 

 ninit as rendered above to be correct. 



George F. Stewart, 

 Robert P. Brydon, 

 J.\MES Stuart, 

 Auditing Committee. 



It was regularly moved that the Treasurer's report be received 

 an<l placed on file. 



As Secretary l'-l>el had no committee reports or communications 

 to present at the time, the business proceeded to the consideration 

 of the next meeting place. 



