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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



NASSAU CO. L. I. BRANCH 



The annual meeting of this branch was 

 held on the afternoon of December 11 at 

 the new country club, the Creek, Locust 

 Valley, L. I., with Chairman James Duthie 

 presiding. Communications from the North 

 Shore of Illinois and Western Pennsylvania 

 branches were read referring to a modifica- 

 tion of the by-laws respecting the reinstate- 

 ment of delinquent members, and after some 

 discussion, it was voted unanimously as 

 opposed to any change. A communication 

 from Manus Curran, Sewickley, Pa., chair- 

 man of the committee appointed to investi- 

 gate the desirability of having each branch 

 recommend a director yearly, was favorably 

 received, as was the plan submitted by M. 

 C. Ebel, national secretary, to secure a more 

 united cooperation between the branches. 

 Mr. Ebel was made an honorary member 

 of this branch. 



The following officers were elected for 

 the coming year : William Milstead, Glen 

 Cove, chairman; James Kelly, Glen Cove, 

 secretary; John Mcintosh, Syosset, treas- 

 urer; James Duthie, Oyster Bay,— Alex 

 Michie. Locust Valley,— Joseph Adler, Glen 

 Cove, trustees. It was voted to hold meet- 

 ings once a month, the next meeting to be 

 held in Glen Cove January 9. 



John R. McCulloch, 

 Secretary. 



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AMONG THE GARDENERS 



Anton Bauer for many years of Deal, 

 N. J., and more recently of Tuxedo Park, 

 N. Y., secured the position of superintendent 

 to Mrs. W. L. Glatfelter, Spring Grove, Pa. 



William Thomson secured the position of 

 gardener to Mrs. A. C. Barnes, Washing- 

 ton, Coim. 



Alexander Adams secured the position of 

 head gardener under Richard Calvert, super- 

 intendent of Ormiston Gardens, the estate of 

 J. E. Aldred, Glen Cove, L. I. 



James Foulis secured the position of 

 gardener to Clifton A. Crocker, Springfield, 

 Mass. 



E. S. Fletcher has accepted the position of 

 gardener on the estate of D. Kelleher, Mt. 

 Airy, Va. 



MRS. MONTAGUE FREE 



Friends of Montague Free, Horticulturist 

 of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Treasurer 

 of the National Association of Gardeners, 

 were deeply grieved to learn of the death 

 of his devoted wife which occurred on No- 

 vember 28th, six days after an operation. 

 Those who knew her well realize what a 

 great loss Mr. Free has sustained, for she 

 was a helpmate and companion in the truest 

 sense. Mrs. Free was blessed with a happy 

 disposition ; an intense love for plants and 

 birds, and gifted also with artistic ability. 

 Her skill in this direction had been recog- 

 nized at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, for 

 which she had colored slides of plants and 

 plantings. Though quiet and unassuming 

 she will long be remembered and mourned 

 by her many friends. 



JOHN DAVEY 



John Davey, founder of the Davey Tree 

 Expert Company and the Davey Institute of 

 Tree Surgery, who was widely known 

 throughout the country as the "father of 

 tree surgery," died suddenly at his home in 

 Kent, Ohio, on the morning of November S. 

 in his seventy-seventh year. Mr. Davey was 

 born in Somersetshire, England, and from 

 his very early boyhoml was compelled 

 through circumstances to earn his living. 



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Not until he was twenty years of age <h<l he 

 find the opportunity to secure any education, 

 hut with the aid of the New Testament an<l 

 a pocket dictionary, he taught himself tt> 

 read. Continuing his self-education, he be- 

 came in time a lluent writer and the autlior 

 of several l)ooks on the care and protection 

 of trees. Mr. Davey came to this country 

 in 1S73 and alxiut forty years ago settled in 

 Kent where the Davey Tree Expert Com- 

 pany was organize<l, which today is reported 

 to employ over four hundred men an<l to 

 carry on business amounting annually to a 

 million dollars. Mr. Davey's ideas on the 

 treatment of trees were not at first received 

 with favor, but today they are accepted as 

 the scientilic ineth<]d of llie preservation of 

 tree life. During the last few years, his old- 

 est son, Martin L. Davey, who is at present 

 a member of C'ongrcss of the 14th Ohio dis- 

 trict, has directed the management of this 



business. Commenting editorially on John 

 D;ivey, the New \'ork Evening \lail said : 

 When John Davey died some days ago. com- 

 paratively few persons had heard liis name. 

 Vet, in the great cities at any rate, there are 

 few who do not owe something to his life 

 work. For it was John Davey who . . . per- 

 fected tliose methixls of tree surgery that 

 have <lone so much for city parks. The 

 ancients believed that the spirits of the dc- 

 ])arted sometimes inhabited trees. We can 

 l)elieve that if John Davey's had tliat choice, 

 it wonkl choose a gallant oak for a dwelling 

 place. 



EDWARD F. REAGAN 



ICdward 1'". Ueagan. fur nmre than a ([uar- 

 ter of a centiu'y prominent in gardening 

 circles in Morris Co.. N. J., died at his home 

 in I-ong Branch, N. J., on December 5. lie 



