THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE UF AMERICA. 



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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOTES 



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H. WAITE, President, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 



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C. EBEL, Secretary, 

 Madison, N. J. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MIDSUMMER MEETING 

 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS. 



Tlie midsuuimer meeting of llir National Assoeiatioii of Gar- 

 deners was lield in Paul Uevere Hall, Mechanics BuiUIing, Pioston. 

 ilass., at 1 o'clock p. m. Wednesday, August 10, 1014, under t!"' 

 presidency of G. W. Waite, Yonkers, N. Y., Martin C. Eljel, Madi 

 M>ii. N. .1., officiating as Secretary. 



Mr. William Kennedy, of ISoston, Mass., President of tlie har- 

 deners' and Plurists' Club of lioston, oallcd tlie niectinii tu (hcIit 

 and addressed tlie convention as follows: 



Address by William Kennedy, President, Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, Boston, Mass. 



Giiitleuu'ii iif tlie National Association of Gardeners: We v.cl- 

 <ome you to the city of Boston in helialf of tlic Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club. 1 sincerely trust, gentlemen, that your visit to- 

 (h\y. and for the next few days that you are liere. will he hotli 

 educational and instructive to you in your line of business. 



(ireat stress has been laid lui tlie fact that the so-called Can- 

 vention Garden in the Pack Pay I'eiis has been put there by the 

 Society of American Florists ami Ornamental Horticulturists. 

 • ientlemen, I assure you that without the co-operation of the gar- 

 deners wlio planted tliat stuff, the Convention Garden — and I 

 s[ieak knowingly, as I am one of tlie E.\ecntive Committee of the 

 Poston Ilorlicnltural interests — woiihl not be the success that it 

 is today. It is true that the trade scud their goods there to be 

 jilantcd, liut they send no instructions how they sliouhl be 

 |ihiiited or where they should be ]danted, but simply to plant 

 IIk'111. W'itli the able assistance of one of the best gardeners in 

 this loiintry, Mr. Trcnneth Finlayson, that garden today is what 

 we term, or what you might term, a success, inasmuch as it looks 

 well from tlie gardener's standpoint; but I have no doubt but 

 that all of you miglit go through there and improve the Conven- 

 tion Garden. This, of course, could not be said anywhere else. 

 'I'he general imiiressiou of the public in Boston today is that the 

 garden is a beautiful |iiece of work. It is for the tinu' that the 

 committee had to do it in. There is no use of anyone criticising' 

 at tliis time the work of the gardener. 



Gentlemen, the thought has often occurred to me a~ to how long 

 the National Association of Gardeners is going to In- ,\ |iarasite 

 of the Society of Anieiicau Florists. The time lias come, gentle- 

 men, when we have got to break away from these kindred bodies 

 and hold conventions of our own. There is absolutely no reason 

 why the gardeners of this country cannot get together and have 

 just as interesting if not more interesting conventions than the 

 Society of American Fhu'lsts. There are thousands of thousands 

 of gardeners that would be only too pleased to build u|i tliis 

 organization if we could get them in tlirough the distribution of 

 some ))roper literature whereby Ave could induce them to become 

 members, and in that way we could get delegations from different 

 States so that we would be able to run a convention eipial to if 

 not better than those of the S. A. F. It is pretty nearly time, 

 gentlemen, that something should be done along that line. The 

 intelligence of this lM)dy is superior to tlie intelligence of any l)od,y 

 connected with this business. It is true tliat tiie Society of 

 American Florists takes in the gardeners inasmuch as they add 

 to the membership of the S. A. F. For the past six months in 

 Boston the matter of affiliation has been up. the ipiestion was 

 whether or not you were going to try atldiation. 



There is no need of affiliation. As far as affiliation goes the 

 two departments of the business, to my mind, are separate. One 

 grows flowers commercially in order to make a living; the other 

 c.ows flowers to please his ladyship, or the man he works for. 

 The gardener takes care of a large estate, and he buys from the 

 members of the so-called Society of American Florists, and he 

 sells nothing; he has nothing to sell. 



ft is not my intention, gentlemen, to keep you very long this 

 afternoon. I know you have a business meeting to carry on. 

 and you have other things to attend to, and it is not the desire 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of the City of Boston and 

 the kindred interests to interfere with the regular conduct of 

 your meetina; so I now take great pleasure in introducing your 

 President. Mr. Waite. 



President Waite addressed the meeting as follows: 



Opening Remarks by President Waite. 



Mr. Kennedy and Gentlemen; I am xciy much indi'btcd to Mr. 

 Kennedy for his very kind remarks. I am pleased to sec so many 



here. \ cry important business can be transacted even without 

 large numbers pieseiu, but 1 am miuli jdeascd that so many 

 have turned out. 



Mr. Kennedy is a little at fanll in iiiqd.N iiig that wc lia\e 

 never had a convention, for as .von all know we have held several 

 conventions entiridy ajiart from the S. A. F., ami wholly under 

 our own responsibility. 



We had a very sncces-,t'iii eoiixcntioii la-.l _\rar in .\o\eiiiber 

 in New ^drk, and tic F.xccutive Board this morning passed a 

 resolution to hohl I iic' next cmivention at Philaihdphia in Decem- 

 ber. This comcntion will be under our own auspices entirely 

 without any coiincction witli the S. A. F. or anyone else. The 

 convention this year will last fcu' two days, and Mr. Logan |irom- 

 :ses us a very good time in I'hiladelphia. 



1 hope the convention there will be largely attended. 1 lio|ie 

 to see as many of the New Fngland, and partiiularly the Massa- 

 chusetts, men as we can get. 



I have great pleasure in presenting to you a man who has 

 come all the way from California to attend this meeting-Mr. 

 Daniel JlacIIoric. ( Ajiplacsc. I 



Remarks by Daniel MacRorie, of San Francisco, Cal. 



Mr. President and Members of the National Association of (iar- 

 dcners: '1 he Panama Pacilii' and International Exposition of San 

 Francisco, Cal., scuds you its greetings and invites you to con- 

 vene in San Francisco in \',)\'>, when we celebrate the opening of 

 the great laiial. We have a number of things to show^ you out 

 there that \(ill iiitcicst and entertain you, especially along hiuti- 

 cultural lines and agricultural lines, such as our big trees and 

 the great agricultural |iursnits of that State. I will say that 

 Pacihc Coast llorticnltiiial Society will be glad to have you come 

 there next season. WC Ihijir you will all come. We will give you 

 all a good tinii\ and llicic i> no doubt but that we will add at 

 least titty peo[ih' to yoiii ranks. 1 thank yon. geiitleiiieii. 

 (Applause.) 



MK. W. N. CKAIG. Brookline, Mass.: I tliiuk it is but due 

 Mr. JlacUoric that we take this action, and 1 move that the 

 National .\ssociatioii of Gardeners liohl its 10].") luid-snninicr 

 meeting in San Francisco next yi-ar. 



Jlotion seconded bv Mr. Ebel. carried and so luileicd. 



MK. MACKOIilF: \Vv have a line lot of gardens out there and 

 a fine lot ot fellows. 



PKES1DI<:NT WAITF,: Mr. Arthur Smith, ot Peading, Pa., 

 was to be here this afternoon to read a paper. lie sends a letter 

 expressing his regret at his inability to attend the convention 

 to wdiich he has been looking forward with pleasure. lie encloses 

 a copy of his address, and trusts that the convention will Inne 

 a good attendance and an increased membership. If it is tiie 

 wish of the ineetiug. while we await the arrival of some of the 

 other gentlemen who are to address us, Mr. Ebel will kindly read 

 this ])aper. Is it the wish of the meeting tliat this ]):\pcr be 

 read '/ 



There being no objection, it was so ordered, and Secretary Ebel 

 read the paper by Mr. Arthur Smith on the subject of "The Pro- 

 fession of tJardeuing." (This paper is ]uiiifed in full elsewdiere 

 in the columns of Tiik ('iiiioivrci.K.) 



PRESIDENT WAITE: ^'oii have heard this Muy interesting 

 pa|)er by Mr. .Vrtlinr Smith. W'e will be glad to hear any re- 

 marks that any of tlu' memliers may have to ofVtU'. 



Ml!. TIIOM.AS W. LOG.W, .Icnkei'itown. Pa.: I move that this 

 very able jiaper be received and that a voti' of thanks hr ten- 

 dered Mr. .'■Smith. 



Mot ion carried anil so ordered. 



PRESIDENT WAITE: I think that Mr. Id.cl also deserves a 

 vote of thanks for reading the paper. It was rather .serious work. 



SECRETARY EBEE: We will pass that up. That is the Secre- 

 tarv's dutv. 



:^'Ir. Theodore Wirtli. rrcsiih-nt of the S. A. F. & ( ). II., now 

 came into the hall and was introduced by President Waite. 



President W'irth was recci\ed with applause. 



MK. W. N. CKAIG, Brookline. Mass.: At the present time, ;iml 

 as we are all aware, the nations of Europe, or at least most of 

 them, are waging a tremendous war which cannot but have a 

 disastrous effect njion horticultural interests there. T have a 

 resolution drawn up which I wished to present here this after- 

 noon, but I unfortunately left it at home. It was worded in sub- 

 stance as follows: 



Resolved. That we. National .Association of Oardeners. eonve.v 

 to the national horticultural bodies of Eurojie mir good wislies. 

 good cheer and our symjiathy in the jucsent distr<>ssful times. I 

 move that a committee of three be appointed to draw up a reso- 



