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The Rorists' Review 



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GARDENERS AT NEW YORK. 



Tenth Annual Convention. 



The tenth annual convention of the 

 National Association of Gardeners 

 opened promptly at 2 p. m., October 11, 

 at the Park Avenue hotel, New York. 

 There was an attendance of 200 when 

 the meeting was called to order, includ- 

 ing a number of society ladies, members 

 of the Garden Club of America. 



Thomas A. Havemeyer, president of 

 the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 presided at the opening session and wel- 

 comed the delegates present. Mrs. 

 Samuel Sloan, president of the Garden 

 Club of America, who received a warm 

 greeting, extended a hearty welcome to 

 New York and spoke of the good work 

 the National Association of Gardeners 

 was doing to uplift the profession of 

 gardening and urged the hearty cooper- 

 ation of the association with the garden 

 clubs and similar bodies largely com- 

 posed of employers and estate owners. 

 Thomas W. Head responded to the ad-, 

 dress of welcome. William N. Craig 

 gave his presidential address, which 

 drew hearty applause, particularly when 

 he referred to the signal honor which 

 had come to the founder of the garden 

 clubs, Mrs. Francis King, of Alma, 

 Mich., awarded the George R. White 

 medal of honor for 1921 by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for dis- 

 tinguished services rendered to the 

 cause of horticulture. 



James Boyd, president of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society, spoke 

 on the signboard nuisance and vigor- 

 ously condemned it and suggested ways 

 whereby it might be ameliorated. He 

 commended the campaign against sign- 

 boards inaugurated by the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners a year ago and 

 hoped it would be successful. 



Otis M. Eastman, supervisor of school 

 gardens, Cleveland, O., read a splendid 

 paper on the work being done in that 

 city. Plans for' the coming year in- 

 cluded a range of greenhouses to cost 

 $60,000 and a big, broad work was being 

 planned to educate boys and girls along 

 horticultural lines, the incentive to all 

 this having come from the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners' convention in 

 Cleveland in 1919. 



Discuss Quarantine 37. 



Albert C. Burrage, president of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 who should have spoken on Quarantine 

 37, was unable to be present and a warm 

 discussion on this subject took tlie place 

 of his address. Robert Cameron started 

 the ball rolling and said the quarantine 

 would help to develop an American type 

 of gardening. George V. Stewart 

 agreed. F. L. Atkins s.nid his firm 

 budded 528,000 roses last season; for- 

 merly all came from Holland. He used 

 seventy-two young men for budding and 

 paid tiiem $'> to .$ly a day, according to 

 their ability. He considered this dis- 

 tinctly beneficial to American indus- 

 tries. W. N. Craig was called upon to 

 reply and did so in vigorous style. He 



referred to the iniquities of Quarantine 

 37 and classed it as narrow, selfish and 

 insular. He thought a rigid inspection 

 at points of shipment as well as at 

 points of entry should amply safeguard 

 the horticultural and other interests of 

 America. Thomas A. Havemeyer and 

 others coincided and the opponents of 

 the quarantine were in an overwhelming 

 majority. F. L. Atkins said the fre- 

 quent new interstate quarantines were 

 dangerous and threatened to ruin the 

 nursery business if continued and ex- 

 tended. 



The hall was decorated with magnifi- 

 cent dahlias on long stems, beautifully 

 arranged by John Scheepers & Co. and 

 John Lewis Childs. The Judge Marean 

 dahlias from John Scheepers & Co. were 

 of remarkable size. Those of E. T. Bed- 

 ford were over twelve inches in diam- 

 eter. 



At the evening session ex-Congress- 

 man M. L. Davey, of Kent, O., gave a 

 splendid lecture on the functions of the 

 leaf of a tree and on the necessity of re- 

 forestation, a long and animated discus- 

 sion following. 



There was a reception at the close of 

 the meeting. An orchestra furnished 

 music and a collation was served. 



Second Day's Sessions. 



At the second day 's morning session 

 the secretary's report showed a member- 

 ship of over 1,200. The advance in dues 

 to $5 made at the St. Louis convention 



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had caused a loss of forty-five members, 

 but 149 new ones had come in. There 

 were how 157 estate owners enrolled as 

 sustaining members and an increasing 

 number demanded that applicants for 

 superintendents' and gardeners' positions 

 must be members of the association to 

 receive any consideration. The treas- 

 urer's report showed a balance of over 

 $4,000 on the right side of the ledger. 



Various committee reports were re- 

 ceived. One on the signboard nuisance 

 showed excellent work accomplished. It 

 was made apparent that the association 

 was squarely opposed to the 7x20 sign- 

 boards of the S. A. F. carrying the slo- 

 gan, ' * Say It with Flowers. ' ' The com- 

 mittees on school gardens, the service 

 bureau of the association, etc., all had 

 enx;ouraging reports. 



Among resolutions adopted was one 

 demanding a national reforestation pol- 

 icy on devastated lands, and the larger 

 estate owners were urged to take it up 

 as much as possible. Another resolu- 

 tion deplored the depredations on our 

 native flora and urged that states take 

 action to protect and perpetuate them. 



At the afternoon session there was a 

 long and animated discussion on train- 

 ing young gardeners on country estates. 

 While some present were a little doubt- 



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