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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
THE COOPERATIVE COMMITTEE. 
Til (■:i:iblt' tlie .Natiunal ( 'nuiii'iMtivc ( 'cininiitti'i/ to keep the in- 
terest uiJ in the essays which have been fnrwarcled to some Ht'ty 
odd local societies throughout the country during the past year, it 
must call on memher.s who are able to do so. to furnish some ija- 
pers on timely subjects for discussion at these monthly local so- 
ciety meetings. There are many members wilhiu the association 
that can furnish able and instructive papers on subjects of interest 
to llie |)rofessiou. and their cooperation with the above committee 
will lie aiipreciatcd. Sucli papers should be addressed to M. <.'. Kliel. 
Secretary. Cooperative Cummittee. Madismi. \. .1. 
DELINQUENT MEMBERS. 
Hills for 1!I17 dues have been mailed and the attention of the de- 
linc|uent members is called to the amendment to the general b.v-laws 
which was adopted at the Boston Convention, 1915: 
Article o. Section 1. — The annual dues for active and associate 
members shall be two dollar.s a .year, due and pa.vable on .January 
first of each year. Members in arrears of dues for more than one 
.year shall be suspended and cannot be reinstated to good standing 
in the association until their indebtedness to it is paid. 
A.s the secretary will liave to submit a list of deliniiuent mem- 
bers at the next executive meeting, which will be hehl in New York 
City in March, delinquents are reiiuested to remit their dues at as 
earl.v a date as possible to avoid unfavorable action beins taken 
against them. 
THE MEMBERSHIP ROSTER. 
At the convention held in Washington in December the secretary 
was instructed to publish a memlierslii|i book containing the list of 
members of the National Association of (Jardeners in good stand- 
ing on February 1, 1017. 
A notice was enclosed with the due bills reipiestiug that mem- 
bers notif.v the secretary if their names and addresses are not cor- 
rect as they appear on the bills so that corrections can be made be- 
fore the membership book is published. Jlembers will kindly note 
this and advise the secretary before Kebniary 1 of any errors or 
omissions found in their name or address. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
The followiuu new nuunbers have been added to our roll: Ernst 
Strehle. Henry ileier, .lohu Roeder, Walter Wells. St. Louis, !Mo.: 
S. M. Heer. (iaytou, ilo.: .James Wisen:an. Pittshnrgh. Pa.: J. ,M. 
Jones, Sewickley. Pa.: Samuel A. Leuba, New])ort, Pa.: Albert J. 
Lambert. Pelham Manor, N. Y. : .John F. (i. Wieck, White Plains. 
X. Y,: Eugene J. McCarthy, Brooklyn. N. \'.: Sidney O. Trantiidd. 
Jlorristown, N. J.; P.iclmrd Bosel, William (iillies, George B. (ireen, 
Sewickley, Pa.; William JIcKinnon, Lake Geneva, Wis.; Charles E. 
Lonwerse. Cedar Rapids. la. : Peter O. Peterson. Augusta, Mich. : 
Anilrew Korsyth. I'ittsbnrgh. Pa.: William E. Fischer, Lake Forest, 
111.: Rtulolf F. 'riunnianu. Cleveland. (Ihio: Frank Cheniek. Lake- 
wood. Ghio: .Tohn ilcCarroll, (;ien Head, N. Y.: Frank .1. Plunkett. 
Philadcl))hia, Pa.: Aivid Ander-ou, ^Ldine. [11.: Alexander Robert- 
son. IJoslyn. N. Y'. : .Tames E. Burke, Warwick Neck, R. I.: Walter 
Cook. Cleveland, Ohio; John Kuhn Philadel|ihia. Pa.: Robert 
Jones. Glen Cove. N. Y'.: George Stnud<. New York, N. Y'.: Robert 
AVeeks, tleveland, Ohio; William .leffcrson. Bryn ilawr. Pa.: Carl 
Niemann, Jose]ih Kladler, Herman SchoUcr, Winnetka, TIL: 
Bernard Runiburis, Chicago 111.: Charles Elliott, Kansas City, ilo.; 
William P. nmican. Dedham, Mass.; James Blair, Staatsbmg. 
N. Y. : William Marshall. Staatsburg. N. Y'. : George E. Anderson. 
Washington, D. C. 
AN OFFER TO MEMBERS. 
William Warner Harper. pro|)rietor of the Andorra Nurseries, 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Pa., in a commuuicatiou to the as- 
sociation, offers to forward to any member, who will ap|ily for it. 
a copy of his new and interesting catalogue on trees and shrubs. 
Those interested in out door planting will lind this book, which is 
more than a catalogui', of much value as it contains many helpful 
suggestions on lan<Nca)ie arrangements, planting for general 
effect, and the care of trees and sl;rubs in general. 
AMONG THE GARDENERS 
William 11. Dnnman resigned his position as gardener to the 
liiiversity of Nebraska to take the ])osition of superintendent of 
parks of Colorado Springs. Colo. Fred G. Grossart, of St. Lonis, 
'^\o.. succeeds Mr. Dnnman as gardener at the I'niversity. 
( arl Falkenback has resigned liis position as gardener at Sk\- 
hiuds Farm, the estate of George L. Stetson, Sterlin"toii, N. Y. 
• lohu C. iiaciJregor, foiinerlv gardener to H. W. Sage, Albany, 
X. v.. lias accepted a position as head gardener on the estate of 
R. Bacon, Westbury. N. Y. 
Percy D. Witne.v. formerly superintendent of Wheatsheaf Farm, 
.Morristiiwn. N. Y., has accepted a similar position on the estate of 
(;. .M. Heckscher. Westbury. N. Y. 
•lames Warr. for eight years su]ierintendent on the estate of 
C. S. F.aton, of .Marbleliead Neck, Mass.. resigned from his jio-ition. 
■ bilni ( anuing, superintendent of Heatherdell Farm. Ardsley, 
N. v.. was elected a director of the New Y'ork Florists' Club at its 
annual meeting early this month. 
Aithur (irittin has resigned his position as superintendent of the 
Samuel I'ntermyer Estate, (Ireystone, Yonkers. N. Y'.. to accejit a 
-imilar jiosition on the <'state of Alfred I. du Pont. Wilmington, 
llcl.. where Mr. liriflin w ill take charge February 1. 
William Bunny lias secured a position as superinteiiilcnt on the 
(-tate of D. Mill'iank, Portchester. N. Y'. 
PRACTICAL GARDENERS AND COLLEGE- 
GRADUATES. 
TN reading over the Xoveniber issue of The G.\kue.\eks' 
Chronicle, I little thought of the pleasant surprise 
that it held for nie. The writer has been a long and con- 
stant reader of The Chronicle, but never have I en- 
joyed reading anything as I did Mr. W. X. Craig's arti- 
cle on The Gardener and His Profession. 
For is it not as Mr. Craig says, the most honorable 
and ancient calling that anyone can turn to. either for 
pleasure or profit? Do we not find gardening carried on 
in one form or another in the most remote parts of the 
world and among all classes of mankind, and will it not 
always be so ? 
When we speak of gardeners and gardening, of course 
that includes a great deal. As I have taken two different 
types of gardeners for my subjects, as the head-lines in- 
dicate, I will refer to thetn only. For each one has his 
place in the present-day management of large estates. 
Here in the East we have some of the largest and 
most advanced agricultural colleges in the country from 
which a few of our foremost superintendents are gradu- 
ated from, which only goes to show that a college train- 
ing is of a great advantage in this line of work. 
I do not think that it was altogether due to this college 
training that these men owed their success to. For I 
myself do not believe that any man with only a four-year 
theoretical knowledge of all such work that is met with 
in the up-keep of a jirivate place, is a ca]iable man for 
any such position. 
The writer has worked side by side with a superin- 
tendent who was a graduate from one of the Eastern 
colleges, and has very often seen little ditficulties arise 
in the course of performing his duties that he had neither 
theoretical or practical knowledge of how to overcome 
them. .Such difficulties as those can never be taught at 
the' colleges, as they never arise there, therefore that is 
why I claim that a college graduate without two or three 
years of practical work under a first-class man, who has 
begun at the bottom of the ladder, and has ex])erienced 
and overcome the little thorns met with in the manage- 
ment of all large places, is not fit to take charge of any 
such place. 
I am a gardener of the old school and received a thor- 
ough training of the strictest kind, which at times I used 
to think was all unnecessary. But when I look around 
ant! see the doings of some of the so-called thoroughly 
trained men. I must confess that Fm glad that I came 
under the "iron rule," 
Just the same, if I could start over again, I think that 
I would try to get both the college training and the prac- 
