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National Association of Gardeners 
I Thomas W. Head, President, Lake Forest, 111. 
James Stuart, Treasurer, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
Theo. Wirth, Vice-President, Minneapolis, Minn. Martin C. Ebel, Secretary, Madison, N. J. 
Trustees for igiy 
William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; John F. Huss, Hartford, Conn.; Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Turner, Oceanic, N. J.; 
William H. Duckham, Madison, N. J. 
Directors 
(To serve until 1918)— William H. Waite, Rumson, N. J.; Edward Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me.; John F. Johnson, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Carl N. 
Fohn, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Thomas Proctor, Leno.x, Mass.; Joseph Tansey, Tu.xedo Park, N. Y. ; Robert Weeks, Cleveland, Ohio. 
(To serve until 1919)— John W. Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y. ; Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; Robert Cameron, Cambridge, Mass.; 
John Canning, Ardsley, N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal Beach, N. J.; David Fraser, Pittsburgh, Pa.; George W. Hess, Washington, D. C; (To 
serve until 1920)— William N. Craig, Brookline, Mass.; L. P. Jensen, St. Louis, Mo.; William Hertrick, San Gabriel, Cal.; \Villiam Gray, 
Newport, R. L; Arthur Smith, West End, N. J.; P. W. Popp, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; Albin Martini, Lake Geneva, Wis. 
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PRELIMINARY CONVENTION PROGRAM. 
TUESDAY MOItNING, Decembei- Jth :— 
Jleeting uf the Executive Board. 
Registration of member.? at headquarters. 
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 2 o'clock:— 
Opening of couvenliou. 
Address of welcome. 
Response. 
President's address. 
Report of secretary. 
Report of treasurer. 
Reports of standing committees. 
Reports of special committees. 
Communications. 
Nomination of officers. 
Lecture. 
Annual dinner. 
WEDNESDAY MOrvNING, December .-jtli: 
Polls open for election of officers from 9 to 9 :30 a. m. 
Unfinished business. 
Lecture. 
THURSDAY JSIORNING, December 6th:— 
Unfinished business. 
Lecture. 
Final resolutions. 
The Local Arrangements Committee has 
several able speakers among members of the 
papers on sub.iects pertaining to the gardening profession, in addi- 
tion to several lectures bearing directly on the various phases of 
horticulture. While this will furnish much of educational interest 
the entertainment features of the convention have not been over- 
looked. Trips have been planned to some of the foremost private 
country estate.s in the vicinity of Chicago, also a tour of the 
boulevard.s and parks, for which the city of Chicago is famous. 
A visit to the Armour and Company's plant is also included. 
Complete details of the convention program will be published in 
the November issue of the Chronicle. 
The delegation to the Chicago convention from the east will 
leave New York on Sunday. December 2. arriving at Chicago late 
Monday afternoon. It is expected that most of the party will re- 
turn to New York on Sunday, the 9th, although some of the 
members contemplating the trip will extend the time and stop 
over at some of the points of interest en route home. 
Members from the east intending to attend the convention will 
please communicate with the secretary at as early a date as pos- 
sible. With the general congested condition of railroid travel, 
it is necessary to make arrangements well in advance that proper 
facilities will be secured for the traveling party. 
already secured 
craft to deliver 
THE NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 
In pursuance to instrnctions of the Executive Committee given 
at its meeting held in New York City in August, a meeting of the 
National Co-operative Committee has been called to meet at the 
Murray Hill Hotel, Park avenue and Forty-flrst street. New York 
City. Friday afternoon, November 9, at 2 o'clock, for the purpose 
of a general discussion on co-operation between the Gardeners' Na- 
tional Association and their local societies to devise ways and means 
for such co-operation which is to be submitted to the different local 
organizations for approval. A notice has been sent to local socie- 
ties asking them to appoint one or more delegates to attend 
this meeting and there lias been very favorable response to this 
invitation. Many of the societies have already reported the ap- 
pointment of delegates. 
Etherington, Edgeworth. Pa. : Hans E. Rasmus.sen. Centerville, 
lid. : Lucien LeClere. Fort Steilacoon, Wash. : .John T'urnbull. W. 
J. Pettingell, William Raynient, Charles R. Waugh. Percival A. 
Vincent, Albert Beverley, Santa Barbara, Cal. 
A PERPLEXING QUESTION. 
The secretary has been called on liy one of the local societies to 
answer the question, "What is a gardener'?" And "What is there 
to distin.gui.sh him from a garden laborer'?" 
In his answer the secretary has defined a gardener as one who 
is actively engaged in the profession of gardening, either as a head 
or directing gardener (estate sujjerintendent) or as an assistant. 
(Jne who devotes his entire time to gardening. 
How to distinguish a garden laborer in the eyes of those who 
employ laborers as gardeners, is one of the many problems that 
confront the profession which must be worked out by those con- 
stituting it, and when one reads such advertisements as the follow- 
ing in our leading dailies the problem becomes a perplexing one : 
"Gardener wants position. Has life experience. English. 
Married, no family. Can tend cows and poultry, furnace, run 
auto and will clean them. No ob.iections to wife taking boarders 
or working in the house. Salary .$65." 
"Old English gardener seeks position where his work will be 
appreciated. (iood grower of flowers, fruits and vegetaiiles. 
Familiar with all kinds of plants, lawns and farming. Wages .$3.5." 
These advertisements are of very recent appearance among a 
list of eighteen seeking positions, some not much above the stand- 
ard of those quoted. When estate owners read such notices what 
can their opinion be as to "what constitutes a gardener?" The 
men who respect their profession must undertake to correct the 
false impression created by the.se so-called gardeners. Surely 
there are men within the national association who can offer a 
solution. Out of loyalty to your profession make it known. This 
is a burning question that might well be brought up as an issue 
for discussion at the coming convention. 
GARDENERS' NOTES. 
Anton Bauer, for the past nine years superintendent on the 
Henry Goldman Estate, Deal, N. .J., and eight years previous 
gardener to Daniel O'Day, of the same place, assumed his new po- 
sition on October 1, as superintendent on the estate of W. C. Du- 
rant, of Deal. This place has just changed hands and considerable 
new development work is to be undertaken at once. 
Ernest Westlake, formerly of Glen Head, Long Island, has ac- 
cepted the position of superintendent on the S. C. Millett Estate, 
Erookville, N. Y. 
.John Patterson, late superintendent of the A, B. Dick Estate, 
Lake Forest. 111., is now a member of Company D, 342nd Infantry, 
Camp Grant. Rockford. 111. 
.John T. Whittaker. formerly superintendent on the Elkins Es- 
tate. Elkius Park, Pa., has accepted a similar position on the es- 
tate of Mrs. William F. Sellers, Edge Moor, Del. 
Frank C. Luckenbacker has resigned his position as superintend- 
ent of the P. JI. Warburg Estate, Hartsdale. N. Y'.. and has ac- 
cepted a similar position on the estate of Emil Winter, "Lynd- 
hurst." Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Robert Pursliall, formerly of Lenox, Mass., has secured the po- 
sition of superintendent of "The Elms," Glen Cove. N. Y., succeed- 
ing William W. Vert, whose new address was reported in the last 
issue of The CnKONiCLE. 
Herbert Andrews, an assistant on the estate of Mrs. II. Darling- 
ton. P. W. Popp, superintendent, has joined the colors. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
The following new members have been added to our roll durin 
the past month : Samuel Rapaport, Wilkinsburgh, Pa. ; AlfredNew .Jersey Infantry. 
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Two sons of George W. Burnett, of New Y'ork. have entered their 
country's service — W. .T. Burnett being a memVier of Company G, 
7th Squad, 312th M. (i. Infantry. Camp Dix. Wrightstown. N. J. ; 
R. Mann Burnett, who has seen service on the Mexican border, is 
stationed at Anniston, Alabama, as a sergeant in Company A, 4th 
