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National Association of Gardeners 
I Thomas W. Head, President, Lake Forest, III. James Stuart, Treasurer, Mamaronetk, N. Y. | 
I Theo. Wirth, Vice-President, Minneapolis, Minn. Martin C. Ebel, Secretary, Madison, N. J. | 
I Trustees for igiy \ 
I William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, Pa.; John F. Huss, Hartford, Conn.; Peter Duff, Orange, N. J.; William Turner, Oceanic, N. J.; | 
i William H. Duckham, Madison, N. J. | 
I Directors | 
I (To serve until 1918)— William H. Waite, Rumson, N. J.; Edward Kirl;, Bar Harbor, Me.; John F. Johnson, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Carl .M. | 
I Fohn Colorado Springs, Colo.; Thomas Proctor. Lenox, Mass.; Joseph Tansey, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. ; Robert Weeks, Cleveland, Ohio. | 
i (To serve until 1919)— John W. Everitt, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Thomas W. Logan, Jenkintown, Pa.; Robert Cameron, Cambridge, Mass.; | 
I John Canning, Ardsley, N. Y.; A. Bauer, Deal Beach, N. J.; David Fraser, Pittsburgh, Pa.; George W. Hess, Washington, D. C. : (To | 
i serve until 1920)— William N Craig, Brookline, Mass.; L. P. Jensen, St. Louis, Mo.; William Hertrick, San Gabriel, Cal.; William Gray, g 
I Newport, R. I.; Arthur Smith, West End, N. J.; P. W. Popp, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; Albin Martini, Lake Geneva, Wis. | 
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A SUMMARY OF THE CONVENTION EVENTS. 
Officers elected for 1918: President, liuliert Weeks, Cleveland, 
Ohio; vice-president, P. W. Popp, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; treasurer, 
Ernest Guter, Pittsbnrgh, Pa.; secretary, Martin C. Ebel, Madi- 
son, X. J. 
Next meeting place,— Cleveland, Ohio. First week in October. 
Tuesday forenoon — Registration of members. Executive meet- 
ins of Trustees and Board of Directors. 
Tuesday afternoon — Opening of Convention. Philip J. Foley, 
temporary chairman.— Address of Welcome by President Henry 
R. Rathb'one. Association of Commerce of Chicago.— Response by 
President Thomas W. Head, National Association of Gardeners. — 
President's address. Reports of secretary, treasurer, standing 
and special eommittces.- -Motion enthusiastically carried to in- 
vest part of treasury funds in the next T^iberty Loan Bond call. — 
Recommendations of National Co-operative Committee adojitcd. 
— Special committee a|>pniiited to consider Service P.ureau rejidrt, 
— Recommendation of Committee on Revision of By-Laws adopted 
with additional amendments.— Annual dues increased to three dol- 
lars—A class of sustaining members, consisting of country eslate 
owners, created, dues ten dollars annually. 
Tuesday evening — Banquet. Glass Palace, Sherman Hotel. 
Wednesday forenoon — Flection of officers. — Visit to Union Stock 
Yards and Hiternatiimal Live Stock Show.— Guests of .T_. Ogden 
Armour at luncheon, en route to Lake Forest, HI. — Visit to .J. 
(I^den Armour's, Cyrus H. McCormick's and other estates. — 
Patriotic meeting. North Shore Horticultural Society, Lake Forest, 
111. 
Wednesday evening — Illustrated lectures. Hotel Sherman, in 
co-operation with the Chicago Tritiunc. to which the general public 
was invited.— Lectures by Dr. R. J. H. De Loach, "Birds and the 
Orchards''; George H. Pring, "The Botanic Gardens of Kew, Eng- 
land." 
Thursday forenoon — General discussions.^Recommcndations of 
special committee on Service Bureau, to increase its scope, adopted. 
— Lecture by Prof. II. B. Dorner, of the University of Illinois, on 
"What the Universities Are Doing for Floriculture.'' — Address by 
M. L. Davey, on "Organized Co-operation." — Report of Committee 
on Final Resolutions.— Guests of Philip .1. Foley, luncheon at the 
College Inn. — Adjournment. 
Before adjourning President Head called on the attendants at 
the convention to join in a few moments of silent communion 
with God, for the ])reservation of our flag, the Stars and Strijies, 
for the proteetiun nf tlie President of our country and his aids, 
who are guiding t)ic activities of our nation in this world-wide 
war, and. last but not least, for our y^oung men who have gone 
and arc going forth ready to sacrifice their lives for our cause. 
OPENING OF THE CONVENTION. 
The seventh annual convention of the National Association of 
Gardeners was called to order by Mr. Philip Foley, acting as 
temporary chairman, who introduced Mr. Henry R. Rathbone of 
Association of Commerce of Cliicago. 
Mr. Rathbone, in his address of welcome, said in part: 
It is my pleasure and privilege to welcome you here to 
Chicago. We appreciate fully the sjdendid work you are doing. 
We appreciate the strength and usefulness of your organization. 
. . . We as a people are enmiug more and more to realize the 
great truth that utility is not everything. You must add to 
utility a touch of real beauty. A thing of beauty is a joy fcircver. 
You appreciate that. -And yo\ir work is just as much dealing 
with the beautiful and the ideal in life as the work of the painter, 
or the sculptor, or the artist, or the nmsician, and you are 
sujiplying a much-needed want in the lives of the great -American 
people today. 
But after all there is something else, and even more important, 
that you can do. and that I hope you are impressed with (he desire 
to do. This world is passing through one of the greatest crises 
of its history. Humanity is suffering, laboring, struggling on- 
Avard to something that we hope will be yet better in the great 
future. Today the food products are needed as they scarcely ever 
liave been before. Whole nations are on the verge of starvation; 
the cry is for conservation of our food. The world is looking 
more and more to our Western Hemisphere to supply it with the 
sustenance of hunninity everywhere. Bearing this in mind, I 
know there is a very useful and necessary work that those who 
are interested in gardening can carry on. I know that you have 
tliat in mind. 
We have found the situation and we have learned the lesson 
that the old haphazard methods of cultivation will hardly do. 
Agriculture must be largely reformed. Heretofore we have been 
ilealing with extensive cultivation. Scratch the soil in a large 
sort of way and go on has been our policy. Now-, we have got 
to (leal with scientific, careful, painstaking intensive cultivation.' 
That is a work you can help us in and a work in which yon 
can be the leaders. The time may come when the cultivators of 
the small kitchen gardens of America will be looked upon as the 
salvation of this world. 
(Ine more thought. You meet here today, as I understand it, 
from the four corners of our great country. What a wonderful 
country it is! -And yet we are all one great people. The men 
of the East and the men of the West and the men of the North 
and the men of the South, they all join here as fellow citizens. 
That is a great feeling: we must always bear that in mind. It 
is well to bear in mini', at such a time as this. Our flag stands 
for all of our country: and we meet liere. not as enemies, but as 
friends, as brothers, as men who are interested in a great cause, 
ami working together for the betterment of liumanity. 
Chicago is ready to welcome you with true hospitalit.v, with a 
spirit of kindness and good will. We are glad to see you here; 
we hope you will enjoy your visit. We hope you will be delighted 
with otn" liospitalit.v, and we wish to encourage you in every 
possible way in your splendid work, and hope that it will be 
crowned \\-ith success. 
Mr. Fidey, after res])onding to ;\rr. Ratlibune's address of wel- 
come, in substance said: 
ft becomes my pleasure to introduce a man who needs no 
introduction; a man whom you all know. He is at the head of 
the list. Head by name and head liy election. With great 
]ileasnre T introduce to any one of you who have never met him 
before. Thomas W. Head, the iiresident of our association 
-After welcoming the members to the cojivention ilr. Head read 
ills address, which follows; 
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE. 
.Inst a year ago we met in Washington, where I was elected 
your president, but since that time I have been unable to attend 
any of the committee meetings owing to local conditions, al- 
thougli I have been in toucli with our able secretary, Mr. Ebel, 
and kept posted on what was being done by my fellow-members 
towards the betterment of our profession. 
I cannot lielj) but first refer to the assemblage here which 
have come such a great distance to the leading city of the West, 
evidently all loyal Americans, all looking to that one thought 
of this great struggle, and that is to win— also standing by our 
President in all we can do to help this country bring about 
the satisfactory termination of this world-wiib' struggle, and 
knowing as we do that all conventions are handicapped to a cer- 
tain extent by these circumstances, especially when you realize 
the number of men who are now called to the colors from our 
ranks. It is, indeed, very encouraging to see so many loyal and 
true men here at this meeting, and I can assure you I know your 
time while here will be well sjient. and you will go from this 
great city of ours with tlie feebng t"ia* tli • West is the place 
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