THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 
71 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 
WILLIAM N. CRAIG, President, 
Brookline, Mass. 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
M. C. EBEL, Secretary, 
Madison, N. J. 
JUDGES FOR THE ESSAY CONTEST. 
Chairman William H. Waite of the Committee on Essays and 
Horticultural Instinct ion, has appointed William Downs, Brook- 
line, .Mass.; Edward Jenkins, Lenox, .Mass.; Arthur Smith, Read- 
in", Pa.: William H. Stewart, editor of Horticulture, Boston, 
Mass.; J. Harrison Dick, editor of Florists' Exchange, New York, 
to serve as judges in the Essay Contest for Ex-President Everett's 
prizes, the winners of which will be announced at the Fourth 
National Flower Show, to be held at Philadelphia. March 2.5 to 
April 2. 
PRESIDENT CRAIG OFFERS ESSAY PRIZES. 
President William N. Craig offers twenty-five dollars as first 
prize, fifteen dollars as second prize and ten dollars as third 
prize for the best essays by assistant gardeners on any subject 
pertaining to any branch of horticulture, and not to exceed 
twenty-five hundred words. The contest will close November 1, 
and the winners will be announced at the annual convention of 
the association in December. The Essay Committee will issue 
the rules regulating the contest in the next number of the 
Ciiko.xicle. 
DEMAND FOR ASSISTANT GARDENERS. 
There is an unusual demand for assistant gardeners at this 
time, anil many inquiries have been received for able assistants. 
The Service Bureau will be glad to hear from any members seek- 
ing first class assistant positions, and who are fully qualified to 
fulfill same. 
GARDENERS' DAY AT NATIONAL SHOW. 
It has been decided to make Tuesday, March 28, the day at 
which the members will assemble at the Fourth National Flower 
•Show in Philadelphia. Keep this date in mind. Full particulars 
will be published in the March Chronicle. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
The following names have been added to our membership roll 
during the past month: James Goodfellow, Woods Hole, Mass.: 
William D. Coutts, Nantucket, Mass.; John Madden, Cohasset, 
Mass.; Angus MacMillan, Beverly Cove, Mass.; John Morris, 
South Natick, Mass.; Andrew Masson, North Easton, M;is^; 
Thomas H. Webber, Marion, Mass.; Frank L. Sladem, Cohasset, 
Mass.; Gordon S. Macmillan, Lenox, Mass.; Alexander G. Bryce, 
Falmouth. Mass.: George Bain, Woods Hole, Mass.; Oscar Hakan- 
son, Beverly Farms. Mass.; Frank H. Butler, Lenox, Mass.; Carl 
Alberte, Auburndale, Mass.; George F. Clive, Marblehead, Mass.; 
William Till, Magnolia, Mass.; Andrew F. Laugon, Hamilton. 
Mass.; Andrew E. Johnson. Gloucester, Mass.; Frank H. Allison. 
Auburndale. Mass.; James Campbell, So. Lancaster, Mass.; Eli 
Kciiyon, Woods Hole, Mass.; H. H. Bartsch. Waverley, Mass.; 
Richard Calvert, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; James Riddell, Swamp- 
scott, Mass.; William Cockfield, Beverley Farms, Mass.; Charles 
Roberts, Swampscott, Mass.: James Wood, Topsfield, Mass.; Emil 
Anderson, Clifton, Mass.: Alfred E. T. Rogers, Prides Crossing, 
Mass.; Andrew 1!. Cosh, South Hamilton. Mass.; Daniel Hallissy, 
Beverly, Mass.; Alfred Reoch, Amherst, Mass.; Milles B. Cowey, 
Manclicstci'-by-the-Sea. Mass.; Frank Cataldo, Ipswich, Mass.; 
(Irin P. Thompson, Hamilton, Mass.: H. Ernest Downer, 
Northampton, Mass.: Frank J. Darrah, Falmouth, Mass.; Robert 
Laurie, Dedham, Mass.: Alfred E. Parsons. Manchester, Mass.; 
Robert F. Cross. Osterville, Mass.; Edward Parker, North Easton, 
Mass.; Robert Dunn, East Marion, Mass.; Thomas Wilcox, 
Worcester, Mas-.: James Warr, Marblehead Neck, Mass.; William 
Hopper, Rochester, X. Y.; Charles W. Eurton, Trenton, N. J.; 
John Mc( oy, Larchmont, N. Y.; G. Brown. Gilbertsville, N. Y.; 
Edwin Beckett. Purchase, X. Y.; Walter Robinson. Mamaroneck, 
N. Y.; .lames McLellan, Beacon, N. Y.; William Christie, Albany, 
X. V.; Charles Davidson, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Thomas E. Driscoll, 
John M. Griffin, Bernard Dillinger, Patrick H. Collins, Albin 
Ketterer, John F. McCarthy, Jeremiah Reidy, New York City; 
Otto J. Cundy, Silver Lake Park, S. I.; William A. Edwards, 
Fergus Atkinson, Oswald Schultz, Joseph Pryor, Newport, R. I.; 
George Cooper, Bristol, Pa.; Arthur E. Bonsey, Scwickley, Pa.; 
Percy S. Snow, Philadelphia, Pa.; James Murphy, Scwickley, Pa.; 
Harry Moore, Pomfret Centre, Conn.; Arthur Chandler, New 
London, Conn.; Ernest 11. Jones, Pomfret Centre, Conn.; R. P. 
Riydoii, South Euclid. Ohio; Arthur Brown, South Euclid, Ohio; 
Henry Tolman, Walworth, Wis.; David Smith. Madison, Wis.; 
T. W. Breen, San Leandro, Cal.; Henry Dobrick, Wilmington, 
Del.; Edward 0. Orpet, Lake Forest, 111.; James Hanley, Vermejo 
Park, New Mexico ; Thomas Roily, Middleburg, Va. 
AMONG THE GARDENERS 
^ William H. Griffiths, formerly foreman of the F. D. Countiss' 
Estate, Alta Vista Farm, Lake Geneva, Wis., is now superin- 
tendent to E. D. Speck, "Fairholme," Grosse Pointe Shores, De- 
troit, Mich. 
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William McKinnon, late gardener to Miss Louise Yhlein, of 
Milawukee, Wis., has succeeded W. H. Griffiths as foreman at 
Alta Vista Farm, Lake Geneva, Wis. 
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Alexander Reid, formerly at the Harvard Botanic Gardens, 
Cambridge, Mass., has been appointed superintendent on J. J. 
Albright's estate, Buffalo, N. Y., and assumed his new duties 
February 1. 
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Murdo Mackay was recently appointed head gardener on the 
Frederic Ayer estate, Prides Crossing, Mass. 
The many friends of Richard Brett, formerly of Windbolme 
Farm, Islip, N. Y., who retired a year ago ow'ing to ill health 
and moved to New Jersey, will regret to hear of his continuous 
illness. Mr. Brett's present address is 362 Main street, 
Daniel Hay, superintendent for Mrs. E. French Vanderbilt, 
Newport, R. I., has been seriously ill for the past month, but is 
now convalescing. 
# * # 
W. X. Craig lectured on "Vegetable Growing in New England" 
at the New Hampshire State Agricultural College, Durham, N. H., 
on February 4. 
Charles Sander, superintendent to Prof. C. S. Sargent, Brook- 
line, Mass.. has a magnificent display of hybrid Clivias, which 
fill one roomy house. 
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W. B. Bourn, of San Francisco, recently purchased a tract of 
70!) acres west of Hillsborough, where he is building a residence, 
and is converting the property into a game and forest preserve, 
making extensive improvements in the way of planting, etc. 
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Henry Eaton has secured an appointment as head gardener 
to R. M. Saltonstall, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 
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the large collection of orchids, which formed one of the most 
beautiful and attractive features of the Philippine Islands building 
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, has been pur- 
chased by Herbert Fleishhacker, who will move them to his home 
at At'nerton, a short distance south of this city. To take care 
of the orchids be has secured the services of W. E. Eglington. who 
looked after them during the Exposition period. Mr. Fleish- 
hacker is having a fine greenhouse built for their accommodation, 
and will put in the heating plant from the Exposition. It is 
understood that he expects to build up one of the finest private 
collections of orchids in the State. 
Gardeners in the San Francisco district, and, in fact, all over 
California, have had much to contend with in the last month, 
which has brought the worst storms in many years, with a great 
deal of cold weather. Trees have been blown over and mutilated 
everywhere; more or less damage has been done to greenhouses, 
and a great deal of extra heating has been necessary: while much 
outside stock that was not perfectly hardy, but usually goes 
through the winter without trouble here, has been badly frosted. 
The Sacramento district has been visited with snow twice since 
Christmas, and all the higher hills around San Francisco Bay 
were snow-covered January 28. Many estates have suffered very 
material damage from flood anil washout, and the soil has been 
so wet as to make outside work almost impossible for practically 
the entire month. 
