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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 
WILLIAM N. CRAIG, President, 
Brookline, Mass. 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
M. C. EBEL, Secretary, 
Madison, N. J. 
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ADVERTISING THE SERVICE BUREAU. 
GARDENERS' DAY AT NATIONAL SHOW. 
Gardeners' Day will be observed at the National Flower 
Show in Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 28. While no 
formal meeting has been arranged, President W. N. Craig 
and other officers will attend the show on that day to meet 
visiting members. 
The day has also been designated as New York Day, and 
a special train will leave New York City on that day from 
the Pennsylvania depot at 10 a. m. under the auspices of 
the New York Florists' Club. Arriving at Philadelphia, the 
party will have lunch at the Pennsylvania de.pot and then 
proceed to Convention Hall, where the Flower Show will be 
held. The cost of this trip to Philadelphia, including 
luncheon and admission to the show, is $3.50. 
The New York Florists' Club extends an invitation to 
members of the National Association of Gardeners going to 
the Flower Show by way of New York to join its special 
train party. 
TRUSTEES' AND DIRECTORS' MEETING. 
A meeting of the trustees and directors of the National Asso- 
ciation of Gardeners will be called to meet in New York City on 
a day during the week of the New York Spring Flower Show. 
THE GARDENERS' ESSAY CONTEST. 
The judges, Messrs. Jenkins, Downs, Smith, Stewart and Dick, 
appointed to pass on the essays submitted in the contest for ex- 
President Everitt's prize, will have their decision ready in time 
to have t he names of the winners announced when the gardeners 
gather at the National Flower Show on March 28. 
The rules and regulations governing the essay contest for Presi- 
dent Craig's prizes, $25 first; $15 second; $10 third, for assistant 
gardeners, for the best three essays submitted by November 1. 
and limited to twenty-five hundred words on any horticultural 
subject, will be published in the 4pril number of the Chronicle. 
DELINQUENT MEMBERS. 
Members in arrears for dues are requested to remit the same 
by the first of the month as the Executive Committee has called 
for a list of delinquent members to be presented at its meeting 
next month for action according to the terms of the by-laws. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
The following new members have been added to our roll during 
the past month: William G. Woodger, Pocantico Hills, N. Y.; 
Lars Reitan, Huntington, N. Y.; James McNeill. Monticello, 111.; 
John E. Ryan, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Charles Dodd, Westerleigh, Stater 
Island; James Coyle, Arthur A. Lougliren, William T. Mulligan, 
John B. Becker, John M. Boland, John Peterson, Joseph A. Kleber, 
Anton Mirtel, John Griffin, Jacob Kellus, Hugh Murray, Gustave 
A. Schoeman, of New York, N. Y. ; Charles E. Armstrong. Port 
Washington, N. Y.; John I. Foxcroft, Farmington, Conn.; William 
Christians, Pittslield, Mass.; Sidney Baston and William East, 
Buffalo, N. Y.; Hugo P. Stenstrom, White Plains, N. Y.; William 
Nicholson, Framingham, Mass.; Theodore C. Jurgenson, New Marl- 
boro, Mass.; Hugh Kierman, Marblehead, Mass.; James Brown, 
Newport, R. I.; George N. Barrie, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; George 
S. Kinnaird, Cohasset, Mass.; Alfred H. Green, Worcester, Mass.; 
Herbert Woodger, Lenox, Mass. ; Christian Jensen, Topsfield. Mass. ; 
Wilfrid Edmonds, Plymouth. Mass.; Manus Curran, Sweickley, 
Pa.; Franklin A. Whelan, Mt. Vernon, Va.; Patrick J. Boomer, 
Great Neck, N. Y.; Russell H. Young, Port Washington. N. Y.; 
Lewis H. Wise, Dtinellen, N. J.; James Barnet, Rockport, Me.; 
Harry Hyslop, Adrian, Mich.: Robert F. Grunert, Greenwich, 
Conn.; Samuel Lockerbie, Menlo Park. Cal.; Charles A. Turnbull, 
Seal Harbor, Me.; Michael Nolan, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Thomas Roily, 
Middleburg, Va.; Stephen H. Treglown,' Pomfret Centre, Conn.; 
W. Ormiston Roy, Montreal, Canada j Charles F. Giltenboth, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.; James Butler, New York, N. Y. 
The following notice appears in the 1916 seed catalogue of the 
firm mentioned: 
"An efficient and practical gardener is as essential to 
successful gardening as are our tested seeds. 
We desire you to know that we are now in the position 
to secure for you the services of the most efficient and 
practical gardeners, suitable either as superintendents, head 
gardeners, or assistant gardeners. 
Upon receiving information that you are in want of 
such a man, we will at once put you in touch with the 
Service Bureau of the National Association of Gardeners, 
which is maintained for the special purpose of providing 
opportunities for qualified gardeners. It aims to place in 
vacant positions men who are fully capable of meeting 
all the necessary requirements. 
Carters Tested Seeds, Inc., and the National Association 
of Gardeners make no charge for services rendered you 
through this Service Bureau. 
We earnestly invite your confidence and co-operation in 
this matter. 
CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc." 
Such recognition of the association's Service Bureau is cer- 
tainly complimentary to the work it is undertaking, and it is to 
be hoped that other firms will follow this action. The interest of 
all. employers, gardeners and the horticultural trade in general, 
can be best served through a thoroughly established independent 
institution, to which those requiring the services of efficient gar- 
deners, in their different capacities, can apply for capable men. 
Such an institution can also do much towards alleviating the 
present demoralization which exists as to what should constitute 
a proper salary for a gardener's services. The existing condition 
is due, in a large measure, to the gardeners themselves who, in 
competing for positions name such terms as to place an inquirer 
in doubt concerning just what might be accepted as a reasonable 
wag«. 
Do not misunderstand from the above suggestion that the 
Service Bureau is tending towards regulating the wages of gar- 
deners, for this is far from its object. It has had the opportunity, 
however, of convincing more than one owner of country estates 
recently that really competent gardeners are entitled to, and de- 
mand proper compensation. Those that do otherwise, usually 
render service that cannot be regarded efficient. 
AMONG THE GARDENERS 
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John Thomson was recently appointed head gardener to General 
Champlin, Rye Beach, N. II. 
.Tallies McDougal, formerly of Glen Cove, X. Y., has been ap- 
pointed gardener at Hearts Delight Farms, Chazy, N. Y. 
John Forbes, recently of Brookdale Gardens, Madison, N. J., has 
accepted the position of gardener in charge of greenhouses at the 
I-Iobart J. Park Estate, Portchester, N. Y. 
Joseph Wood, late of "Cloverhurst Farm," Bridgeport, Conn., 
has accepted a position as superintendent to the F. H. Kalbfleish 
Estate, Babylon, N. Y. 
Robert Taylor lias secured the position in charge of greenhouses 
on the estate of Russell H. Bogg, "Hohenhurst," Sewickley 
Heights, Pa. 
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