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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
Voluntary contributions to the Service Bureau were this year 
received from James Stuart $50, Arthur Smith $15, Harry Cart- 
wright $5, and Cyril Ilayman $5 for services rendered. 
Prompt answers to communications from the secretary's office 
to officials and members on matters pertaining to the affairs of 
the association will help much to lighten the secretary's burdens, 
and he needs them lightened in his present condition. 
M. 0. Ebel, Secretary. 
SECRETARY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 
Madison, N. X, December 1, 1916. 
Receipts. 
Cash on hand December 9, 1915 $ 42.00 
Received for 1913 dues 6.00 
Received for 1914 dues 64.00 
Received for 1915 dues 186.00 
Received for 1916 dues 1,588.00 
Received for 1917 dues 82.00 
Received for Service Bureau 75.00 
Received for Life Membership dues 100.00 
$2,143.00 
Payments. 
Deposit vouchers to treasurer Nos. 106 to 130. .$1,983.00 
Deposit vouchers to treasurer I Reserve Fund ) 
Nos. 6-8 100.00 
Cash on hand 60.00 
$2,143.00 
Expenditures of the secretary's office for the past year have 
been as follows : 
Stamps $63.44 
Telephone calls 13.43 
Telegrams 2.76 
Expressage 4.66 
Sundries 7.92 
Total $92.21 
M. C. EBEL, Secretary. 
Washington, D. C., December 6, 1916. 
We have completed our audit of the accounts of your secretary 
up to December 5, 1916. and are pleased to report that we find 
the statements as rendered above to lie correct. 
J. W. EVERETT, 
GEO. W. HESS, 
ROBERT CAMERON, 
Auditing Committee. 
The report was adopted on motion. 
The chairman next called for the annual report of the treasurer, 
which follows : 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 
1915. 
Dec. 8. 
Dec. 8. 
Deposit 
Deposit 
Interest 
Interest 
Interest 
mi.-,. 
Mamaroneck, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1916. 
Receipts. 
Balance in bank (Reserve Fund) $ 96.00 
Balance in bank ( General Fund ) 1,193.89 
vouchers ( Gen'l Fund ) Nos. 106 to 130 1.9S3.00 
vouchers (Reserve Fund) Nos. 6 to 8. 100.00 
June '15 and '16 (General Fund) 33.10 
Dec. '15 and '16 (General Fund) 20.10 
June '15 (Reserve Fund) 2.4S 
Dee. 
31. 
Jan. 
5. 
Jan. 
5. 
Jan. 
5. 
Jan. 
3. 
Jan. 
3. 
Jan. 
3. 
Jan. 
3. 
Jan. 
3. 
March 
2. 
March 
2. 
March 
2 
March 
2. 
March 
o 
March 
2. 
April 
1. 
May 
1. 
June 
1. 
April 
1. 
July 
1. 
July 
1. 
Total receipts $3,428.57 
Disbursements. 
Dieges & ('lust, medals $ 
B. Kemelhor. membership book 
Madison Eagle, printing 
Dieges & Clust. medal 
M. C. Ebel. Sec'y, postage and sundries 
J. C. Chester, appropriation to secretary's asst. 
M. C. Ebel, postage (president's appeal)... 
M. C. Ebel. postage (bills for dues) 
The Chronicle Press, subscriptions to Jan. 1. . 
Technical Tress, printing essays 
B. Kemelhor, index for membership book... 
Geo. II. Davis, compiling membership book.. 
M. C. Ebel, Sec'y, postage and sundries 
M. C. Ebel, Sec'y. postage and sundries 
Madison Eagle, printing 
M. C. Ebel, Sec'y. postage and sundries 
M. I'. Ebel. Sec'y. postage anil sundries 
M. C Ebel. Sec'y. postage and sundries 
J. C. Chester, appropriation for Sec'y's asst. 
Madison Eagle, printing 
M. ( '. Ebel, Sec'y. postage and sundries 
32.00 
1O.00 
17.00 
3.50 
13.(13 
12.50 
19.60 
18.00 
206.25 
19.01 
1.50 
15.00 
10.42 
14.37 
33.47 
11.90 
5.60 
3.50 
12.50 
4.50 
12.90 
July 1. J. C. Chester, appropriation for Sec'y's asst. 12.50 
July 1. Technical Press. Inc., printing essays 2.25 
July 1. Chronicle Press, Inc., subscriptions to July 1 753.00 
Aug. 1. Madisou Eagle, printing 1.75 
Aug. 1. Technical Press. Inc.. printing essays 5.00 
Aug. 1. M. C. Ebel, Sec'y, postage and sundries 2.58 
Sept. 1. M. C. Ebel, Sec'y, postage and sundries 5.38 
Sept. 1. Dieges & Clust, medals 8.30 
Sept. 1. Madison Eagle, printing 18.17 
Oct. 1. Madison Eagle, printing 16.92 
Oct. 1. M. C. Ebel, Sec'y, postage and sundries 8.32 
Oct. 1. Murray Hill Hotel, room for executive meet- 
ing 5.00 
Oct. 1. J. O. Chester, appropriation for Sec'y's asst. 12.50 
Nov. 1. M. C. Ebel, Sec'y, pos'age and sundries 4.21 
Nov. 1. Technical Press, printing essays 2.25 
Total disbursement $1,334.58 
Dec. 1. Balance in bank (General Fund) .$1,895.51 
Dee. 1. Balance in bank ( Reserve Fund ) . 198.48 2,093.99 
$3,428.57 
JAMES STUART, Treasurer. 
Washington, D. C, December 6, 1916. 
We have completed our audit of the accounts of your treasurer 
up to December 5, 1916, and are pleased to report that we find the 
statements as rendered above to be correct. 
J. W. EVERITT. 
GEORGE W. HESS, 
ROBERT CAMERON, 
Auditing Committee. 
The report was adopted on motion. 
Remarks by Chairman. Gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to 
me to hear such a creditable report read. 1 am au old-timer in 
this association, and I can well recall the time when we had not 
a dollar in the treasury; yes. when we did not have a cent. It is 
indeed gratifying to hear that we have over two thousand dollars 
cash money on hand; and if we will keep on working in that way, 
which I do not for a minute doubt, this association will lie a strong 
one before long. We have a wide field in which to work, and before 
long we will get the harvest of the seed sown by our past Presidents. 
The next matter in order is the report of standing committees. 
Secretary Ebel then read the report of the National Co-opera- 
tive Committee, at the conclusion of which it was moved, seconded 
and carried that the report, as read, be adopted. 
REPORT OF NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE COMMITTEE. 
The activities of the Co-operative Committee during the past 
year have not been as progressive as your committee would like to 
report, due in a large measure to the lack of support from the local 
co-operative committees of the gardeners' local societies and clubs. 
Without the co-operation of the local committees, the usefulness 
of the national committee becomes much impaired, for the national 
committee is, to all intent and purposes, a source through which 
a local committee can disseminate items of interest of the doings 
of its society which may prove beneficial to other societies and 
submit the problems that confront the gardener and his society 
in a community, which iu turn can be taken up for discussion 
by other societies and often times bring forth suggestions which will 
aid in the solution of such problems. 
Such items can be submitted through the official organ of the 
association, or if at times an issue comes up of a nature that 
concerns the gardener or his society solely, a special bulletin on 
the subject in lieu of publication in the official organ can be 
circulated among the societies participating in the co-operation 
between the national and local organizations. 
Through such means the local societies throughout the country 
can keep in touch with one another and can k°eu informed on the 
progressive methods instituted from time to time among the gar- 
deners and their societies in different communities. 
The National Co-operative Committee has been distributing 
essays monthly during the past year, among fifty odd local societies, 
which applied for them when this service was offered following 
the 1915 convention, and, according to reports from time to time 
received, these essays have been much appreciated. The com- 
mittee was instructed at the executive meeting held in New York in 
September last to continue this service. 
While there is strength in unity, it requires co-operation with 
unity to bring about successful organization, and when this is once 
accomplished among the gardeners they and their profession will 
derive the benefits therefrom. 
Your committee solicits the co-operation of every member iu 
the organization to make it of useful service in furthering the inter- 
ests of the gardener and his profession in this country. 
M. C. Ebel. Secretary to Committee. 
