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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NoVEMHKR 12, 1903. 



exhibits from ten other separate horti- 



cultural societies all uniting in tl 



mon desiri < exhibition 



worthy of thi is to honor the 



oa1 tonal si 



Encouraging Exhibitions. 



In so far as the organizing of chrys- 

 anthemum exhibitions is concer I 



there is little for us to do; thej are 



amply pro\ ided for, bul would it no1 be 



di \ ise some means to furl hei 



encourage them with suitable awards, 



such as a medal or some suitable token 



ould carry with it the prestige of 



national award.' This iilea, too, 



was suggested a year ago. The time for 



action is hero, and noil that u e ai i in 



convention assembled. 



Advancing Society Interests. 



it would be well, also, that we should 

 give some thought to ways and means 

 toward improving our organization. We 

 should now be in a position to think and 

 act intelligently along these lines, as 

 the constitution and by-laws of the so- 

 ciety, heretofore only available in the 

 original typewritten copy, were ordered 

 to be printed in the proceedings of our 

 l bicago meeting, and they will be 

 found on pages 27-8-9 of that publica- 

 tion, a copy of which has been sent to 

 all members. 



A careful perusal of the constitution 

 reveals the fact that we have a reserve 

 of available executive force that has 

 never yet been brought into action. 

 Article IV entitles us to have district 

 vice-presidents for seven specified dis- 

 -trirts. Let us call out the reserves, 

 and given men in sympathy with the 

 cause, what a fertile field of missionary 

 work these districts should prove! As a 

 means toward securing a large aggre- 

 gation of membership probably none 

 better could be devised. 



Some amendments tire needed also to 

 adapt our laws to present conditions of 

 the society's work. One instance only 

 need be cited, that of the committees 

 that for a long time have been doing 

 such admirable work annually in pass- 

 ing judgment upon the novelties sub 

 mitted to them. These irregularities 

 could probably be best rectified by the 

 appointment of a committee to revise 

 the constitution and by laws and sub- 

 mit its recommendations in accordance 

 with Article IX. 



alluded to. 

 dium of i 

 remarkably 

 pers submi 

 and which 

 than compi 



ppraised. more 

 a cost of mem- 

 ion, ordered to 

 publication a 



er, was made for t he 



luable records that are 



possession, and which 



some time 



dfv. compile and make 

 ag. Actio,-, - d be 



also anxious we should publish it. 

 A Chrysanthemum Year Book. 

 A subject worth} of thought is hew 



we may enha ■ the interest .and the 



resultant practical value of our annual 



publical so as to make it sought 



after, to make il I tans of bringing 



into and keeping within the fold of 

 membership those members — and there 

 night be hundreds of them — that are 

 prevented or are unable to a1 tend I in 

 annual meetings. Could we not en- 

 large the scope of our publication; 

 make it a Chrysanthemum Year Book, 

 .and therein review the season of the 

 flower, enumerate the new ones as they 

 appear, and describe them in a few 

 terse but readable articles that would 

 tell more, and with better effect, than 

 the conventional catalogue descrip- 

 tions.' Even work of this character is 

 directly in line with our object, and 

 .-an be better done by our society- than 

 by the .average individual. We extol 

 the fact that the literature of the 

 chrysanthemum surpasses that of any 

 other flower. Do we not, then, owe it 

 to those who shall come after that the 

 record of our time shall be handed 

 down complete and unimpaired .' 



Creation of Special Committees. 

 It is easy to be critical, to say here 

 and there are vulnerable points* of at- 

 tack. The defensive pari is the harder 

 part, and calls for the exercise of a 

 careful discrimination in laying out an 

 aggressive policy. We assemble but 

 once a year, and time is too limited for 

 great accomplishments involving a 

 mass of detail. A way suggests itself, 

 however, in which, if we could agree 

 upon the desirability of diligently pros- 

 ecuting certain lines of work, to create 

 special committees to carry on the work 

 deputed to them between our annual 

 sessions. This would conduce to rapid- 

 ity of progress and show in our annual 

 reports a larger measure of attained re- 

 sults. 



Retrospective. 

 In this city in August. 1900, I for the 

 first time attended a meeting of the 

 faithful few who for a deeade had held 

 the society true to active purpose, con- 

 fident in 'the belief there was a need 

 for it to be, though general apathy 

 discouraged their efforts. The election 

 of officers brought to me the responsi- 

 bility of directing its affairs. From that 

 moment one hope was dominant — the 

 hope that ways and means might be 

 found to establish a closer community 

 of interest between the work and the 

 workers; the hope that the society 



iglit 



rtant 



with ten other soeie 

 In Chicago, contrary 

 wishes, you saw fit 



an with some 

 d thus better 



ety of Chicago 

 unity, and its 

 y seconded by 

 of New York, 

 co-operating, 

 his persona] 

 continue your 



assistance and patient toleration thanks 

 is tendered, coupled with the wish that 

 you will all unite in upholding others 

 with the same cordial support you have 

 given those in whom past authority 

 and responsibility have been vested, 

 and so individually and collectively en- 

 sure for the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America a lasting and progressive fu- 

 ture. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The markets for cut flowers and for 

 stocks go hand in hand; more and more 

 is demonstrated the melancholy fact that 

 Wall street dominates the flower busi- 

 ness in New York and prosperity in the 

 financial center means success for the 

 florists' trade. A killing frost and the 

 return <d' the "150" may lift a little 

 of the incubus from the back of the 

 market, but a recurrence of old time 

 progress seems an impossibility until the 

 bears are skinned in the financial district 

 and public confidence is restored. The 

 men who spend money for luxuries are 

 not earning their salt. 



Club Meeting. 



The best meeting of the New York 

 Florists ' Club in a decade was held on 

 Monday evening. An attendance of over 

 fifty of the leading members attested 

 the interest in the flower show, the read- 

 in-- of Alex. Wallace and the fine ex- 

 hibits of flowers and plants and the 

 visits of Presidents Breitmeyer and Rack- 

 ham and other notables. It was a meet- 

 ing long to be remembered and the ut- 

 most cordiality and enthusiasm prevailed. 



Mr. Traendly's report showed a bal- 

 ance of $16 profit from the outing last 

 summer, which the club donated, with 

 a collection of some $40 or more to H. 

 Schweitzer, of Mendota, 111. Messrs. 

 Dugan, Palmer, Muller, Scene and Miller 

 were elected members of the club, and 

 Lyman B. Craw, of Lord & Burnham, 

 was proposed for membership. Mr. 

 Sheridan read the report of the nominat- 

 ing committee, and the following names 

 were suggested for the various offices 

 in 1904 : For president, J. H. Troy, John 

 Burnie and W. II. Siebrecht; for vice- 

 president. F. H. Traendly, W. B. Du 

 Eie, William Duckham; for secretary. 

 John Young, L. W. Wheeler, Jos. Manda. 

 Jr.; for treasurer, C. B. Weathered, 

 Lawrence Haffner, S. C. Nash; for trus- 

 tees, John Morris, Alex. Wallace, A. L. 

 Miller, J. B. Nugent, Theo. Lang, Will- 

 iam Elliott. 



Messrs. Breitmeyer, Eaekham, Crowe 

 and Smith occupied seats on the rostrum 

 with the president during the address 

 and readings of Mr. Wallaee, for which 

 he received a vote of thanks. The new 

 roses exhibited by Messrs. Breitmeyer 

 and May and the new fern Scotti, by 

 John Scott, were much admired and the 

 committee on awards rendered most com- 

 plimentary reports and gave Mr. Scott 

 a certificate of merit. The rules of the 

 dub make this impossible with the rose 

 until :i committee appointed by the club 

 shall see the roses growing. Mr. Scott's 

 fern, a sport from the Boston, is re- 

 markably graceful and compact, and will 

 undoubtedly prove a valuable eommer- 



