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seatati^e »»f such organization. Wln/n tlie 

 president of any suoli organization is al- 

 ready a ilirector. the vice-president aliali be 

 eligible for the office." 



By inserting after the sentence "Such 

 representative shall be the president of such 

 organization and must be a member of this 

 society." the following sentence: 



Should the president of such organization 

 be or become unable to serve as Its rep- 

 resentative, through sickness, or for any 

 other reason which is acceptable to the 

 president of the society, then the vice-presi- 

 dent shall act in his place and stead during 

 the period of such inability. 



And at the end of paragraph (b) of the 

 same section, adding: "The chairman of 

 the Publicity Committee, the Publicity Fi- 

 nance Committee, and the National Flower 

 Show Committee, respectively, shall act and 

 serve as directors for and during their 

 terms of office as the same appear up(m the 

 records of the society ; but if any chairman 

 shall be already a director, then the com- 

 mittee of which he is a chairman shall have 

 no further or separate representation upon 

 the board. 



To amend Article VI, Plant Registra- 

 tion: 



"A registration book shall be kept by the 

 secretary, in which shall be inscribed 

 names and descriptions of new plants, as 

 furnished by the owners thereof, under the 

 rules of the society. Names so inscribed 

 shall be recognized, officially, as the proper 

 and permanent titles, respectively, of the 

 varieties as registered and this society 

 shall do all in its power to prevent the sub- 

 sequent application of any name thus 

 registered to any other plant in the same 

 special class, or the distribution of plants 

 so recorded, under any title other than the 

 one thus given it. 



"On receipt of application for registra- 

 tion it shall be the duty of the secretary to 

 give public notice thereof, and if. after the 

 lapse of three weeks from date of said ap- 

 plication, no protest shall have been filed 

 with the secretary, due announcement of 

 registration shall then be made; but when 

 there exists a permanent committee or 

 affiliating society especially devoted to the 

 interest of any distinct class of plants or 

 flowers, the secretary shall, on receipt oi 

 application for registration of a plant be- 

 longing in such class, refer such application 

 to the duly constituted authorities of such 

 committee or society, in lieu of public 

 notice, and, upon the return of said apnji- 

 cation regularly approved by such authori- 

 ties, shall make public announcement ac- 

 cordingly. Failure to return such applica- 

 tion to the secretary within a period of 

 three weeks shall be construed as approval 

 and announcement made accordingly. 



"An.v protest under the above provisions 

 shall be referred to a committee of three 

 especially appointed by the president of the 

 S. A. F. for this purpose. The committee 

 shall act promptly, and their decision shall 

 he accepted as final." 



By striking out the first two paragraphs 

 and substituting: 



"Any member orginatiug or acquiring a 

 plant which is believed to be new to com- 

 merce, or which embodies a varietal differ- 

 ence sufficient to make it distinctive and 

 separate from any existing variety, may 

 register the same with the societ.v both as 

 to description and name, provided such 

 plant is not covered by any society or or- 

 ganization devoted to the interest of its 

 species, in which case any application for 

 registration, will Vie referred to such so- 

 ciety or organization. The secretary shall, 

 on receipt of an application for registra- 

 tion, and a description of the plant, with 

 the name proprpsed for it. give public notice 

 of such application in the trade papers: 

 and if. after the lapse of three weeks from 

 the ilate of such application no protest 

 sli;ill have been filed with the secretary, he 

 shall issue a preliminary certificate of regis- 

 tration, conformation of which, by final 

 certificate, can only follow after such plant, 

 or flowers from the same, has beeu ex- 

 hibited at a meeting or exhibition held by 

 any organized florist club or horticul- 

 tural body, when the exhibit shall be 

 judgeil by a special committee appointed 

 by the president of the society: 10 days' 

 notii-e of such exhibition having previously 

 been given to the secretary. Any plant for 

 which registration is sought must show an 

 improvement over existing varieties ; a 

 mere varietal difference is not to be con- 

 sidered sufficient to entitle the exhibitor to 

 a final certificate." 



The following recommendation of 

 the boarri of directors is to be voted 

 upon: 



"That an appropriation of $250 be 

 made to the use of the committee on 

 school gardens." 



Balloting for meeting place for 1920. 



Polls open from 8.:30 p. m. to 9.30 

 p. m. 



Wednesday, August 21 — Second Day — 

 Morning Session — 10.30 a. m. 



Nominations of oflScers tor 1919. 



Report of committee on president's 

 address. 



Report of committee on national 

 credits and collections bureau. By R. 

 C. Kerr, chairman. 



Discussion. 



Address, "National Credits and Col- 

 lections." By F. S. Webb. Chicago. 



Discussion. 



Afternoon Session — 2.00 p. m. 



Report of committee on publicity. 

 By Henry Penn, chairman. 



Discussion. 



Address. "Publicity." By Major P. 

 F. O'Keefe. Boston. Mass. 

 Thursday, August 22 — Third Day — 

 Morning Session — 10.00 a. m. 



Election of officers for 1919. 



Polls open from 10.00 a. m. to 11.00 



WU,LI.\M F. GVDE 



Was jigton Representative and Chairman 

 of Tariff and Legislative Committee. 



a. in. or until all in line have voted. 



Voting will be done under the new 

 system. There will be four voting 

 places, "A" to "D" inclusive— "E" to 

 "K" inclusive — "L" to "R" inclusive— 

 "S" to "Z" inclusive. Please vote 

 promptly. 



Rejiort of judges of trade exhibition. 



Discussion. "Present-day Cost of 

 Production." The discussion will be 

 opened by President Totty. 



Question box. 



Deferred business. 



Afternoon Session — 2.00 p. m. 



Address, "The Coal Conservation Or- 

 der as it Applies to Florists," by a 

 United States fuel administration rep- 

 resentative. 



4.00 p. m. Report of committee on 

 convention garden. By Theodore 

 Wirth. chairman. 



Report of National Flower Show 

 Committee. By George Asmus, chair- 

 man. 



Discussion. 



Special Meetings 



FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIV- 

 ERY ASSOCIATION. 

 First Day — Tuesday, August 20 

 10.00 a. m. Meeting of the Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery Association in con- 

 vention hall. Moolah Temple. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 



FLORISTS. 



Tuesday, August 20 — First Day. 



The headquarters of Secretary Mrs. 

 Albert M. Herr will be located near S. 

 A. F. Secretary Young's office in 

 Moolah Temple, and will be open from 

 10.:30 a. m. until 4.00 p. m. for the pur- 

 pose of registration and payment of 

 dues. 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION OF 



AMERICA 

 Wednesday. August 21 — Second Day — 



9.00 a. m. 



Annual meeting. Florists' Hail Asso- 

 ciation of America. 



The .American Carnation Society and 

 the American Rose Society will not 

 hold special meetings during the 

 period of the convention. 



THE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 



The Chairman of the Publicity 

 Finance Committee arranged with the 

 Secretary to make a two days visit to 

 Chicago last week, for the purpose of 

 making a canvass of the district in the 

 interest of the Campaign Fund. The 

 visit, necessarily, could not be extend- 

 ed beyond the stipulated time, as the 

 Secretary was obliged to return to St. 

 Louis on the Saturday evening, con- 

 vention matters there requiring his 

 attention, consequently it was only 

 possible to call upon a few outside of 

 the wholesale district. As will be seen 

 from the list of subscriptions, the 

 wholesale florists freely subscribed. 

 These subscriptions form an import- 

 ant addition to the list of subscrip- 

 tions from Chicago already reported. 

 The Secretary was also assisted in his 

 canvass by Charles L. Washburn, of 

 Bassett & Washburn, Paul Klingsporn. 

 State vice-president for Hlinois north, 

 and Frederick Lautenschlager, chair- 

 man of the 111. Publicity Com. and 

 president of the Chicago Florists' Club, 

 who generously devoted their time to 

 the work. 



Oi'r campaign fund lacks now about 

 I7..500 of the amount which we started 

 out to raise — $50,000. Among the thou- 

 sands of florists who have not yet sub- 

 scribed the required amount should be 

 raised in a day or two — at any rate, 

 prior to the convention. 



The trade papers, all of them, are 

 kind enough to give space to our wee':- 

 ly reports of the work being done by 

 our publicity committees, therefore it 

 would be hard to believe that there 

 can be any florist in the land who is 

 not familiar with our campaign, with 

 its objects, and with the benefits al- 

 ready resultant, so far as reported. 

 With the knowledge it has of the effort 

 put forth to make every florist see the 



