August 31, 1918 



HOETICULTURE 



223 



the Committee secured through its 

 local member, Mr. Philip Breitmeyer, 

 the free use of all the land necessary 

 for as large a garden as it might be 

 possible to secure the necessary plant- 

 ing material for. In April, at the 

 Committee's request, the Secretary 

 sent a circular letter to growers and 

 dealers in all parts of the country, a 

 copy of which is hereto attached, ask- 

 ing for support and information as to 

 the class of plants they wish to ex- 

 hibit and the amount of space re- 

 quired. With that information on 

 hand the Committee intended to pre- 

 pare the necessary plans and allot the 

 required space. The response to the 

 Secretary's letter was most unsatisfac- 

 tory, and the answers received, with 

 very few exceptions, were to the effect 

 that for various reasons no exhibit 

 would be made. 



It is, therefore, quite evident to 

 your Committee that under the present 

 disturbed general conditions of the 

 country it will be impossible to secure 

 material enough to make a creditable 

 and w'orth-while exhibit, such as a 

 convention garden of our National 

 Society should contain and display. 



Mr. Breitmeyer has expressed his 

 opinion that it might be possible to 

 secure sufficient planting material of 

 perennials and annuals from the dis- 

 trict within reasonable shipping dis- 

 tance of the Convention City to make 

 a creditable display, if the cost of 

 planting and maintenance were de- 

 frayed from local sources. He has 

 offered to work along those lines. The 

 Committee appreciates this generous 

 offer of assistance, but feels that such 

 a display would not properly repre- 

 sent the spirit of nation-wide profes- 

 sional competition and participation 

 which the Society had in mind- to 

 create and to foster when the Conven- 

 tion Garden idea was worked out and 

 adopted. 



In view of these facts your Com- 

 mittee wishes to suggest that the De- 

 troit authorities in charge of the ar- 

 rangements for the 1919 Convention 

 be given free hand to arrange for 

 such out-door exhibits and floral dec- 

 orations as they may be able to secure 

 and arrange, and that they be in full 

 and sole charge of the garden so pro- 

 duced and maintained; that the ex- 

 hibits in such garden be judged by 

 judges appointed by the proper au- 

 thorities of the S. A. P. & O. H.: and 

 that the usual awards be made by 

 such judges for the Society. 



Your Committee feels that the 

 Convention Garden undertaking for 

 future Conventions should by no 

 means be abandoned, and that when 

 normal conditions are again estab- 

 lished after the war the response 

 from the trade in general toward this 

 instructive and progressive work will 

 again manifest itself in such a man- 

 ner as to insure its success as an un- 

 dertaking worthy of the standing of 

 our National Society. 



Your Secretary a little over a 

 month ago visited the Convention 

 Garden of 1913, still in existence in 

 Minneapolis, and he is able to testify 

 that our National Society, through the 

 creation of that garden built itself a 

 memorial in that city of the North- 

 west which is still greatly appreciated 

 and valued by its citizens. That sim- 

 ilar results can be achieved in the 



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future is the sincere and strong belief 

 of the members of the Committee 

 which you have intrusted with this, 

 in their opinion, important work. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



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 Philip BREaTMEYEK, 

 Clabetxce L. Beock. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRES- 

 IDENT'S ADDRESS 



Your committee on President's Ad- 

 dress respectfully report that we be- 

 lieve the address to be of more than 

 ordinary importance, and that the 

 adoption of our recommendations 

 thereon will be beneficial to the Soci- 

 ety and its members. 



We recommend as follows: 



That the Society through its Presi- 

 dent appoint committees out of its 

 membership in localities wherever 

 possible to assist the National League 

 for Women's Service, which through 

 its members is striving to cheer the 

 life of the invalid soldier by gifts of 

 beautiful flowers. 



We wish, further, to concur in the 

 President's remarks upon the unselfish 

 work done for the benefit of our Soci- 

 ety and all members of the profession 

 by the Washington Representative, 

 William F. Gude. who has sacrificed 

 his time to do this work; and there- 

 fore we offer and ask your adoption of 

 the following resolution: 



Resol\-ed: That the Board of 

 Directors of the S. A. F. & O. H. are 



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 ington Representative in their dis- 

 cretion. 



We think the recommendation of 

 the President to have our membership 

 assist in the beautifying of encamp- 

 ments and barracks throughout the 

 country to be of especial value and 

 importance, so that our cantonments 

 may not have that barren and deso- 

 late appearance that many of them 

 now have, and that measures should 

 be taken to make them more homelike 

 and cheerful thus tending to increase 

 the morale of our soldier boys and 

 send them forth in better fighting trim 

 after having been in their cantonments 

 sometimes for long periods of time 

 while undergoing training; and we be- 

 lieve that if work was done such as 

 has been done at Camp Mills, where 

 shade trees and flowers and ornamen- 

 tal shrubbery have been planted pro- 

 fusely it would be a great and bene- 

 ficial work for our Society to pride it- 

 self upon both now and hereafter; and 

 we therefore recommend that the 

 President of this Society issue an ap- 

 peal to the craft throughout the coun- 



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