11 OKTI CULTURE 



March 23. 191S 



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Henry Penn's Easter Message 



Never did anything in my entire career that gave me 

 so much pleasure as accepting the job of Chairman 

 of our PubHcity Campaign. The letters that 1 

 receive daily from the long-headed florists who are 

 tying up to the National Campaign, and the results 

 they are getting by so doing, has been a source of 

 great satisfaction, not only to me, but to the entire 

 committee. Keep it up boys. We have the greatest 

 committee. Keep it up boys. We have the 

 greatest product on earth to sell. Just tell them to 



•'SAY IT WITH FLOWERS." 



He spoke of the great value of flowers 

 in hospital work and said that it liad 

 been recognized that they are fully 

 as useful as medicine. He believed 

 that the prosperity of the so-called 

 luxury industries was a necessity to 

 the full dinner pail and the economic 

 precedence of America in the markets 

 of tlie world. His talk was most patri- 

 otic and full of inspiration. Henry 

 Penn of Boston being called uiwn con- 

 gratulated the club on its courage in 

 not passing up the banquet and told 

 how in his work in the capacity of 

 chairman of the publicity committee 

 of the florists' trade he looks to New 

 York for his best inspiration. Herman 

 P. Knoble of Cleveland spoke for his 

 home city In a most keen and delight- 

 ful vein. Fred Lautenschlager brought 

 greetings from Chicago and made 

 hopeful reference to the |)rogress be- 

 ing made in publicity work. Then 

 came the presentation of a sterling 

 silver tea service to retiring president 

 G. E. M. Stumpp, the presentation 

 speech being made by Joseph Manda 

 in a humorous and appreciative vein. 

 Following this the floor was cleared 

 for dancing and the young people kept 

 things going lively until long past the 

 midnight hour. W. F. Sheridan, 

 Philip F. Kessler and P. J. Smith 

 were the members of the dinner com- 

 mittee who arranged this most ex- 

 cellent entertainment. 



The St. Louis Florist Club met at 

 H. G. Berning's store on Thursday, 

 March 14th. Ex-President Pilcher took 

 the chair, President Bourdet being ab- 

 sent on a hunting trip. .\ discussion 

 took place on fertilizers. The next 

 meeting in April will take place at 

 Shaw's Botanical Garden. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GAR 

 DENERS. 



The first of a series of conferences 

 to be held under the auspices of the 

 National Association of Gardeners, 

 took place at the Murray Hill Hotel, 

 New York City, on Friday afternoon, 

 March lii. The well attended meeting 

 of gardeners was presided over by 

 Vice-President P. W. Popp of the na- 

 tional association who introduced 

 President Robert Weeks, of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, as the first speaker. President 

 Weeks spoke of the aims of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners and 

 the benefits of co-operation and great- 

 er unity among the men composing 

 the gardening profession. 



Charles H. Totty, of Madison, N. J., 

 president of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists, was next introduced. He urged 

 closer co-operation between the pro- 

 fessional gardeners and the commer- 

 cial interests in the crisis horticul- 

 ture is facing due to the war, saying 

 that the interests of both branches re- 

 ferred to are as one in the situation 

 that Is confronting them. 



W. F. Gude. of Washington, D. C, 

 was the next speaker. He referred to 

 Mr. Totty's remarks and called atten- 

 tion to some of the legislative acts 

 which have recently been introduced 

 in Congress and which he said If 

 passed would result in disaster to 

 many liorticultural interests. He also 

 spoke of the coal situation as it af- 

 fected the florists and promised his 

 aid when the gardeners appeared in 

 Washington to present their cause on 

 the fuel question, which the directors 

 of the National .\ssociation of Garden- 



ers had decided to do at their meet- 

 ing held earlier in the day. Mr. Gude 

 urged that it was up to the gardeners 

 to aid the florists in convincing the 

 Administration that flowers were not 

 non-essentials in war time. 



W. A. Manda, of South Orange, N. 

 J., was to address the meeting on "The 

 I'Siture of American Horticulture" but 

 was prevented from attending owing 

 to a sudden illness which overtook 

 him. John Shore, of Harrison, N. Y., 

 probably the oldest gardener in active 

 service today in the United States, 

 followed with a paper on "The Oppor- 

 tunities of the Gardener." Martin L. 

 Davey, of Kent, Ohio, spoke on the 

 advantages of unity, and co-operation 

 between the gardeners Interest and 

 alst spoke on the war and its effects 

 on business. He urged that those not 

 .ictually engaged in it as in the manu- 

 facture of essentials for It should con- 

 duct their business affairs as In nor- 

 mal times so that when our soldiers 

 return they will flnd that the country 

 has not gone backwards, but that It 

 has progressed even in the days of ita 

 conflict. 



Norman Taylor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 editor of the Journal of the Interna- 

 tional Garden Club, spoke of the pur- 

 poses of the Journal he represented 

 and invited the gardeners to contrl- 

 liute practical articles to it. Arthur 

 Smith, of Glen Cove, N. Y., read a 

 paper on "The Beneflts of Co-opera- 

 tlon." 



After the speakers' program, It was 

 found that too little time had been 

 left for a general discussion which 

 was to be an important part of the 

 meeting, and which must be provided 

 for at future conferences. Ernest 

 Westlake, of Glen Head, N. Y., chair- 



