August 15. 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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SOME OF THE MEN AT THE HELM 



John A. Evans 

 Director Society of American Florists. 



PROGRAM OF BUSINESS. 



Tuesday, August Eighteenth. 



First Day. 



11.00 A. IVI., Opening of the Boston 



Convention Garden. 

 Address by Hon. James M. Curley 

 Mayor of Boston. 



Take any out-bound Chestnut Hill 

 car on Boylston street to the corner of 

 Ipswich street. Or take any car going 

 south past Mechanics building, alight- 

 ing at corner of Massachusetts avenue 

 and walking through Westland avenue 

 to Fenway, over Richardson Bridge, to 

 Garden. 



OrENINC SESSION. 



2. p. M., Opening Exercises in Paul 

 Revere Hall, Mechanics Building. 



J. J. Hess 

 Director Society of American Florists. 



Address of Welcome, by Hon. James 

 M. Curley, Mayor of Boston. Response 

 by Frank R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



President Wirth's Address; Report 

 of Secretary; Report of Treasurer; Re- 

 ports of State Vice-Presidents; Consid- 

 eration of Invitations for Meeting 

 Place tor 1915. 



EVENING. 



Balloting for next Meeting Place. 



Wednesday, August Nineteenth. 

 Second Day. 



MORNING. 



9 A. M., Meeting of The Florists' Tel- 

 egraph Delivery. 



9 A. M., Meeting of The American 

 Sweet Pea Society. 



CnAS. E. Cbitchell 

 Chairman S. A. F. Committee on Sports. 



10 A. M., Annual Meeting of the La- 

 dies' Society of American Florists. 



10 A. M., Session S. A. F. & O. H. 

 Report of the National Flower Show 

 Committee, George Asmus, Chairman. 

 Discussion. 



Nomination of Officers for 1915; Re- 

 port of the Judges of Trade Exhibition 

 and the Convention Garden; Report of 

 Committee on President's Address; 

 Discussion. 



Affiliation— Special Report of Board 

 of Directors. 



At the morning session of Friday, 

 Aug. 22, of the Minneapolis Conven- 

 tion, the following recommendation of 

 the Board of Directors was adopted: 



"That the fee for members of any regu- 



James B. Shea 



Deputy Commissioner Boston Parks and 

 Chairman Convention Garden Committee. 



Wm. R. Nicholson 

 Cluiinnau Boston Committee on Sports. 



John H. Dii.lon 

 Chairman City of Boston Park and Recre- 

 ation Board. 



