August 29, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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loaning the society 3.000 saucers to 

 be placed under the exhibits of plants 

 in the trade section. 



Greetings from California. 

 Secretary Young read the following 

 telegram : 



San Francisco, Calif., August 10, 1914. 

 John Young, Secretary, S. A. P. and O. H., 

 Boston, Muss. 

 Permit me to extend my heaity congratu- 

 lations to tlie gentlemen ot the Society of 

 American l'"lorists uiniii tiicir selection of 

 San Francisco as their next meet in;; place. 

 Needless to say tluit it will be our aim to 

 naike the next gathering the most interest- 

 ing in the history of the Societ.v, and 

 earnestly hope that all members will take 

 .•idvantage of the oi>portunity that presents 

 itself to witness the greatest three ring 

 attraction in the world, namely, the won- 

 ders of California, too numerous to men- 

 tion, the greatest Exposition ever held, 

 and last but not least, California hospi- 

 tality. Anuelo J. Ro.ssi. 



On motion of Harry A. Bunyard, 

 the communication was received and 

 spread upon the record. 



The next business in order was thf 

 report of the Committee on School 

 Gardens, by Benj. Hammond. 



Report of the Committee on School 

 Gardening. 



Within twenty years the new idea of 

 School Gardening has spread from 

 Boston to the Pacific Ocean and to the 

 Philippine Islands. The economic val- 

 ue ot this work, as is realized today, is 

 of much importance in every town 

 where it takes root. A taste cultivated 

 in the direction of making things grow 

 in a small way, tends at once to im- 

 prove the appearance of a neighbor- 

 hood. The florist's shop never causes 

 a detriment to a neighborhood, but is 

 the example of what will make the 

 houses of a community look better. 



During the past year the committee 

 on school gardens has followed up its 

 limited work of suggestion to school 

 trustees and others in every city, town 

 or village where a member of the Soci- 

 ety of American Florists is located, by 

 mailing to each official school body a 

 well illustrated circular letter calling 

 attention to this work, and apprecia- 

 tion of this call is answered by many. 



One of the manufacturing towns 

 which was built on the sand dunes or 

 waste places at the south side of Lake 

 Michigan, is Garry, and the leading 

 men of the cosmopolitan city of New 

 York have been out there and come 

 back home to tell among other things, 

 what school gardening and flower 

 growing does to break ud the old-time 

 barrenness of a manufactuiius city. 

 This work over the country, especially 

 in the larger cities like Cincinnati. St. 

 Louis, Cleveland, Chicago. Los An- 







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The Convention Garden 

 Formal Bedding in the Farquhar Exhibit. 



geles, Bellingham, Worcester, Toronto, 

 Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Syra- 

 cuse, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louisville, 

 Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo 

 and so on, gives merely an idea of 

 what is being done in centers of large 

 population. The work is aided by 

 seedsmen in many places. Roses, 

 dahlias, asters, gladioli, cannas, coleus. 

 geraniums, sweet peas, etc., are in evi- 

 dence to show the increasing apprecia- 

 tion by the mass of American families 

 of flowering plants in the odd corners 

 and waste places. Example and train- 

 ing are the effective ways which lead 

 and elevate home taste. The develop- 

 ment in the use and growth ot flowers 

 is nowhere more apparent than on the 

 roofs of the great tenement buildings 

 or apartment houses on Manhattan 

 Island— the boxes of flowers tell their 

 own story of yearning in human hearts 

 for pretty things, and the florists and 

 seedsmen of the world are the trades 

 that help uplift humanity. 



Your committee's advice to all the 

 people is — keep right on the job. 



Benjamin Hammond. Michael Bark- 

 er, Irwin Bertermann, Gust. X. Am- 

 rhyn, Leonard Barron, Committee. 



The report of the Committee on the 

 Recommendations in the President's 

 Address was next read by the Secre- 

 tary. 



The Convention G.usden 

 Bed of Geraniums by A. F. Coolidge. 



Results of Balloting. 



The report of the tellers on the re- 

 sult of the balloting tor officers was 

 then presented showing results as 

 briefly recorded in our issue of last 

 week. The whole number of ballots 

 cast was 401, the largest on record 

 where there was any contest, exceed- 

 ing the record at Baltimore by 16 

 votes. The vote in favor of "Affilia- 

 tion" was 354 in favor and 35 opposed. 

 Prof. George E. Stone then read his 

 paper on the Adaptation of Plants to 

 Soil. This paper was briefly discussed 

 after which the society adjourned.. 

 We shall present Dr. Stone's inter- 

 esting paper in full in a later issue. 



A DAY OF ENTERTAINMENT. 

 Excursion and Games. 



Friday was Boston's own day — thft 

 day when even the latch-string was 

 to be discarded and the doors of com- 

 munity hospitality thrown wide open. 

 The morning started with a dubious 

 weather outlook and many of the par- 

 ticipants in the harbor trip which 

 was the central feature ot the day's 

 entertainment, prudently provided 

 themselves with umbrellas, mackin- 

 toslios and similar protective material. 

 Despite the menace of low-hanging 

 clouds, however, eleven hundred happy 

 excursionists undaunted by the out- 

 look were on board the flower decked 

 steamer Rose Standish when she 

 Slided from her dock at 9.45 Friday 

 morning. Landing was made at Fort 

 Warren where the sporting events 

 were scheduled to take place and 

 soon the baseball diamond within 

 the old fortification was the scene 

 of activity. It was the All-Stars of 

 the S. A. F. against the All-Bostons 

 and they put up fun and excitement 

 galore for the spectators who were 

 ranscd by hundreds around on the 

 ramparts and at every vantage point 

 dcspensed applause without stint 

 when a good play was made and gave 

 it in double measure whenever some 

 luckless player performed some unpre- 

 meditated stunt in the slippery mud 

 puddles— which went by the name ot 

 iv,.;,-; nnd with which every part of 



