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H O HT I C U L T U U E 



December 1&, 1917 



1918, the usual Rrcat sprinR and au- 

 tumn National Flowor Shows, tickets 

 to which will be iirovltKil for uU Amer- 

 ican Hose Society members. 



In reailJtislInK the membership re- 

 lations above referred to, and in con- 

 sideration, not only of the much- 

 Increased cost of service to Its mem- 

 bers and of the publication of Its In- 

 valuable Annual, It was found wise to 

 place the annual membership fee at $2. 

 K. A. WiiiTK. Secy, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



CHICAGO FLORISTS' CLUB. 

 The rcKiilar meetInK of llio Chicago 

 Florists' Club was held at the DrigRS 

 Hotel, Ilec. 6lh. with a good atten- 

 dance of members and many guests 

 from those attending the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners. The principal 

 business was the election of olflcers 

 which resulted as follows: President. 

 Fred l.autenschlager; vice-president, 

 O. J. Friedman; secretary, AlUe Zech; 

 treasurer. Otto Amling; trustee. Tim 

 Waters. It was decided to remember 

 each man connected with the trade, 

 now serving our country, with a Christ- 

 mas token and Fred Lautenschlager, 



E. Ollinger and T. Waters were named 

 as committee. It was voted to send an 



F. T. D. to .Miss Rudd who is novr in 

 France doing her part in the world's 

 struggle. The secretary was instruct- 

 ed to write a letter of thanks to the 

 Texas florists for the kindly interest 

 they have taken in our boys there in 

 camp. The rules were suspended and 

 P. W. Popp of Maniaroneck, N. Y., was 

 taken Into membership. Mr. Macin- 

 tosh of Stillwater, Minn., gave a very 

 Interesting talk on prisons. 



WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY 



The Worc£Ster County (Mass.) Hor- 

 ticultural Society elected Charles 

 Greenwood president to succeed Ar- 

 thur E. Hartshorn, who resigned after 

 serving as president two years, at its 

 annual meeting in Horticultural Hall. 

 Mr. Greenwood was a vice-president 

 and has served as judge of vegetables 

 and chairmen of committees for sev- 

 eral years. 



His election necessitated other 

 changes in offices and the elections 

 were followed by the reading of re- 

 ports of officers and chairmen of com- 

 mittees and a discussion of the finan- 

 cial condition of the society and its 

 work for the coming year. Myron C. 

 Converse, chairman of the finance 

 committee, recommended that the so- 

 ciety make a study of finances, avoid 

 unnecessary expenditures and retrench 

 in accordance with the spirit of the 

 times. 



The society's expenses have been 

 Increasing for several years, but its 

 income has remained the same. It 

 was voted to appropriate $5500 for ex- 

 hibitions and other purposes, and to 

 buy a service flag and an honor roll. 

 The society has several members In 

 government service, and their names 

 ■will be inscribed on the honor roll, 

 ■which ■will be hung in the library. 



Leonard C. Midgley, David L. Fiske. 

 and Alfred Knight were elected vice- 

 presidents; Herbert R. Kinney, secre- 



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tary; Miss Lucy M. Coulson, librarian, 

 and nurt W. Greenwood, treasurer. 



The trustees elected Include .loscph 

 A. Allen. Harding Allen, Henry 11. 

 Watts, Edgar M. Uruce, Henry W. 

 Carter, William McAllister, William 

 Anderson, Edward W, Ureed, Walter 

 n. Ross, I'ted L. Chamberlain, Harry 

 W. Goddard, Herbert A. Cook, Mrs. 

 Homer Gage, Mrs. Frank C. Smith, 

 J. Lewis Ellsworth, Allyne W. Hixon, 

 Simon E. Fisher, Mrs. Percy S. Forbes, 

 Henry H. Drowning, .loseph K. Greene, 

 Ben M. Chamberlain, H. Ward Moore, 

 Burton W. Potter, George C. Rice, 

 Howard E. Sumner, Wm. .1. Wheeler, 

 Albert H. Lango and Charles W. Wood. 



Burt W. Greenwood, treasurer, read 

 a report showing that the total re- 

 ceipts for the year were $13,530.63, 

 which with the cash on hand Decem- 

 ber 5, 1916, made a total of $20,687.72. 

 The expenditures were $13,197.86, leav- 

 ing cash on hand December 5, 1917, 

 $7489.51. The total resources of the 

 society are $119,478.65. 



Mr. Hartshorn was elected a mem- 

 ber of the finance committee to serve 

 three years and Walter D. Ross was 

 elected for a three-year term on the 

 nominating committee. Edward W. 

 Bred, Charles W. Wood and Mr. Ross 

 composed the nominating committee 

 that presented the list of officers this 

 morning. 



ENTERTAINING THE SOLDIER 

 BOYS. 



A very enjoyable entertainment was 

 given Tuesday evening by tiu Florist 

 Club of Houston to the florists, nurs- 

 erymen, etc., wearing Uncle Sam's uni- 

 form at Camp Logan. The affair was 

 in the form of a spread and social 

 evening held in the Banquet Hall of 

 the Y. M. C. A., and everybody present 

 voted it an entire success. 



The idea of petting the soldiers to- 

 gether and making them acquainted 

 with members of the Florist Club was 

 suggested by S. J. Mitchell, a member 

 of the Club. Henry Kuhlmann, presi- 

 dent of the Club, made the address of 

 welcome, and R. C. Kerr. President of 

 the Society of American Florists, acted 

 as Master of Ceremonies. 



Mr. Kerr in opening the program 

 after cigars were liphted. for the bene- 

 fit of the men who have been too busy 

 drilling to keep up ■with the floral 

 business, gave a short sketch of things 

 of interest in the florist line during 

 the past few months. He spoke of the 

 coal shortage and of the plans of Mr. 

 Garfield to remedy matters as far as 

 possible; of the effect of the war upon 

 business in general, saying that in the 

 North and far East business had been 

 a little below normal but that in the 

 South and West it had been above 

 normal. He referred to the importance 

 of the publicity movement, and said 

 that properly carriei out, this should 

 double business in five years. It was 

 just as easy to get the people to buy 

 flowers by constant advertising as it 



had been to get them to cat Hhrcddod 

 wheat and other breakfast foods. Mr. 

 Kerr Invited the soldiers .to make 

 themselves at home in his store and to 

 attend all the meetings of the Florists 

 Club; In this Invitation he was joined 

 by all the other florists of Houston. 



Clarence L. Brock, Supt. of Parka, 

 read a paper on Our Florist Soldiers 

 and the War, pointing out how the 

 florist knows at first hand the flght 

 that the plants make for existence and 

 that his training tends to make him 

 a good soldier. Mr. Brock introduced 

 the reading of his paper by saying a 

 few words as to Houston Parks. 



Scudday Richardson read a paper 

 on The Flower, a Symbol of Triumph, 

 giving a short skelch of the history 

 of flowers in triumphal architecture. 

 A stirring address was made by the 

 orator of the evening. John Charles 

 Hariis, a distinguished menibc- of the 

 Houston Bar. Before adjournment, 

 the Company sang "The Star-spangled 

 Banner" and was photographed by 

 flashlight. All the soldiers were urged 

 to attend the next meeting of the 

 Club, to be held Monday. Dec. 10th, at 

 the Brazos Greenhouses. 



A hospitable talk was made by E. 

 C. Brock, President of the Young 

 Men's Business League, offering the 

 hospitalities of the organization, and 

 short talks were made by Paul M. 

 Carroll, Wm. A. Reynaud, of 0. P. 

 Jackson & Co., seeds, and Albert 

 Marien, City Gardener. 



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