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HO liTI CULTURE 



Uecembor 22, 1917 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



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GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON. 

 The Gardenere' and Florists' Club of 

 Uoston enjoyed a rare treat last Tues- 

 day evening In the talk by Major 

 P. F. O'Keefe on Publicity. Members 

 who were not there— and there were 

 many absent — missed one of the most 

 enjoyable and Instructive occasions 

 that the club has had in a long time. 

 The election of ollicers was also an 

 Important item on the evenings pro- 

 gram. Andrew K. Rogers of Read 

 ville for president, Carl P. Sweetzer 

 of Wakefield for vice-president, Sam. 

 J. Goddard of J-'rainingham for treas- 

 urer and Wm. N. Craig of Urookline 

 for secretary were all elected unani- 

 mously, there being no contest for 

 either one of these offices. There 

 were eight candidates from whom to 

 select five members of the executivve 

 committee and the successful ones 

 were James Donald of Canton, Fred. 

 J. Elder of Boston, George W. Hanier 

 of Boston. Wm. H. Judd of Jamaica 

 Plain and James Methven of Readville. 

 This is an excellent roster of workers 

 and presages a useful year in the 

 Club's life. 



Major O'Keefe, who has recently 

 come into special prominence as man- 

 ager for the S. A. F. publicity cam- 

 paign, was not well known to many of 

 the members previous to his appear- 

 ance on this occasion, but he is well 

 known now to all who heard him and 

 they have certainly seen the light as 

 never before on the great subject of 

 modern advertising. Mr. O'Keefe's 

 address was forceful and convincing. 

 He told of the plans now being ma- 

 tured for increasing the sale of flow- 

 ers, so that all classes would benefit 

 by the uplift — retailers, wholesalers, 

 growers and all allied interests- 

 through the promotion and impetus of 

 the application of modem merchan- 

 dising methods for the popularizing of 

 the florists' products. He especially 

 dwelt upon the need for an immediate 

 and forceful campaign and gave de- 

 tails as far as now decided upon of 

 the methods to be adopted. 



Henry Penn, chairman of the S. A. F. 

 publicity committee, also gave a char- 

 acteristically straightforward and elo- 

 quent talk on the subject, expressing 

 his pride in the selection of Boston 

 men to inaugurate and carry on this 

 great enterprise. He declared that 

 the agencies now set in motion would 

 in due time be in a position to give 

 a generous push to flower show enter- 



Meetings Next Week 



Mond<-iy, Dec. 24. 



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Wednesday, Dec. 26. 



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Friday, Dec. 28. 



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A.NUHKW K. Rogers 



rresldent-elect Gardeners' and KlorlBts' 

 Club of Boston. 



prise in Boston and elsewhere, and 

 also predicted that this tide of senti- 

 ment for organization and co-operation 

 would have a big influence in increas- 

 ing the membership in the national 

 society. 



There was a brilliant exhibit of 

 Christmas flowering plants from W. W. 

 Edgar Company and a report of merit 

 was given to Euphorbia Jacquinaeflora, 

 which was particularly well grown. 

 W. N. Craig showed lettuce and spin- 

 ach. Committees were appointed to 

 prepare resolutions on the death of 

 Joseph T. Clarke and Robert Rust. 

 It was voted to discontinue the annual 

 dinner of the Club this year and to 

 have instead a ladies' entertainment 

 and dance with refreshments, to be 

 held in Horticultural Hall, in the first 

 week of February. Six new members 

 were taken in. The customary Christ- 

 mas collection was made for Joe, the 

 obliging and popular janitor of Horti- 

 cultural Hall. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 



ASSOCIATION. 



Tbursduy, Dec. Kllb, an annual stag 



(iclal was substituted for the regular 



dinner by this organization. ThlB 



social was held at the Brenncman 



llullding with bowling, billiards, pool. 



cards and sioclal chatter interspersed 



with a bufTft lunch prepared by our 



llorist caterers, Elmer Weaver and 



linvld H. Rose. 



In the bowling there were many sur- 

 prises when the tenth frame was 

 reached. Rudolph Nagle and President 

 Schroyer were pitted against each 

 other both in the duck pins and the 

 large ones and they were very evenly 

 matched. T. J. Nolan fell down for the 

 first few frames but put up a real 

 grand stand finish. 



Outdoors it snowed and blowed a 

 iiorlh east gale and quite a few left 

 r-arly. fortunately, for by ten-thirty 

 most cars were out of commission and 

 by morning there had fallen nineteen 

 inches of snow and badly drifted. 



A meeting was called for 7.30 In the 

 I)oker room. 



Secretary Frank Kohr was absent 

 on account of the serious illness of his 

 mother and Albert M. Herr was ap- 

 pointed secretary pro tem. A letter 

 from the Leo Nelssen Co. suggesting 

 that the shippers from this section 

 take up with the express company the 

 advisability of sending a man along to 

 look after the cut flower shipments, 

 said man to be in the employ of the 

 shippers. After much discussion pro 

 and con a motion was carried that a 

 .special meeting be called for Monday 

 night of cut flower shippers only to 

 arrange for holiday shipments. 



Nomination of officers for the ensu- 

 ing year were as follows; president, 

 Elmer Weaver, Ronks, Pa.; vice-presi- 

 dent. Lemon T..andis, Lancaster Pa.; 

 secretary. Albert M. Herr. Lancaster. 

 Pa.; treasurer. Harry K. Rohrer. Lan- 

 caster. Pa. Secretary Frank Kohr had 

 asked to be relieved or A. M. Herr 

 would not have been nominated as Mr. 

 Kohr made an ideal secretary. The 

 treasurer, accustomed to financing 

 their own big business, handles the 

 few ilollars of the Club so well that he 

 is likely to have a life job of it. The 

 newly nominated president and his 

 vice are both the sort of men that can 

 make things hum and we can look for- 

 ward to a good lively year. The 

 auditor's report showed a nice balance 

 in bank and the Club to be in a flour- 

 ishing condition. 



Albert M. Herr was endorsed by the 

 Club as a candidate for Park Superin- 

 tendent. B. F. Barr in a very neat 

 little speech presented President 

 Schroyer with a box of cigars and 

 these were at once handed around. 

 Jan. 17th will be the date for the next 



