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AuRiist 18. 1917 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



-AND- 



ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 



I.\((iiiroiiATKi> iiY Arr OF CoNOBESS Mahcii 4, 1901 



Thirty-Third Annual Meeting, August 21, 22, 23, 1917 



Grand Central Palace, Forty-Sixth St. and Lexington Avenue, 



New York, 



This Is an orRanizatioii whose ob- 

 jects are to advance the interests of 

 tloriculture in America: to encourape 

 the development of its industries; to 

 classify its products and determine 

 nomenclature: to secure for those en- 

 gaged in floriculture such commercial 

 rights and other advantages as can only 

 be obtained through co-operation and 

 organization, and to bring about 

 friendly social relations between its 

 members. 



OFFICERS FOR 

 1917. 

 Pke.sii)F..\t — R. 

 C. Kerr. Houston. 

 Texas. 



Vice-Pbe.sii)ln r 

 —A. L. Miller, 

 Jamaica. N. Y. 



S E c R E T A It Y- 



John Young, 53 

 West 28th St., 

 New York. 



TREA.SfRER — J. 



J. Hess, Omaha. 

 Neb. 



Directors. 



Term Kxplrinx 1918 



W- i 1 1 i a m R. 

 Nicholson, Fram- 

 ingham. Mass.: 

 \Vm. J. Keimel. 

 Elmhurst. 111. 



Term KxplrliiK 19IU 



Angelo J. Rossi. 

 San Francisco. 

 Cal.; Charles L. 

 Baum, Knox vi lie. 

 Tenn. 



Term Expiring 1920 



Frank X. Stup- 

 py, St. Joseph. 

 Mo.; Geo. W. 

 Hess, Wash ins- 

 ton, D. C. 



Executive Board. 



The executive 

 board comprises 

 the foregoing 

 Officers and Di- 

 rectors, together 

 ■with the Junior 

 Ex-President, the 

 Washington Rep- 

 presentative and 

 the following 



named liepresenlatives of .VfUliated 

 Organizations to serve one year: 



George Asmus, Vice-Pres. Florists' 

 Tel. Delivery. 



S. S. Pennock, President American 

 Rose Society. 



J. F. Animann, President American 

 Carnation Society. 



K. G. Hill. President Florists' Hail 

 Association of America. 



Geo. E. M. Stumpp, President New 

 York Florists' Club. 



A. Faii'iiw;ild, Pres. Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia. 



Wm. 11. Amling, President Chicago 

 Florists' Club. 



Ex-Offlcio, Daniel MacRorle, San 

 Francisco, Cal. 



Washington Kepre.sentative — Wil- 

 liam F. Gude. Washington, D. C. 



Botanist,' 

 X. Y. 



R. C. KERR 

 President Society of American Florists' 



Jolin Dunbar, Rochester, 



Pathologist, — 

 George 1>. Peltier, 

 Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 

 Auburn, Ala. 



Entomologist. — 

 Dr. T. F". Headlee, 

 Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 

 New Rrunswick, 

 X. J. 



Superintendent 

 of Trade Exhi- 

 bition. — .1 o h n 

 Young. Xew Yf)rk. 



National Flower 

 Show Committee 



<ieorge Asmus, 

 Chicago, 111., 

 Chairman. 



Term expires 

 Deo. 31. 11118 

 Chas. H. Totty, 

 Madison. N. J. 



Tonn expires 

 iifc. rii. ]!ii7 

 .\. Farenwald, 

 Roslyn. Pa. 



Term expires 



Dee. 31. mm 



Wm. P. Craig, 



Philadelphia. Pa. 



Term exi)ires 



Dec. 31. V.i-M 



Patrick Welch, 



I'.oston. Mass. 



Terra expires 

 Ilee. 31. I'.PL'l 

 Thomas Roland, 

 .Vahant, Mass. 



Term expires 

 Dee. 31, l;)22 



John Young, 

 .Secretary. 



J. J. Hess,Treas- 

 urer. 



Tariff and Legis- 

 lation Committee 



William P. Gude, 

 Chairman. Wash- 



