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HORTICULTURE 



August Jl. 1915 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



AND 



ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 



A Lively and Enthusiastic Convention 

 Daniel MacRorie Chosen Standard Bearer for 19 J6 



Houston, Texas, Selected as Next Convention City 



An Elaborate Reception by the Pacific Coast People to the 



National Society 



OFFICERS ELECTED 



PRESIDENT — Daniel MacRorie. San Francisco, Calf. 

 VICE-PRESIDENT— Robert C. Kerr, Houston. Texas. 

 TREASURER— William F. Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 SECRETARY— John Young, New York City. 



OFFICERS FOR 1915. 



President, Patrick Welch, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Vice-President. Daniel MacRorie, 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



Secretary, John Young, 53 W. 28th 

 street. New York City. 



Trea,suebr, Wm. F. Kasting, Buffalo 

 N. Y. 



Executive Committee. 



The President, Vice-President. Sec- 

 retary, Treasurer and junior ex-Presi- 

 dent, together with the following 

 Directors: 



For One Year — Thomas Roland, Na- 



iiant. .Mass., August F. Poehlmanu 

 .Morton Grove, 111. 



F,or Tiro Years — J. J. Hess, Omaha, 

 Neb., J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, O. 



For Three Years — Wm. R. Nicholson 

 Framingham, Mass., Robert C. Kerr 

 Houston, Tex. 



Additional members of the Execu 

 five Board, complying with the amend 

 ments adopted at the Boston Conven 

 tion, to serve one year: 



H. H. Bartsch, president Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston. 



Wallace R. Pierson, president of the 

 American Rose Societ.v. 



S. J. Goddard, Framingham, Mass., 



president of the American Carnation 

 Society. 



Irwin Bertermann, president of The 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery. 



Harry A. Bunyard, president of th« 

 New York Florists' Club. 



George Burton, president of the Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia. 



Washington Representative. 



W. F. Gude, 1214 F street, N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. 



National Flower Show Committee. 



George Asmus, Chairman, Chicago, 

 111.; W. N. Rudd, Morgan Park, 111.; 

 Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass.; Chas. 



Exi'o.smoN Memorial Auditorium 

 The Convention nnd E.f lilblti.m Hall of thp S. A. F. ft O. H. In San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 17-20, WIS. 



