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HORTICULTURE 



August 16, 1919 



1, 1912. The balance of the commit- 

 tee shall cast lots to determine the re- 

 tirement of one member annually, be- 

 ginning January 1, 1913, and the va- 

 cancy so made shall be annually, on 

 January 1, filled by the appointment of 

 one member by the president taking 

 office. On January 1, 1919, and an- 

 nually thereafter the president shall 

 appoint one member to serve for a pe- 

 riod of six years. The president shall 

 also fill vacancies arising through 

 death or other causes. The chairman 

 shall be elected by the committee un- 

 der such rules as the committee may 

 formulate. Members may be removed 

 for cause on the affirmative vote of 

 seven members of the executive board. 

 The treasurer of the society shall be 

 exofficio treasurer of the committee, 

 and the secretary of the society the 

 secretary. Money appropriations for 

 the use of the committee made by the 

 society, or monies coming into the 

 committee's hands during the course 

 of its work, shall be subject to expen- 

 ditures by the committee under such 

 rules as it may adopt. The committee 

 shall have full charge of all matters 

 relating to exhibitions held by or on 

 behalf of the society, or under its aus- 

 pices, excepting the trade exhibition at 

 the annual convention, subject to the 

 control of the executive board; and 

 shall control the offering and awarding 

 of medals, trophies and certificates. 

 The members of the committee shall 

 be reimbursed for traveling expenses, 

 when traveling on business of the com- 

 mittee under call of the chairman. The 

 committee shall make a full report to 

 the executive board each year on Au- 

 gust 1st. 



An amendment which promises to 

 arouse considerable discussion con- 

 cerns the selection of the next conven- 

 tion city. The amendment would do 

 away with the system now in vogue of 

 selecting this city two years in ad- 

 vance. The amendment reads as fol- 

 lows: 



At the thirty-sixth annual meeting to 

 be held August 17 to 19 in Cleveland. 

 Ohio, the meeting place for the year 

 1921 shall be selected by ballot, and at 

 every annual meeting thereafter the 

 meeting place for the following year 

 shall be so selected, covering dates, 

 equivalent to the third Tuesday in Au- 

 gust and two following days, or until 

 all business is completed, except in 

 cases when the convention is to be 

 held in such sections of the United 

 States where the month of August is 

 not considered the best time for the 

 convention. A change in date will not 

 be considered, however, unless a peti- 

 tion is sent, by the convention city 

 chosen, in time for consideration at 



the mid-Lent meeting of the executive 

 board, and setting forth its reasons for 

 such change in date. 



The executive board has recommend- 

 ed that the sum of $5,000 be appropri- 

 ated to the Publicity Campaign Fund 

 to be used only if needed during the 

 year's campaign. This recommenda- 

 tion is also to be voted upon at at the 

 convention. 



Altogether there is every reason to 

 expect a most important and satis- 

 factory series of meetings. 



BOSTON'S DETROIT PARTY. 

 The Boston party will leave Sunday 

 night, taking the boat from Buffalo 

 Monday night. The personnel of the 

 party who will go are as follows: 



President J. F. Ammann 



E. Allan Peirce, A. \V. Peirce, Louis 

 Reuter, Waltham; J. Fuller, Leomins- 

 ter; J. Frank Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Herman Bartsch, Waverly; John J. 

 O'Brien, Boston; William Sim, Clifton- 

 dale; Miss M. E. McGinigle, Portland, 

 Me. 



B. A. Snyder is going over the road 

 and will pick up some friends at Utica, 

 N. Y. W. D. Howard and wife, of Mil- 

 ford, Mass., are also planning to drive 

 in their machine. 



FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION. 



The annual reports of the Florists' 

 Hail Association of America contains 

 much very interesting information. 

 The summary given by the secretary 

 is as follows: 



The totals are equivalent to an in- 

 surance of 45.131,271 sq. ft. of glass. 



The number of members at date of 

 closing this report is 1,604. 



The total receipts for the year end- 



ing Aug. 1, 1919, and including last 

 year's balance, as per treasurer's re- 

 port, were $70,860.79. 



The total expenditures, as per treas- 

 urer's report, for the year ending Aug 

 1. 1919, have been $39,648.27. 



The cash balance on hand is 

 $31,212.52 of which $875.79 belongs to 

 the reserve fund. 



The reserve fund now amounts to 

 $47,875.79, of which $47,000 is invented 

 in Liberty and Municipal boniij, to- 

 gether with $875.79 in the hands of the 

 treasurer. 



The amount of interest collected on 

 bank deposits for year is $351.77. 



The amount of interest collected on 

 reserve fund investments is $2,370.60. 

 Over twenty-eight hundred losses 

 have been adjusted since the organiza- 

 tion of the F. H. A., involving a total 

 expenditure of over $465,000.00. 



An equivalent of 201,819 sq. ft. of 

 single thick glass was broken by hail 

 during the past year, for which the 

 association paid $10,090.93. An equiva- 

 lent of 240,914 sq. ft. of double thick 

 glass was broken which cost the asso- 

 ciation $16,863.98. 



At the close of this report there 

 are unadjusted losses not exceeding 

 $1,300.00. 



There has been a large accession 

 this year to the hazardous risk class, 

 which will be materially felt in the 

 thirty-second assessment. 



There has also been a large return 

 of former members who have had a 

 melancholy experience with cyclone 

 insurance, that failed to insure. 



The members of the F. H. A. are to 

 be congratulated upon the condition of 

 the treasury of the association and 

 also upon the benefits derived from 

 the wisdom of those who devised an 

 automatic hazardous risk plan which 

 is just and equitable to all. 



To emerge from war conditions 

 with the report given, is little less 

 than wonderful and your secretary is 

 pleased to report that the outlook is 

 good for a largely increased business 

 in the future. 



John G. Esier. Secretary. 

 The officers of the association are: 

 E. G. Hill. Richmond. Ind., president: 

 J. F. Ammann. Edwardsville, 111., vice- 

 president; James W. Heacock, Wyn- 

 cote. Pa., treasurer; John G. Esler, 

 Saddle River, N. J., secretary. Direc- 

 tors, Chas. P. Mueller, Wichita. Kan.. 

 Fred Burki. Gibsonia, Pa., F. C. W. 

 Brown. Cleveland, O.. J. S. Wilson, Des 

 Moines. Iowa, J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, 

 111.. John J. Hess. Omaha. Neb.. E. G. 

 Hill. Richmond, Ind., J. F. Ammann, 

 Edwardsville. 111., Samuel Murray, 

 Kansas City. Mo., Julius Roehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J. 



