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HORTICULTURE 



January 25. 1919 



Mayor of Nashville, and A. .1 Dyer. 

 President Commercial Club, Nashville; 

 President's Annual Address; Can we 

 assist each other in the matter of se- 

 curing and holding expert help? H. G. 

 Bramm, Bristol; How can we develop 

 landscape work throughout the smaller 

 cities and towns? W. N. Kessler, Bir- 

 mingham, Ala. 



Afternoon session 2.QQ p. m. Elec- 

 tion of Officers; Growing Plants, C. H. 

 Tritschler, Sylvan Park, Nashville; 

 ••Mums" Charles H. Totty, Madison, N. 

 J.; The South and the part she will 

 play in the future flower market, R. 

 C. Kerr, Houston, Texas; Can we in 

 combination arrange to purchase a sat- 

 isfactory line of pots and save money? 

 T. H. Joy, Nashville; Making our 

 home surroundings more beautiful, 

 Mary B. McGowan, Nashville; Seed- 

 ling carnations, Rolfe F. Smith, Nash- 

 ville. ' 



Evening session 7.30 p. m. Why all 

 retail florists should become members 

 of F. T. D., Karl P. Baum, Knoxville; 

 Round table in charge of members. 



G. M. Bentley, Secretary-Treasurer. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



Thursday, Jan. 16th, a joint meeting 

 of the Association and the Ladies 

 Auxiliary was held in the rooms of 

 the Chamber of Commerce. After the 

 routine business was gone through 

 with remarks were called for from 

 those members who attended the Pub- 

 licity meeting in Philadelphia. Mr. 

 Harry K. Rohrer said that we were 

 all impressed with the good features 

 of the work done and the necessity of 

 it for the future and added that he 

 thought it would be a good thing if 

 every one interested in the business 

 would give one cent out of each dol- 

 lar received during the year, that this 

 would be an infinitesimal tax in pro- 

 portion to what other businesses are 

 doing and yet would bring in a good 

 working revenue for the Publicity 

 Committee. 



B. F. Barr said that he fully realized 

 the benefits of the publicity of the past 

 year and that no doubt much more 

 would be accomplished in the year to 

 come, that his business has shown a 

 steady increase each month since 

 April, and that the business was not 

 due to the conditions prevalent in the 

 fall. He also stated that he was go- 

 ing to double his subscription of the 

 past year. 



A.' M. Herr remarked on the enthu- 

 siasm that was shown at the Phila- 

 delphia meeting and was sorry there 

 were not. more of our members in at- 

 tendance as he believed that could 

 they have heard the history of this 



work and the outlines for the coming 

 year that the Club would come for- 

 ward with a good big subscription, 

 and he was going to give all the mem- 

 bers a chance to subscribe within the 

 next sixty days. 



President Elmer Weaver vouched 

 for all that had been said and added 

 that he believed in the moral of 

 Therkildson's story and that the im- 

 portant part was to get the money for 

 this work first. He insisted that no 

 grower, no retail man, no supply 

 house, no one connected with this 

 business could afford to stay out. 



The visiting committee announced 

 a trip to Strasburg for the February 

 meeting, which occurs on Feb. 20th. 



The following committees were ap- 

 pointed: 



Programme — B. F. Barr, Chas. M. 

 Weaver and M. J. Brinton. 



Membership — Chas. B. Herr, Ira 

 Landis and Rutter Hess. 



Visiting — H. K. Rohrer, Lemon 

 Landis and W. B. Girvin. 



Exhibition — A. K. Rohrer, Rudolph 

 Nagle and J. Wade Galey. 



President Weaver then turned the 

 meeting over to Mrs. Albert M. Herr, 

 president of the Ladies Auxiliary, who 

 read a very interesting paper on War 

 Gardens, giving her experience in 

 Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other 

 cities as a member of the Emergency 

 Aid, and asked for a discussion as to 

 the relation between the war gardens 

 and the florists' business. 



D. J. Keohane, of the Henry F. 

 Michell Co., said that they had a good 

 market for vegetable plants, but that 

 the profits for the ordinary greenhouse 

 man were nothing extraordinary. B. F. 

 Barr said that the retail man had to 

 carry vegetable plants to accommo 

 date his customers and that the war 

 gardens helped increase the demand 

 so that they made an important addi 

 tion to the spring's business. Some 

 of the growers who attend the local 

 markets find them a profitable side 

 line, but those who attempted them as 

 a wholesale proposition will have 

 none this season. 



Mrs. B. F. Barr, Mrs. A. K. Rohrer 

 and Mrs. Herr had arranged around 

 the room a series of cuts from national 

 and local advertising and a guessing 

 contest was entered into that created 

 much amusement and sociability. 

 The President reconvened the meeting 

 and the ladies were given a rising vote 

 of thanks for their participation in 

 making this meeting the success it 

 was. Ai, heist M. Herr. 



Tliis is the coming florist early all 

 white forcing Gladiolus. We have no 

 stock to offer to the trade tills season, 

 lint will have a small surplus this 

 coming autumn. If you want an ideal 

 florist all white Gladiolus, send us 

 your address and we will mail you our 

 trade circular when issued. 



A. E KUlNDERD 



GOSHEN, IND. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 

 The regular monthly meeting of the 

 society was held in Glen Cove on 



Wednesday, Jan. 8th. Thos. Hender- 

 son, Wm. Carter and Thos. Twigg 

 were the judges for the monthly ex- 

 hibits. The following awards were 

 made: 



Exhibition, 6 ears of field corn, 1st, 

 Win. Milstead. A beautiful vase of 

 Carnation Laddie exhibited by John 

 F. Johnston was awarded a certificate 

 of culture. 



A letter of sympathy was sent 

 to Alex McKenzie, one of our mem- 

 bers who has recently lost his 

 wife, and also to the widow of our 

 late honorary member, Theodore 

 Roosevelt. All present stood at at- 

 tention in token of respect and esteem. 

 This society was honored in having 

 such a great man as one of its mem- 

 bers and words fail in expressing the 

 loss we feel. The president present- 

 ed the National Association of Gar- 

 deners' medal to Robert Marshall for 

 the most meritorious exhibit at the 



