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The Florists' Review 



July 6, 1916. 



Some of Those Who Attended the Forty-second Annual Convention of the American Association of Nurserymen. 



THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. 



[The opening seHslons were fully reported in 

 The Review for June 28.1 



Officers Elected. 



President — John Watson, Newark, 

 N. Y. 



Vice-president — Lloyd C. Stark, Lou- 

 isiana, Mo. 



Treasurer — Peter Youngers, Geneva, 

 Neb, 



Executive, committee— J. B. Pilking- 

 ton, Portland, Ore., and E. S. Welch, 

 Shenandoah, la., to serve three years. 



Counsel — Curtis Nye Smith, Boston. 



Next place of meeting — Philadelphia. 



Under the new constitution the secre- 

 tary is chosen by the executive com- 

 mittee and holds ofl5ce at its pleasure. 

 The veteran, John Hall, last year ex- 

 pressed his desire to retire as soon as 

 the committee could agree on his suc- 

 cessor. 



Smith Becomes General Manager. 



At a meeting after the close of the 

 convention the executive committee ap- 

 pointed Curtis Nye Smith, of Boston, 

 as secretary with additional title of 

 general manager of the association. The 

 title was chosen because the new work 

 outlined for most of the committees 

 calls for the cooperation of the secre- 

 tary and the legal counsel; the officers 

 and executive committee felt that it 

 was great good fortune that Mr, Smith 

 was willing to devote so considerable a 

 part of his time to the affairs of the 

 association, with his excellent office or- 

 ganization and thorough acquaintance 

 with nursery and seed trade affairs. 



A Highly Successful Meeting. 



This convention, which was the forty- 

 first, was a business affair from start 

 to finish, the only recreation being after 

 final adjournment, in the form of an 

 automobile tour of the city as the guests 

 of the local Good Eoads Association. 

 The attendance was the largest in the 

 history "of the organization and nearly 

 everyone stayed in the meetings as long 

 as the convention was in session. The 

 program proved to be a little too elabo- 

 rate to carry out in detail, but "was 

 skillfully arranged to hold interest. The 

 idea uppermost in every mind appeared 

 to be to push along the work of reor- 

 ganization started last year and to get 

 the new plans into operation. Nothing 

 was permitted to distract attention 

 from this great objective. The asso- 

 ciation now has the membership and the 

 money; the next thing is to get the 



work done that will justify the scheme 

 of additional dues. 



The Association's Income, 



The most gratifying feature of the 

 convention was the evidence it gave 

 that the membership is not to be appre- 

 ciably decreased by the increased cost, 

 at least not until the new plan has had 

 a thorough trial. In advance of the 

 meeting 364 members paid, w^hile at 

 Milwaukee twenty-seven others were 

 admitted, making an enrollment to date 

 of 391. The following is the enrollment 

 for each of the last ten years: 



The income up to the closing of the 

 books just prior to the convention for 

 the last ten years has been as follows: 



1916 $5,829.8o 1911. 



1915 3,151.90 1910. 



1914 3,077.90 1909. 



1913 8,314.15 1908. 



1912 2,747.70 1907. 



$2,771.85 



2,340.00 



2,786.30 



, 2,883.60 



2,867.80 



1916. 

 1915. 

 1914. 

 1913. 

 1912. 



391 

 4:i5 

 410 

 463 

 36.'! 



1911 .{82 



1910 :{58 



190;» 3S4 



imn :i76 



19117 371 



No Uniform Business Terms. 



The matter of uniform business terms 

 came to the A. A. N. from the Western 

 Association of Nurserymen, which in 

 December, 1914, appointed a committee 

 with J. W. Schuette at its head, to con- 

 sider the matter and to report to the 

 national body at the Detroit meeting in 

 June, 1910, at which time the recom- 

 mendations were referred to the execu- 

 tive committee for consideration. The 



John Watson. 

 (Fre8<dent>elect, American ABSOciatlon of Nuraerymen. 



