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The Florists' Review 



AuoDST 24, 1016. 



adopted urging each member to keep on 

 display in his window or the front of 

 his store or lettered on the glass a. sign 

 with the words: "Member Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery." It was also 

 recommended that the advertising com- 

 mittee immediately take steps for a 

 comprehensive and far-flung advertis- 

 ing campaign of the telegraph delivery 

 service. 



Ladies' S. A. F. 



Officers for 1917 were elected at a 

 lively meeting of the Ladies ' Society of 

 American Florists in the banquet hall 

 of the Rice hotel. Mrs. E. C. Kerr pre- 

 sided and Miss Perle Fulmer acted as 

 secretary, neither the president, first 

 vice-president nor secretary being 

 present. 



The officers elected were: President, 

 Miss Perle Fulmer, Des Moines, la.; 

 first vice-president, Mr^ R. C, Kerr, 

 Houston; second vice-president, Mrs. 

 Julius Eoehrs, Rutherford, N. J.; secre- 

 tary, Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Akron, O.; 

 treasurer, Mrs. A. M, Herr, Lancaster, 

 Pa.; directors, Mesdames J. Manda, New 

 Jersey; J. F. Wilcox, la.; George H. 

 Cooke, Washington, D. C; James Han- 

 cock, Illinois; Fred Howard, California, 

 and Patrick Welch, Massachusetts. 



Mrs. Kerr read several telegrams from 

 members who were unable to attend the 

 convention, among them one from the 

 president, Mrs. John Vallance, of Oak- 

 land, Cal., saying that on account of 

 illness she was not able to be present, 

 but sent her best wishes to the organi- 

 zation. Reports from the secretary and 

 treasurer were read and passed on. 



Before the election of officers, a num- 

 ber of new members were enrolled. Mrs. 

 C. L. Steffens, of Brownwood, Texas, 

 and Mrs. A. Lange, of Chicago, were 

 enrolled as life members in the organi- 

 zation. 



A committee to draw up resolutions of 

 respect for two deceased members, Mrs. 

 Critchell, of Cincinnati, who was presi- 

 dent two years previously, and Mrs. 

 Shaffer, of Washington, was appointed. 

 The committee was composed of Mes- 

 dames Vincent, Hess and Lange. 



The meeting adjourned for a social 

 chat with the new president. Miss Ful- 

 mer is a young woman, active and en- 

 thusiastic over the work. This was her 

 sixteenth convention, she says. She is 

 a charter member and has only missed 

 two conventions since the organization 



of the Ladies' Society of American 

 Florists. Miss Fulmer 's father is the 

 city florist at Des Moines, la. For a 

 number of years she has been teaching 

 in the public schools of her home city, 

 but next year will be at the State School 

 for Girls at Mitchellville, la. 



Convention Weather. 



It is thought the small attendance was 

 in a measure due to the fear of hot 

 weather. That such fears were ground- 

 less is shown by the official government 



records for last week, as follows, the 

 figures being the highest and lowest 

 temperature for the day, at Houston 

 and the next two convention cities, 

 compared with Chicago, the country's 

 greatest summer resort: 



Tues. Wed. Thurs. Frl. 



Houston 89—75 93—73 91—71 8»— 77 



New York 80—66 76—68 86—62 82—68 



St. Louis 84—68 84—72 94—74 94—78 



Chicago 76—68 78—69 89—70 97—77 



There was 1.14 inches j)f rain at 

 Houston August 16 and .91 inches 

 August 17. 



INSECT PROBLEMS £^ 



s^ OF THE FLORISTS 



AN entomologist's view of the flo- 

 rists' insect problems may bring 

 out something suggestive and perhaps 

 useful, but it should be understood at 

 the outset that the writer is and has for 

 many years been a professional ento- 

 mologist and that his view will neces- 

 sarily differ from that of many florists. 



The insect pests, which the florist 

 must combat successfully or make a 

 failure of his business, depend largely 

 on the kind of crops he grows and to a 

 minor extent upon the locality in which 

 he works. The insects which trouble the 

 rose grower in a period of five or ten 

 years are pretty much the same, wher- 

 ever his plant may be located, and the 

 longer he grows the crop continuously 

 the larger and more complete will his 

 list of rose parasites become. This is 

 true because the principal enemies of 

 the rose form a more or less well de- 

 fined group and the practice of import- 

 ing plants from other growers provides 

 for the distribution of the parasites. 



Perhaps the species that come into 

 the roses directly from the local en- 

 vironment will exhibit the greatest 

 irregularity in type and number, because 

 their attempts to enter are continuous 

 and the conditions must be especially 



This Is the annual report of Thomas J. Head- 

 lee, New Brunswick, N. J., entomologist for 1916 

 of the S. A. F., presented at the Houston con- 

 vention. 



favorable to permit them to persist 

 at all. 



The Florist Can Control. 



The florist is in a class quite by him- 

 self in the ability to sterilize his soil, 

 and to practice clean culture and rota- 

 tion of crops. His extremely intensive 

 system of cultivation justifies a pro- 

 cedure in these matters that would be 

 prohibitive for the farmer, the fruit 

 grower or even the trucker. Further- 

 more, the florist who grows under glass 

 has the climate under his control. 



With the climate and the soil at his 

 beck and call, it would seem that the 

 plant parasite problem^ of the florist 

 should be easy of solution. As a matter 

 of fact, the crops of the florist pay their 

 toll to the insect pests to almost if not 

 quite as great an extent as do those of 

 the farmer, fruit grower or trucker. 



It seems to the writer that there are 

 two reasons for this condition: One, 

 that the plants are grown under forcing 

 conditions and therefore do not have the 

 strength and resistance of those grown 

 under more natural circumstances and, 

 second, that florists, acting much like 

 other growers of plants, do not take ad- 

 vantage of their opportunities to rid 

 their crops of plant parasites. 



Clean Soil Is First. 



It seems reasonable to consider clean- 

 ing the soil as an important step toward 



Another General View of the Trades* Display at the Hou.ston Convention of the S. A. F. 



