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The Florists^ Review 



March 29, 1917. 



of cinerarias, spring bulbous plants and 

 palms. Farquhar & Co. received a gold 

 medal . for their Flemish garden. K. 

 Duly, gardener to L. D. Towle, showed 

 brasso-cattleyas. Kameyama & Serada 

 had a nice group of foliage and flower- 

 ing plants. 



Thomas Roland received a silver 

 medal for superior culture of ericas 

 and a similar award went to F. Dorner 

 & Sons Co., for Carnation Laddie, finely 

 shown for them by S. J. Goddard. A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., was awarded a certificate 

 of merit for Climbing Eose Elizabeth 

 Zeigler. William Sim received a similar 

 award for his improved blue primrose, 

 and T. D. Hatfield, gardener to Walter 

 Hunnewoll, the same for Rhododendron 



lutescens, a sm:.d-flowered yellow 

 rhododendron from western China. 



Awards of honorable mention were 

 made to Charles Holbrow, for his new 

 seedling rose; to William Martin, 

 gardener to N. T. Kidder, for isoloma; 

 to Strout 's, for seeding carnation, Snow 

 White; to Lowthorpe School of Horti- 

 culture, for a collection of geraniums; 

 to John L. Smith, for Tulip President 

 Wilson, and to T, D. Hatfield for a 

 group of Acacia Drummondi. S. J. 

 Goddard showed a fine vase of his new 

 carnation, Doris. John Lawrence had 

 a nice vase of seedling geraniums. 

 There also was a pretty little Dutch 

 garden that received honorable men- 

 tion. 



Mr. Saltonstall's Iiunclieon. 



President E. M. Saltonstall enter- 

 tained 110 of the exhibitors and other 

 horticulturists at a luncheon at the 

 Hotel Somerset March 23. The tables 

 were beautifully decorated by the lead- 

 ing retailers. Short addresses were 

 made by E. M. Saltonstall, who pre- 

 sifled; J. K. M. L. Farquhar, James 

 Wheeler, F. J. Dolansky, Eobert Kift, 

 James Methven, W. N. Craig and 

 Chester E. Campbell. 



Visitors to the exhibition were 

 numerous from all parts of New Eng- 

 land, others coming from New York 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



W. N. C. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



DOINGS OF THE DIRECTORS. 



The Meeting at New York. 



The mid-Lent meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Society of American 

 Florists was Iitld at the Hotel Biltmore, 

 New York, March 16 and 17. The fol- 

 lowing directors were presfoit: 



R. C. Kerr, Houston, Tex., president. 

 A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., vice-president. 

 John Young, New York, secretary. 

 J. J. Hess, Omaha, Neb., treasurer. 

 Wm. R. Nicholson, Framingham, Mass. 

 Wm. J. Keimel, Elmhurst, 111. 

 William F. Gude, Washington, D. C. Wash- 

 ington representative. 



Charles L. Koiim, Knoxville, Tenn. 



Frank X. Stuppy, St. Joseph, Mo. 



George W. Hess, Washington, D. C. 



George Asmus, Chicago, III. 



S. S. Pennock, I'hiladelpliia, Pa. 



J. F. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111. 



George E. M. Stumpp, New York. 



A. Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa. 



Daniel MacRorie, San Francisco, Cal. 



Paul R. Klingsporn, Chicago, III. 



Ex-President Patrick Welch, Boston, 



Mass., was ])rosont on the invitation of 



President Kerr. William H. Amling, 



Chicago, II!., director through his office 



as president of the Chicago Florists' 



Club, tlir.iugh illness, was unable to be 



pres3nt and the club's credentiale dele- 



gating Paul R. Klingsporn as a substi- 

 tute director v/ere, on motion, accepted. 

 Credentials from the various affiliated 

 bodies covering the directors appointed 

 by them were presented and, on motion, 

 accepted, and tlie directors; duly seated. 

 President Kerr announced that he had 

 exercised the privilege of inviting the 

 members of the National Flower Show 

 committee to sit at the meetings of the 

 board. 



An Advance for Mothers' Day. 



Secretary Young reported that O. J. 

 Olson, St. Paul, Minn., had agreed to 

 act as chairman of the committee on 

 Mothers' day. Ho also read a letter 

 from E. J. Fancourt, a member of the 

 committee, reporting on an interview re- 

 cently had with Miss Jarvis in Phila- 

 delphia, and she had arranged to con- 

 sider the matter of the best assistance 

 the committee could render to advance 

 the Mothers' day nioveincrit. Mr. Fan- 

 court expressed the opinion that, if a 

 proper campaign was started, at least 

 $5,000 could be raised for the work, 

 and suggested that the society might 

 be willing to advance the sum of $1,000 







A. M. Davenport's First Prize Group at the Boston Spring Show. 



to start such a campaign, which could 

 not be started without considerable ex- 

 pense. Some discussion ensued, which 

 generally endorsed the idea of support- 

 ing Miss Jarvis in her work, and finally 

 the board directed that an advance of 

 $1,000 be made to the committee, or as 

 much thereof as might bo necessary. 



Credits and Collections. 



The project of the establishment of 

 a national credit and collection bureau 

 was discussed at some length and, in 

 order that the committee in charge of 

 the project might have something defi- 

 nite on which to work, on motion of J. 

 J. Hess, the president was directed to 

 appoint a committee of three to draft 

 suggestions in the matter, to be en- 

 dorsed by the board, if found accept- 

 able. 



President Kerr appointed the follow- 

 ing as such committee: S. S. Pennock, 

 W. J. Keimel and G. E. M. Stumpp, witli 

 the latter as chairman. 



There was no report from the com- 

 mittee on development of American 

 products. The committee on school 

 gardens reported progress. 



The report of the committee on tariff 

 and legislation being called for, it was 

 presented by James McHutchison, of 

 the committee, who was introduced by 

 Mr. Gude, the chairman, in an address 

 in which he appealed for prompt action 

 by the board on the recommendations 

 embodied in the report. 



Defer Anti-Import Action. 



The report was practically a brief on 

 the proposed legislation to prohibit im- 

 ])orts of plants, plant products and bulbs 

 from all sources. The committee on the 

 bill seeking this prohibition had, the 

 report stated, agreed to defer legis- 

 lative action pending a conference with 

 the florists' and nurserymen's legis- 

 lative committees, to be held probably 

 next June or July. The details of the 

 ])roposed legislation had, said the re- 

 port, been published in the trade papers, 

 consequently need not be further com 

 mented upon, but the committee re- 

 quested from the board full y)ower to 

 represent the S. A. F. and O. H. at the 

 conference; that power be extended to 

 the committee to add to its body three 

 members, and to share with the nursery- 

 men the expense of employing a quali- 

 fied man to assist in the protection of 

 the interests of both bodies. A number 

 of letters from interested growers and 



