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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbruabt 6, 1919. 



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CARNATIONISTS AT CLEVELAND 



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U'TEBMATH OF GOOD MEETING. 



Tbe War Is Over. 



[A fall list of the awards, the new officers 

 lected, a list of most of those present on the 

 Irat day, notes on some of the noTelties, mia- 

 «lIaneous exhibits and other matters, together 

 rith the reports of officers, appeared in The Re- 

 iew last week, while the convention still was 

 a progress.] 



Of the twenty-seven meetings and ex- 

 libitions held by the American Carna- 

 ion Society prior to those at Cleveland 

 Fanuary 29 and 30 there have been 

 nany at which the out-of-town attend- 

 mce was larger and still more at which 

 ;he exhibition contained more blooms, 

 i)ut there have been few at which the 

 general sense of satisfaction with exist- 

 ng conditions was more apparent: TJn- 

 jxpected but none the less welcome pros- 

 [)erity has come to the growers this sea- 

 jon. The convention would have been 

 an unqualified success had there been 

 Dnly two growers present, to felicitate 

 sach other on the happy turn of events. 

 Ab a matter of fact where last year, 

 in war, the out-of-town attendance at 

 Boston did not exceed a score, this year, 

 in peace, at Cleveland it exceeded 100, 

 the exact number being unknown be- 

 sause of the failure of many to register. 



The Business Sessions. 



The first business session opened at 

 8:30 p. m., January 29, all officers being 

 present except F. E. Dorner, treasurer, 

 of Lafayette, Ind., during which the 

 nomination of officers occurred. There 

 being only one nominee for each office, 

 during the morning session of the second 

 day the secretary cast one ballot for 

 president, vice-president and treasurer, 

 vrhile the president cast one ballot for 

 the secretary. The officers for 1920, as 

 reported in The Beview for January 30, 

 are as follows: 



President — Theo. Dorner, of Lafay- 

 ette, Ind. 



Vice-president — C. W. Johnson, Mor- 

 g;an Park, 111. 



Secretary — A. F. J. Baur, Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind. 



Treasurer — F. E. Dorner, Lafayette, 

 [nd. 



Carl Hagenburger, Mentor, O., and 

 W. D. Howard, Milford, Mass., were 

 aominated for director, the ballots giv- 

 ing Mr. Howard the office by one vote. 

 Judges elected for three years were D. 

 S. Ward, Queens, N. Y., and C. W. John- 

 son, Morgan Park, 111. 



Fred Lautenschlager, speaking for 

 the Chicago Florists' Club, Chicago Ee- 

 tail Florists' Association, Chicago 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Association, Hor- 

 ticultural Society of Chicago and the 

 Chicago Association of Commerce, in- 

 vited/ the society to Chicago in 1920. 

 L F. Ammann, president of the S. A. F. 

 and secretary of the Illinois State Flo- 

 rists' Association, in the name of his 

 state also extended an invitation for 

 Chicago. They had opposition from 

 Cincinnati, but E. G. Gillett was asked 

 to withdraw his city's invitations in 

 favor of Chicago, where the society's 

 greatest convention is expected in 1920. 



Miscellaneous Matters. 



The annual address and reports of 

 the officers were read, all of which ap- 

 peared in last week's issue of The Be- 

 view. The president's paper was re- 

 ferred to a committee composecl of 0. 

 W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 111.; Fred 

 Lemon, Bichmond, Ind., and E. Saun- 

 ders, of Lewiston, Me., whQ approved luis 

 suggestions in a detailed report. 



A report was made on the judging, 

 which also appeared in last week 's issue 

 of The Beview. The special award of- 

 fered by Fred Burki for the vase hold- 

 ing in best condition until the end of 

 the exhibition went to S. J. Goddard, of 

 Framingham, Mass., for his 100 Laddie. 



B. C. Kerr, of Houston, Tex., offered a 

 prize of $25 to be awarded at the 1920 

 convention to the best keeping vase. 



f3[VERY now and then a well- 

 ■9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the meanjt of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thorotsghly 

 aspceciated* 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver* 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those seHiog articles of flodsfs use 

 not at present advertised. 



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the judges to take into consideration 

 the distance from which the carnations 

 came and also that the blooms must 

 have received first award in the class in 

 which they are entered. This offer 

 brought out a discussion on the condi- 

 tion of carnations shipped a long dis- 

 tance this season. Mr. Kerr said that 

 his loss on carnations shipped from 

 northern markets to Texas is about 

 three per cent, compared to twelve per 

 cent a year ago. He attributed it to 

 stock being better grown. Someone in 

 the audience raised a laugh by remark- 

 ing that the smaller waste might, per- 

 haps, be one result of higher prices. 



A discussion followed on the relative 

 keeping quality of stock grown in high 

 and low altitudes. The westerner said 

 it is not the altitude, but the continual 

 sunshine, that makes the western flowers 

 keep. 



A letter from C. Engelmann, the car- 

 nation grower of Saffron Walden, Eng- 

 land, was read, in which he expressed 

 his regret at not being able to attend 

 the convention and in which he gave an 

 idea of the hardships British growers 



have experienced during the war. The 

 society appointed a committee, consist- 

 ing of I. Bertermann, Indianapolis; J. 

 F. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111., and John 

 H. Dunlop, Toronto, Ont., to cooperate 

 in the name of the American Carnation 

 Society with the carnation growers of 

 England, France and Belgium and to 

 help in every way possible to get cut- 

 tings to them for reconstruction. The 

 society also went on record as opposing 

 the Federal Horticultural Board's quar- 

 antine. 



Cooperation and Prices. 



During the morning session of the 

 second day J. F. Ammann addressed the 

 meeting on cooperation among the grow- 

 ers, asserting that when stock is not fit 

 for the market, the grower should dump 

 it and not send it to the wholesaler. 

 Mr. Ammann is a gpreat believer in send- 

 ing surplus stock to the poor, to insti- 

 tutions and to hospitals, where it will 

 do more good than in the waste box. 



George Asmus spoke on organization. 

 It is the view of Mr. Asmus that if the 

 growers had been organized prices of 

 carnations never would have gone so 

 high as they did at Christmas; he said 

 that the demand was on the wholesalers 

 and they, in order to get stock, offered 

 a competitor's grower more money for 

 his flowers, with the result that the first 

 house, to satisfy the grower, would raise 

 its price again, thus making stock un- 

 usually l]^igh and almost out of reach. 

 Organization among growers, he said, 

 would remedy this trouble. 



The average price of carnations in 

 various parts of the country was dis- 

 cussed. Adam Kohankie said that at 

 Denver it was 3 cents. E. Saunders, 

 of Lewiston, Me., said that in his sec- 

 tion it was about 6 cents. J. H. Dunlop, 

 of Toronto, gave his figures at 3 to 3 V^ 

 cents, and around Knoxville, Tenn., Karl 

 P. Baum said it is 5 cents. Neither Chi- 

 cago, New York nor Philadelphia was 

 heard from. 



Henry Penn, chairman of the public- 

 ity committee of the S. A. P., was a 

 late arrival, but came in time to speak 

 on S. A. F. advertising and *'8ay It 

 with Flowers." 



Following the close of the meeting the 

 directors of the society met. 



Brief Mentions. 



All convention business was finished 

 by noon of January 30, giving the vis- 

 itors the afternoon to see Cleveland. 

 Many took advantage of the time and 

 visited the retail and wholesale estab- 

 lishments. The J. M. Gasser Co., of 

 which F. C. W. Brown is the head, took 

 many visitors by automobile to the 

 greenhouses at Bocky Eiver^ 



In addition to the new varieties noted 

 last week in The Beview, there were 

 Donald, a crimson, shown by Charles S. 

 Strout, of Biddeford, Me.; Edna, a red 

 shown by N. Zweifel, of Milwaukee; 

 Bernice, a crimson, staged by W. D. 

 Howard, of Milford, Mass., who will dis- 

 seminate it next season, and- Denver, 

 pink, by GJforge Brenkert, Denver. A 

 late exhibit was a large vase of the new 



