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The Florists^ Review 



Februaky 6, 1919. 



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FTERMATH OF GOOD MEETING. 



The War Is Over. 



[A full list of tlio :i\v;inls, the new DlHoors 

 •pte<1. a list of most of tlioso iiri'scnt on the 

 3t (lay, notes on som<! of tlio novcltios, mis- 

 Iniii'oiis oxliiliits and otlicr iiinttors, toRPtlier 

 til flic rt'iKirts of otiiccrs, appc'ircd in 'I'lie Ilo- 

 !w last wi'ck, while tlie eoiiventiou still was 

 progress. J 



Of the twonty-scvcii iiioctings and ex- 

 bitioiis lu'ld by the Aiiiorican Carna- 

 3n Society j)ri()r to those at Cleveland 

 inuary L'i) and l!0 there have been 

 any at wliich tlie oul-of-town attend- 

 ice was larger and still more at which 

 e exhibition contained more blooms, 

 it there have been few at which the 

 !ncral sense of satisfaction with exist 

 fj conditions was more apparent: Un- 

 :pocted l)ut none the less welcome pros 

 >rity has come to the ejrowers this sca- 

 n. The convention would have ])een 

 1 nnqnalified success had there been 

 ily two fxrowers present, to felicitate 

 ich other on the happy turn of events. 

 s a matter of fact where last year, 

 I war, the out-of-town attendance at 

 oston did not (^xceed a score, tliis year, 

 I peace, at (Meveland it exceeded 100, 

 le exact number iieinp; unknown be- 

 luse of the failure of many to re{:jister. 



The Business Sessions. 



The first business session ojjened at 

 :30 p. m., January 29, all officer.s being 

 resent except F. E. Dorncr, treasurer, 

 P Lafayette, Ind., during which the 

 oniination of otlicers occurred. There 

 eing only one nominee for each oflSce, 

 iiring the morning session of the second 

 ly the secretary cast one ballot for 

 resident, vice-president and treasurer, 

 hile the president cast one ballot for 

 16 secretary. The olTicers for 1920, as 

 sported in The Review for January 30, 

 re as follows: 



President — Theo. Dorner, of Lafay- 

 ;te, Ind. 



Vice-president — C. W. Johnson, Mor- 

 in Park, III. 



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

 3, Ind. 



Treasurer — F. E. Dorner, Lafayette, 

 id. 



Carl ITagenburger, Mentor, O., and 

 ^ D. Howard, Milford, Afass., were 

 )n)inated for director, the ballots giv- 

 ig Mr. Howard the olTico by one vote, 

 jdges elected for three years were D. 

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

 »n, Alorgan Park, HI. 



Fre<i T.,autenschlager, speaking for 

 le ChicMgii Florists' (-luh, Chicago Re- 

 lil Florists' Association, Chii'ago 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Association, Hor- 

 cultiiial Society of <"hicago and the 

 hicago Association of Commerce, in 

 ited the society to Chicago in 1920. 



F. Aniiiiann, president of the S. A. F. 

 id si^cretary of the Illinois Stale l''ln 

 sts' Association, in the name of hi> 

 ate also extended an invitation for 

 hicago. They had ojijiosition from 

 iiiciniiati, but E. G. (iiliett was aske(l 

 I witlidraw his city's invitations in 

 i\(ir (if Chicago, wliere the society's 

 •'•ate-t convention is cxju'cfe,! in IH'JO. 



Miscellaneous Matters. 



The annual address and reports of 

 the officers were read, all of which ap- 

 ])eared in last week 's issue of The Re- 

 view. The president's paper was re- 

 ferred to a committee composed of C. 

 W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 111.; Fred 

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

 ders, of Lewiston, Me., who approved his 

 suggestions in a detailed report. 



A report was made on the judging, 

 which also appeared in last week's issue 

 of The Review. 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. 



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

 ])rize of $25 to be awarded at the 1920 

 convention to the best keeping vase, 



IfaiVERY now and then a weU- 

 eS pleased reader speaks the word 

 which .is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



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 530-60 Cazton Bldg. Chicago 



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 

 nortiiern markets to Texas is about 

 three per cent, compared to twelve per 

 ••out 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 (juality of stock grown in high 

 and low altitudes. The westerner said 

 it is not the altitude, but the conliiuial 

 sunsiiine, that makes the western flowers 

 keep. 



A letter from ( '. ilngelmaiin. the car- 

 nation grower of Saflroii Walden, Eng- 

 land, was read, in which he exi)resaed 

 his regret at not being able to attend 

 tht' convention and in wliich he gave an 

 idea of the hardships British ^luweis 



have experienced during the war. The 

 society appointed a committee, consist- 

 ing of I. Bcrtermann, 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 (lay 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 great believer in send- 

 ing surplus stock to the poor, to insti 

 tut ions 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 high and almost out of reach. 

 Organization among growers, ho 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 3V1" 

 cents, and around Knoxville, Tenn., Karl 

 P. Baum said it is 5 cents. Neither Chi 

 cago, New York nor Philadelphia waf 

 heard from. 



Henry Penn, chairman of the public 

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

 late arrival, but came in time to speak 

 on S. A. F. advertising amd "Saj It 

 with Flowers." 



Following the close of the meeting th( 

 directors of the society met. 



Brief Mentions. 



All convention business wa« flnishef' 

 by noon of January .''.0, giving the vis 

 iters the afternoon to see Cleveland 

 Many took advantage of the time an( 

 visited the retail and wholesale estab 

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

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

 many visitors by automobile to th< 

 greenhouses at Rocky River. 



In addition to the new varieties noter 

 last week in The Review, there wer< 

 Donald, a crimson, shown by Charles S 

 St rout, of Biddeford, Me.; Edna, a red 

 shown by N. Zueifel, of Milwaukee 

 P.ernice, a crimson, staged by W. D 

 Howard, of Milford, Mass., who will dis 

 seminate it next season, and Denver, 

 pink, by George IJreiikert, Denver. ^ 

 late exhibit was a large vase of tho new 



