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The Florists' Review 



JcLT 24, 1919. 



THE PORTLAND CONVENTION. 



Woman Elected President. 



A new step was made in women's 

 rights when the Pacific Coast Nurs- 

 erymen's Association elected a woman 

 as president at the annual election of 

 officers, held the morning of July 10, in 

 the Chamber of Commerce building, at 

 Portland, Ore. Mrs. K. Day is the new 

 president. She is manager of the Leigh 

 Overman Nursery Co., of Spokane, 

 Wash. 



The other officers elected were: Vice- 

 presidents, Fred W. May, Yakima, 

 Wash.; Albert Brownell, Portland, Ore.; 

 M. R. Jackson, Fresno, Cal.; C. A. T. 

 Atwood, British Columbia; C. T. 

 Hawkes, Caldwell, Idaho, and B. H. 

 Bowers, Prove, Utah. Secretary-treasur- 

 er, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. 

 Members of executive committee, S. A. 

 Miller, Milton, Ore.; C. J. Atwood, Top- 

 penish, Wash., and J. Snyder, We- 

 natchee. Wash. 



The meeting place for the eighteenth 

 annual convention, in 1920, will be 

 Spokane, Wash., as requested by the 

 new president. 



Advance in Prices the Theme. 



The convention was an important one 

 for many reasons. A rise in the price 

 of nursery stock to meet the increased 

 cost of production and to yield, a com- 

 mensurate profit was the keynote of 

 the convention. Government statistics 

 show that other staples have increased 

 ninety-eight por cent in price, while gar- 

 den and nursery stock have remained 

 practically the same. As one statement 

 had it: "Following years of depressed 

 business conditions, the general demand 

 for stock has at last overtaken and sur- 

 passed the supply, a fact that compels 

 advance in prices." 



The First Day. 



The opening session was held Tues- 

 day morning, July 8. President C. J. 

 Atwood, of Toppenish, Wash., opened it 

 with a short address. Reports by the 

 vice-presidents and chairmen of the 

 various committees were then read and 

 commented upon. The topics most 

 warmly discussed were uniform laws, 

 state legislation, transportation aad 

 landscape work. 



The afternoon session was long and 

 interesting. A. Brownell, of Portland, 

 of the committee on the elimination of 

 undesirable varieties of nursery stock, 

 read an instructive paper on that sub- 



ject. President Atwood then read his 

 annual address. It was full of en- 

 couragement and praise for the work of 

 the coast nurserymen last year. With 

 regard to the advancing of prices he 

 had this to say: 



' * All we need is the nerve to ask that 

 to which we are justly entitled, con- 

 sidering the investments we have made, 

 the risks we are called upon to take 

 and the present-day costs, which have 

 practically doubled." 



H. A. Lewis, M. McDonald, John 

 Mikelsen and A. T. Gossman took part 

 in a joint discussion on * ' Higher Retail 

 Prices and Why." They thoroughly 

 convinced their hearers of the justice 

 and necessity of raising the prices. 

 "Better Plans for Cooperation in Sell- 

 ing" was dealt with jointly by E. A. 

 Bennett, C. D. Hobbs and I. A. Gale. 

 A third discussion was on "Style and 

 Stock." Mrs. R. Day, Lee Benedict 

 and C. Malmo took part in this. 



Stock Shortage Cause of Worry. 



A big item for discussion and worry 

 on the part of the northwest nursery- 

 men was the stock shortage of this year. 

 Frost, hail and other blasts of the ele- 



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ments have caused great loss in the 

 berry dnd fruit line. This is especially 

 noticeable in the prune crop. The 

 general opinion among the nurserymen 

 as to how this problem could, best be 

 met was that each nurseryman should 

 cut down on his plantings so that the 

 orders might be distributed equally. 



Beautification of Home Grounds. 



The beautifying of grounds on and 

 about homes, in both city and country, 

 was a universally interesting topic. 

 The nurserymen considered it a highly 

 important item, in connection with the 

 increasing love of the American people 

 for beautiful homes, and for this reason 

 appointed a committee to devise a plan 

 for educational work, whereby orna- 

 mental planting about homes might be 

 more fostered. 



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