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|ITH an attendance of over 

 100, which, with the ex- 

 hibitors, represented four- 

 teen states and one foreign 

 country, the sixth annual 

 convention of the Tennessee 

 State Florists' Association, 

 held at Knoxville Thursday and Friday, 

 February 5 and 6, could hardly be ac- 

 cused of provincialism. The enthusiasm 

 shown was quite on a par with the 

 breadth of representation. The well 

 filled program, which appeared in The 

 Review of January 29, was carried out 

 exactly as planned, except that Philip 

 Breitmeyer and Albert Pochelon, of De- 

 troit, Mich., were unable to present 

 their advocacy and history, respective- 

 ly, of the F. T. D, in person and M. 

 Bloy, of Detroit, gave their papers a 

 highly effective reading. 



Officers Elected. 



In the election of oflBcers, A. J. Mc- 

 Nutt, who is president of the Knoxville 

 Florists' Society, was chosen president 

 of the state association; T. H. Joy, of 

 Nashville, was elected vice-president, 

 and Prof. G. M. Bentley, of the Uni- 

 versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, who 

 has been the secretary-treasurer of the 

 association since its formation in 1915, 

 was reelected to his office. 



After the address of welcome by 

 Mayor Neal, Presi- 

 dent H. G. Bramm, 

 of Bristol, in his 

 of5.cial address pre- 

 sented a succinct 

 review of the prob- 

 lems of the trade as 

 they w«re repre- 

 sented on the con- 

 vention program, 

 thus touching suc- 

 cessively on pur- 

 chasing, growing, 

 selUng, storekeep- 

 ing, accounting and 

 delivering. He also 

 called attention 

 both to the debt of 

 gratitude which the 

 state association 

 owed to the Knox- 

 ville society for its 

 hospitality and to 

 the debt of prompti- 

 tude which those in 

 attendance owed to 

 the convention as a 

 whole in attending 

 the various sessions. 

 The spirit of the con- 

 vention President 

 Bramm summed up 

 effectively as fol- 

 lows: "Another 

 year has gone into 

 history and with it 

 the most remark- 

 able record of busi- 

 ness ever known. 

 Our meeting to- 

 gether here should 

 both review the past 

 with thanksgiving 

 and study the fu- 



ture with a view to making the best 

 use of opportunities as they arise in 

 1920." 



Gude on Legislation. 



Typical of this review of the past and 

 preview of the future was the address 

 on "Legislation" by William F. Gude, 

 of Washington, D. C. After noting the 

 fact that "since 1912 the federal gov- 

 ernment has enacted nearly 100 bills, 

 resolutions, rules and regulations 

 through the Federal Horticultural Board 

 affecting about 1,800 different kinds of 

 fungous growth, scales, microbes and 

 pests," he reviewed the enactment and 

 effects of Quarantine No. 37, which he 

 dismissed with the following comments: 



"All of these nearly 2,000 scales, in- 

 sects and diseases, against which the 

 quarantine is directed, may or may not 

 be dangerous to the plant and tree life 

 of our country, but the fact remains 

 that the countries from which they come 

 are necessarily more interested in keep- 

 ing their stock clean from disease than 

 we are in this country, for the simple 

 reason that their area is so small and, 

 in many cases, so congested that it is 

 absolutely necessary for their protec- 

 tion and welfare to guard against dis- 

 eases, fungi, insects, etc., in every way; 

 for this reason a rigid embargo by the 

 United States seems unnecessary." 



As a result of his survey of the 



Addison J. McNutt. 



(PrestdeDt-elect, Tennessee State Florista' Association.) 



various aspects of legislation affecting 

 the florists' trade, Mr. Gude concluded 

 as follows: "We find that, as long as 

 we are willing to give and take, it is 

 comparatively easy to get along in most 

 instances; many a knotty problem is 

 solved or drastic ruling modified by 

 wise counsel. This also applies to the 

 larger propositions contemplated by 

 the federal government; wise and con- 

 servative reasoning many times will so 

 modify the proposed law as to make it 

 less objectionable, if not to eliminate 

 the objectionable feature altogether. 

 In fact, we find that it is wiser to pre- 

 vent laws being enacted that would in- 

 advertently or otherwise work hardship 

 upon our industry than to enter into 

 serious conflict with the laws which now 

 exist. ' ' 



Able Addresses. 



Most of Thursday morning was given 

 to a discussion of "Office Management 

 and Collections" by W. Cleveland 

 Johnson, of Memphis; Robert E. Mapes, 

 of Knoxville, and Thomas H. Joy, of 

 Nashville; a paper on "Our Credit 

 System; Its Uses and Abuses," by 8. 

 S. Skidelsky, of New York city; a" stim- 

 ulating survey of "The Florists* Busi- 

 ness of Today" by George Asmus, of 

 Chicago, and a discussion of "Local 

 Publicity" by Z. D. Blackistone, of 

 Washington, D. C, and George Schulz, 

 of LouisvUle, Ky. 



After lunch and 

 the election of offi- 

 cers, the association 

 voted to hold its 

 next convention in 

 Memx)hi8, probably 

 during November, 

 1920, but the exact 

 date will be de- 

 termined later. An 

 excellent paper on 

 carnations was 

 given by A. F. J. 

 Baur, of Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind. "Can Car- 

 nations be Grown in 

 the South Success- 

 fuUyt" by Harold 

 Joy, of Nashville, 

 was a talk of par- 

 ticular interest to 

 his audience. Henry 

 Penn, of Boston, 

 Mass., on "Public- 

 ity; How to Tie 

 onto the National 

 Campaign," was 

 followed by J. Keur, 

 of C. Keur & Sons, 

 Hillegom, Holland, 

 in an illuminating 

 treatment of the 

 subject, "The 

 American Embargo 

 on Plants and 

 Bulbs." 



Thursday evening 

 contained, in addi- 

 tion to the valuably 

 suggestive talks on 

 ' ' The Relation of 

 Music to Flowers," 

 by W. H. Crouch, 



