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Adocbt 19, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



35 



full. Majbr P. F. O'Keefe, of Boston, 

 addressed the meeting on the society's 

 publicity in national publications. On 

 this subject a good deal of discussion 

 followed, since it was closely connected 

 with the organization 's finances, brought 

 to light by the finance committee's re- 

 ])ort. ' 



E. S. Latshaw, of the Butterick Pub- 

 lications, New York, also made a strik- 

 ing address on "Publicity." 



F. B. Pierson made his report as chair- 

 man of the committee on the develop- 

 ment of American products and his talk 

 was followed by E. G. Hill. Their pur- 

 pose was to stir up interest in the sub- 

 icct and receive suggestions on which 

 the committee might work. 



Wednesday evening a lecture on re- 

 tail work was delivered by Max Schhng 

 at the Hotel Hollenden, in which he 

 showed by lantern slides what can be 

 done with flowers by a skillful florist. 



SEOBETABY'S FINAKOES. 



Included in Secretary Young's report 

 was the financial statement supplemen- 

 tary to the statement which was pre- 

 yented to the executive board at its an- 

 nual meeting and which appeared also 

 in the society's journal. In comment- 

 ing on it, the secretary says: "Our ex- 

 penses have, of course, increased in com- 

 mon with the expenses of all organiza- 

 tions, the old-time dollar now standing 

 for only 50 cents or less, but against this 

 is the increase in the income from mem- 

 bership and the increase in the treasury 

 from all sources. ' ' 



The statement, which covers the pe- 

 riod from January I to July 31, 1920, is 

 as follows: 



Dues, 1917— 2 at $3.00 $ 6.00 



Dues, 1918— 7 at 8.00 21.00 



Dues, 1919— 61 at 3.00 183.00 



Dues, 1920— 8 at 2.00 16.00 



Dues, 1920— 3 at 3.00 9.00 



Dues, 1920—829 at 5.00 4,145.00 



Dues, 1921— 4 at 5.00 20.00 



Dues, 1921— 1 at 2.00 2.00 



Fees and dues, new members — 1 ftt 



$3.00 3.00 



Fees and dues, new members — 177 at 



$5.00 885.00 



Fees, life members — 24 at $25.00 600.00 



Pees, life members — 2 at 50.00 100.00 



Fees, life members — 1 at 20.00 20.00 



Life members' buttons — 53 at 76c 39.75 



Subscriptions to Journal, etc 735.75 



Trade exhibition, Detroit 15.10 



Trade exhibition, Cleveland 3,012.55 



Misc. for telegrams aad typewriter 40.00 



Total $10,561.18 



GENERAL FUND; JOURNAL ADVERTISING. 

 Total sales, April 1 to July 31, 1920. . .$ 1,465.25 

 Amount remitted to treasurer 926.87 



Total amount outstanding and due.$ 538.38 

 SUMMARY. 



Rfmitted to treasurer $ 9,788.15 



J^ermanent fund 773.03 



i»eneral fund; Journal advertising 926.87 



Total $11,488.05 



THE LADIES' SOCIETY. 



The Ladies' S. A. F. held its annual 

 meeting at 10 o'clock, August 18, in the 

 new lounge room of the Hotel Hollen- 

 aen, which was filled by an interested 

 K'athering of members despite the 

 ^varmth of the day. The usual business 

 ^^••is transacted and some minor changes 

 made in the by-laws of the organization. 

 i^iie officers elected for the ensuing year 



President — Mrs. George Asmus, Chi- 

 cago. 



First Vice-president— Mrs. Wm. F. 

 '^ii'ie, Washington, D. C. 

 Second Vice-president — Miss Martha 

 ■ /^Junterberg, Chicago. 



Secretary— Mrs. Albert M. Herr, Lan- 

 '•■':'ter, Pa. 



'"roasurer— Miss Perle B. Fulmer, 

 ' '^ Moines, la. 



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MY EEPOBT will be to cover the 

 activities of the national flower 

 show committee since the convention of 



1919, held in Detroit. There was one 

 meeting of our committee held since 

 that time, in New York city March 17, 



1920, while the New York spring show 

 was in progress. 



After going over places that would 

 be logical for the next national flower 

 show, the city of Cleveland was selected 

 as most desirable, in view of the fact 

 that there is in the cours^ of construc- 

 tion, a few blocks from the place where 

 we are now holding our meeting, a won- 

 derful building with plenty of space 

 available. 



Cleveland's Big Building. 



The committee has been careful about 

 spending any money or going to any 

 expense whatsoever until we are posi- 

 tive that the building will be completed 

 in time for our exhibition. It perhaps 

 would be surprising to know how few 

 buildings there are in the United States 

 suitable for holding^ our wonderful 

 show. There sihould be at least 200,- 

 000 square feet of floor space at our 

 command. Then, too, from an adver- 

 tising point of view, the wonderful pos- 

 sibility of opening a large municipal 

 building with our exhibition would 

 mean much toward financial success. 



Our committee has a quorum present 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 exact conditions that exist insofar as the 

 building is concerned. The committee 

 feels positive that it will have no trouble 

 in securing exhibits that will compare 

 favorably with, if not be superior to, 

 anything we have had in the past. 



At the meeting held in New York city 

 the American Bose Society and the 

 American Carnation Society were rep- 

 resented, and arrangements were made 

 for both of those organizations to co- 

 operate. 



Dates Set for Show. 



Easter in 1922 falls on April 16. The 

 committee selected for the opening date 

 of the show Saturday, March 25, and 

 for the closing date Saturday, April 1. 

 The committee has had a preliminary 

 schedule set up and printed in galley 

 form, and as soon as definite arrange- 

 ments are completed for the building, 

 which we hope will be soon, the pre- 

 liminary schedule will be mailed broad- 

 cast. 



The premium list prepared is based on 

 an expenditure of $20,000. This amount, 

 of course, would be greatly reduced by 

 the special premiums that are offered 

 by the various horticultural interests. 

 We know that there is a feeling of im- 

 patience on the part of some, but when 

 the gigantic task is considered, and all 

 the necessities that go to making our 

 wonderful exhibition what we always 

 want it to be, the last word in floricul- 

 ture, the committee must move care- 

 fully and cautiously. 



Involves Large Expense. 



The expense of the last exhibition. 



The report of George Asmus, chairman of the 

 national flower show committee, presented at the 

 Cleveland convention August 19, 1920. ( 



held in Philadelphia, was approximately 

 $52,000. This does not include the 

 expense of the exhibitors, which pos- 

 sibly was double that amount. So that 

 it is safe to say that the amount of 

 money that is involved, outside of the 

 value of precious plants, etc., is about 

 $150,000. 



Conditions have changed regarding 

 the exhibits. The quarantine act took 

 away a number of the various plants 

 that were formerly a prominent factor 

 in our exhibitions. Then, too, it has 

 taken several years to restock the houses 

 that were closed on account of the 

 war. But if there is no hitch — and ap-. 

 pearances seem to indicate that there 

 will be none — we hope to have open 

 for the taembers of this society and 

 the people of this country the largest 

 exhibition ever held, in one of the 

 finest buildings in America. All of 

 which c^n only be obtained by the co- 

 operation and help of all those engaged 

 in our noble profession. 



THE WM. E. SMITH MEMOBIAL. 



[The report of William F. Gude, chairman 



of the committee on memorial to the late 



William R. Smith, presented at the Cleveland 

 convention August 17.] 



Since the last report of your com- 

 mittee on the late William B. Smith's 

 memorial nothing has been done; we 

 have just been marking time, waiting 

 the action of the United States govern- 

 ment in having the botanic gardens 

 enlarged or moved. Then we may have 

 a large building erected in memory of 

 the late William E. Smith, 



The Burns library, collected by the 

 late William E. Smith and said to be the 

 largest collection of Burnsiana in ex- 

 istence, has now found a permanent 

 home in the beautiful Southern Scottish 

 Bite Temple, on Sixteenth street, a 

 building which cost over $2,000,000 to 

 build. This library occupies a room de- 

 voted exclusively to itself. The size of 

 the room is 40x100 feet, furnished in 

 oak throughout. The books are all 

 catalogued and anyone may go there 

 and consult the library any day of the 

 week. 



A more fitting tribute to the memory 

 of the late William B. Smith could hard- 

 ly be found than this. The disposition 

 of this library is really more magnif- 

 icent than he could have hoped for. 



At either end of the room is the fol- 

 lowing inscription in bronze: 



ROBERT BURNS 



First Poet Laureate of Freemasonry 



The Smith Collection of Burnsiana 



Collected and Donated by Wm. R. Smith 82* 



of Washington, D. 0. 



We are indeed fortunate in having 

 so splendid a place established in the 

 memory of the late William B. Smith. 

 It is a literary ^airn, as he was pleased 

 to call it, erected where it will stand for 

 all times. Indeed, it is said by archi- 

 tects from all over the world that this 

 building is the finest piece of architec- 

 ture in existence. 



Funds in hand to date consist of: 



War Savings stamps ' $1,000.00 



Liberty bonds 1,000.00 



Lash In bank 133 33 



