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Adocst 26, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



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Nearly all the exhibitors report splen- 

 did business. If the orders did not 

 average so large as last year, they were 

 more numerous. Many of the exhib- 

 itors, however, especially among those 

 supplying the retailers, noted that there 

 is a disposition to buy more conserva- 

 tively this season than last. 



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H. P. Knoble'a friends wanted to 

 nominate him for the presidency of the 

 society. ' ' Not in my own home town, ' ' 

 said Mr. Knoble, and he asked the privi- 

 lege of nominating the man who thus 

 received the unanimous vote of the con- 

 vention. 



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Why so many polling places with so 

 few candidates? 



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Ninth Garage, in spite of forebodings, 

 proved to be admirably adapted to the 

 needs of the exhibition. Although the 

 building is unfinished, the second floor, 

 used for the trade's display, was in thor- 

 oughly habitable condition, largely 

 through the efforts of Secretary Young. 

 The society paid for the temporary clos- 

 ing of the sides and for lighting in- 

 stallation. It may interest some of the 

 exhibitors to know the society paid $5 

 per lamp for the installation. 

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Thursday evening, after the conven- 

 tion closed. President Miller entertained 

 a number of friends, ladies and gentle- 

 men, in a parlor of the Hollenden. Al- 

 though the official term does not end 

 until December 30, the evening marked 

 the close of the most active period of an 

 administration which has made S. A. F. 



'history. 



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No meeting of the board of directors 

 was held during the Cleveland conven- 

 tion. The management of affairs rests 

 with the officers until the mid-Lenten 

 meeting in Washington next year, un- 

 less a special meeting is called. 



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The management of so large an affair 

 as the trade 's display this year was no 

 child's play. There are few men who 

 could have handled the manifold de- 

 tails to greater general satisfaction 

 than did Secretary Young and certainly 

 no member of the society could have 

 done better. It was Mr. Young's ninth 

 experience, his first having been at the 

 famous Chicago convention in 1912. 

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On the platform at the opening ses- 

 sion were eleven past presidents: Adam 

 Graham, J. C. Vaughan, W. F. Gude, B. 

 C. Kerr, Philip Breitmeyer, F. E. Pier- 

 ?on, B. Vincent, Jr., George Asmus, J. 

 F. Ammann, E. G. Hill and F. H. 



Traendly. 



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The members of the committee which 

 considered the presidential address 

 ^'ere George Asmus, S. S. Pennock, 

 Thomas Boland, Adolph Gude and 

 Charles Graham. 



Pennsylvanians won all the prizes 

 offered by the A. L. Bandall Co. Miss 

 Kelly, of the J. W. Glennon Co., Kit- 

 tanning, Pa., received the fountain, 0. 

 D. Kennedy, manager of the Oakwood 

 Bose Gardens, Oil City, Pa., the set of 

 wicker furniture and Frank J. Zak, 



Pittsburgh, the lamp. 



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The Cleveland decorators did splendid 

 work in the meeting hall with the fine 

 gladiolus blooms supplied by J. J. 

 Grullemans, from the Wayside Gardens, 



at Mentor, O. 



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Praise was heard on all sides in re- 

 gard to the excellent handling of the 

 hotel accommodations by James Mc- 

 Laughlin. Never was the hard job so 



ably handled. 



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A British and an American flag huag 

 side by side in the meeting hall and at 

 the opening session "God Save the 

 King" followed "The Star-Spangled 

 Banner," indicating how thin is the 

 border-line to the north. 



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Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Miller were pre- 

 sented with a beautiful silver service set 

 at the close of the growers' session Au- 

 gust 19. J. F. Ammann warmed to the 

 occasion and stirred Mr. Miller to a sim- 

 ilar response. 



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John G. Esler filled his usual post as 

 judge of election at the polls on Thurs- 

 day. The tellers were Irwin Berter- 

 mann, August Hummert, Chas. P. Muel- 

 ler, Harry S. Mueller, Otto Lang, J. D. 

 Fulmer, S. J, Goddard, S. A. Kost, Al- 

 bert M. Herr, W. C. Gloeckner, S. Salz- 

 berg, A. J. Sykes, W. A. Kennedy, J. S. 

 ,Wilson and Joseph Streit. 



• • • 



Much space was given the convention 

 in the local newspapers. The Plain 

 Dealer had photographs of the exhibi- 

 tion, the News printed an editorial of 

 welcome, and the other papers all had 

 news stories of conspicuous size. 



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Since the registration books were all 

 at the exhibition hall and none at the 

 meeting place, by no means all of those 

 present took the trouble to register. 

 Yet the list in last week's and this 

 week 's Beview is larger than ever be- 

 fore. 



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Z. D. Blackistone, vice-president of 

 the Chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 addressed to the convention a warm 

 invitation to visit the national capital 

 for that society's show, November 10 

 to 14. 



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There was a feather in the cap of 

 many a visitor, supplied by the A. B. C. 

 In many bright colors, each carried the 

 trade slogan and the name of the dis- 

 tributor. They were carried by thou- 

 sands all over Cleveland and proved to 

 be a most effective advertising novelty. 



The opening session of the conven- 

 tion drew the largest attendance in some 

 years. The exhibition floor was deserted 

 at the time. After the opening cere- 

 monies, however, this was not so true. 



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Large numbers of florists took the 

 trolley to Akron, where the tires come 



from. 



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The trade 's display surely has become 

 the tail that wags the dog. It is the 

 backbone of the convention, both finan- 

 cially and from the standpoint of in- 

 terest. 



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The exhibitors would like to meet 

 more men like Otto Lang, the Texan. 

 Mr. Lang came up from Dallas with 

 typewritten lists of everything, from 

 A to Z, needed for a big winter's busi- 

 ness. He went the rounds, looked at the 

 samples and wrote down the prices, but 

 did not buy anything the first day. 

 After he had sized things up he made a 

 second round and the orders he handed 

 out were not only the largest aggregate 

 placed by any visitor, but they were in- 

 telligently done; it was big but close 



bluing. 



• • • 



At the suggestion of President Miller, 

 the S. A. F. voted to "Say It with 

 Flowers" by sending a basket to Pres- 

 ident Wilson. 



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The F. T. D. News made its initial 

 appearance at the convention, a 64-page 

 monthly. It is, as the name implies, by 

 the F. T. D., for the F. T. D. and of the 

 F. T. D. 



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Modesty made E. G. Hill curtail the 

 account of his remarkable reception in 

 Europe, whence he had just returned, in 

 his response to Dr. E. B. Mills' speech 

 presenting him with the Hubbard me- 

 morial medal of the American Bose So- 

 ciety. This medal is given once in five 

 years for the best rose produced in 

 America. Columbia won it for Mr. Hill 

 this time. In France he received the 

 Merite Agricole, and in England the 

 eagerness of ardent rosarians to meet 

 the noted E. G. Hill and to tell of the 

 excellent records of his productions in 

 that country brought a warmer sort of 

 honor to the famous Indianian. 



r. T. D. IN FAMILY QATHERINO. 



The meeting of the Florists' Tele- 

 graph Delivery Association, held at the 

 close of the S. A. F. session Wednes- 

 day afternoon, was not for business 

 purposes, but merely to bring its mem- 

 bers together in a family gathering 

 to chat about their own affairs. Pres- 

 ident Breitmeyer opened the remarks 

 in his warm and cheering way, setting 

 the key for the genial talks that fol- 

 lowed. Secretary Pochelon issued only 

 one of his fiery warnings; the rest of 

 his remarks were of his jolliest sort. 

 His warm utterances were regarding 

 the variance of percentages allowed 

 on orders and what would happen to 

 those who deviated from the custom- 

 ary twenty per cent. 



Vice-president Irwin Bertermann 

 greeted the F. T. D.'s journalistic 

 child and expressed the usual hopes re- 

 garding new-bom infants. Emery B. 

 Hamilton, as president of the Cana- 

 dian Florists' and Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion (formerly the C, H. A.), opined 



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