OCTOBKB 14, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



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committee on awards. He urged that 

 all who could do so make exhibits at 

 the next meeting. 



Anton Schultheis, for the club's dele- 

 gation attending the recent meeting of 

 the New York State Federation of Hor- 

 ticultural Clubs and Societies, reported 

 the proceedings of the meeting, which 

 have been reported in The Review. He 

 added that he had requested the organi- 

 zation to contribute something to the 

 national publicity campaign, and a reso- 

 lution was passed' appropriating $50 

 from the treasury. 



Walter Scott, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., was elected to membership in the 

 cliib. Charles Schultheis, elected some 

 time ago, was formally introduced to 

 the members. 



Name Committees. 



The matter of the proposed local or- 

 ganization for conducting a publicity- 

 campaign came up as the principal busi- 

 ness of the evening. President flen- 

 shaw announced the appointment^ of a 

 committee to represent the club, in ac- 

 cordance with a resolution passed at the 

 last meeting. He remarked that he had 

 divided this committee into groups rep- 

 resentative of the various interests, and 

 these groups could act as subcommittees 

 to promote interest in their particular 

 fields. The committee is as follows: 

 Growers — F. B. Pierson, chairman; Eu- 

 gene Dailledouze, C. H. Totty, Robert 

 Simpson and W. H. Duckham. Whole- 

 salers—Frank H. Traendly, chairman; 

 Aubrey G. Nash, P. F. Kessler, W. G. 

 Badgley. Retailers— George E. M. 

 Stumpp, chairman; Max Schling, Har- 

 old G. Perry, C. H. Brown. Greek- 

 American Association — George D. Nich- 

 olas, chairman; Theodore Malandre. 

 Plant Growers ' Association — Anton 

 Schultheis, chairman; A. L. Miller. 

 Brooklyn Retailers— W. A. Rodman, 

 chairman; E. J. McCarthy, W. H. Kueb- 

 ler, Jack Trepel. Supplies— Emil 

 Schloss, chairman; William Reed, Louis 

 Hanfling, Jr., Roman J. Irwin. Green- 

 house Builders— T. Booth De Forest, 

 Philip Cox. Seedsmen — James Mc- 

 Hutchison, W. A. Sperling, Joseph 

 Manda. Press— A. T. DeLaMare, J, H. 

 Pepper, A. M. Henshaw and John 

 Young, ex-officio. 



A long discussion followed, during 

 which ways and means of raising a 

 fund were freely suggested. Those tak- 

 ing part in the discussion were: A. 

 Schultheis, F. H. Traendlv, Curt Thimm, 

 Henr«^eston, W. Kather, P. F. Kess- 

 ler, 'VKA. Rodman. Emil Schloss, W. C. 

 RickPds, Jr., A. T. DeLaMare, W. G. 

 Badgley and E. Dailledouze. The dis- 

 cussion resulted in the production of 

 many plans and ideas, all of which will 

 come before a general meeting of the 

 committee to be held later. 



Exhibit Reports. 



The committee on awards reported 

 upon the exhibits before the club as 

 follows: 



W. A. Manda, Inc., South Orange, 

 N. J. — A varied and highly interesting 

 collection of plants, especially of Dahlia 

 Mandaiana, showing its adaptability to 

 tub or pot culture. Silver medal recom- 

 mended. 



Jacob Hauck, Bloomfield, N. J. — Yel- 

 low sport of Chrysanthemum Early 

 Frost. Appears to be a valuable ac- 

 quisition as an early yellow. Highly 

 commended. 



G. Schlegel, Brooklyn, N. Y., S. G. 



Milosy, gardener — Seedling dahlia. 

 Vote of thanks. 



The report was, on motion, adopted 

 and ordered to be made of record. 



W. A. Manda Thanked. 



On motion of Anton Schultheis, a vote 

 of thanks was passed to Mr. Manda for 

 his splendid exhibit. 



Mr. Manda, in a short address, said 

 that florists generally did not seem to 

 think it desirable to offer the public 

 anything new, or much of a variety of 

 anything old. Usually their lines of 

 plants consisted solely of kentias, Bos- 

 ton ferns and aspidistras. Supposing, 

 he said, women saw in a millinery shop 

 window one style of bonnet year in and 

 year out, what amount of business in 

 bonnets would be done? It was the 

 same in the florists' business. If the 

 public saw interesting plants and novel- 

 ties, they would buy; it would be natural 



George G. Moyse. 



for them to do so. The florists, he 

 thought, were losing a great opportu- 

 nity. 



Ladies' Night PossibiUty. 



The project of having a ladies' night 

 came up for discussion, and the chair 

 appointed Treasurer Rickards as chair- 

 man of a committee to be formed by 

 himself to make the necessary arrange- 

 ments. 



On motion of Mr. Manda, it was or- 

 dered that a special meeting of the club, 

 to which growers should be invited, be 

 held on Monday evening, October 18, 

 for a further discussion on th^ matter 

 of organizing for a publicity campaign, 

 and also to meet J. F. Ammann, secre- 

 tary of the National Flower Growers' 

 Association, who would have an oppor- 

 tunity to address the growers upon the 

 objects of his organization. J. H. P. 



NATIONAL FLOWER GROWERS. 



carry along the work, the association 

 has established an office in the center 

 of the wholesale flower district, at .12 

 Otis street, Boston, Mass., and has 

 placed a competent secretary in charge. 



The work at present i^ field work and 

 a call will be made on each grower who 

 can be reached, explaining to him the 

 object of the association and asking him 

 to join. There are over fifty charter 

 members, and growers controlling over 

 1,500,000 feet of glass have already been 

 signed up. 



The work of indexing all growers in 

 New England is progressing and follow- 

 ing that will be the obtaining of re- 

 liable information about every dealer 

 in flowers. This information will only 

 be available to members of the associa- 

 tion. It is also intended to establish a 

 full registration bureau for greenhouse 

 help and in many other ways to make 

 the association of value to its members. 



Executive Secretary. 



George G. Moyse, whose portrait ap- 

 pears on this page, has been appointed 

 executive secretary of the New England 

 district branch of the National Flower 

 Growers' Association. 



Mr. Moyse is 40 years old and has 

 lived in Newton and Waltham, Mass., 

 for the last thirty years. He received 

 his education in the local schools. North- 

 western University and Boston Univer- 

 sity, where he is at present taking a 

 course in advertising and business man- 

 agement. 



For eight years he was a commis- 

 sioned officer in the National Guard, 

 serving on the Mexican border in 1916 

 and in France for two years. While 

 with the Yankee Division he was com- 

 pany commander in the One Hundred 

 and First Infantry, and for conspicuous 

 service on the field of battle at Chateau 

 Thierry was promoted to the rank of 

 captain, July 20, 1918. He received his 

 discharge with rank of major at the end 

 of the war. 



Mr. Moyse has served his city for two 

 years on the board of aldermen and 

 was a member of the Massachusetts leg- 

 islature in 1920. He belongs to the Ma- 

 sonic fraternity. Odd Fellows, Knights 

 of Pythias, Waltham Chamber of Com- 

 merce and the American Legion. He is 

 married and lives with his wife and 

 daughter at Waltham, Mass. 



New England Branch. 



The New England district branch of 

 the National Flower Growers ' Associa- 

 tion is now hard at work getting the 

 association into working order. Realiz- 

 ing the difficulty of having to depend 

 on a few enthusiastic individuals to 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



The pessimist: "It can't be done." 

 The optimist: "It can be done." 

 The peptimist: "I have done it." 



• • • • 



Hugh Seales, of Birmingham, Ala., 

 is in the last class. He is also a fu- 

 turist, firmly believing in the future of 

 the business if carried along practical 

 lines. He says that trade was never 

 better and warrants the erection of more 

 glass, even at the prevailing prices. A 

 new house, 30x150 feet, in roses has al- 

 most paid for itself in one season. Hugh 

 Seales, Jr., has charge of the green- 

 houses, while the senior Seales oversees 

 the store and nursery departments. Ap- 

 ropos of outdoor herbaceous stock, Mr. 

 Seales acknowledges, after many years 

 of experience in both north and south, 

 that the Great Lakes region has the 

 ideal climate for the most successful 

 commercial growing of such stock. He 

 claims, and correctly so, to be the first 

 grower who came down from the north 

 and proved carnations could be success- 

 fully grown in the south. W. M. 



