NOVBMBER 13, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



35 



Dutch bulbs came. My charge is worse 

 than that, eleven cases costing $37.80. 

 What is far worse, I cannot learn that 

 they even have been unloaded yet at 

 New York. When the bulbs finally ar- 

 rive, there will be a lot more charges. 

 This is my first experience in buying 

 direct from Holland. I know what the 



duty is, but that is all; I have not the 

 least idea what the bulbs finally will 

 cost me." 



From Gould Bros., Glenview, 111.: 

 ' ' We recently received an invoice for 

 Holland bulbs with duty added at the 

 rate of $2.50 per thousand on hyacinths, 

 50 cents per thousand on tulips and $1 



per thousand on daffodils. As the first 

 charge seems exceedingly high to us, we 

 are writing to inquire if these charges 

 are correct. As you no doubt know, all 

 bulbs were sold this year f. o. b. Holland 

 and, with duty, ocean freight, inland 

 freight and numerous other charges, the 

 delivered price is exceedingly high." 



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ANNUAL MEETING. 



Held in New York. 



The annual meeting of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America was held 

 in one of the meeting rooms of the En- 

 gineering building, at 4 p. m. Novem- 

 ber 5, with a small attendance. The 

 president, Wm. Vert, read his address 

 and the secretary and treasurer pre- 

 sented their reports, all of which were 

 discussed. No new business was brought 

 up, and the proceedings were more or 

 less of a formal character. 



Officers Elected. 



The following officers were elected: 



President — Thos. W. Head, Lake For- 

 est, HI. 



Vice-president — Z, D. Blackistone, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Secretary — Charles W. Johnson, Mor- 

 gan Park, HI. 



Treasurer — Charles H. Totty, Madi- 

 son, N. J. 



The next meeting and exhibition was 

 voted to be held in Washington, D. C. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDBESS. 



[The president's annual address, delivered by 

 William W. Vert, at the meeting of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America, at New York, No- 

 vember 6.] 



Another year has rolled around and we 

 find ourselves once again attending the 

 annual meeting of this society. 



It will be recalled that at the last 

 meeting no invitation was extended to 

 hold the exhibition in any other city; so 

 the management of the American Insti- 

 tute kindly volunteered to give us this 

 building again, and their offer was 

 gratefully accepted. 



We have experienced this fall a most 

 peculiar season, such as we have never 

 had before to the best of my recollec- 

 tion. The warm, muggy weather seems 

 to have injured blooms in many sec- 

 tions and some of our finest flowers will, 

 I am afraid, be missing from the exhibi- 

 tions this year. The exceedingly warm 

 fall has also operated to the disadvan- 

 tage of the commercial growers, because 

 we still have blooming in excellent con- 

 dition dahlias, gladioli and other fall- 

 blooming plants, which come into com- 

 petition with the chrysanthemums in the 

 market and which have made a poor 

 market for the earliest flowers this year. 

 The influenza epidemic, which created 

 considerable demand for chrysanthe- 

 mums last year, is also missing this 

 year, but for this we are thankful. 



Need of Greater Interest. 



It is a matter of regret that a larger 

 interest cannot be created in this so- 

 ciety to make our annual meeting better 

 attended. If any member has sugges- 



tions to offer along this line, we shall 

 be happy to receive them. 



I should like at this time to say a 

 "■^ood>.word for the secretary, who has 

 been so instrumental in keeping the so- 

 ciety together. I feel some recognition 

 should be given him, since the salary he 

 receives at the present time can only be 

 considered more as a joke than anything 

 else. I hope this motion will prevail 

 and that he will be compensated in some 

 reasonable degree for his valuable 

 services. 



The action of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board in shutting off all imports 

 from foreign countries will possibly 

 limit to some extent the number of new 

 varieties distributed in America. I hope 

 this will be the means of getting more 

 members interested in hybridizing for 

 new varieties. I do not feel that enough 

 work is being done along these lines. 



Stanch Support. 



In closing I want particularly to thank 

 the members of the committees, who 

 have done and are doing their work with- 

 out any recompense in the different large 

 cities in judging the new varieties. 



I am much obliged to the members 

 for their support in the past and will 

 say at this time that I am no longer a 

 candidate for reelection, on account of 

 the nature of my business, as I do not 

 grow chrysanthemums to any extent any 

 more. I am sure that you will find a 

 worthy successor, one able to carry on 

 the work of the society better than I 

 have done in the past. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



[This Is the report of Secretary Charles W. 

 Johnson, presented at the meeting of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, New York city, 

 November 5.] 



Since the society decided at its last 

 meeting to hold the eighteenth annual 

 meeting and exhibition in conjunction 

 with the American Institute of the city 

 of New York, the first work of the sec- 

 retary for the year was the solicitation 

 of thNe special premiums and the arrang- 

 ing of tlre^ special premium schedule, 

 which, through the courtesy of William 

 A. Eagleson, secretary of the board of 

 managers of the American Institute, was 

 mailed to all members of the society. 



During the season of 1918 there were 

 submitted to the examining committees 

 for examination forty varieties, of 

 which thirty-four were seedlings and six 

 were sports of existing varieties. 



Four Varieties Registered. 



Four varieties were offered for regis- 

 tration, as follows: 



November 11, 3 918 — Victory, seedling, white, 

 Japanese Incurved, by Elmer D. Smith & Co., 

 Adrian, Mich. 



November 22, 1918 — Marie Louise, bronze, 

 sport of variety Patty, by the Davis Floral Co., 

 Davenport, la. 



February 7, 1919 — January Gold, golden yel- 

 low, sport of variety Mistletoe, by the IJ. M. 

 Smith Quality Flower Co., Laurel, Del. 



February 7, 1919 — Dr. Hitch, white and lav- 

 ender pink shading to yellow, sport of variety 

 January Gold, by the L. M, Smith Quality 

 Flower Co., Laurel, Del. 



Cooperation Against Pests. 



The season of 1919 has been a good 

 growing season for chrysanthemums 

 planted for commercial and exhibition 

 purposes and many more have been 

 planted than heretofore. The depreda- 

 tions of the insect pests are a difficult 

 problem for the growers to overcome 

 and form a subject that should receive 

 consideration by the members of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society, which should 

 have the support of all growers of chrys- 

 anthemums to help find out the best 

 methods of combating the many insects 

 that now attack the plants. If the nu- 

 merous chrysanthemum growers of the 

 country who have these difficulties to 

 overcome will only cooperate with the 

 society, their cooperation will be of 

 benefit to themselves as well as to the 

 members of the society. 



The routine work of the secretary's 

 office, consisting of sending out state- 

 ments to the members, recording the va- 

 rieties disseminated, getting out the re- 

 port of the seventeenth annual meeting 

 and soliciting special premiums, was at- 

 tended to in due season. 



Appreciations. 



Your secretary wishes to acknowledge 

 the kindness of Elmer D. Smith in fur- 

 nishing him with a complete list of va- 

 rieties disseminated in 1918, which was 

 a great help in getting up the annual 

 report. 



To the examining committees is due 

 the appreciation of the society for their 

 most efficient work in the judging of the 

 new varieties submitted to them. 



The trade papers, as heretofore, gen- 

 erously published all notices sent to 

 them from time to time during the year, 

 for which courtesy we owe to them a 

 vote of thanks. 



The Society's Loss. 



Since our last meeting we have suf- 

 fered a great loss through the death of 

 Frank A. Friedley, of Cleveland, O. Mr. 

 Friedley was a leader in all the trade 

 activities of Cleveland and was in 

 charge of a great deal of the work at 

 the shows held at the time of our meet- 

 ings there. He was also vice-president 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica in 1914-15. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



At the meeting of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America in New York, No- 

 vember 5, Treasurer J. N. May sub- 

 mitted a detailed report of the receipts 



