NOVEMBEH 26. 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



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MEMPHIS MEETING 9Z 



TENNESSEE CONVENTION. 



Meeting at Memphis. 



The seventh iininiul convent ion df the 

 Tennessee State Florists' Associiit ion 

 was held at Menipliia, Tenn., Weilnesday 

 :nul Thursday, November 17 and 18. 

 The election of officers, Iield Wednesday 

 ai'tern(ton, resulted as follows: 



I'resident, W. H. Englehart, of the 

 Jdlewild Greenhouses, Mein])his. 



Vice})resident, Harold M. Joy, of 

 Nashville. 



.Secret ary-treasur(>r, G. IM. Beatley, of 

 Knoxville. 



The next jjlace >of meetiny; will be 

 Chattanooga. The vice-president and 

 secretary-treasurer were reiJlected from 

 Inst year. 



Make Membership Mark. 



At the close of the convention it was 

 announced that the Tennessee State 

 Florists' Association was entitled to a 

 seat on the board of directors of the 

 y. A. V. The necessary (jualitication of 

 the association was a membership of 

 lifty in the national organization. This 

 membership wa.s reached by a special 

 campaign conducted during the conven- 

 tion. 



The morning of November 17 was 

 devoted almost entirely to speech-mak- 

 ing. The convention was called to or- 

 der at 10:00 a. m. in the Chamber of 

 Commerce building by W. Cleveland 

 Johnson, of Memphis, chairman of the 

 arrangement committee. Mayor Paine, 

 on behalf of the city of M(>mphis, wel 

 corned the delegates to the city, nnd 

 when lie had concluded liis reuinrks. 

 A. J. McNutt, of Knoxville, tlu- retiring 

 [iresident, gav(> liLs address. 



President '.s Address. 



In his address I'resident .McNutt 

 touched upon some i)reseiit pniblems of 

 tlie trade. He said: 



"We liope to solve s('\ii;il dillicuit 

 problems at tliis meeting, one (^f which 

 is publicity. J feel sure that there i^ 

 no better way than to tie up in some 

 way with tlie national publicity com- 

 mittee and 'Say It with Flowers' to the 

 limit. 



"The coal situation is a most impor- 

 tant one for the growers. The ones 

 who did not buy their supply of coal 

 before government control censed are 

 having to pay two or three times the 

 price of last season. It behooves all of 

 lis to use every menus to save coal. The 

 speaker has recently installed a shaker 

 grate bar that is iiroving to be a great 

 cnal saver over the old-style grate I>ar. 



"Wliethei- or not you believe in using 

 artificial tlowers, I think our supi>ly 

 houses deserxe ;t great denl of credit for 

 pushing this end of their line. Although 

 the si)eaker docs /lot lielie\«' h\ using 

 them when yon li;i\t' tlie real, it is be- 

 yond dis[)ute that they saved the day 

 when the real tlowers could luit be liad. 

 I will l(\-ive this subject for your discus- 

 sion, as yon will have two ))npers on this 

 subiect, which I n'n ^ure will jirove help- 

 ful.' 



"We, as mciulicr< nf the Tennessee 

 State Florists" Association, should feel 

 .iustly jiroiid that we li;i\i Thomns H. 



.loy, of X.'ishville, ns ;i nu'iiiber of the 

 board of directors of the S. A. F., and 

 Karl P. Bnum, of Knoxville, as an F. T. 

 iJ. director. While we nre proud to have 

 these men to rejjrcsent this stnte, noth- 

 ing would give the speaker nuire j)leas 

 ure than to assure the incoming presi- 

 dent that he is entitled to a directorship 

 of tlie S. A. F. This we cnji do by get- 

 ling fifty of our members to become 

 members of the S. A. F. A])])licatioii 

 binnks will be furnished to all who will 

 join at this time. ' ' 



I'rof. G. M. Bent ley, secietary-t reas 

 iirer, re|>oiteil a sntisfactory state of af- 

 t'iiiis linaiicinlly. The rest of the mor- 

 ning session was devoted to addresses, 

 including "'Birthdny Flowers," by Vin- 

 cent .1. (iorly, St. Louis, Mo., and "Na- 

 tional I'nblicity, " by George Asmus, of 

 Chicago. Air. Asmus was unable to de 

 liver his address in person, but sent a 

 |in])ei- to be read. 



Interesting Addresses. 



The iifleiiioon session November 17 

 I'oniinenced with the election of otlicers 

 ;ind rejioits of committees. An address 

 (oi •■|)oing^ of the F. T. I). " was de 

 livered by Karl P. Baum, Knoxville, 

 Tenn., and pioved quite interesting. Mr. 

 Baum dealt with the rapid growth of 

 the F. T. D. and particularly with the 

 effect of the recent convention at In 

 dianapolis on the standing of the trade. 

 He stated that there were sixteen Teii- 



)ics^i c members ot' tin- .issocKition aiul 

 liop'jvl that .soon tlu'ic -.voii) I Kc more 

 than this. 



Other ad<lresses for the ir'tcinoou were 

 ''Substitutes for Debarred j'.hnnninj: 

 I'lnntv." by (.'arl Hngenl.nrgei-. West 

 .Mentor, f)..';uid "A Trtivel TalkOn the 

 Orient,"' by A. Miller, of the Anieiicnn 

 Hulb ('o,. Chiciigo. ^Ir. Millei- «|)oke in 

 .•111 eutertnining ni.Tnner it' hi- triji to 

 .lapan recently and was greeted witli 

 nnich npplause at his conclusion, 



The evening session opened .-it 7:t."i 

 \>. in. niid included an address on '■Lil> 

 Culture in llie South,'" by Prof. K. N. 

 l.tdiel, of the .Mississippi Agi iciilt iiia I 

 < olieee. 



Motion Pictures. 



Milt ion pictures were shoi\:i it' ll,,ily 

 wood (iardens, Seattle, Wash., and of 

 • iude Pros. Co., Washington. D. C. These 

 Were t'cdloweil li\ :i >eries of jidvertl-- 

 ing slides donated liy I'enri the l-'lori'-t, 

 of Boston. 



Heating and cooling -ivstems were 

 discu^sed by I'red Lautenschlager, of 

 Kroeschell Bro^. t.'o., <_'hicago, in an in- 

 teresting address delivered at the Thurs- 

 day morning session, Nov.>mber IS. This 

 was followed b\- an address on green- 

 house construction by Ilfirold Joy, of 

 Xasln ille, Tenn.. \i<'e pro'sideat of tlie 

 association. i 



Sydney H. Bayer>dorreJj, .,i Fidladel- 

 phia, was un.'ibli' to jireselii: his address 

 on "Florists' Problems m Etivope"' in 



Addison ]. McNutt. 



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