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The Florists^ Review 



June 23, 1921 



Keport of the meeting of the American 

 Peony Society, at Boston June 18 and 

 19, which was attended by a number of 

 nurserymen, is found on a forward page 

 of this issue. 



The partnership name of Pfund's 

 Nursery, of Elmhurst, III., has been 

 dropped, as there was a recent incorpora- 

 tion, and the name of the Pfund Nursery 

 Co. has been adopted as the corporate 

 title. The officers of the corporation are: 

 President, Paul Pfund; vice-president, 

 Lee Pfund, and secretary and treasurer, 

 Bruce Bell. The company now has 125 

 acres devoted to the growing of nursery 

 stock. 



To the trade William Peterson, pro- 

 prietor of Peterson Nursery, Chicago, is 

 known as a collector of peonies, but he is 

 equally famous in other circles for other 

 collections. Last week in a window of 

 the State Bank of Chicago, of which Mr. 

 Peterson is a director, were several 

 valuable specimens of Swedish copper- 

 plate money from his private collection. 

 These dated back to the early part of 

 the eighteenth century, when long con- 

 tinued foreign wars drew all the gold and 

 silver money out of currency and the 

 bottoms of copper kettles were ham- 

 mered out to pass for coin. The govern- 

 ment's stamp on them made such copper 

 plates pass for higher value, the amount 

 depending upon the character of the 

 imprint. 



A. A. N. OPENS CONVENTION. 



Big Attendance at Chicago. 



The business-like program laid out by 

 Henry B. Chase, M. E. Cashman and 

 E. S. "Welch, bringing before members 

 of the association frank discussion of 

 its principal problems, attracted a large 

 and interested attendance at the open- 

 ing of the forty-sixth annual conven- 

 tion of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen, at Chicago, June 22. A 

 good many were there the day before, 

 when the executive committee held an 

 open session in the Elizabethan room at 

 the Congress hotel to talk over in a 

 preliminary way the matters outlined 

 on the program. 



It was planned to devote sessions to 

 the discussion of market development 

 publicity, the trade-mark, the offices of 

 executive secretary and traffic man- 

 ager, and the schedule of dues. Speak- 

 ers were picked to lead the discussion 

 on each topic, open discussion to follow, 

 with a final vote at one of the closing 

 sessions. 



Opening Session. 



The opening session, Wednesday 

 morning, June 22, was given over to the 

 customary routine exercises. After the 

 call to order by President Lloyd C. 

 Stark, the invocation was delivered by 

 Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston. Greet- 

 ings were offered by Arnold Joerns, rep- 

 resenting the Association of Commerce. 



After President Stark had responded 

 to the greeting of Captain Joerns, he 

 called on J. W. Hill, of Des Moines, to 

 introduce Former Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture E. C. Meredith, who spoke in the 



stead of the present secretary, H. C. 

 Wallace, who was unable to attend. Mr. 

 Meredith discussed the work of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, pointing out 

 the opportunities for research work cur- 

 tailed because Congress cut appropria- 

 tions for it in order to spend money for 

 free seeds and the Agricultural Year 

 Book, 



Dr. Vandercleve, of the Chamber of 

 Commerce of the United States, spoke 

 on the methods of coordinating business 

 interests which have grown up of neces- 

 sity in late years. 



Prof. L. C. Corbett, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, was 

 called upon by President Stark and 

 spoke upon the work of the department 

 in behalf of nurserymen. 



The report of A. M. Augustine, chair- 

 man of the committee on arrangements, 

 consisted of an expression of" its inten- 

 tion to do the best it could. 



For the program committee, Chair- 

 man Henry B. Chase thanked Secretary 

 Watson for his assistance and hoped the 

 program laid out would result in a more 

 united and stronger association. 



In the place of Dr. C. L. Marlatt, 

 chairman of the Federal Horticultural 

 Board, Dr. Karl F, Kellerman, associate 

 chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 and a member of the board, spoke on 

 "The Situation as to Future Imports of 

 Fruit Tree Seedlings," but could give 

 no definite prognostications. 



Upon the conclusion of Dr. Keller- 

 man's remarks the meeting adjourned 

 until afternoon, when the president's 

 address and the reports of several im- 

 portant committees were taken up. 

 Secretary Watson's Beport. 



The report of Secretary Watson, 

 which was printed in the form of a 36- 

 page pamphlet, contained a number of 

 interesting items, devoted though it 

 was to the presentation of financial 

 facts in cold figures. 



The credit and collection bureau, it 

 showed, collected a total of $16,319.40 

 during the year, for ninety-six members 

 of the association. Of this $629.49 ac- 

 crued to the association as fees. 



A list of members and the dues paid 

 to June 7, 1921, showed 283 had paid a 

 total of $28,471.88. Eighteen more had 

 paid partial dues, totaling $370, twenty- 

 three had not paid their 1920 dues, and 

 twenty-six had resigned, six of whom 



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had paid something on their dues. Tlie 

 association's income from dues for the 

 year, to June 7, was therefore. $28,- 

 841.88. Twenty-seven new members 

 had been added near or since the first 

 of the year, who have paid $915 in ali. 

 The disbursements to June 1 were 

 summarized by Mr. Watson as follows, 

 detailed statement by voucher bein^i; 

 made in the report: 



Total $28,557.79 



Less amount of canceled voucher 16.2.') 



$28,541.54 

 The tabulation below shows how 

 many of the members who paid full 

 dues were in each class, according to 

 their volume of business, as indicated 

 by the dues paid. The $10 dues are 

 paid by firms not nurserymen who rank 

 as associate members: 



Number 

 Dues paid members 



We Thank You 



For your spring trade and 

 will be pleased to serve 

 you for fall 1921 and 

 spring 1922. 



Call and see our growing 

 stock. Visitors always 

 welcome. 



Onarga Nursery Company 



CULTRA BROS., Managers 

 ONARGA, - ILLINOIS 



