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liquidate a portion of our liability ou 

 the national flower show premium fund. 

 Pledges to the amount of $560 were 

 handed in and the secretary was in- 

 structed to continue soliciting pledges, 

 which resulted in raising the total to 

 $835 in cash and one $15 silver cup; 

 $785 of this has been paid in. We 

 should be glad to receive additional 

 contributions sufficient to swell the 

 total to $1,000, one-half of the amount 

 of the carnation premium list. 



"Your secretary has attended the 

 two meetings of the national flower 

 show committee, where arrangements 

 were made for the fifth national flower 

 .show, in Cleveland, March 25 to April 1. 

 The first was held in New York March 

 16 and the other in Cleveland November 

 18. Arrangements were made to have 

 the traveling expenses of all participat- 

 ing in these meetings paid out of the 

 national flower show fund and charged 

 up against the receipts of the show. 

 Arrangements for this show are progres- 

 sing satisfactorily. All the various de- 

 partments are working in complete har- 

 mony and a grand exhibition is assured. 

 We are expecting the members of this 

 society to stage the grandest exhibition 

 of carnations ever seen anywhere. We 

 completed the premium schedule as per 

 instructions and submitted it to the 

 national flower show committee, wliich 

 adopted it without change. 



Begistration. 



"During the last year eleven seedling 

 and three sport varieties were offered 

 for registration. One of the sport va- 

 rieties was not submitted to our judges 

 for verification and could not be placed 

 on the register. 



"The annual report was issued and 

 mailed to our members. The premium 

 schedule for this exhibition was mailed 

 to our members and some 600 non-mem- 

 bers. The additional cost being so 

 slight, we recommend that this jjractice 

 be continued. Special notices were 

 printed gratis bv the trade ])ress and 

 our thanks are due them for their gen- 

 erous support. 



"This joint exhibition with the 

 American Rose Society and the Hart 

 ford Florists' Club has developed into 

 an all-around flower show. Early en- 

 tries indicated a heavy showing of the 

 divine flower. The society's thanks are 

 due the Hartford florists for interest 

 shown and special credit is due our 

 worthy vice-j)resident, Mr. Osborii, for 

 his untiring efforts to make this a ban- 

 ner show and for looking after our com- 

 forts while in Hartford. 



"We now have 243 members in the S. 

 A. F.. which entitles us to a director- 

 ship in th<' parent society. 



"At the Washington meeting we 

 asked to be relieved of the duties of 

 the secretary's office at the expiration 

 of the present year. We hope that you 

 have made provision for our successor. 

 "These thirteen years of service have 

 been filled with unbounded pleasure in 

 the continual assurance of your confi- 

 dence and your whole-hearted su]iport. 

 We bespeak for tlie new secretary a 

 continuation of these liappy relations." 



Waco, Tex. — Michael Calahan has 

 placed an order with Buchbinder Bros., 

 •Chicago, for a large display refrigerator. 



Holland, Mich.— Mrs. Martha Del- 

 foung is a grower of gladioli, irises and 

 peonies on a large scale. She plans to 

 'begin marketing in 1922. 



W. Wallace Thomson. 



(I'icslilciil of till- Florists' Club of Hartford.) 



NATIONAL GROWERS' MEETING. 



Secretary Summarizes Year. 



The National Flower (irowers' As 

 sociation held its annual meeting at 

 Hartford, Conn., this week in connec- 

 tion with the exhibition tliere of tlie 

 American Carnation Society. The 

 chief business was the revision of the 

 by-laws and constitution. In liis re- 

 jiort at the oju'ning of tlie meeting. 

 Secretary J. F. Amman n siiinmarizeil 

 the ])rogress of their organization thus: 



"This is the second annual meeting 

 of our association, and I want to 

 touch briefly upon a f"w of the achieve- 

 ments to date. 



"We now liave a total of 384 mem- 

 bers. These represent ownership of ap- 

 jiroximately 20,0()(i,()()0 square feet of 

 glass. I til ink we can well congratu- 

 late ourselves on the progress made in 

 so short a space of time. Five of our 

 district organizations are doing a great 

 deal of good towards advancing the 

 interests of the producer. Many grow- 

 ers who are 7iot yet members of our 

 organization have been greatly bene- 

 fited by its activity and achievements, 

 meats. 



"One of the great benefits has been 

 the educational propaganda on the 

 necessity of the grower becoming an 

 advertiser. In many communities the 

 growers arc responding well and mani- 

 festing much interest in this great 

 movement. 



"Then, too, much constructive work 

 is going on in the matter of bettering 

 our business conditions. The producing 



of better stock and economies in the 

 jiroductive work along all lines are be- 

 ing brought about by the open discus- 

 sions at our district meetings. How- 

 ever, all this only means that our work 

 has just begun, and it behooves all of 

 us to keep jdugging away. 



Hard Work Still Needed. 



"This work is yet new, the organiza- 

 tion yet young; and it ii only with the 

 best efforts put forth that we shall even- 

 tual !♦ succeed in reaching the desired 

 goflT* On our way, we, no doubt, shall 

 find the road rough in places, and we 

 shall even find it obstructeil at times, 

 compelling us to detour. But let's keep 

 on going, even if we occxisionally have 

 to stoj) to ]iick u\> some weak brother 

 iilcng the road, who is about to give up 

 t!ie fight. We must sacrifice both time 

 :ipiil money, of course, but let us re- 

 member that every great reform or 

 moveiuent has had to pay a similar 

 ])rice. 



"One of the important matters up 

 for consideration at this meeting is the 

 levision of the constitution and by- 

 laws. These revisions, as proposed, will 

 greatly reduce the cost to members in 

 the way of dues and assessments. After 

 careful consideration and a great deal of 

 discussion, the officers are submitting 

 this proposed change with a view of 

 materially increasing the membership in 

 the coming year. Let us hope this will 

 be the case. Consider wi.sely all these 

 changes and remember that this work, 

 when finally adoi)ted, will be another 

 addition to our already well built struc- 

 ture." 



