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The RoHbsts* Review 



August 25, 1921 



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Association of Park Superintendents at 

 Detroit this week. 



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When the excursion steamer had ar- 

 rived at Mt. Vernon Friday afternoon, 

 with several hundred florists aboard, 

 the splendid setting was employed by 

 William F. Gude for the presentation to 

 President Thomas Eoland of a chest of 

 silver. At the same time Mrs. Gude 

 presented to Mrs. Asmus, retiring presi- 

 dent of the Ladies' S. A. F., a beautiful 

 ring. A wreath was laid on the tomb 

 of George Washington at Mt. Vernon. 



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Saturday morning, August 20, a small 

 group of florists called on President and 

 Mrs. Harding at the White House. 

 Miss M. C. Gunterberg, newly elected 

 president of the Ladies' S. A. F., pre- 

 sented the president with a bunch of 

 white gladioli. At the same time Mrs. 

 Ella G. Wilson invited President and 

 Mrs. Harding to attend the national 

 flower show at Cleveland next March, 

 and received the assurance that they 

 would if it were possible. A basket of 

 roses and delphiniums were presented to 



Mrs. Harding. 



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Only the inability of the exhibition 

 floor to support it prevented the display 

 of the usual Kroeschell boiler. Fred 

 Lautenschlager took one to Washing- 

 ton, where it was installed in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture greenhouses. 



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Joseph Manda held the office of judge 

 of election. The president appointed 

 as tellers for the proceedings C. G. An- 

 derson, Arno H. Nehrling, S. R. Lundy, 

 Walter E. Cook, James Wilson, James 

 McLaughlin, Fred Lautenschlager, Jo- 

 seph Kohout, Carl Hagenburger, Pat- 

 rick Welch, J. G. Esler, J. A. Peterson, 

 C. P. Mueller, E. H. Mann, A. L. Miller, 

 W. J. Keimel, Robert Plumb, Robert L. 

 Graham, I. S. Hendrickson, F. H. 

 Traendly, J. G. Lane, C. C. Pollworth, 

 Paul Klingsporn, J. H. Pepper and A. F. 

 J. P)jiur. Since some were not able to 

 be jircsent for duty, thoir places were 

 fa ken by volunteers. 



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A paster on the program of the open- 



ing session substituting the name of 

 Charles H. Grakelow, of Philadelphia, 

 for that of J. K. M. L. Farquhar, of Bos- 

 ton, as responder to the addresses of 

 welcome, recalled poignantly to his 

 many friends the recent demise of the 

 Boston leader. 



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Responding heartily to the gift of the 

 1922 convention, the Kansas City Flo- 

 rists' Club, through T. J. Noll, its presi- 

 dent, and William Wade, its secretary, 

 wired enthusiastically regarding next 

 year's meeting. 



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Since practically all of the conven- 

 tion sessions were reported by telegraph 

 in last week's issue of The Review, the 

 finding of but one error in the printed 

 account reveals improved service over 

 the wires. It was unfortimate that 

 William F. Gude was said to have read 

 Henry Penn's report, for he had enough 

 to do on the program without that. 

 Secretary Young, of course, was writ- 

 ten. 



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Greetings from J. Austin Shaw, now 

 invalided in California, were presented 

 by Mrs. Ella G. Wilson, who urged his 

 old friends to send him occasional en- 

 couraging word. 



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No item on the program aroused so 

 much discussion as did the report of the 

 membership committee presented by J. 

 F. Ammann, which appears on another 

 page of this issue. The opinion ap- 

 peared prevalent that the society could 

 profitably use a greater revenue if it 

 could be obtained, but the means of 

 raising it proposed were widely diverse. 

 That the society lacks funds today was 

 strenuously denied; conservative ex- 

 penditure has kept the finances in as 

 sound a state as could be desired. 



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 Ex-president Theodore Wirth, super- 

 intendent of parks of Minneapolis, tele- 

 gra])hod liis regrets at being prevented 

 from attending the Washington conven- 

 tion by the gathering of the American 



As the only greenhouse structure on 

 the floor, the section showing the new 

 steel-bar construction of the American 

 Greenhouse Mfg. Co. secured many 

 growers' attention. The structure 

 afterwards was taken to New York, to 

 be erected on the mezzanine floor of the 

 Eighteenth street flower market, where 

 the company will have its office after 

 the flrst of next month, next to that of 



the S. A. F. 



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Herman P. Knoble and Mrs. Ella G. 

 Wilson, while in Washington, secured 

 the promise of Senator Theodore E. 

 Burton to open the national flower show 

 at Cleveland next March. Perhaps it 

 will be possible to have President Hard- 

 ing push a button in Washington for 



the event. 



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The three surviving members of the 

 one-time Baltimore ladies' bowling 

 team, Mrs. Fred Bauer, Mrs. Harry 

 Klein and Mrs. James W. Boone, brought 

 flowers to decorate the grave of Mrs. 

 George C. Shaffer, so active as a hostess 

 in the days when Baltimore-Washington 

 matches were frequent. 



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After declaring the convention open, 

 Otto Bauer, president of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington, turned over the 

 gavel to the Washingtonian best fitted 

 to wield it, William F. Gude, who pre- 

 sided during the welcoming speeches in 

 his inimitable manner ere turning the 

 symbol of authority over to President 



Roland. 



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The ladies, at the meeting of their so- 

 ciety, listened to an interesting address 

 on disarmament by Mrs. Clara Sears 

 Taylor. The address of President Mrs. 

 George Asmus, containing several help- 

 ful recommendations, was thought most 



stimulating. 



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Voting on the directors Thursday 

 morning resulted in the following 

 count: Wallace R. Pierson, 100; Fred 

 L. Atkins, 92; William F. Ekas, 73. 

 Messrs. Pierson and Atkins were de- 

 clared directors for the ensuing three 

 years at the following session. 

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Appropriately, the A. L. Randall Co., 

 Chicago, passed out fans of the board 

 of which the firm's new green cloud cut 



flower boxes are made. 



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Never has the society held so notable 

 a president's reception as that in the 

 United States Botanical Gardens, under 



Part of the Visitors at the Convention of the Society of American Florists at Washington Last Week 



