Al'uusT 2'., 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



more, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, 

 St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, 

 Washington, Reading, Tri-City, Cincin- 

 nati, Lancaster, Hartford and Boston 

 florists' clubs; American Carnation, 

 Chrysanthemum, Ohio (iladiolus, Knox 

 ville, Maine State and Portland florists' 

 societies; Indiana, Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kansas, 

 Texas, Pittsburgh, Tri-State and Illi- 

 nois state florists' associations. 



Your committee has, from checking 

 over these various organization mem- 

 bership lists with the S. A. F. mcmber- 

 shi]) list, been able to get some inter 

 esting data. For instance, we found 

 from the thirty-three lists checked that 

 there are a total of 4,39'J members be- 

 longing to these organizations. Of this 

 number 1,827 are also R. A. F. members 

 and '2,~>T2 are not. 



It does seem from these figures that 

 there is yet a lot of missionary work 

 to be done within the branch organiza- 

 tions. Of course, we must remember 

 that a large number of the membership 

 of every florists' club are emploj^ees; 

 then, too, the cheeking on the above 

 lists was done during May. Just why 

 more did not res])ond we do not know; 

 we only hope they may yet get in line 

 and lielp this worthy cause. 



To the request for the appointment of 

 local committees, the response was much 

 less. Yet we did succeed in getting 

 committees appointed from the follow- 

 ing organizations: New York, Chicago, 

 Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Balti- 

 more, Washington, D. C; Kansas City, 

 Milwaukee and Tri-City florists' clubs 

 and the Minnesota and Indiana state as- 

 sociations. Almost all of these did fair- 

 ly good work, but, like ourselves, might 

 have done better. 



Record Workers. 



We next went after our vice-presi- 

 dents and many of them surely showed 

 the metal they were made of. Here 

 are just a few of their records: D. C. 

 Horgaii, of Georgia, turned in to date 

 forty new members, some of them life 

 members. Oklahoma to date lias reached 

 the peak, A. S. Gray, president of the 

 state association, having turned in for- 

 ty-five members. We know not what 

 part George L. Stiles, the vice-presi- 

 dent, played in this, but no doubt he 

 was on the firing line. 



We are glad to report that we had 

 the hearty cooperation of the trade 

 press. All told, we received over 2,000 

 lines of free reading space during this 

 drive, besides several strong editorials 

 urging florists to join the S. A. F. In 

 addition to the trade ])ress publicity 

 over 100,000 pieces of mail matter, in- 

 cluding letters, circulars and applica- 

 tion bbuiks, were sent out. When we 

 stop to think how much advertising it 

 takes to sell a tlorist a $"> membership 

 in the S. A. F., it is no wonder we 

 must s]icnd so much in advertising to 

 get tlie pul)lic to purchase .'ill our flow 

 ers. Hut it is the same old story; \vf 

 have to sell the florist first, and that's 

 some job, we say. 



The ^total money spent by the com- 



Inittee to date is as follows: 



I'rinting $-.'10 r,n 



SionoRrapluT \:i^ (hi 



TostaRe 177. 'JJ 



IvioKrams 411 



Kxpress 2.0.'t 



Typewritor ribbons. ni)tel)ooks l.fio 



Carhon paper . ■. 1.40 



Total $.-)34.89 



All of this was raised by individual 

 members and not ]i;iid out of the S. A. 



Pommert's Nev/ Gladiolus, Purity. 



F. treasury. The total results ot our 

 work can only be checked from the sec- 

 retary 's hooks, !is all ai)]ilications were 

 ordered sent directly to his oflice. If 

 this does not show an increase of at 

 least 1,000 memiiers, we shall be dis- 

 appointed, indei'd, but not discouraged. 



\Ve wish, in closing, to thank heartily 

 .ill individuals and organi/at ions who 

 have taken an active part in this com- 

 paign, ;ind the trade journals especially 

 for their hearty coiiperation. 



We welcome those new members who 

 have joined our ranks. May they ever 

 keep in mind the one fact, that an or- 

 ganization is like ;i business or a bank 

 account — you can only draw out of it 

 in ])roportion to the amount you put in. 

 be it time, money or service. And let 

 this be our motto. "He who serves 

 most, serves best."' 



To those memlK-rs, st.ate vice presi- 

 dents and local organizations that have 

 not yet entenvl into this struggle for 

 the future welfare and jirogress of our 

 dear old society, \\i' extend a hearty 

 welcome to join U'- ami help' niak(^ this 



a banner \i>ar 

 for the S. A. F 



^ecuving mein hership 



GLADIOLUS PURITY. 



I iladiolus growers expressed much in- 

 terest ill the new variety shown by 

 ('liarles Pommert, of Ameli;i, O., at the 

 S. A. F. convention .'it Washington, 

 those expert in growing gladioli for cut 

 (lowers declaring its arrangement of the 

 toliage especially adajited for that pur- 

 pose. Mr. I'ommert had worked with 

 America and had olit.ained an imjiroved 

 strain that has been niuidi v.alued in the 

 <'incinnati marked. The sport from that 

 strain, of which he has been working 

 u]) stock for seven years, has been even 

 Ix'tter welcomed tliere. The color of 

 tile bloom is pure white, with faint 

 llesh markings. It is shown in the ac- 

 cemptmying illustration. Mr. Pommert 

 jiians to put the variety on the market 

 shortly. 



Charles Pommert himself is not now- 

 active in the business he built up at 

 Amelia. His son, John Pommert, is 

 manager of the Glen Mary I'ish Farm 

 ;ind lik(>wise of tin' i^inwiiig operations. 



