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The Florists^ Review 



Septembkr 1, 1921 



THE TORONTO CONVENTION. 



F. T. D. Meeting in October. 



The invasion of Canada will take 

 place Tuesday, October 11, when the 

 3-daj' convention of the F. T. D. will 

 open at Toronto, Ont., at the King 

 Edward hotel. The hotel committee 

 has made arrangements for reserving 

 three floors, 110 rooms, all with bath 

 and in single, double and three-room 

 suites, in this beautiful hotel. The old 

 rule of "first come, first served" will 

 hold on these suites and reservations for 

 them may be made to H. G. Dillemuth, 

 the chairman of the hotel committee, at 



10 West Adelaide street, Toronto. 

 Toronto inhabitants and some of its 



former visitors claim that it is the per- 

 fect city for a convention, especially in 

 the fall of the y^ar. The various local 

 committees in charge of the convention 

 are working diligently in order to make 

 their brothers from the states realize 

 that the Canadians are a live-wire group 

 of workers. The chairmen of these 

 various committees are as follows: Ex- 

 ecutive committee, general chairman, 

 H. G. Dillemuth; Canada at large, W. 

 W. Ganimage; vice-chairman, S. A. Mc- 

 Fadden; general secretary, H. W. 

 James, and treasurer, L. H. Walters; 

 publicity committee, J. J. Higgins; 

 finance committee. Len Waters; ladies' 

 committee. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Wat- 

 ers; entertainment committee, Ernest 

 S. Simmons; reception committee, J. A. 

 Neal; hotel committee, H. G. Dillemuth, 

 and trade "s exhibit committee, H. W. 

 James. 



There are two things that the com- 

 mittees and Albert Pochelon, the secre- 

 tary, want the F. T. D. members to 

 know: First, that the directors of the 

 association at their annual meeting 

 decreed that there were to be no collec- 

 tions or unexpected calls for funds of 

 any kind at the convention. The sec- 

 ond comes in the form of this announce- 

 ment from the secretary's office: 



Reduced Rates. 



"The F. T. D. has been granted a 

 reduced rate on all trunk lines to those 

 attending the annual meeting, October 



11 to 1.^, at Toronto, Ont. This is 

 good news to our members and visitors 

 who are not members who wish to at- 

 tend this live-wire meeting. 



"The certificate plan arrangement 

 will be placed in effect for this con- 

 vention under the following regula- 

 tions: Delegates will purchase one- 

 way tickets at tlie regular one-way fare. 

 The agent selling the ticket will, upon 

 request, issue a certificate of standard 

 form with each ticket purchased. The 

 fare for the return trip will be one- 

 half of the adult one-way fare applying 

 from place of meeting to the original 

 starting point, by the route used in the 

 going trip, as shown on this certificate, 

 provided that the certificate presented 

 has been properly validated by the 

 agent appointed for that purpose at the 

 meeting. The reduction returning will 

 apply provided there are not less than 



350 members in attendance at the meet- 

 ing, including dependent members of 

 their families holding certificates or 

 regular round-trip tickets sold at not 

 less than the regular one-way fare." 



TORONTO PREPARATIONS. 



H. G. Dillemuth entertained the chair- 

 men of the various committees for the 

 F. T. D. convention at a dinner August 

 23. After dinner the program was gone 

 over and several details discussed. The 

 program will be issued early in Septem- 

 ber and those desiring advertising space 

 in it should send copy at once. 



Permanent offices have been opened 

 at the club rooms of the Toronto Eetail 

 Florists' Club, 12 Adelaide street west, 

 Toronto, with a staff in charge. Infor- 

 mation regarding program, exhibition, 

 hotel reservations, etc., may be had by 

 writing to this address. 



The whole mezzanine floor at the 

 King Edward hotel has been reserved, 

 including twenty rooms, rest rooms, 

 convention hall, ladies' parlor, etc. The 

 luncheons and banquet will be held in 

 the beautiful new banquet hall. 



Messrs. James, Dillemuth and Hig- 

 gins were in Brampton recently in the 

 interests of the F. T. D. Mrs. Moore 

 and Messrs. Geraghty, Waters, James, 

 F. Dunlop and Higgins visited the Ham- 



ilton florists recently in the interests 

 of the F. T. D. convention. J. J. H. 



LAMBERT'S REWARD. 



The accompanying illustration is 

 from the photograph taken of one J. A. 

 Lambert, representative of the Ove 

 Gnatt Co., Laporte, Ind., when he blush- 

 ingly received this most elaborate 

 shower bouquet, arranged by an artist 

 of the C. E. Hubbard flower shop, at 

 Topeka. This bouquet, composed of sev- 

 eral varieties of vegetables, was pre- 

 sented Mr. Lambert at the banquet 

 of the Kansas State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, reported in last week's issue of 

 The Review, in recognition of his un- 

 tiring efforts in boosting the annual 

 meeting and for having been made the 

 goat. Topeka Florists' Club. 



A CORRECTION. 



For the information of the trade at 

 large, I wish to rectify the statement of 

 Professor H. B. Dorner in his article on 

 schooling for florists, appearing in the 

 August 18 issue, in which he states that 

 only six state institutions in the United 

 States are giving commercial courses in 

 floriculture. That number should be in- 

 creased to seven, for the Pennsylvania 

 State College does offer a commercial 

 course in floriculture, covering a period 

 of two full years, or four semesters. In 

 these courses, the same fundamentals 

 are given as at any other institution 

 which offers a course in floriculture. 



E. L Wilde. 



A MORAL TALE. 



"Flowers — in and out of Season" 

 strikes the Donora Floral Co., Donora, 

 ]'a., as an appropriate heading for the 

 following clipping, which carries a 

 moral many florists would like to im- 

 press on the public: 



I attended a funeral one day. The casket 

 was expensive and was covered with $50 worth 

 of cut flowers. The burial robe was pure white 

 satin. The grief -stricken hustmnd spent money 

 like water on the last sad rites. That was all 

 right, but I happened to know tliat he never 

 spent money that way while his wife was living. 

 He never before had taken a single cut flower 

 to her. He had never told her that she could 

 wear a white satin dress and buy any of the 

 expensive things be could well afford. He had 

 allowed her to toil day after day, while he 

 piled up money in the bank. She kept denying 

 herself in order that he might accumulate. 

 Had that man spent as much on his wife the 

 last ten years of her life as he spent on her 

 funeral, she might have been alive today. At 

 least she would liave been far happier. The 

 scales dropped from his eyes when the under- 

 taker came. Just as they will drop from yout 

 eyes if you wait to put your flowers on tlie 

 bier. — The Osborne Village Deacon. 



TOO MUCH FERTILIZER. 



Please advise me what to do with 

 potted ferns from which the fronds 

 are dropping, some turning brown. We 

 have no greenhouse, but have kept ferns 

 successfully in our store through the 

 winter and spring. These ferns are 

 new, with many young shoots. The 

 trouble seems to be with the older and 

 outside fronds. E^H. P. — Ind. 



Lambert and His Corsage. 



Without seeing the ferns in question, 

 it is rather difficult to say just what is 

 the cause of this trouble, although it is 

 possible that they have been given too 

 much fertilizer, either in the soil or 

 in liquid form. If you have a fairly 

 well shaded location outdoors, the ferns 

 may be plunged in the ground nearly to 

 the tops of the pots and, with regular 

 watering, they will, probably, recover 

 in a few weeks. W. H. T. 



