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The Florists* Review 



Sbptembkk 1, 1921 



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WHAT A FLORISTS' CLUB CAN DO. 



Portland Organization's Work. 



Our occupation as florists and gar- 

 deners and nurserymen must mean to 

 us much more than just the money it 

 brings us. We must feel that we are 

 contributing to the sum of human hap- 

 piness, benefiting many others besides 

 ourselves. In this worthy labor, making 

 our city beautiful, our lives more liv- 

 able, our people most happy, we, the 

 Oregon Florists' Club, are called upon 

 to do a great part; it is at once our 

 obligation, our duty, our pleasure. We 

 have in the past done much in benefit 

 of our community. Wo are at present 

 striving to aid and assist in several 

 commendable enterprises in civic im- 

 provement, practical education and ar- 

 tistic development. It is our intention 

 and purpose for the future to be identi- 

 fied and associated with all public or 

 private movements tending toward bet- 

 terment and embellishment of our state 

 and city. 



Our society has just cause to be proud 

 of what it has done. Prior to its organ- 

 ization as the Portland Floral Society 

 there was no place for business com- 

 petitors to meet on neutral ground and 

 get personally acquainted; there was 

 far more trade discord, petty jealousy 

 and even enmity than there is today 

 after these years of association and fel- 

 lowship, and there is not one of us, I 

 am sure, who does not feel that our as- 

 sociation has been of personal as well 

 as commercial benefit. 



Genesis. 



The idea of a florists' and gardeners' 

 club was conceived in the spring of 

 1912. A preliminary organization was 

 effected in April of that year and def- 

 initely established .July 1, 1912, with 

 E. T. Mische as president. Of the orig- 

 inal sixty-eight members there are still 

 thirty on our rolls — surely a fine record. 

 Right from tlie start we got into the 

 swim of floricultural activity, working 

 with the dahlia show in September, 

 1912. In November, 1912, we staged 

 alone a fall flower show that filled the 

 armory and was of decided educational 

 value. In May, 1913, we started the 

 flower garden contest, which encouraged 

 planting of home gardens and grounds 

 and was a stimulus in landscape gar- 

 dening. Scoring periodically was done 

 by competent judges and prizes award- 

 ed. The following year F. A. Van Kirk 

 was elected president and held the office 

 two years. The fall flower show was 

 repeated in November, 1913, at the 

 armory and $200 derated to the chil- 

 dren's fruit .and flower mission. The 

 garden contests were continued in 1914 

 and to a lesser degree in 1915. In 

 March, 1915, the Kose Festival Asso- 

 ciation asked our society to undertake 

 the festival center decorations, plans 

 for which were prepared by Julius 

 Dossche, a charter member of our so- 

 ciety, and though time was short, the 



Speech of acceptance by Guy M. Pilkington, 

 of Portland, Ore., on taking office as president 

 of the Oregon Florists' Club, formerly the Port- 

 land Floral Society, for the eoauing year. 



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