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TENNESSEEANS IN 



• ANNUAL SESSION 



Largest and among the livest of state oryanizations, the Tennessee State 

 Florists' Association drew a large attendance at its convention at Chat- 

 tanooga this week, where an interesting program and delightful entertain- 

 ment repaid the visitors well for their trip to this historic locality. 



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T THE oponing session of 

 the convention of the Ten- 

 nessee State Florists' As- 

 sociation, at Chattanooga 

 November 1, Secretary G. 

 M. Bentley laid claim for 

 the organization to the 

 title of the largest state 

 florists' organization, and, 

 unless some one shows 

 membership of more than 203 in anotlier 

 similar body, his statement will go un- 

 challenged. But the organization has 

 no need to rest only with the precedence 

 in numbers, and it does not. It chal- 

 lenges comparison also on the basis of 

 being among the livest of such organi- 

 zations. Its conventions draw a large 

 attendance, not only 

 from its own state, 

 but also from out- 

 side the borders. The 

 one at Chattanooga 

 this week was like 

 its predecessors in 

 this respect, and in 

 interest of program 

 and visitors' enter- 

 tainment matched 

 them as well. Chat- 

 tanooga is historic- 

 ally and scenically 

 a place of repute, 

 and since the flo- 

 rists of this city 

 called these points 

 to the trade's no- 

 tice, doubtless Look- 

 out and Signal 

 mountains. Mission- 

 ary ridge and the 

 battlefield of Chick- 

 amauga added to 

 the attractions of 

 the meeting pre- 

 viously mentioned. 



Business. 



When the first 

 session of the con- 

 vention opened at 

 the Hotel Patten, 

 Tuesday morning, 

 November 1, the 

 meeting hall was 

 well filled. As at 

 last year's meet- 

 ing, at Memphis, 

 trade exhibits were 

 prominent, but since 

 time was allotted 

 for their examina- 

 tion later in the 

 day, everybody 

 sought the hall at 



OFFICERS ELECTED. 



President. 

 Harold M. Joy Nashville 



Vice-president. 

 E. A. Merriam Chattanooga 



Secretary-treasurer. 



G. M. Bentley Knoxville 



(Reelected.) 



MEETING PLACE FOR 1922, 

 NASHVILLE. 



Harold M, Joy. 



(Preslrtcnt.-Klcft, Tennpssee Stati> Florists' A.s9oclation.) 



the time ]ir('scrib('d o'n the program. 

 After Grant A. Kimniell, p resident of 

 the Chattanooga Florists' Club, had for- 

 mally convened the eighth annual meet- 

 ing of the associ.'ition, the invocation 

 was delivered by the Reverend O. E. 

 (Jardner. The mayor of Chattanooga 

 was then introduced by James J. Far- 

 rell, secretary of the Chattanooga Flo- 

 rists' Club, and his honor. Mayor Cham- 

 l)liss, gave a warm address of welcome, 

 full of southern hospitality. H. G. 

 Bramni, of the Bristol Floral Co., Bristol, 

 Tenn., a former president of the asso- 

 ciation, responded in cordial terms. 



W. H, Englehart, head of the Idle- 

 wild Greenhouses, Memphis, Tenn., who 

 since his election to the presidency of 

 the association last 

 year has been ex- 

 ceedingly active in 

 its behalf, with the 

 result that its mcm- 

 b e r s h ip increased 

 one-third during his 

 term, was accorded 

 a warm reception 

 by the members 

 when he read his 

 official a d d r e s s, 

 which appears on 

 another page of this 

 issue. Following 

 him. Prof. G. M. 

 Bentley, in his re- 

 port as secretary- 

 treasurer, traced the 

 rapid progress the 

 association has made 

 in its brief exist- 

 ence. A summary of 

 his report is given 

 on another page. 



Read This. 



The paper of D. 

 C. Ilorgan, of the 

 Idle Hour Nurseries, 

 Macon, Ga., on "Es- 

 sential Details for a 

 Successful Florist in 

 the South," con- 

 tained some timely 

 and generally quite 

 good advice on the 

 conduct of our busi- 

 ness. His remarks, 

 ]iriiitcd elsewhere in 

 this issue, may be 

 read to advantage 

 by florists in all sec- 

 tions. 



J. F. Amniann, 

 secretary of the N.a- 

 tional Flower Grow- 



