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The Florists^ Review 



33 



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SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FI.OBISTS. 



Sailroad Bates to Indianapolis. 



A rate of one fare and one-half for 

 members of the S. A. F. and affiliated 

 organizations, attending the adjourned 

 meeting of the society at Indianapolis, 

 in connection with which the fifth na- 

 tional flower show is held, has been 

 granted by the Central Passenger Asso- 

 ciation and the Trunk Line Association, 

 and the arrangements will be concurred 

 in by the other passenger associations. 

 The rebate is conditional upon 350 mak- 

 ing the trip, including members and de- 

 pendent members of their families. 



The rebate is made upon the certifi- 

 cate plan, and the following directions 

 are submitted: 



Tickets at the regular 1-way tariff 

 fare for the going journey may be ob- 

 tained on any of the following dates, 

 but not on any other date: March 22 

 to 28, for Central and Trunk Line terri- 

 tory. Be sure that, when purchasing 

 your going ticket, you request a certifi- 

 cate. Do not make the mistake of ask- 

 ing for a "receipt." 



Present yourself at the railroad sta- 

 tion for your ticket and certificate at 

 least thirty minutes before' the de- 

 parture of the train on which you will 

 begin your journey. 



Certificates are not kept at all sta- 

 tions. If you inquire at your home sta- 

 tion, you can ascertain whether cer- 

 tificates and through tickets can be ob- 

 tained to the place of meeting. If not 

 obtainable at your home station, the 

 agent will inform you at what station 

 they can be obtained. You can, in such 

 case, purchase a local ticket to the sta- 

 tion which has certificates in stock, 

 where you can purchase a through ticket 

 and at the same time ask for and obtain 

 a certificate to the place of meeting. 



Immediately on your arrival at the 

 meeting, present your certificate to the 

 endorsing officer, Secretary J. Young — 

 who will sign certificates for' all organ- 

 izations — as the reduced fare for the re- 

 turn journey will not apply unless you 

 are properly identified as provided for 

 by the certificate. 



Arrangements have been made for 

 validation of certificates by a special 

 agent of the carriers, March 25 to April 

 5, if the required minimum of 350 cer- 

 tificates is presented. 



No refund of fare will be made bn 

 account of failure either to obtain a 

 proper certificate or on account of fail- 

 ure to have the certificate validated. 



So as to prevent disappointment, it 

 must be understood that the reduction 

 on the return journey is not guaranteed, 

 but is contingent on an attendance of 

 not less than 350 members of the or- 

 ganization at the meeting and depend- 

 ent members of their families, holding 

 regularly issued certificates obtained 

 from ticket agents at starting points, 

 showing payment of regular 1-way tar- 

 iff fare of not less than 67 cents on the 

 going journey. 



If the necessary minimum of 350 cer- 

 tificates is presented to the special 

 agent, as above explained, and your 

 certificate is duly validated, you will 



be entitled, up to and including April 5, 

 to a return ticket via the same route 

 over which you made the going journey, 

 at one-half the regular 1-way tariff fare 

 from the place of the meeting to the 

 point at which your certificate was is- 

 sued. 



A return ticket issued at the reduced 

 fare will not be good on any limited 

 train on which such reduced transpor- 

 tation is not honored. 



For information in regard to routing 

 and stop-overs make inquiry of your 

 home station agent. 



John Young, Sec 'y. 



FIFTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Indianapolis, March 25 td. April 1. 



The work of preparation for the fifth 

 national flower show, to open at Indian- 

 apolis March 25 next, is remarkably 

 well advanced. The local committees 

 are well organized, and, owing to the 

 emergency nature of most details, there 



Reduced 

 Railroad Rates 



to the 



National Rower Show 



at 



Indianapolis 



March 25 to April 1 



are committees covering every phase of 

 the exhibition. 



Some of the larger exhibits promised 

 for Cleveland will be staged at Indian- 

 apolis along the lines originally planned, 

 among them the following: Bulb gar- 

 den, by the Wayside Gardens Co., West 

 Mentor, O.; bulb garden, by Walter 

 E. Cook, Cleveland, O.; rose garden, 

 by Merkel & Sons, Mentor, O., and a rose 

 garden by the Daisy Hill Farm, Chagrin 

 Falls, O. 



Another large garden will be one the 

 State Florists' Association of Indiana 

 will stage. 



Charles Bookwalter, president of the 

 park board of Indianapolis, who was 

 formerly mayor of the city, is giving 

 hearty support in the arrangements for 

 the show. He has promised that there 

 shall be a splendid exhibit of large 

 palms and foliage plants from the green- 

 houses in Garfield\park; these green- 

 houses, by the waj-, arc conceded to be 

 the finest in the middl^ west. It is also 

 planned to have a reproduction of the 

 Garfield park sunken garden, which will 

 add materially to the picturesque beauty 

 of the show. Mr. Bookwalter has as- 



sured the local flower show committee 

 that it will have the fullest coopera- 

 tion of the park department in any plan 

 looking to the success of the show, and 

 the department's resources are at the 

 disposal of the committee. Houston Tall, 

 superintendent of parks, has also ten- 

 dered his heartiest cooperation in carry- 

 ing out the details of the park exhibits. 



The Logical Place. 



The trade in all parts of the country 

 appears to have awakened to the fact 

 that Indianapolis is the logical center 

 for an exhibition of this kind. The trade 

 exhibit section will, in magnitude, com- 

 pare favorably with similar sections at 

 previous national flower shows, as is 

 evidenced by the number of applica- 

 tions for space coming in to the secre- 

 tary, who is now occupying offices in 

 the Chamber of Commerce building. 

 The change from Cleveland to the new 

 location appears to have made little dif- 

 ference, if any, in the plans of trade 

 exhibitors, and all doubt has been re- 

 moved as to the ultimate accomplish- 

 ment of the objects of the national 

 flower show committee. 



The space taken in the trade section 

 by the A. L. Randall Co., of Chicago, 

 approximates almost 1,000 square feet, 

 and, as previously noted, will be used 

 for the staging of an up-to-date flower 

 shop, containing the latest ideals in the 

 way of auxiliaries and fixtures. The 

 Lord & Burnham Co., Chicago and New 

 York, also is among those who have 

 taken large spaces, the firm's reserva- 

 tion covering 1,000 square feet, in which 

 will be staged a most comprehensive 

 exhibit covering greenhouse construc- 

 tion and equipment. 



The final schedule of premiums is now 

 being distributed, and anyone inter- 

 ested, not receiving a copy, should make 

 immediate application to the secretary 's 

 New York office, 43 West Eighteenth 

 street, for one, or to the secretary's 

 office at Indianapolis, noted in this let- 

 ter. Plans covering exhibition space are 

 also available. 



Season tickets for the show will be 

 furnished to all members of the society 

 in good standing, and will be mailed in 

 about ten days. It is important that 

 every member see to it that he is in 

 good standing on the society's books, in 

 order that he be entitled to a season 

 ticket. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



POINTS BY PENNOCK. 



It is gratifying to learn, from the re- 

 cent letters coming in from Indianapo- 

 lis, that everyone is responding so won- 

 derfully to the support of the forthcom- 

 ing national flower show; this is par- 

 ticularly true of the exhibitors, who, one 

 after another, are "coming across" in 

 fine shape. 



We feel that everyone who exhibits 

 at this show will be repaid in more ways 

 than one. There is the satisfaction of 

 being a part of such a successful under- 

 taking and, besides this, each one who 

 does exhibit is bound to be benefited, 

 so we want the support of those who 

 have not already made up their minds 



