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and shaped like the fiber vases, with 

 curved tops. The ribbon section in- 

 cluded a new. gold and violet combina- 

 tion in corsage widths. Among the nov- 

 elties were prepared bromus grass, with 

 artificial flowers in five colors and cat- 

 tails prepared in the solid Christmas 

 red. The ruscus and ilex wreaths 

 showed an advance in quality over pre- 

 vious seasons. A large variety of new 

 shapes and colors in baskets were 

 shown, including a table centerpiece in- 

 tended to hold plants or flowers in the 

 back, with a tall vase for cut flow6rs 

 rising from the center. Straw hats in 

 several flower colors were oflEered for use 

 in table decorations and for pot covers 

 for the Christmas and Easter plants. 

 Boiled top crepe paper was shown in 

 two-tone color combinations. A puzzle 

 was given as a souvenir. F. J. Farney 

 and Eobert Shoch were in charge. 



Schloss Bros., New York. 



The usual line of ribbons, chiffons, 

 corsage ties and bouquet holders was 

 shown, but special emphasis was placed 

 on a set of novelties. These included 

 a l^ouquet holder with velvet ribbon 

 shower attached; a Dresden velvet rib- 

 bon in the bolt and also made up in 

 corsage ties; a gauze and velvet com- 

 bination corsage tie; a faille ribbon 

 with horsehair edges; silver and gold 

 chiffons in new designs; new patterns 

 in lace-edged chiffon, and new colors 

 in glace satin -and taffeta ribbons. Emil 

 Schloss was in charge, assisted by John 

 Bubach. 



Sefton Mfg. Co., Chicago. 



This display consisted of a large line 

 of cut flower and design boxes. Since 

 last year's convention a line of clay 

 coated boxes has been added. A novelty 

 was a corrugated fiber board plant box 

 so constructed that it holds the plant 

 safely even if the box is turned upside 

 down. This concern was a pioneer in 

 the manufacture of fiber board boxes 

 for florists and the so-called Ferres box 

 for shipping with ice was shown half 

 full of water to prove its impervious- 

 ness. J. P. Brunt and C. C. Brockmeyer 

 were in charge. ^ 



S. S. Skidelsky & Co., Philadelphia. 



This exhibit consisted of about ten 

 pot-grown plants of the new pink car- 

 nation, Philadelphia, in various stages 

 of growth, showing the character of 

 the variety in excellent shape. In 

 charge of S. S. Skidelsky, Robert Ka- 

 haley and Fred Breitmeyer. 



E. E. Stewart, Brookljm, Mich. 

 In this display of cut spikes of gla- 

 dioli were eighty varieties, about one- 

 half of them the standard commercial 

 sorts and half seedlings of the exhibit- 

 or's own raising. Of these one was 

 christened Minneapolis, in honor of the 

 convention. It is pink variegated. 

 Michigan, cherry red, has been seen be- 

 fore. Mr. Stewart features Fairy 

 Queen, or Mrs. James Lancashire, sal- 

 mon pink, which he thinks will become 

 the leader in its color. 



Stem & Harrison Co., Painesville, O. 



The exhibit included field-grown roses 

 in variety and a general line of green- 

 house stock in the commercial sizes and 

 for growing on, such as ardisias, dish 

 ferns, araucarias, the Boston fern and 

 its sports, Pandanus Veitchii, adiantums 

 and palms in variety. S. R. Welch was 

 in charge. 



Taylor Specialty Co., Battle Creek. 



An electrical device for accelerating 



the flow of water in greenhouse heating,, 

 pipes was shown. It is called the Tay- 

 lar syphon heat circulator and a patent 

 has been applied for. A. H. Beach was 

 in charge. 



O. E. Travis Co., Henry, 111. 



The exhibit consisted of the Travis 

 rocker grate for greenhouse boilers. C. 

 D. Marshall was in charge. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago. 



The plant exhibit included palms, cro- 

 tons, ferns, rubbers and the new dwarf 

 'rose, Etna Terschendorf. In the supply 

 <t section there was the Binks sprayer, 

 ScoUay's sprinkler and Electric hose. 

 The bulb display included a full line of 

 French and Dutch stock, Harrisii, free- 

 sias and cold storage giganteums. A 

 table of gladioli iucluded Europa and 

 Chicago White, the former the best 

 white to date. * H. Cheeseman, Ed. Gold- 

 stein and Robert Newcomb were in 

 charge. 



James Vick's Sons, Bochester, N. Y. 



This exhibitor is known in the trade 

 as probably the largest grower of aster 

 seeds in America and the originator of 

 some of the most widely grown varie- 

 ties. The exhibit consisted of several 

 vases each of sixteen varieties, most of 

 them originated on the Rochester seed 

 farm. C. H. Vick was in charge. 



B. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., White 

 Marsh, Md. 



The exhibit consisted of an electric 

 projecting machine showing colored pic- 

 tures of geraniums, about 100 different 

 slides. In charge of Richard A. Vin- 

 cent. 



Weftheimer Bros., New York. 



This exhibit was confined almost ex- 

 clusively to novelties this time, the gen- 

 eral line being shown only by salesmen 's 

 samples. The newer articles included 

 silverine lattice ribbon, autumn leaf 

 chiffon, natural leaf chiffon, Tutone lace 

 chiffon, antitarnish silver gauze ribbon, 

 Sunray corsage ribbon, tinsel stripe net~ 

 ting and hand-craft gauze netting. The 

 new idea bouquet holder is a lace holder 

 without the handle. A new corsage pin 

 had a flower inside the glass head. The 

 certificates won at previous conventions 

 were on display, framed. A pocket pen- 

 cil was the 1913 souvenir. S. B. Werth- 

 eimer was assisted by Sam Seligman 

 and Rupert Hall. 



Wilcox & Sons, Council Bluffs. 

 No exhibit, in the ordinary sense, was 

 made, but a booth was furnished and 

 decorated with palms and ferns for the 

 reception of friends. Roy Wilcox was 

 in charge, assisted by his brothers. 



Wright Alarm Co., Los Angeles, Cal. 



T. H. Wright, Los Angeles, lost $3,0)0 

 one night because his greenhouse em- 

 ployees were playing cards instead of 

 making their usual rounds. So he pro- 

 ceeded to invent an apparatus that 

 would ring a bell if a watchman was 

 late on his rounds, giving notice before 

 the damage was done instead of after. 

 This was the device shown in several 

 styles in this exhibit. It is not a tem- 

 perature alarm, but' a guard against the 

 night crew failing in their duty. 



O. F. Zurn Co., Philadelphia. 

 This exhibit consisted of a shading 

 preparation called Shaderine, with dem- 

 onstrations of its effectiveness. W. K. 

 H. Henszey was in charge. 



BEPOBT OF TABIFF COMMITTEE. 



[The following Is the report by Wm. F. Gnde, 

 chairman of tlie tariff and legislative committee, 

 as presented at the Minneapolis convention, 

 August 20, 1913.] 



The tariff is always such a debatable 

 question that no two florists, no two 

 representatives and no two senators 

 ever agree as to what the duty on a 

 certain item should be. So, when we 

 tried first to feel the pulse of the trade, 

 we soon found that it would be inad- 

 visable to work toward making duty 

 changes, but, as the former tariff acts 

 have contained so many absurdities and 

 incorrect classifications, we decided to 

 concentrate our energies toward having 

 the rates clearly defined, so that one 

 florist would not be required to pay 

 twenty-five per cent duty while another 

 florist in a different state got the sdme 

 stock at fifteen per cent, or free of 

 duty. 



While it is necessary that the import 

 duties upon florists' and nursery stock 

 be large enough to furnish the proper 

 amount of protection to American 

 growers, it is of still greater impor- 

 tance that the rate of duty be clearly 

 defined — and the same at all ports of 

 entry. 



A Letter to the Trade. 



Early in April, the committee sent 

 out the following letter, which was 

 published in all the trade papers. 

 Strange to say, there was hardly any- 

 one heard from throughout the length 

 and breadth of the United States, which 

 led your committee to believe that, on 

 the whole, the florists must be fairly 

 well satisfied with conditions as they 

 were. 



April 16, 1913. 

 To all florists and borticnlturists who have any 

 suggestions to make as to -what legislation. If 

 any, they would like in the present tarifT bill 

 now before Congress: They should send In sug- 

 gestions at once. If tbey have not already done 

 so, to the chairman of the tariff committee of 

 the S. A. F., Wm. F. Gude, 1214 F street, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, who is anxious'and willing to do 

 what he can to further the interests of the flo- 

 rists and horticulturists and members of the kin- 

 dred organizations, but the members of the com- 

 mittee are at a loss what action to take until 

 they can hear from the parties who would like 

 the tariff raised or lowered on certain goods, as 

 the case may be. 



Errors in the Tariff Bill. 



The tariff bill as reported out of the 

 ways and means committee was full of 

 absurdities, ambiguities and incorrect 

 classifications; had it become a law as 

 it then read, it would have involved the 

 same amount of fraud, vexatious uncer- 

 tainty and legal expense as in former 

 tariffs. The same stock was dutiable 

 at twenty-five per cent and twelve per 

 cent; other stock was dutiable at $1 

 per thousand, also free. Hyacinth bulbs 

 were rated as clumps. Greenhouse 

 stock was dutiable at twenty-five per 

 cent in Section 215, and at fifteen per 

 cent in Section 216, while evergreen 

 seedlings were rated free of duty, but 

 no definition was made as to what ever- 

 green seedlings really were. 



To correct these absurdities and er- 

 rors, we introduced in Congress eight 

 amendments to the tariff bill, and while 

 our friends were telling us we could 

 not get them through, we had them 

 passed by the Congressional committee 

 in charge of Schedule G. When the 

 corrected bill was printed, we found 

 that four of our amendments had been 

 mutilated in Congress, but we later 

 had those four amendments corrected 

 in the Senate committee, and the bill, 

 containing our eight amendments, is 

 likely to become a law in the near 

 future. 



