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November 15, 1906. 



TTic Weekly Florists' Revie\^^ 



1709 



the organization necessary to insure 

 success. 



Williana F. Kasting was made chair- 

 man of the national flower show commit- 

 tee, which is to consist of fifty members, 

 representing all interests in the trade, 

 and which will be announced as soon as 

 the fifty men selected have signified 

 their willingness to take hold and push. 

 It is the intention that every one among 

 the fifty shall be thoroughly interested 

 in the success of the undertaking. 



A guarantee fund of $10,000 will be 

 raised. Including the subscriptions ob- 

 tained when the project was first 

 broached, at Washington in 1905, sub- 

 scriptions to date amount to $5,100. 



The preparation of the schedule was 

 delegated to Robert Craig and Edwin 

 Lonsdale, of Philadelphia. It is to be 

 a thoroughly comprehensive affair, and 

 will carry such liberal ' money premiums 

 that an exhibition will be assured such 

 as America never has seen. Other mem- 

 bers of the schedule committee are 

 Arthur Herrington, John N. May, W. N. 

 Eudd, and E. G. Hill, and the schedule 

 as prepared by the two Philadelphia 

 members will be subject to the approval 

 of the whole committee before it is 

 submitted to the national committee for 

 ratification. 



The exhibition is to take place at 

 Chicago the week following the presi- 

 dential election of 1908. 



It was deemed not within the province 

 of the present executive committee to 

 make recommendations in regard to the 

 S. A. F. convention of 1908. This is 

 left in the hands of the executive com- 

 mittee which assumes oflBce January 1, 

 but the sentiment was in favor of hold- 

 ing the convention at the same time as 

 the exhibition, instead of in August, as 

 is provided for by the present by-laws. 

 It was the consensus of opinion that the 

 attendance of those in the trade will be 

 much larger at the November convention 

 and national exhibition than at the Au- 

 gust convention. The idea is to also 

 hold a trade display, but separate from 

 the public exhibition. 



Committees on hall and various early 

 arrangements were mad6 up. Chairman 

 Kasting will announce details from time 

 to time as perfected. It is the intention 

 to keep the pot boiling from this time 

 forward. 



ILLINOIS ASSOQATION. 



The State Florists' Association of 

 Illinois held a meeting at the CoUseum, 

 Chicago, Friday, November 9. President 

 J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, occu- 

 pied the chair, and members from all 

 sections of the state were present. 



The principal business was the discus- 

 sion of plans for the second annual 

 convention, to be held at Bloomington 

 on the second Tuesday of February, 

 1907. It is expected that a program of 

 such interest will be afforded that the 

 attendance will be much larger than at 

 the Peoria meeting. The Bloomington 

 members present offered assurances of a 

 hospitable reception. 



Eesolutions were adopted setting forth 

 the fact that the products of floriculture 

 exceed in value the products of all the 

 orchards in the state of Illinois, and 

 that floricultural interests in Illinois are 

 now greater than those of any other 

 state in the Union. This was addressed 

 to the State Board of Agriculture, with 

 a request that a suitable building be 

 erected on the state fair grounds at 

 Springfield and a suitable sum of money 



Chrysanthemum Mrs* George Hunt. 



set aside for premiums for a floricultural 

 display at the state fair. 



A. C. Beal, of the State Experiment 

 Station, was instructed to prepare full 

 statistics of floriculture in Illinois for 

 presentation to the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, for use with the legislature in 

 the endeavor to get an appropriation for 

 experimental greenhouses, and for ex- 

 ploitation in the state, that the people 

 may know how important the greenhouse 

 industry has become. 



INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. 



Plant HardineM and Acclimatization, 



The responses to the preliminary letter 

 of inquiry issued in the early part or 

 this year have proved so encouraging 

 that the council of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York, at the meeting Octo- 

 ber 10, decided to proceed with the pro- 

 ject and is arranging to hold the confer- 

 ence in New York City about the end 

 of September, 1907. 



From all parts of the United States, 

 from several European countries, ana 

 from South America and Canada, as well 

 as the West Indian Islands, active inter- 

 est has been expressed, and at this early 

 date, a number of papers and contribu- 

 tions have been promised. The confer- 

 ence has the endorsement of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and 

 the majority of the directors and horti- 

 culturists of the state experiment sta- 

 tions have signified their intention of 

 contributing information, or sending del- 

 egates. 



The great importance of the subjects 



to be discussed in their relationship to 

 practical horticulture, fruit growing, and 

 the nursery trade is evident to every one. 

 A special committee of the society in 

 charge of the arrangements for the con- 

 ference was appointed as follows : James 

 Wood, N. L. Britton, P. O'Mara, H. A, 

 Siebrecht, and Leonard Barron. Com- 

 munications from those interested should 

 be addressed to the oflSce of the society, 

 room 60, Bryant building, 55 Liberty 

 street. New York City. 



Leonard Barron, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The executive committee of the Ameri- 

 can Bose Society held a meeting at the 

 Hotel Martinique, New York City, No- 

 vember 9, 1906. All members reported 

 in person or by letter. The arrange- 

 ments for the spring show, in connection 

 with that of the Washington Florists^ 

 Club, to be held in March, 1907, were 

 reported to be pertected, the agreement 

 having been signed by Peter Bisset and 

 Chas. E. McCauley, on behalf of the 

 Washington Florists' Club and Robert 

 Simpson, president of the American Rose 

 Society. The secretary reported that 

 when at Chicago last month he attended 

 a meeting of the Chicago Florists' Club 

 and was introduced to the meeting on 

 behalf of the American Rose Society, 

 and received from the association court- 

 eous consideration, and that he had urged 

 the western people, as far as he could, 

 to join hands earnestly to make the Rose 

 Society a great popular educating asso- 

 ciation, to bring in the era of " A rose 

 for every home and a bush for every 



