August 22, 1907. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



21 



CffS I Secretary's Report. 



As your secretary, I submit this, my 

 first annual report, for j-our considera- 

 tion. 



By instructions of the executive com- 

 mittee I proceeded to Boston the first 

 week in January, to have the property 

 of the society transferred to me by my 

 predecessor. It was to be expected that 

 a vast amount of material had accumu- 

 lated in the number of years that tlie 

 position of secretary was lield by our 

 president, William J. Stewart, and the 

 committee instructed me to destroy all 

 documents that were of no value to the 

 society. 



Considerable diflSculty was encountered 

 this year in procuring reduced rates 

 from the various passenger associations, 

 on account of the enactment of a 2-cent 

 rate in a number of states. This was 

 especially true in the territory gov- 

 erned by the Western and Central Pas- 

 senger Associations and they refused to 

 grant us the usual concessions. The 

 rate of a fare and a tliird was granted 

 by the following associations: Trunk 

 Line Association, New England Passen- 

 ger Association, Southeastern Passen- 

 ger Association, and Eastern Canadian 

 Association. The Central Passenger As- 

 sociation granted us card orders which 

 empowered their agents to sell through 

 round-trip tickets to Philadelphia at the 

 rate of 2 cents a mile each way in the 

 territory controlled by them and the 

 rate of one and one-third fare in the 

 territory controlled by the associations 

 that granted us the latter rate. This 

 concession enabled a member to procure 

 a round trip ticket that would only have 

 to be validated at the ticket oflBce when 

 he was ready to return, within the time 

 limit of his ticket. The Western Pas- 

 senger Association would not grant any 

 concession, but referred us to the one- 

 way tourist rates in effect in their ter- 

 ritory to St. Louis and Chicago, and 

 advised our members to buy to those 

 points and then use card orders. In 

 addition to the above, the cheap rates 

 from all points to the Jamestown exposi- 

 tion and the merchants' rate to New 

 York, with verj' liberal stopover, were 

 in effect. 



The executive committee at Philadel- 

 phia instructed me to continue the badge 

 book, providing it could be supplied to 

 the members at an expense not to ex- 

 ceed $75. I could not procure it at 

 that price and therefore did not issue 

 the book. 



The membership statistics, as they ap- 

 pear on the books to January 1, 1907, 

 are as follows: Total number of life 

 members, 124; total number of annual 

 members, 696; total, 820. 



The membership is credited as follows 

 to the different states: 



■A"* An- 



,, . I^"P- ""»'• Life. nual. 



Alabama S Missouri g 29 



California r, Nebraska 2 



Colorado 8 New Hampshire. 4 



< onnectlcnt .... 14 New Jersey .... 8 20 



Delaware 1 New York 22 102 



Dist. of Columbia 7 16 North Carolina!'. 2 5 



J,'o«"'<J» 4 Ohio 8 82 



^.tprK'i I 10 Oregon 1 



Illinois ....• 7 81 Pennsylvania ...17 96 



{"•J'^na 2 27 Rhode Island ... . 8 



'"J!." „ , 10 South Carolina.. 1 



^"nf", 1 4 South Dakota ... J 



Kentucky s 8 Tennessee 1 



Louisiana 9 Texas 1 1 



^•>'"e ■ 1 Virginia 5 



i «'••'■•«"'' 2 22 Weit Virginia . . 4 



Mnssachusetts ..in 43 Washington .... 1 



5J «•'>'*">" n 30 Wisconsin i le 



Mnnesota s Canada 7 



Mississippi 1 Holland 1 



The question of how to retain our 

 membership, after getting their names 

 onrolled, is one that needs our attention 



In looking over the records of past years 

 I find that a great number have allowed 

 themselves to be dropped from member- 

 ship who ought to be numbered on our 

 list. The various vice-presidents can ac- 

 complish considerable in retaining these 

 names and I am pleased to note that a 

 number of them have made efforts in 

 that direction. 



Since the last report we have lost five 

 members by death, three being life and 

 two annual members, as follows: 



Lewis Ullrich, Tiffon, O., October 29, 

 1906. 



J. L. Dillon, Bloomsburg, Pa., October 

 30, 1906. 



Jas. Braik, Buffalo, N. Y., January 

 16, 1907. 



J. F. Kretschmar, Flatbush, N. Y., 

 June 8, 1907. 



Samuel Henshaw, New Brighton, X. 

 Y., July 23, 1907. 



Since .last report the following new- 

 plant names have been registered: 



September 29, 1906. — Canna Sunburst, 

 by Central Park Nursery, Topeka, Kan. 



October 27, 1906. — Rosa rugosa mag- 

 nifica, by Dingee & Conard Co., West 

 Grove, Pa. 



October 27, 1906.— Canna Meteor, by 

 Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



October 27, 1906. — Lselio-Cattleya 

 Washington A. Roebling II, by C. G. 

 Roebling, Trenton, N. J. 



November 24, 1906. — Carnation Torea- 

 dor, by H. Weber & Sons Co., Oakland, 

 Md. 



November 24, 1906. — Chrysanthemum 

 Weber's Chadwick, by H. Weber & Sons 

 Co.. Oakland, Md. 



September 22, 1906.— Canna Magnifi- 



cent, by Central ParK Nursery Co., To- 

 peka, Kan. 



February 6, 1907. — Chrysanthemum 

 Golden Dome, by John A. Macrae, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



February 28, 1907.— Sweet Peas Le 

 Marquis, Mrs. George Lewis, Mrs. A. 

 Zvolanek, Mrs. Charles H. Totty, by A. 

 C Zvolanek, Boundbrook, N. J. 



March 18, 1907.— Rose White Killar- 

 "ey, by Waban Conservatories, Natick, 

 Mass. 



August 10, 1907. — Rambler Rose New- 

 port Fairy, by Julius Roehrs Co., Ruth- 

 erford, N. J. 



August 17, 1907. — Rose President 

 Roosevelt, by Dingee & Conard Co., West 

 Grove, Pa. 



In closing I desire to state that hav- 

 ing assumed the office of secretary after 

 January 1, several of the subjects cov- 

 ered were during the term of my pred- 

 ecessor. 



Other Reports. 



The state vice-presidents' reports were 

 presented and referred to a committee 

 for consideration and publication. 



Benj. Hammond, for the committee on 

 legislation, made a report, which has 

 previously been published in the Review, 

 relating to the duty on glass. The re- 

 port was accepted and the subject was 

 about to be dropped when W. F. Gude 

 said that it was a shame to dismiss so 

 good a committee in so perfunctory a 

 manner and that he was sorry to see 

 so little apparent interest in the work 

 of the society as was indicated by the 

 rapidly clearing hall. This precipitated 

 a lively discussion, which, as E. V. Ilal- 



Samuel S. Pennock. 



(President Florist*' Club of Pbiladelphla.) 



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