AUGVST 20, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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plimentary copies of their publications 



for use in the secretary's office and for 



the prompt publication of all notices and 



reports sent them. 



Secretary Budd supplemented his re- 



, port with an accounting for $4,346.50, 



. which passed through the office from the 



^ , end of the fiscal year to July 31. This 



was followed by the report of Treasurer 



v. H. B. Beatty, summarized as follows: 



Treasurer's Report. 



General Fund. 



Balance Janaary I, 1907 $3,279.99 



Receipts, Dues 750.00 



Ueceipts, IntereBt 104.73 



Total receipts $4,184.72 



Disbursements — i 



Secretary's salary $375.00 



Executive comuiittee meeting 

 expenses 303.77 



Stenographer's report annual 

 convention 100.00 



Printing proceedings annual 

 convention 61.86 



Miscellaneous printing 10.65 



Secretary's office expense 82.81 



* Miscellaneous expense 12.25 



Expenses national flower show. 15.00 



Expenses committee at bearing 

 before Interstate Commerce 

 Commission 71.80 



National Council of Horticul- 

 ture 100.00 



Total Disbursements ..... $1,183.03 



Balance December 31, 1907 $3,001.60 



Life Membcrihip Fund. 



Balance January 1, 1907 $4,287.76 



Life membership fees 250.00 



Interest 180.76 



Balance December 31, 1907 $4,718.62 



Balance general fund 3,001.60 



Cash In bank December 31, 1907 $7,720.21 



Treasurer Beatty also made an infor- 

 -^ mal report covering the period since the 

 fiscal year closed, showing the following 

 status July 10: 



General fund balance $3,129.29 



Life membership fund 4,718.62 



Total , $7,847.81 



Miscctlaneous Reports. 



Twenty-five of the forty-three state 

 vice-presidents submitted reports, which 

 were referred to a committee consist- 

 ing of J. F. Sullivan, Adam Graham 

 and John Bimie for consideration and 

 report. 



Secretary Budd read a long report 

 giving in brief detail the action of the 

 executive committee at its meetings 

 since last August. About the only fact 

 of interest at this date is the action 

 in failing to approve the scheme of 

 plant registration last adopted. It was 

 recommended that a special meeting of 

 the S. A. r. be called for November 9 

 at Chicago. 



P, O'Mara reported that the com- 

 mittee on census appointed in accord- 

 ance with the action of the executive 

 committee had been requested to co- 

 operate by the Census Bureau in pre- 

 paring a question sheet to be sent to 

 the trade as a means of getting a really 

 worth-while census, it being stated that 

 only ten per cent replied to the request 

 for figures for the 1900 census. The 

 committee had spent the morning in 

 considering the matter, and decided 

 that the important questions should re- 

 late to: Ground area covered by green- 

 houses, number of square feet in hot- 

 beds and frames, number employed, 

 total paid for labor, total paid for rent, 

 - total paid for fuel, total paid for soil, 

 fertilizers and insecticides; total paid 

 for advertising, postage and catalogues; 

 total value of property, not including 

 stock; number of plants grown for cut 

 flowers and value of cut stock, number 

 - .of decorative plants grown, number of 

 bedding and blooming plants grown, 



number of hardy plants and shrubs, 

 number of vegetable plants and vege- 

 tables, and number of small fruits, total 

 area and amount of sales. It was 

 thought that a list of questions of this 

 character can be made simple enough 

 so that every florist can and will an- 

 swer them, especially if the blank car- 

 ries notice of the approval of the 

 S. A. F. The report was adopted and 

 the committee continued, on motion of 

 George Asmus. 



For the committee on tariff F. B. 

 Pierson reported that it is the sense 

 of the committee that effort should be 

 made to secure specific duties instead 

 of ad valorem duties in the approach- 

 ing revision of the tariff. He. stated a 

 few reasons why the change would be 

 desirable, and P. O'Mara, E. G. Hill 

 and E. V. Hallock gave others. The 

 report was adopted and the committee 

 continued. 



After G. W. McClure had outlined 

 the sporting program Eobert Craig re- 

 ported for the committee on standard 

 sizes of pots that the society, and its 

 members, should discountenance every- 

 thing but pots on the society's stand- 

 ard. On motion of J. F. Ammann, 

 of Edwardsville, 111., the judges of all 

 trades' displays in future were instruct- 

 ed not to recognize any exhibits of 

 pots which do not' conform to the scale. 



The reports of the society's botanist. 

 Prof. Li. H, Pammel, of Ames, la.; the 

 pathologist, Dr. B. M. Duggar, of 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; and the entomologist. 

 Prof. F. L. Washburn, of Minneapolis, 

 were presented and ordered printed. 



President's Reception. 



President Traendly and his official 

 family and their ladies received the so- 

 ciety in the parlors of the International 

 hotel on Tuesday evening. The spacious 

 rooms were crowded and it proved one 



of the most successful affairs in years. 

 The hotel management provided music 

 and refreshments and dancing followed 

 until a late hour. 



Hail Association. 



The Florists' Hail Association held its 

 annual meeting at the Cataract House, 

 Niagara Falls, August 18. Secretary 

 John G. Esler made a report showing 

 that insurance is now being carried on 

 the equivalent of 29,093,556 square feet 

 of glass. The losses last year, August 

 1, 1907, to August 1, 1908, were $20,- 

 006.99, including 138 losses, ranging 

 frei^ $1.19 to $1,776.97. The report of 

 Treasurer Herr showed total receipts of 

 $22,573.79, and management expenses of 

 only $2,6l4.66. The reserve fund 

 amounted to $19,900 August 1, 1908, and 

 the emergency fund to $21,148.24. 



J. A. Valentine was elected a director 

 to succeed Geo. M. Kellogg. 



The directors were authorized to levy 

 an assessment whenever the emergency 

 fund is below two per cent of the fixed 

 value of all risks. 



At a second meeting on Thursday the 

 directors elected officers as follows: 

 President, E.G. Hill; vice-president, H. 

 H. Bitter; secretary, John G. Esler; 

 treasurer, Jos. Heacock, to succeed Al- 

 bert M. Herr. J. F. Ammann was elected 

 director to succeed Mr. Heacock. 



Wednesday's Session. 



The Canadian Horticultural Associa- 

 tion was expected to attend the session 

 Wednesday morning, and a formal wel- 

 come had been provided for them, but 

 Hhey had not arrived at the opening 

 hour, and the first order of business 

 was the report of the committee on 

 examination of state vice-presidents' 

 reports, read by the secretary. The 

 committee found that the state reports 



Treasurer Beatty Brought the Money Bag. 



