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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



Oeorgia. Dorothy Gordon. O. P. Bassett. Mrs. J. C. Vaughan. 



Mrs. Cbas. Knopf. Apple filossom, , Ruby. 



Some of the New Carnatiens Staged at the National Flower Show. 



then introduced J. A, Valentine, of Den- 

 ver, president-elect of the S. A. F. 



Mr. Valentine referred humorously to 

 t! 3 Chicago habit of each man speaking 

 his own mind and then all putting their 

 shoulders to the wheel in united effort 

 for the general good. He said the Chi- 

 cago florists are the best fighters, the 

 uest makers-up, and the best workers he 

 ever had seen, and that the success which 

 has attended the first national flower 

 show marks a new era for the S. A. F. 

 He said he is sanguine as to the future 

 because he believes that the stronger the 

 society "tSecomes the faster it will grow. 



President F. H. Traendly, not being 

 able to remain at Chicago for the ban- 

 quet, Toastmaster Rudd introduced E. V. 

 Hallock, of Queens, N. Y., as his ora- 

 torical representative. Mr. Hallock said 

 Mr. Traendly appreciates most thorough- 

 ly the effort which has "been, put into 

 this first exhibition of the national so- 

 ciety and that he was instructed to voice 

 Mr. Traendly 's thanks to the florists not 

 only of Chicago, but of the whole coun- 

 try for the good worK done. For him- 

 self, Mr. Hallock said that Chicago was 

 entitled to special credit for daring to 

 undertake so monumental an exhibition, 

 involving not only large financial outlay, 

 but the expenditure of a vast amount of 

 close thought and hard work. He said 

 he thinks the eastern exhibitors are to 

 be congratulated on making as good a 

 showing as has been done, a thousand 

 miles from home. 



For the American Carnation Society, 

 M. A. Patten, of Tewksbury, Mass., was 

 called upon to tell how the section of the 

 show under its supervision has been made 

 by far the grandest display of its spe- 

 cial flower ever brought together at this 

 season of the year. He said it was sim- 

 ply because each one had done his best. 

 He added a word for the society's an- 

 nual exhibition at Indianapolis in Janu- 

 ary, saying he hopes for the same united 

 support for that event. 



President-elect Elmer D. Smith, of Ad- 



rian, Mich., was called upon for the 

 Chrysanthemum Society, but' evidently 

 had gone back to the hall to admire the 

 blooms, and the toastmaster called upon 

 August Poehlmann, of Chicago, president 

 of the American Rose Society. 



Mr. Poehlmann said he was delighted 

 with the attendance at the banquet; it 

 gave him much pleasure to see at the 

 tables old friends from New England, 

 from New Orleans, and from the Pacific 

 Coast. He said he was sorry the show- 

 ing of roses had failed something of 

 realizing the high hopes of the rose men 

 and said they expect a large attendance 

 at the rose meeting at Buffalo next 

 spring. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111., 

 was called upon to speak for the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association. He said the 

 society is a recent graft upon the parent 

 plant, but that it is expected it will in 

 time become a great and flourishing 

 branch, working along a little different 

 lines but for the general good. 



W. F. Kasting, chairman of the gen- 

 eral committee on national flower show, 

 commented on the banquet as being 

 like the national flower show, a new 

 departure, and on a broader plan 

 than anything in the past. He said he 

 never has seen so many representative 

 florists together at such an event, nor so 

 many ladies. He said that while the 

 show is not as national in exhibits as 

 had been hoped, the attendance of mem- 

 bers of the trade is especially gratify- 

 ing. He said that every member of the 

 committee of fifty has given the chair- 

 man excellent support and that on No- 

 vember 9 twenty-five of the eastern mem- 

 bers met at the Coliseum, unanimously 

 endorsed the work of the Chicago man- 

 agement, and adopted a resolution ask- 

 ing the next national show for one of 

 the larger eastern cities. He said such a 

 show helps business all over the country, 

 for the present one is attracting the at- 

 tention of the press throughout the 

 Union. Speaking of the financial side. 



he said it is hoped the guarantors may 

 receive back the sums advanced for pre- 

 liminary work. 



J. C. Vaughan said Chicago has re- 

 ceived full credit for all it has done 

 and he would like to see more recogni- 

 tion for the good work of representa- 

 tives of other cities ; while the show falls 

 a little short of meeting what had been 

 hoped for, it is at least a good start and 

 much of the hard work has been done by 

 others than Chicagoans. Many Chicago 

 exhibitors stayed out merely to make 

 room for outside exhibits. A grateful 

 feature is the large attendance from a 

 distance, making the show universal in 

 point of attendance. He said it is glory 

 enough to Chicago to have inaugurated 

 such a movement. 



Judge Vesey, of Fort Wayne, was 

 called upon as the right hand man of the 

 president of the Ladies ' Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists and told a couple of good 

 stories, one at the expense of the toast- 

 master and another at the expense of the 

 introducers of novelties. 



F. R. Pierson said he wanted to ac- 

 knowledge such splendid hospitality aa 

 had greeted him everywhere, and that he 

 wanted to publicly recognize the great 

 difficulties of the management of such 

 an initiatory undertaking in national ex- 

 hibitions. He said the east hopes to 

 have the second national show, but ap- 

 preciates the amount of work and re- 

 sponsibility entailed. He said the pres- 

 ent gathering was the most representa- 

 tive he ever had seen. Speaking of the 

 desirability of securing the assistance 

 of wealthy men, he said as soon as this is 

 possible these national shows will become 

 annual events. 



John N.. May, of Summit, N. J., said 

 the evening was one of the most enjoy- 

 able he ever had spent. In over three 

 decades he had not seen so splendid a 

 gathering of florists, and he said he 

 hoped the presence of the ladies would be 

 an example to the fraternity throughout 

 the country, and that they might always 



