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Januari 28, 190'J. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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The secretary's report was presented, 

 as follows: 



Secretary's Report. 



Your secretary begs leave to report 

 having issued the report of our annual 

 meeting in due time and having mailed 

 the same to all members in good stand- 

 ing. 



January 4, 1909, the premium list for 

 the present meeting was issued and 

 mailed to all members on our books, this 

 list being made up as per instructions 

 from your board of directors at a meet- 

 ing held in Washington last January. 

 The usual effort was made to secure ad- 

 vertisements for this list by your secre- 

 tary. A circular letter was sent to every 

 member on our books, and to about 300 

 possible advertisers who were not mem- 

 bers of this society. This was followed 

 up by a personal letter to a hundred or 

 more whom your secretary thought should 

 advertise with us. The result is $105 

 worth of advertising, not one-fifth 

 enough for the work of solicitation neces- 

 sary to get it, and I again recommend 

 that this part of our premium list be 

 abolished. 



An innovation this year was a request 

 made to every member of this society to 

 add to our Class B, of named varieties, 

 any variety they might want to see in- 

 serted, providing they would pay the 

 premiums, if any were awarded. Thii^ 

 was followed up by an appeal made 

 through the trade papers and the result 

 was one addition, that of Afterglow, by 

 K. Witterstaetter, Cincinnati, O. This 

 meager response may have been due to 

 this feature not being properly under- 

 stood, and partly owing to financial de- 

 pression; at least it is to be hoped that 

 we as individuals will have pride enough 

 in our society to see that this part of our 

 premium list is well filled for another 

 year. 



In membership wc have thirty-two who 



Herman H. Junge. 



(Vice-president State Florists' Association of Indiana.) 



John Rieman* 



(Member Press Committee for Carnation Convention.) 



have not paid their dues for 1908, and 

 forty-one new members, so that we are 

 gradually gaining in membership, as the 

 new list will no doubt be increased con- 

 siderably at this meeting. 



There were several deaths during the 

 year, but, no notice being received by 

 your secretary, no oflBcial announcement 

 can be made. 



I want to thank the president and 

 vice-president for their assistance during 

 the past year and beg pardon for the 

 few errors that have occurred during the 

 same period. I also want to thank every 

 member of this society for their hearty 

 cooperation during the fourteen years I 

 have served them as secretary, and be- 

 speak for my successor the same helpful 

 spirit from them. 



This society has advanced the carna- 

 tion and its methods of culture some- 

 where near perfection. To continue its 

 mission it must take up the work of 

 popularizing the flower with the buying 

 public, and as far as possible correct the 

 evils and make improvements in the buy- 

 ing and selling end of the business. 



We need a secretary who either has 

 ample time of his own to devote to its 

 affairs, or sufficient clerical force to have 

 them attend to all of the details between 

 meetings, and one to whom the salary is 

 no object for the amount of work done. 



With me it has been a labor of love 

 for fourteen years — years which I can 

 look back over with many pleasant 

 memories and for which I feel amply 

 repaid by the acquaintance of the ipen 



