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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febboabi 18, 1900. 



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ILLINOIS STATE 

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OFFICmiS ELECTED. 

 Presideot— C E. GtiUett, Lincoln. 



Vice-President— Geo. Franks, Champaign. 



Secretary— J. F. Ammann, EdwardsviUe. 



Treasurer— F. L. Washburn, Bloomington. 



URBANA SELECTED FOR THE MEETING OF 1910. 



The Springfield Meeting. 



Having successfully exercised its blan- 

 dishments upon tlie legislature and be- 

 come the youngest member of the large 

 family of interests endowed by the state 

 through its appropriation for the Agri- 

 cultural College, the Illinois State Flo- 

 rists' Association should turn its efforts 

 toward the propitiation X)t Old Boreas. 

 In 1908 the opening day of its conven- 

 tion was made memorable by the biggest 

 blizzard of the year, and again this week 

 high winds and piled-up snowdrifts de- 

 terred many from attending the meeting. 

 The effect upon the attendance this year 

 was all the more severe that the storm 

 came the day before the convention, 

 rather than after the members had 

 started for Springfield. However, the 

 storm abated about the opening hour of 

 the meeting and no pleasanter days could 

 have been desired. There were three con- 

 ventions in Springfield on the same days, 

 and the legislature is in session. The 

 crowd may have added something to the 

 gaiety of the occasion, but it was not 

 conducive to comfortable hotel accommo- 

 dations and it is said some beds con- 

 tained three sleepers, even though some, 

 upon such occasions, are said not to sleep 

 at all. 



The Springfield florists repeated the 

 hospitable entertainment of last year, 

 and with the experience gained from the 

 1908 meeting were able to conduct the 

 convention absolutely without friction. 

 One of the interesting features was that 

 on the morning of February 18 a box of 

 carnations was placed upon the desk of 

 every member of the state legislature. 

 The convention adopted the following 

 resolution, bearing upon the work of the 

 legislature : 



Resolved, that this association endorses the bill 

 for University appropriation and respectfully 

 urges upon both senators and representatives 

 that it be passed as introduced. 



This bill carries $35,000 for floricul- 

 tural work. Having once broken into the 

 charmed circle, the florists' appropriation 

 now comes up as a part of the general 

 University bill and does not have to make 

 its own way as it did in the first in- 

 stance. 



Business Sessions. 



The business sessions of the society 

 began Tuesday afternoon, February 16, 

 with some introductory remarks by Hon. 

 Charles E. Hay, one of Springfield 's lead- 

 ing citizens. He was followed by Mr. 

 Murray, the spokesman for the mayor. 



Mr. Murray performed the same duty a 

 year ago, so that he said it was like greet- 

 ing old friends. The mayor probably 

 delegates this part of his duty to Mr. 

 Murray because of that gentleman's 

 fluent tongue, and he did not neglect to 

 mention the elevating influence which 

 comes from the association with flowers 

 — and florists. George Asmus, president 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club, responded 

 in his usual happy vein. 



President Albert T. Hey, upon taking 

 the chair, read his annual address, which 

 made a number of recommendations with 

 regard to the routine work of the society, 

 and was in part as follows: 



President's Address. 



"Since we last met, the Experiment 

 Station, of which we are so justly proud, 

 has been completed and we have at the 

 University of Illinois as fine and com- 

 plete a plant in every detail for experi- 

 mental work as can be found in the coun- 

 try. I only wish that each member of 

 this society could see it for himself, for 

 then only can he appreciate the work of 

 this association. This initial movement 

 has been watched with great interest 

 from other states and under the manage- 

 ment of Prof. H. B. Dorner, who is an 

 enthusiastic worker in the cause, we ex- 

 pect to get results that will be of utmost 

 importance to our association and the 

 trade in general. 



"Now, I wish to impress on the mem- 

 bers here, and on the trade in general, 

 that just because we have this station es- 

 tablished we can not fall back and rest 

 upon our oars. This year we are going 

 before the legislature for an annual ap- 

 propriation of $17,500 to carry on the 

 work. We need to increase the plant to 

 carry on other experiments. Many of 

 you may think that this is a large sum 

 of money to spend, but if you could only 

 realize that in organizing an Experi- 

 mental Station there is a vast amount of 

 detail in connection with the getting up 

 of records, compiling literature on the 

 subjects to be treated, references, etc., 

 and, getting a thorough groundwork to 

 build on, you would think it small in pro- 

 portion. Eemember that we had nothing 

 of this kind in the country before. 



"Now this has all been done and we 

 can truthfully say that in this work Illi- 

 nois takes first place. Let every member 

 put his shoulder to the wheel and help get 

 this appropriation. I have appointed 

 J. F. Ammann on the legislative com- 



mittee and any help you can give him 

 will be duly appreciated. 



"We fully intended to give you com- 

 plete statistics of glass in Illinois at this 

 meeting, but in order to complete this it 

 will be necessary for someone to canvass 

 certain sections of the state and I cannot 

 recommend anyone better than our pres- 

 ent secretary. As this involves time and 

 money, I recommend that his expenses be 

 paid. When these statistics are completed 

 they will prove valuable, and as this 

 work has cost the association some little 

 money, I would recommend that they be 

 kept as its property. We have already 

 had several inquiries from the trade for 

 these and I would suggest that copies be 

 made and sold for a small sum to cover 

 the actual expense involved, as they will 

 be the first and only accurate record of 

 those engaged in the trade in this state. 



' ' I am of the opinion that this associa- 

 tion, representing the floral industry of 

 the state, should take some action in the 

 matter of a state flower. Several of the 

 states have by legislative enactment rec- 

 ognized some flower as its floral emblem 

 and I believe that this society should go 

 on record and recoriimend to our legisla- 

 ture some flower that is indigenous and 

 appropriate for Illinois." 



The president's address was referred 

 for consideration to a oommittee consist- 

 ing of W. N. Kudd, George Asmus and 



E. W. Guy. 



The report of Secretary J. F. Ammann 

 covered the work of the year. In part^ 

 the secretary said: 



Secretary's Report. 



' ' Our membership at present writing is 

 eleven life and 155 annual members. 

 The matter of life membership should 

 appeal to many who are, and who should, 

 become members of our organization. 

 Every proprietor of any medium" size es- 

 tablishment should become a life member. 

 This is not only a benefit to the society 

 but is a good business proposition, at 

 least for every young or middle-aged 

 man. 



"The secretary takes this opportunity 

 to thank all those who responded so 

 promptly to the call for data on the 

 amount of glass in their respective coun- 

 ties. While the work is not nearly com- 

 pleted, reports from thirty counties com- 

 plete, and four incomplete, show an ag- 

 gregate of over 6,000,000 square feet 

 under glass, with sixty-eight counties 

 complete and four in part to hear from. ' * 



Treasurer's Report. 



Treasurer F. L. Washburn presented a 



report as follows: 



Receipts $106.90 



Disbursements 68.8& 



Balance $138.01 



The president appointed P. J. Foley, 

 A. C. Brown and A. G. Fehr as an audit- 

 ing committee. At the same time he ap- 

 pointed as judges of the trade exhibits, 



F. L. Washburn, Peter Olsem and George 

 A. Kuhl. 



The association's advisory board ap- 

 pointed in connection with the work of 

 the State Experiment Station consists of 

 J. C. Vaughan, W. N. Rudd, F. J. Heinl, 

 C. E. Gallantine and J. F. Ammann. 

 W. N. Eudd is secretary and made a re- 

 port for the board. 



Report of Advisory Committee, 



On behalf of the Advisory Committee 

 Mr. Rudd stated that the experiment 

 greenhouses at Urbana had cost $13,500, 

 of which $7,500 had been provided from 

 the general fund of the station and only 



