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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 19, 1909. 



to be held, "which would add so much to 

 the expense as to make it prohibitive. 



The committee understood that the gen- 

 eral sentiment has been in lavor of hold- 

 ing the show in the spring, at a time that 

 will permit the exploiting and exhibiting 

 many plants with which the public is 

 not familiar and which will lend an added 

 interest and charm to a show of such a 

 national character. For this reason, the 

 committee considered the question from 

 the standpoint of holding the show in the 



interfere with Easter work. This will be 

 mid-Lent, which the committee consider 

 the most favorable time of the year — if 

 the exhibition is to be held in the spring 

 — because more stock is available at that 

 time, and it interferes less with the work 

 of the men engaged along commercial 

 lines. 



The committee think that every en- 

 deavor should be made to interest the 

 private gardeners on large estates so as to 

 bring out as large exhibits as possible 



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A Portion of the Pittsburg; Delegation at the Cincinnati Convention. 



spring, at which time, on account of not 

 being able to obtain a suitable building, 

 it will be impossible to have the show in 

 New York city. It is possible a suita- 

 ble building could be secured in the fftU, 

 but the committee believed it to be de- 

 sirable to hold a spring flower show. 



Boston the Place. 



After considering the desirability of 

 Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, 

 Boston was finally selected as the most 

 desirable city in which to have the show. 

 Philadelphia is out of the question, for 

 the same reason that applies to New 

 York, as there is no suitable building 

 available in Philadelphia. Massachusetts 

 Horticultural hall in Boston is not large 

 enough for holding a national flower 

 show; but, fortunately, Boston possesses 

 a very fine building — the Mechanics' 

 building — which is admirably adapted 

 for the purpose, being large enough, and, 

 also, located in the best residential sec- 

 tion of the city and very near Horticul- 

 tural hall. 



Regarding the time for holding the 

 next national flower show, the committee 

 recommend that it be held in the spring 

 of 1911, which is as early as it will be 

 possible to prepare for an exhibition of 

 so much importance as a national flower 

 show, as a great many exhibits will have 

 to be prepared especially, and it will take 

 at least a year to get them in shape. If 

 the show is held in the spring of 1911, 

 there will be ample time for prepara- 

 tion, bnt not too much. 



D*te to be Spring, 1911. 

 In regard to the date, the committee 

 suggest the end of March. Easter oc- 

 curs April 16, in 1911, so if the exhibi- 

 tion is held tke end of March, it will not 



from our large private collections. There 

 should, also, be some strong original 

 floricultural feature or features, and the 

 flower show proper should not be encum- 

 bered with tradesmen's exhibits or flo- 

 rists' supplies in horticultural wares. For 

 such commercial exhibits a separate part 

 of the building should be used. 



The work should be put in hand at 

 once, and a schedule issued not later than 

 the end of this year or the beginning of 

 1910. This applies particularly to a 

 preliminary flcbedale in regard to plants, 

 which should be gotten out with the least 

 possible delay — not later than January 1, 

 1910 — and it should be put in charge of 

 either the present committee or another 

 committee appointed for this purpose. 

 The entire work, however, should be 

 predicated upon a sufficient guarantee 

 fund being subscribed to carry on such 

 an undertaking to a successful comple- 

 tion; and the committee recommend that 

 guarantees be requested, for, say not less 

 than $10,000, to provide for premiums 

 and other necessary expenses incident to 

 such an undertaking; that twenty-flve 

 per cent be called for when needed, and 

 such other installments levied from time 

 to time as may be found necessary to 

 provide sufficient funds to carry forward 

 the work. 



The committee also recommend that 

 liberal cash premiums be offered; also a 

 series of gold, silver and bronze medals, 

 as well as certificates of different grades, 

 which would be prized on account of 

 their advertising value rather than for 

 their intrinsic merits. 



It gives the committee great pleasure 

 to recommend Boston as a suitable city 

 in which to hold the show, because hor- 

 ticulture is there highly developed and 



there are extensive private collections 

 available in the immediate vicinity 

 which always add largely to the success 

 of such an exhibition. 



THOSE PRESENT. 



The attendance was the largest in tL« 

 history of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists. To enumerate the Cincinnati 

 people present would be to give a list of 

 every man and woman in any way coti- 

 nected with the trade in the city, f i r 

 they all were indefatigable in the r 

 hospitality. Among those present froui 

 outside of Cincinnati were the following; 



Gentlemen. 



Abrams, M. L., Detroit, Micb. 

 Adams, B., Pass Christian, Miss. 

 Adams, W. F., Pass Christian, MUs. 

 Adams, O., New Castle, Ind. 

 Adgate, V. H., Warren, O. 

 Adslt, L. C, Jamestown, O. 

 Alexander, J. W., Charleston, W. Va. 

 Altick, Harry, Dayton, O. 

 Ammann, J. F., EdwardsTlUe, 111. 

 Angermuellcr, G. H., St. Louis, Mo. 

 Apelt, Charles, Comfort, Tex. 

 Asmus, George Chicago, 111. 



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Bader, John, Allegheny, Pa. 

 Badgley, W. G., Chatham, N. J. 

 Baker, F. H., Warsaw, N. Y. 

 Baldwin, H. J., Newark, O. 

 Ball, C. D., Holmesburg, Pa. 

 Ball, C. D., Jr., Holmesburg, Pa. 

 Ball, L., Wlssinoming, Pa. 

 Ball, Frank, Clyde, O. 

 Ballard, Henry, Lexington, Ky. 

 Ballon, J., Frankfort, Ky. 

 Balsley, Harry, Detroit, Mich. 

 Bannister, F. W., Syracuse, N. Y. 

 Bannister, T. D., Syracuse, N. Y. 

 Barker, M., Chicago, 111. 

 Barnett, A. L., New York, N. Y. 

 Barrow, Francis, Toledo, O. 

 Barrow, John, Toledo, 0. 

 Bartel, F. C, Cleveland, O. 

 Bate, Gay, CleTeland, O. 

 Bartholomew, Geo., Dayton, «J. 

 Bauer, F. C, Govanstown, Md. 

 Baum, C. L., Knoxville, Tenn. 

 Baumann, L., Chicago, 111. 

 Baur, W. O., Erie, Pa. 

 BauBcher, John, Jr., Freeport, 111. 

 Bayer, Geo., Toledo, O. 

 Bayei-sdorfer. Sidney, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Beatty, H. B., Pittsburg. Pa. 

 Beaven, B. A., Evergreen, Ala. 

 Beckley, O. P., Harrlsburg, Pa. 

 Behrens, H., Middletown, O. 

 Behrens, L. N., Middletown, 0. 

 Beneke, J. J., St. Louis, Mo. 

 Benson, N. A., Denver, Colo. 

 Berg, J., New York. N. Y. 

 Bergman, Victor, Chicago, 111. 

 Bernlng, H. G., St. Louis, Mo. 

 Berno, Ed., Mansfield, 0. 

 Berrlnger, F. J., Marlon, O. 

 Berry, R. B., New York, N. Y. 

 Bertermann, Irwin, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Bertermann, John, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Biederman, L., Chicago, HI. 

 Blackistone, Z. D., Washington. D. C. 

 Blackman, G. S. W., EvansvUle, Ind. 

 Blind, H. L., Pittsburg, Pa. 

 Bloy, M., Detroit, Mich. 

 Bock, Theo., Hamilton, O. 

 Boehler, Oscar W., West Hoboken. X. J. 

 Boehner, John, Dayton, 0. 

 Boone, J. W., Clifton Park, Md. 

 Bonhan, F. C, Macon, HI. 

 Bradford, L., Springfield, O. 

 Bradt, W. D., Brook vllle, Ind. 

 Bramley, W. A., Cleveland, O. 

 Breitmeyer, Phil, Detroit, Mlcb. 

 Brouwer, S., Athens, 0. 

 Brown, A. C, Springfield, 111. 

 Brown, Cbas., Canton, O. 

 Brown, H., Richmond, Va. 

 Brown, J. F., French Lick, Ind, 

 Brown, Harry R., Lynchburg, Va. 

 Brown. J. S., Richmond, Va. 

 Braenlg, F. W., St. Louis, Mo. 

 Bruggmann, H. F., Covington, Ky. 

 Bmnner, Carl F., Chllllcothe, O. 

 Brnnner, S. P., Springfield, O. 

 Brnns, H. N., Chicago, 111. 

 Bullock, O. L., Elkhart, Ind. 

 Bunvard, H. A., New York, N. ¥. 

 Burden, T. J., Bowling Green, Ky. 

 Burkl, Fred, and sons, Glbsonla, Pa. 

 Barton, John Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Bush, A. H., Denver, Colo. 







Carey, John, Mount Clemens, Mich. 

 Carey, S. W., Urbana, O. 

 Carmody. J. D., EvansvUle, Ind. 

 Carney, W. H., Pittsburg, Pa. 

 Castle, W. W., Boston, Mass. 

 Caton, Geo. W., ZanesvUle, O. 

 Charvat, Louis, Detroit, Mich. 

 Chase, C. C, New London. O. 



