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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 26, 1909. 



The Society of American Florists as Photographed at the Barbecui 



CONVENTION 



AFTERMATH 



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The Anniversary Session. 



Tlic roll call of the past presidents 

 of the S. A. F. from the staye at the 

 Odeon in Cincinnati on llie eveninfj of 

 August ](» showed the ftdlowing to be 

 l)resent: K. (J. Hill. William R. 8mith. 

 Adam (Iraham, W. F. Cude, W. N. Eiuhl, 

 John Hui'ton. Philiji HriMtmeyer, J. C. 

 Vaiighaii. William 1'. Kasting, AV. ,1. 

 Stewart and I'. 11. 'riMcndlv. W O'Mara 

 had lircn c(>ni]ic]l((| to ictiiiii to New 

 ^'()l•k earlier in the day. 



I'or the decease(l presidents some iiiti 

 mate of former yi'ars was called on to 

 speak: ]•]. (i. Hill fur .lohn Thorjie, .1. 

 I». (armody fur .1. M. .Icodan. .1. < '. 

 \'aii<ihan ford. T. Anthiois. I'rul'. (Hwidi 

 for William Scdit. W. .1. ."-^tewart for 



i;. ^]. Wofid. 



I'cpr the li\iii;^ liiil ali--eiil past jiresi 



dents. lettel< WrM'e lead friiiii ludiert 



"i-ai::. M. II. Norton :nid .lames iJe.an. 



i;. (.. I Id! siM,k.- ot' .1. N. May. ami 



.losepii ]le;iroid< ;Mld others ot' IJlwill 



l-.oisdale. 



A roll r;i]| el' tlie meinliel> JilC^ent at 



thi- tirst session, twenty ti\e years liefore. 

 loiuid hardly any of them in the liall; 

 only one. !',. I', t 'iit<h(dl. had anythin" 

 to sa\. I!. (>. Ildl read a pajier. ]pidi- 

 l|v|,,.,| in thi' la-I i — ile "f tin- l.'l.VI i:\V, de 

 -niptive ot' the lir--t iiieeiinu. and d. ' '. 

 \'aili;han read a pa|'ei eiititjeij "'What 

 !lio SocletN' lla'- .\i( iiinpli^hed III Twenty 

 live ^■eal>. ■ ■ lie and II. II. U'ittei- are 

 ^.aiij to lie the only nieiid'ci'^ who ha\e 

 atteii.'ed all tlh' i-oliv elit joii^-. He took the 



|,i(i;id t:ronnd th.at ;i lari;e jiart of the 

 wonderfid dexelopineiit of the trade in 

 the last fpiarter ceiituiy has lieen dne to 

 the iitliience of the S. A. J". He said he 

 would lea\e till' aiidiem-e to Jinljie ot' 

 the soeiety "s a.eeomplishments when he 

 had eontrasteil the conditions of twenty 

 ii\e years ago with those tliat obtain to- 

 ,U[\. He ijiioted William Nirhcdson at 



the time he visited this country, the 

 year of the St. Louis convention, and 

 s])oke in appreciation of the eoiiperative 

 spirit nmnifested by those of the society 

 in their willingness to imjiart knowledge 

 to those engaged in the same line of 

 Tmsiness. 



After a few words by William R. 

 Smith, the oldest jiast jiresident. every- 

 body jcdnecl in singing ''.\nld Lang 

 Syne. 



.\t the opetung (d' the session, I'resi- 

 deiit-elect I'ierson atid Secretary-elect 

 Dorner had been introdticed ami each said 

 :i few words of appreciation, coupled 

 with pledges of loyalty and etfiirt. 



The Barbecue. 



Friday. August 20, the Cincinnati Flo 

 rists' Society took all those who had 

 remained of the visitors — and they num 

 bered sevei'.al hnmlreds — for a ride on a 

 big river steamer an hour and a half 

 uji stream to a resort called Coney Island, 

 where a country fair was in progress. 

 While the llorists had the freedom of the 

 fail', a portion (d' the grounds was set 

 .apart foi- tlieir ]irivate use, and here 

 a l)arbeeiie was ludil, with an ox ;iml 

 sheep roaste(| o\er big fires in the open 

 ail. The ladies wr^re served at taldes. 

 liut the men crowded about the ear\eis 

 and helped themsehes in real barlieeiie 

 Ntyh\ There was an abundance of lem 

 oiiaile and other liquids, also plent\- to 

 smoke. 



.\fter the repast a group jiicture was 

 tiiken, though it contained only a com- 

 ]iaiative few of those who actually were 

 in attendance. Then came the ball game, 

 ill wliieh the visiting florists, led by 

 I'itcher Charles Graham, of Cleveland, 

 defeated nine Cincinnati florists, L3 to 4. 



Ill the evening the fireworks display 

 roiK hided with a splendid piece in honor 



of the florists — -a portrait in pyrotechnics 

 inscribed "J. A. Valentine." 



The affair was under the immediate 

 charge of J. A. Peterson, chairman, and 

 Albert Sunderbrueh, secretary, of the 

 general committee, but all the other 

 members of the executive committee were 

 indefatigable in their efforts to see that 

 everybody had a good time. The otlier 

 members of the committee were: Albert 

 McCullough, J. Charles McCullough. V. 

 .1. Olinger, Richard Witterstaetter. Ben 

 George, E. G. Gillett, E. A. Fort.'r. < . 

 E. Critchell, J. W. Rodgers, D. Rus.-oni, 

 William Murphy, Daniel Carmi<hae]. 

 George Bartlett, William Gardner. Augu-t 

 Hoffnieister, Frank Dellar. Gus Adrian. 

 Max Rudolph, Henrv Schwarz and L. 

 H. Kyrk. 



Presentations. 



During the outing at ( oney Llaiid. 

 .\iigust 20, the members of the S. .\. 1". 

 juesented President ami Mrs. Valentine 

 w ith a large chest of silver. In his speec li 

 of aeeei)t:ince ^Ir. A'alentiiie stated that 

 the selection Was a ]iarticularly ha]i}iy 

 one, as they had rei'ently celelirateil their 

 silver wedding and this was the >iher 

 jubilee of the society. 



The New York members think so high- 

 ly of Secretary Rndd that they <-ould nut 

 ]iermit him to go unremembered, also the 

 secretary's old briar root has become so 



strong as to be noticeable \vherever g 1 



f(dli>ws gt>t together; so the Xe>v York- 

 ers jireseiited ^Ir. Rndd with a i;ise ot' 

 two new pipes, a briar for every day and 

 a meerschaum for Sumlay, as d. II. Pep 

 ]>er exjdained in making the jire-enta- 

 tion. 



The ladii's ne\er are to be out'lone by 

 the men. After Inning given tlK'ir jiiesi- 

 deiit, Mrs. A'aiigh;iii. a i-iiT ^la^s ht iry 

 bowl Wednesday evening, at the ontiiii:. 

 August 20, they presented ;\[rs. Maynai 1. 

 the secretary, with a cut glass pitejiei. 



Louis Bullock, of Elkhart, hid., wa- 

 Ipieseiited with a scarfpin by the Ladies" 

 s. .\. 1'. for his etiicient services ..n tie' 

 exening of the reception at the .■^inti'i: 

 Hotel. 



Convention Notes. 



Cincinnati tnade good in every ro-i'e,r. 

 1-^ven the wi/ather left nothing to !• 

 desired. 



There was a large increase in S. A. >'. 

 membership, but not in ]>roportion to th' 

 number of non-members attendiiie-. Here 



