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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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THE PITTSBURG 



CONVENTION 



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The American Carnation Society Holds Its Nineteenth 

 Annual Meeting and Exhibition. 



President, Fred Borki, Pittsbtjfg, Pa. 



Vice-presidentt E. Allan Peirce, Waltham, Mass. 



Secretary, A. F. J. Baur, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Treasurer, Fred E. Dorner, Jr., Lafayette, Ind* 



NEXT MEETING PLACE, BOSTON, MASS., MARCH, 1911. 



In many respects the exhibition and 

 convention of the American Carnation 

 Society, held this week at Pittsburg, 

 proved to be the most notable of the long 

 line of successful meetings of this vigor- 

 ous organization, the most active of all 

 the special flower societies in the United 

 States. While no records as to attend- 

 ance were broken, there was, neverthe- 

 less, a first-class showing from a distance. 

 New York coming with a full carload — 

 nearly thirty people — and Chicago and 

 vicinity being nearly as well represented. 

 J. A, Valentine and Emil Glauber, the 

 Colorado delegates, were farther from 

 home than any one else. The New Eng- 

 land representation was light. Peter 

 Fisher was missed. As is always the case, 

 scores of florists from the small towns 

 for fifty miles around dropped in for a 

 few hours and departed without making 

 themselves known to the secretary; still 

 there was a rather good western Penn- 

 sylvania accession to the membership. 



Pittsburg is an ideal convention town, 

 only one night's ride from most of the 

 convention goers, and the Pittsburg Flo- 

 rists' Club worked hard on the arrange- 

 ments, so that they were nearly perfect. 

 The only thing that a,ppears to have been 

 overlooked was the propitiation of the 

 weather man — he announced several days 

 before that it would rain or snow in 

 Pittsburg during the convention dates, 

 and it did both fairly continuously — and 

 a deal whereby the Carnation Society 

 should have the exclusive convention 

 privilege that week. As it turned out, 

 there was a big baseball conference, a 

 glass manufacturers' convention and sev- 

 eral other meetings, so that the hotels 

 were crowded. The big Fort Pitt hotel, 

 where the Carnation Society met, was 

 obliged to turn away many florists, which 

 was an unpleasant feature — it had been 

 planned to keep everything and every- 

 body under one roof. 



The Carnation Society never has had 

 so fine a place for its meeting. The 

 Fort Pitt is one of the big, modern hotels 

 of the country. It affords every creature 

 comfort, and the exhibition hall was a 

 beauty, well ventilated, if it is so poorly 

 lighted that the electrics were required 

 in the day the same as in the evening. 

 Many a member did not step foot out- 

 doors during the two days of the meet- 

 ing, "Wednesday and Thursday. 



The Exhibition. 



While the business sessions were ex- 

 ceptionally interesting this year, after 

 all it is the exhibition that draws the 

 attendance and holds the attention, for 

 it means real money to most of those in 

 the trade. There have been larger ex- 

 hibitions of carnations than the one held 

 at Pittsburg this year, for there are not 

 a large number of local growers to par- 

 ticipate, but there never was a finer show- 

 ing anywhere. It is noteworthy that 



year by year the standard sorts are less 

 and less in evidence and the exhibition is 

 monopolized by the new sorts, those of 

 this season's introduction, those to come 

 out next season, and those sent out a year 

 ago. No one ever saw a finer lot of new 

 sorts than were shown at Pittsburg. There 

 were thirteen splendid competitors for 

 the gold medal, among them being most 

 of the sorts now being disseminated and 

 some of those to come out next year. The 

 effort to make a showing of last year's 

 introductions was only partly successful. 

 While fourteen disseminators offered pre- 

 miums to tempt competition from those 

 who bought their novelties a year ago, 

 there were no entries in several of these 

 classes and only one in many of them. 

 It was notable that in this year's exhibi- 

 tion there was not even one vase of last 

 year's medal- winner, Eoper's variegated, 

 Bay State. 



The NovelticB, 



Possibly the greatest interest attached 

 to the varieties now being sent out. The 

 Cottage Gardens Co. had several vases of 

 Alma Ward, white, and Mrs. C. W. Ward, 

 pink. The awards will show how they 

 stood comparison with the best now in 

 sight. Dorothy Gordon, the light pink of 

 the Joseph Heacock Co., was closely 

 studied, for it is being bought heavily, 

 over 95,000 having now been booked. It 

 looked better than it has in either of the 

 last two years. Admiration, by the Chas. 

 Knopf Floral Co., also showed up better 

 than ever before. Both A. C. Brown and 

 the Chicago Carnation Co. staged fine 

 vases of Sangamo, the pink that was so 

 well thought of at Indianapolis last year, 

 and the latter concern also showed Mary 

 Tolman, light pink, and Conquest, varie- 



Fred Burki. 



(Presidentelect American Carnation Society.) 



