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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 27, 1910. 



Thomas P. Jenkinson^ Reception Committee. 



the procuring of the funds necessary t9 

 the welfare of this society. 



In closing, I want to compliment this 

 society on its choice of a secretary; a 

 better one would be hard to find; his 

 work has been especially arduous for this 

 first year, but it certainly has been faith- 

 fully performed. Our secretary should 

 have at least $250 per year and the work 

 would be cheaply done at that. 



Let us all work toward getting this 

 society to the position it should hold, and 

 the prosperity of our society will bring 

 prosperity to all its members. 



At the conclusion of President Herr's 

 remarks Secretary A. F. J. Baur pre- 

 sented his annual report, as follows: 



Secretary's Report. 



Your secretary begs leave to report on 

 the last year's work as foUows: 



The former secretary, who is now our 

 worthy president, turned over the sec re 

 tary's oflBce to me in good condition, 

 April 1 of last year. He had gotten out 

 the annual report and finished all the 

 work connected with the last convention. 

 Hence my report will not cover the whole 

 year. 



Our membership roll now contains 394 

 names. Of these, fifty-five came in dur- 

 ing the year 1909. Against these we 

 have twenty-seven who are delinquent 

 for 1908 aii(l 1909 and will be dropped 

 from the roll, except those who may pay 

 up at this meeting. We also have about 

 fifty who owe for 1909, but no doubt 

 many of these will pay up here. 



During the last year four of our mem- 

 bers have been called away from this 

 life. They are: Geo. M. Kellogg, of 

 Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Herbert Heller, of 

 New Castle, Ind. ; Wm. K. Harris, of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and E. Sutermelster, 

 of Readville, Mass. No official notice was 

 received by your secretary of any of 

 these deaths. 



The board of directors, at their meet- 

 ing in Cincinnati, O., last August, or- 

 dered the secretary to procure more 



vases, and to have cases made for stor- 

 ing and shipping the vases from place 

 to place. These have been secured, and 

 it is hoped that our vases will be better 

 preserved than could be done heretofore. 



"We have also had holders made for 

 securing the name cards and entry cards 



to the vases. You wUl notice that these 

 are so made as to permit the cards to 

 be printed and read from both sides. It 

 will be unnecessary for anyone to handle 

 the cards to read the name of the va- 

 riety or the exhibitor. There will be less 

 likelihood of confusion from getting the 

 cards mixed in moving vases around. 



The premium list was gotten out early 

 in December, as is customary. We were 

 this year favored with a splendid lot of 

 advertising, amounting to $285, This 

 will pay for all the printing and sta 

 tionery connected with this convention 

 and leave a balance of some $150 to go 

 into our treasury. 



The greatest change in the list is the 

 addition of the new section, called Sec- 

 tion C, for the previous season's novel- 

 ties. It took considerable correspond- 

 ence to get this section started, but after 

 it became clear to the disseminators they 

 responded liberally, and all except two 

 have entered their varieties in this sec- 

 tion. We hope that this arrangement 

 will be a permanent one, and that in the 

 future it will become customary for dis- 

 seminators to list their varieties in this 

 section, without having to be coaxed. 



We have also divided the list into 

 sections, designated by letters of the 

 alphabet, and numbered the classes in 

 figures. 



In the judges' book we have adopted a 

 system under which every entry has a 

 diflferent number, and it is impossible 

 to recognize the owner of an exhibit by 

 the number on another exhibit. In order 

 to help make this system work smoothly, 

 I will ask this meeting to adopt some 

 rule to limit- the time for making en- 

 tries in the competitive classes. 



The rule printed in the list, requiring 

 the payment of $1 for each entry made 

 after a certain date, does not seem to 



B. L. Elliott, Reception Committee. 



