AUGUST 20, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



Canna Exhibit of Arthur T. Boddington, New York, in the G>nvention Garden. 



Allowance, superintendent trade exhi- 

 bition, 4 weeks' stay In convention 



city 200.00 



Stamps 25.66 



Buttons (1013) 160.51 



Typewriting at convention 10.30 



Refund, fee and dues 13.00 



Framing life member certificates 13.20 



Rental furniture, Nat'l Flower Show.. 1.50 



Engraving medals 4.80 



Printing and stationery 57.30 



Freigiit and express 21. 6.5 



Rent, Armory, Minneapolis 1,200.00 



Members' register 9.50 



Scliool gardens committee 44.50 



Labor, outdoor garden 1,349.79 



niotographs, outdoor garden 8.00 



.Signs, labels, outdoor garden 138. 4(i 



Official reporter, convention 125.00 



Office of entomologist 100.00 



.Special allowance, superintendent trade 



exhibition 500.00 



Electric light, convention hall 28.39 



Life members' buttons 324.62 



Office of pathologist 100.28 



Labor at convention, arranging and dis- 

 mantling exhibition 274.60 



Lantern and operator 15.00 



Expenses at Convention Hall. 



Water supply $ 10.50 



Three cases lily cups 10.50 



Stationery 2.25 



Electric sign, "Welcome S. 



A. F." 122.83 



Typewriting .^ '^•^ 



Hecoratlng hM 75.00 



Signs, etc. . ^ 56.25 



I'lates, sauces, etc., for exhib- 

 its of platSP- 20.42 



Kurniture seoBtary's office 13.00 



Telegrams .^. 4.47 



Printing ...?W. 25.00 



Advertising iigFer show 44.30 



IVcorating .jST. 117.05 



^^ 573.07 



Krawing orlgttili] plans conven- 

 tion hall IS.'W 



Telegrams ^-"^^ 



Total % 9,350.62 



Vouchers drawn ou the Treasurer, 1-75 in- 

 clusive. 



From January 1 to August 1, 1914. 



RECEIITS. 



{''les, lOU. 2 at $3.00 % R-OO 



"es, 1911, 10 at $3.00 S?^" 



"es, 1913, 58 at $3.00 „ I'lJO^ 



I'lies, 1914, 769 at $3.00 2,307.00 



I''es and dues, new members, 109 at 



$.").00 . . .* 545.00 



Additional fees and dues, 1915 2*S 



' ife memberships. 31 at $25.00 ^^^.00 



''ife members' buttons. 111 at $0.75 gS.Jo 



irade exhibition, on account 524.10 



Interest, Etc. 

 J"'|. 21, Trl State Loan & Trust 



Co $ 150.00 



20, Mfis. & Traders Bank. 



speciHl fund 27.08 



.May 8, TrlState Loan & Trust 



Co., a/c principal... 1,000.00 

 8, Tri-State Loan & Trust 



interest 12.22 



13, Trl-State Loan & Trust 



Co 37.50 



June 11, Trl State, Dunkelberg 



Mtge 125.00 



July 20, Mfrs. & Traders Bank, 



special fund 30.70 



20, American Savings Rank, 



permanent fund 75.32 



20, American Savings Bank, 



general fund 96.04 



20, German-Am erlcan 



Bank, general fund 6C.37 



20, People's Bank, savings 



a/c 62.74 



20, People's Bank, check- 

 ing a/c 10.97 



20, People's Bank, perma- 

 nent fund 50.88 



20, Germanla Savings Bank, 



permanent fund 13.94 1,764.76 



Total $6,211.11 



DISBURSEMENTS. 

 Remitted to W. F. Kastlng, 



treasurer permanent fund. .. .$2,195.86 



General fund 3,436.12 



Special fund 57.78 



$5,G!9.7fi 



Cash on hand 521. .35 



$6,211.11 



"Warrants drawn on treasurer In payment of 

 1914 bills, 1 to 54, Inclusive, $5,231.60. 



REPORT ON SCHOOL GARDENS. 



[The following Is the report of Benjamin 

 Hammond, chairman of the S. A. F. com- 

 mittee on school gardens, presented at the 

 Boston convention August 19, 1914.] 



Within twenty years the idea of 

 school gardening has spread from Bos- 

 ton to the Pacific ocean and to the 

 Philippine islands under United States 

 control. 



The economic value of this work, as 

 is realized today, is of much importance 

 in every town where it takes root. The 

 value of a taste cultivated by making 

 things grow in a small way lies in the 

 fact that it tends at once to improve 

 the appearance of a neighborhood. The 

 florist's shop never is a detriment to a 

 neighborhood, but is the example of 

 what will make the homes of a com- 

 munity look better. 



During the last year the committee 



on school gardens has followed up its 

 limited work of suggestion to school 

 trustees and qthers in every city, town 

 or village where a member of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists is located, 

 by mailing to each official school body 

 a well illustrated circular letter calling 

 attention to this work, and apprecia- 

 tion of this call is acknowledged by 

 many. 



One of the manufacturing towns 

 which was built on the sand dunes or 

 waste places at the south end of Lake 

 Michigan is Gary, Ind., and the lead- 

 ing men of the cosmopolitan city of 

 New York have been out there and 

 come back home to tell, among other 

 things, what school gardening and 

 flower growing does to break up the 

 old-time barrenness of a manufacturing 

 city. This work over the country, espe- 

 cially in the larger cities, such as Cin- 

 cinnati, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, 

 Los Angeles, Bellingham, Worcester, 

 Toronto, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, 

 Syracuse, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louis- 

 ville, Indianapolis, Grand Kapids and 

 Kalamazoo, gives merely an idea of 

 what is being done in centers of large 

 population. The work is aided by seeds- 

 men in many places. Eoses, dahlias, 

 asters, gladioli, cannas, coleus, gerani- 

 ums, sweet peas, etc., are evidence of 

 the increasing appreciation by the mass 

 of American families of flowering 

 plants in the odd corners and waste 

 places. Example and training are the 

 effective ways in which to lead and 

 elevate home taste. The development 

 in the use and growth of flowers is 

 nowhere more apparent than on the 

 roofs of the great tenement buildings 

 or apartment houses on Manhattan 

 island; the boxes of flowers tell their 

 own story of the yearning in human 

 hearts for pretty things, and the florists 

 and seedsmen of the world are the 

 trades that help uplift humanity. 



Your ownniitt««'s advice .to all the 

 people is: Keep right on the job. 



