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August 22, 1012. 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



the House has substituted the Moon 

 bill for the Bourne bill of the Senate 

 and the matter has gone to conference. 



For the committee on National 

 Flower Show, C. H. Totty presented a 

 report, printed in another column. He 

 added that the International Exhibition 

 Co., in New York, is putting a rental 

 of about $18,000 against the guarantee 

 fund which the committee expects now 

 to raise. 



The stenographer read the lengthy 

 minutes of the meetings of the execu- 

 tive board held at Detroit in January 

 and at Chicago in March. 



W. F. Gude, Washington representa- 

 tive of the society, reported on the 

 work for the parcels post done in the 

 name of the society and reported the 

 death of ex-President William E. Smith. 

 Later he oflfered a resolution, which was 

 adopted, instructing the president to 

 appoint a committee of five to consider 

 the question of erecting a memorial to 

 Mr. Smith in the city of Washington. 



For the committee on school gardens, 

 B. Hammond told of the progress the 

 school gardening movement has made 

 in the last year. 



Reports of the state vice-presidents, 

 the entomologist and the pathologist 

 were received and ordered printed in 

 the annual volume. 



As a committee on president's ad- 

 dress, J. A. Valentine, J. C. Vaughan, 

 J. G. Esler and Patrick Welch were ap- 

 pointed. 



The talk on advertising by L. W. C. 

 Tuthill was listened to with close atten- 

 tion, but produced no discussion. The 

 speaker was given a vote of thanks. 



The president appointed a committee 

 on W. R. Smith memorial, as follows: 

 W. F. Gude, J. K. M. L. Farquhar, J. 

 A. Valentine, Harry Papworth, B. Vin- 

 cent, with power to add to their num- 

 ber and with instructions to report 

 at the next meeting 



The president appointed a committee 

 on overhead costs, as follows: W. E. 

 Pierson, A. T. De La Mare, C. E. 

 Critchell. 



The president appointed a committee 

 on affiliation of horticultural societies 

 and florists' clubs, as follows: J. F. 

 Ammann, J. Otto Thilow, Joseph A. 

 Manda. 



The president appointed a committee 

 on publicity, as follows: Irwin Berter- 

 mann, N. Zweifel, A. M. Herr, E. A. 

 Scribner. 



The record? were corrected to add the 

 name of Charles B. Weathered to the 

 list of Pioneer members. 



In a brief speech, Wallace E. Pierson 

 presented the publicity plans of the 

 New York Florists' aub, outlining the 

 possibilities for good and stating that 

 the proposition has been approved by 

 the florists' clubs of Louisville, Eoches- 

 ter, Cincinnati, Denver, Boston, Balti- 

 more, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Wash- 

 ington, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee 

 and New York. For the New York 

 committee he presented a resolution 

 authorizing the appointment of a gen- 

 eral standing committee on publicity, 

 its membership to embrace one repre- 

 sentative of each florists' club or- 

 ganizing a publicity committee before 

 ctober 1 each year; such general com- 

 mittee to direct the work of the local 

 committees, its membership to be en- 

 tirely members of the S, A. F. The 

 resolution was adopted with enthusiasm 

 and Theo. Staudt moved that a vote of 

 thanks be given the New York Florists ' 

 Club and Mr. Pierson. 



W. F. Gude reported for the Smith 

 memorial committee and on motion of 

 Mr. Farquhar the society recommended 

 to its executive board that the commit- 

 tee be authorized to pledge the society 

 for a sum not exceeding $1,000 to be 

 used as a nucleus for a fund to estab- 

 lish a memorial in Washington. Mr. 

 Gude reported that the Washington Flo- 

 rists' Club pledged $200. Messrs. Ham- 

 mond, Hill and Vaughan each asked to 

 be put down for $100, A. F. Poehlmann 

 for $50, there being a number of other 

 subscriptions. 



A letter from W. Atlee Burpee 

 brought up the matter of the parcels 

 post. Patrick Welch presented a long 

 arraignment of the express service and 

 numerous arguments for a comprehen- 

 sive parcels post system. He concluded 



by offering a resolution aimed to se- 

 cure the cooperation of the S. A. F. 

 and all the other trade societies, work- 

 ing together for the parcels post. Pat- 

 rick O'Mara presented as a substitute 

 a resolution by the adoption of which 

 the society endorsed the principles of 

 the Sulzer bill. 



Just before the close Secretary Young 

 reported that the society has gained, 

 since January 1, 298 annual members 

 and thirty-eight life mqmH>ers. 



Patrick O'Mara, for the eopjmittee on 

 final resolutions, in a characteristic 

 speech offered thanks to the Chicago 

 park commissioners, to the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club and the allied trades and to 

 the ladies of Chicago for their hospitali- 

 ties. His resolutions were adopted by 

 a rising vote. 





Where were those Louisville boomers! 



President Vincent believes in han- 

 dling things with dispatch. 



The exhibitors nearly all , report ex- 

 ceptionally good business. i<fihi.cago is 

 "The Great Central Market." 



W. P. Craig strained one of his legs 

 August 18 and was unable to keep 

 going, although he gave up with regret. 



The morning start is all right, but a 

 good many arrived late because they 

 had overlooked the change in the open- 

 ing hour. 



This is the program as outlined by 

 Dan MacEorie and his party: Minne- 

 apolis, 1913; some eastern city, 1914; 

 San Francisco, 1915. 



The speech of August F. Poehlmann, 

 on harmony, as he stood on a freight car 

 at Morton Grove, August 22, was one of 

 the gems of the convention. 



In its pre-convention number The Ee- 

 view carried 148 pages; this issue, 164 

 pages. The record now stands at 312 

 pages for two consecutive issues. 



Souvenir hunters were out in force. 

 It is only within the last two or three 

 years that the giving of souvenirs has 

 become general. Buyers are hardly the 

 ones to get them. 



The National Flower Show manage- 

 ment could not get time from the con- 

 vention to take up the matter of the 

 guarantee fund, bqt there was no shut- 

 ting off of the publicity movement. 



It might be well to give the society's 

 judges a little more definite instruc- 

 tions, or to see that they have an 

 understanding of the rules. The 

 practice does not correspond with the 

 theory. 



Many a man enjoys Pat O'Mara's 

 wit and forceful speech who does not 

 agree with what he says. Some people 

 are suspected of bringing up certain 

 topics juirt to hear Mr. O'Mara voice 

 his views. 



Some of the members commented that 

 a good deal of the time of this con- 



vention appeared to be devoted to dis- 

 cusion of the acts of the executive 

 board. Incidentally, that largely is an 

 appointed body. 



The luncheon in the basement ref resn- 

 ment room was the hit of the conven- 

 tion. The eatings in the vicinity of the 

 Coliseum are not first-class, and the 

 luncheon enabled many visitors to spend 

 the entire day under the one roof. 



The ticket arrangements were the 

 best ever. Perfectly definite. Carried 

 out as per program. Eudd has been 

 talking for years against miscellaneouB 

 admissions and this time he had a 

 chance to put his ideas into practice. 

 They work well. 



The public did not take to the Ameri- 

 can Florists' Exhibition. Was it the 

 title that killed the gate? Some of the 

 exhibitors were greatly perturbed when 

 they found that the unanimous action 

 of the convention at Niagara Falls had 

 been nullified by some higher authority, 

 but the alarm was groundless. The 

 public did not elbow the trade into 

 the background. The first day's gate 

 was only $175. 



YELLOW KING HUMBERT. 



We note the mention of a yellow 

 King Humbert canna in The Eeview, 

 also the letter from E. Vincent, Jr., & 

 Sons Co., in a recent issue, regarding 

 same. Our idea is that there is a big 

 mistake somewhere about the parentage 

 of this new canna and we will have to 

 see it and have proof of its being a 

 seedling of King Humbert before we 

 will be willing to accept it as such. 

 Like Messrs. Vincent, we have grown 

 King Humbert since its introduction 

 and have never seen a seed produced 

 by it. 



King Humbert is one of the best va- 

 rieties we have and there is lots of 

 room for more varieties of a simUar 

 type. We have a fine lot of them now, 

 on well manured land, that stand about 

 five feet high and can be seen for a 

 long distance. L. H. Bead & Co 



