August IS, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



25 



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THE ROCHESTER 





CONVENTION 



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TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD AT BALTIMORE. 



OFFICERS FOR 1911: 



President, GEORGE ASMUS, Chicago, 111. 



Vice-president, R. VINCENT, Jr., White Marsh, Md. 



Secretary, H. B. DORNER, Urbana, 111. 



Treasurer, WM. F. KASTING, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Ii'oi-licoter luis Ijocii an oxtrciiii'ly busy 

 cii\ tins Avock. its C'cmvoiitioii hall 

 h-.'- been full aiul nuniiiiy over; its 

 ii'iii'ls have been lull, and also run- 

 nni'j; over, aiKl its jieople have l^een 

 lull— of interest and hospitality, for 

 til'' S. A. F. means more to Koidiester 

 lliaii it does to many cities. Eochestei 

 i^ ki'.own as the Flower City; its nurs- 

 i'i\ interests arc yreater than those of 

 ;in\ other city in the United States, 

 ■II. I probably in no other town in 

 Aiiicrica, no matter what its size, does 

 ;i Liieater jjroportion of the people eom»^ 

 itii" close personal acquaintance with 

 til' interests which j;o to make np the 

 !~^'' lety of ATnerican Florists and Orna- 

 'li' Mtal Horticulturists. So Ko(diester 

 \v - «lad to be full— full of florists. 



Ml tliat could ha\o been asked ot 

 h' liester was a little more room — a 

 lii Ir more room in Convention hall, a 

 hi 'din^r that Rochester thiidss (piite 

 ^' I'le. but the aisles becaiiu' decid 

 <■■: con<rcsted when the crowds jjnt 

 II' and a few more rooms in the hotel 

 "!■ iaily selected as headcjuarters; 

 '' lly anyone got in there unless he 

 ■'■ spoken in advance for his accom- 

 II atidiis. 



it it was a yreat con\entioii — the 

 -I test ev(M'. The way the east turned 

 '" was ;in inspiration — to candid.ites 

 '■'- \e|| as officers and the west. Hos- 

 '" and New Fnjjl;ind canu' witli a 

 nation of over seventy peojile. and 

 Yoik city's special train carried 

 largest jtarty the metropolis ever 

 '-ent to a convention — the way tliey 

 'I np at the clerk's desk at the 

 ■'■•'I hotel Monday evening re- 

 'led one of the bo.\ office at the 

 grounds when the Cubs are about 

 i'lw the Giants. New York, flori 

 irally as well as in many things 

 ■I'wise, is the greatest state in the 

 '". and the attendance of up-state 

 ^ts was extremely large, and Phila- 

 I'ia and Pennsylvania were heavily 

 lesonted. The regulars met jnany 

 faces; as usual, the l)nlk of the 

 '' ''"d.-ince was from a radius of two 

 '" thiof. iumdred miles, and the west 



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 111: 

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was t'ar out riiindiered. Cliicagd had a 



good re[)resentat ion ; Milwaukee sent 



a fiiK^ delegation, and (iiicinnali 

 showed up wel 



and 

 but (itlierwise 



tlic 



western rcpi ex'iit a t inn was scattering; 

 I here was niic man tfuiii Sail !''raiicisco, 

 t \\(i frniii i)cii\('r, iiiM' frciiii Winnipeg 

 aiiil s('\('ial t'lniii St. I,()iii>. bill from 

 licycind till' ^1 issis>i [i|ii iicil many. 



'I'lic b'dclicster pcdjilc iiad looked to 

 tlic laiiiiitcst <lctail<. -o iiatiiraily ha<l 

 arranged with the wcatlier man for 

 <i"il, ideasaiii iii^iit> e\ ell it' t lie days 

 were a little bit waini, as becomes 

 Angnst. but iidthiiiL; in the week's 

 weather tw eiieeii rage llie idea Ot' aban- 

 deiiiiii.; the silliMliel' meeting date. 



The iiiisiiiess ses^iiiii>. were held in 

 a hall adi(niiiiig the exhibition, and 

 |'iii\e(l except idiia lly interesting. The 

 sdcietv i> Jii>t iMPW ]iassing through a 

 periiid (it iiiipni I a lit (dianye. 'I'lie tend- 

 i'iic\' In split lip into separa.te societies 

 with many meetings iias run it-; cunrse 

 to the usual extreme, and amalgama- 

 tiiai IS Hew the erder ot' the day; 

 e\eryii(M|\- talks it and. apparently, 

 e\ei\l;od\- \vants it. .\l>o, a niiinber 

 lit changes in the teriii el' uiea nization 

 ^eeme(| lip^ and weie thrashed (Mit at 

 this meeting in ceimection with the 

 prepdsal to change the date et' the an- 

 nual meetiii;^. I'resident I'ieisdii made 

 a --pl<'iidi<l presiding dl'liccr, lia\'iiig had 

 wide experience in the weik in other 

 bddies (d' which lie i'- a niemiier. He 

 i-- mayor of 'I'arrytdwn and aNd presi- 

 dent dl' the sididdl linard there. 



Opening" Session. 



The first business ^esviun el' the con- 

 \eiitidii was called id urder with coni- 

 iiMMdai le pidiiiptiie-.v dii Tiie-.d:i\- after- 



George Asmus. 



I'irsidiiil I'ii-cl Siici('l> ol Anii'iiciin Finiist* 



