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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August IS, 1010. 



the association and it was unanimously 

 decided to j^o aliead on tlie lines 

 planned. A Mr. Eldredge was present, 

 representing a concern in whicli he is 

 financially interested, which seeks to 

 perfect a system for the transfer of 

 retail orders, antf proposing cooperation 

 with the retailers' organization, but it 

 was decided too late to consider such 

 a proposition. At the second session 

 Mr. Valentine described the system of 

 bookkeeping in use in his store, and 

 there was a discussion of the question 

 whether it pays retail florists also to 

 be growers. 



Hail Association. 



The Florists' Hail Association held 

 its annual meeting at Koehester, August 

 18, (luring the interval provided for the 

 meetings of the several sectional and 

 special societies. E. G. Hill is presi- 

 dent. Secretary Esler's report showed 

 "1,GG0 carrying insurance on the equiv- 

 alent of 34,036,555 feet of glass. Losses 

 representing a breakage of 222,413 

 square feet of single thick glass and 

 82,757 square feet of double thick glass, 

 have been paid during the year, amount- 

 ing to $27,378.40; 1,520 losses have been 

 adjusted since the organization of the 

 F. 11. A., involving a total expenditure 

 of more than $188,000.00. The emer- 

 gency fund is exhausted, and $3,301.20 

 has been borrowed from the reserve 

 fund, of which $1,585.45 in cash re- 

 mains on hand. After paying out over 

 $82,000 in the last three years, an extra 

 assessment is necessary, for the first 

 time since the organization of the asso- 

 ciation, to restore funds borrowed of 

 the reserve fund, and put the F. H. A. 

 upon a strong cash basis. The time of 

 levy will be fixed by the directors, and 

 the ollicials have not a shadow of a 

 doubt but that it will be promptly 

 paid. ' ' 



Treasurer Heacock's report of the 

 year's financial operations summarizes 

 as follows: 



Dr. Gpneral Fund — 



Balame AuRUst 1, 1009 $ 7.114.CS 



Receipts for .vear ending August 1, 1910 32,094.^8 



$40,109.00 

 Cr. Genoral Fund— 

 I»ssts paid Aug. 1, 1900, to .\ug. 1, 



19)0 .«27.378.4fi 



By expenses 3,301.36 



By iuvestuu-nts 7,842.03 



Miscellaneous 1.76 



By balance on hand 1,585.4.0 



$40,109.0(; 



The reserve fund investments total 

 $22,000 in bonds and last year brouglit 

 an interest return of $970. 



H. H. Eitter and ,1. (J. Vaughan wore 

 elected directors. At a meeting of the 

 directors, oflicers were elected as fol- 

 lows: President, E. G. Hill; vice jiresi- 

 dent, J. T. Temple; treasurer. ,]os<'j)li 

 lleacock; secretary, J. G. Esler. Ai; 

 extra Jisses'^meTit was ordere<l. 



THE TRADES' DISPLAY. 



BOWLING. 



Thursday was l)Owling day and it is 

 apparent that interest in the sport is 

 reviving. Forty-five ladies participated 

 in the morning games and there were 

 eleven cities represented by five-men 

 teams for the big inter-city contest of 

 the afternoon, which was so long drawn 

 out that it was not finished until late 

 in the evening. 



On Wednesday evening C. Ji. Seybold 

 and A. F. Vick bowled for a champion- 

 ship cup, the former winning six out 

 of eleven games. 



A Veritable Exposition. 



The trades' disjjhiy is the feature of 

 predominating interest and importance 

 at the S. A. F. conventions, and it 

 grows apace. If the society only could 

 make equal progress in its other de- 

 partments all would be "merry as a 

 marriage bell." The exhibition not 

 only increases in size, but it improves 

 in quality. Better stock is shown and 

 it is staged more attractively, for ex- 

 hibitors find they must bring nothing 

 second class and that the more thought 

 they put on display and arrangement 

 the more attention they get. The sup- 

 ply people especially appreciate this. 



The showing at Eochester this year 

 again eclipsed all records. The plants- 

 men came up as strongly as usual, the 

 supply houses represented were more 

 numerous than ever, and the displays 

 better in every way. The material 

 men occupied increased space, and the 

 cooperation of the Gladiolus Society re- 

 sulted in a larger showing of cut 

 blooms. Two large halls and a balcony 

 were crowded to the limit, and two of 

 the largest exhibits, those of Lord & 

 Burnham Co. and Hitchings & Co., were 

 forced into the basement, where, if 

 somewhat out of the way, they had at 

 least plenty of room and a degree of 

 privacy that caused many growers to 

 give a more careful inspection than 

 otherwise would have been the case. 



Chas. H. Vick made an ideal superin- 

 tendent. All the arrangements were 

 well thought out in advance, and the 

 many carloads of material were installed 

 promptly and with little confusion; but 

 new exhibits were added everv dav. 



Notes of the exhibits: 



Ribbons and Supplies. 



M. Eice & Co., Philadelphia, elini 

 nated the staples from their disphi 

 and concentrated on the novelties an 

 specialties, making a feature of na' 

 ural effects. Perhaps the most attrai 

 five of the new things were the butter 

 flies, humming-birds, canaries and sma' 

 doves, the spun silk butterflies bein 

 especially good. A line of twig lia'- 

 kets covered with natural moss fungu 

 was pointed out as particularly populai 

 A German umber parchment paper wa 

 featured, for lining high class boxe^ 

 Eeal Panama hats were shown in 4-incl 

 and 8 inch sizes. There was a largi 

 line of lace holders for the old-fashioneu 

 brides' bouquets, and an equally largr 

 assortment of scarfs for the modern 

 bouquets. Corsage shields for violet-^ 

 also were shown in variety. A pro 

 pared cycas leaf was like fresh cut. 

 Waterproof crepe paper was featured 

 and an artificial poinsettia with foliag< 

 was put to the front. These are, m 

 course, only a few of the lines shown 

 B. Eschner was in charge, as usu;il. 

 with several salesmen. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphi;i 

 occupied more square feet of space than 

 any other exhibitor, and Sidney Baj'ers 

 dorfer said it took twenty-six big bas- 

 ket cases to contain the line. Amon;.' 

 the novelties he pointed out were: In 

 ported gold and silver baskets for tablr 

 favors and gifts; prepared ferns iii 

 variety in a wide range of new colors; 

 artificial orchids, the cattleyas espc 

 cially like those of nature; walt/ 

 krantz, or wood w^reaths, natural mate 

 rials perpetuated; a wire clip for dis 

 play cards or price tickets; two-tone 



Herman B. Dorner. 



(.Secretary Society of American Florlgts.) 



