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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 25, 1910. 



the sale of tomato and cabbage plants, 

 as the handling of these crowded us 

 so much during the week preceding 

 Memorial day, but we found that many 

 people then conceived the idea that we 

 would not sell any sort of plants any 

 more, not even bedding stock. 



To do a business of $12,000 a year in 

 a town of 20,000, with 12,000 feet of 

 glass, is better than we ever before 

 heard of, and the inquirer would better 

 stick to his present course. 



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CONVENTION 



AFTERMATH 



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THE CLOSING SESSION. 



As delegates to the Second National 

 Conservation Congress, which meets at 

 St. Paul, September 5, the president 

 appointed J. C. Vaughan, Theodore 

 Wirth, H. E. Philpott, O. Holm and 

 H. C. Irish. 



The committee on school gardens, as 

 a committee, had done nothing, but its 

 chairman, Benjamin Hammond, and 

 W. B. Du Rie, one of its members, who 

 has been a school teacher forty years, 

 take a great deal of interest in the 

 work, and each presented a report on 

 the present status of the movement. 



Eobert Kift, Philadelphia, sent a let- 

 ter calling atention to Mothers' day 

 as of great value to florists, and, on 

 motion of W. R. Smith, resolutions were 

 adopted rendering to Miss Anna Jarvis 

 "this our public recognition" of the 

 debt the craft and the nation owe to 

 Jier for the idea. 



The committee on final resolutions — 

 Walter Sheridan, J. K. L. M. Farquhar 

 and P. Welch — presented resolutions ex- 

 pressive of the society's appreciation 

 of the splendid welcome and thanking 

 those who provided the excellent facili- 

 ties. Those mentioned in the resolu- 

 tions were the Rochester Florists' 

 Club, the mayor, the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, F, W. Vick, C. H. Vick and the 

 ladies' committee. The report closed 

 with these words: "The society recog- 

 nizes the present convention as one of 

 the best in its history," and was unani- 

 mously adopted. 



Various Notes. 



The insurgents were in the saddle. 



The proposed amendments to the con- 

 stitution had short shrift. 



H. M. Altick, Dayton, O., is the 

 champion gunner. He carried off all 

 three of the individual first prizes in 

 the convention contest at the traps, 

 winning $60 in gold. 



The Ladies ' S. A. F. is in affluent 

 circumstances. The treasurer's report 

 showed $337.22 in the bank. An appro- 

 priation of $50 was made for a special 

 prize to be offered at tlie National 

 Flower Show. 



H. A. Bunyard made the speech pre- 

 senting to Supt. C. H. Vick the exhib- 

 itors' testimonial of appreciation for 

 his efficiency and consideration. The 

 gift was a gold watch — a little beauty 

 — suitably inscribed. 



H. B. Beatty sent the following tele- 

 gram from Atlantic City to John West- 

 cott: "Mrs. Beatty joins me in best 

 wishes to our friends and yourself. 

 May you all have the bestest of best 

 times. ' ' 



The Ladies' S. A. F. had an infor- 

 mal affair at the Hotel Seneca, Thurs- 

 day night, at which the songs of Miss 

 Perle B. Fulmer were a feature. The 

 ladies' organization has added im- 

 mensely to the social side of the con- 

 ventions. 



The Hail Association has lost so 

 much money on single thick glass that 

 it is proposed to raise the rate on it 

 to 10 cents. A year will be required 



to make the necessary change in its 

 by-laws. 



A large proportion of the visitors 

 found time to visit the nursery of 

 EUwanger & Barry, where everything 

 looks as if it were a well-kept public 

 park. The roses were a center of in- 

 terest, but there were innumerable 

 specimen trees and shrubs to admire 

 and many things not ordinarily seen in 

 a commercial place. 



One of the exhibitors suggests that 

 entry blanks be handed to each one 

 purchasing space, to give all a chance 

 at the society's awards on novelties. 

 Several were so busy staging their ex- 

 hibits that they overlooked the for- 

 mality of entering their new things 

 until after the judges had made their 

 rounds, after which it was too late. 



When the American Association of 

 Nurserymen visited Denver in June J. 

 A. Valentine entertained a party of 

 them ait dinner, so at Rochester they 

 squared accounts by giving a spread 

 in his honor at the Hotel Rochester. 

 C. L. Yates and Jas. McHutchison were 

 the leaders. 



Friday morning about 300 of the vis- 

 itors were taken in special cars for a 

 hurried trip to the trial grounds and 

 seed farm of James Vick's Sons, a few 

 miles outside the city. There was not 

 sufficient time to do more than note 

 the air of perfect order and neatness 

 everywhere about the place. There had 

 been a heavy rain the night before, 

 which had knocked down some of the 

 crops, but which was welcomed by the 

 plants, for it has been an exceptionally 

 dry season at Rochester, as elsewhere. 

 The farm is beautiful rolling land and 

 there is almost everything growing on 

 it but weeds — not one of these could 

 be found unless one counted the abun 

 dant supply of "weeds" from Havana. 



President Pierson was immensely 

 pleased with his gavel, the presenta- 

 tion of which took him entirely by 

 surprise. It was a beauty, of solid 

 ivory, with a silver band inscribed, 

 "Presented to F. R. Pierson, president 

 of the Society of American Florists, by 

 friends of the New York Florists' 

 Club." Not many have seen Mr. Pier- 

 son at a loss for words to express his 

 thoughts, but when E. G. Hill presented 

 the silver service at the closing session, 

 as the recipient later said, "He laid it 



Visiting Ladies at Highland Park, Rochester, August 17. 



