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10 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januahy 5, 1911. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



President ' s Appointments. 



George Asmus assumed the office of 

 l>resident January 1 and announced the 

 following appointments: 



EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



K. Allan Pelrce, Walthani, Mass. 

 Jinny A. Bunyard, New York, N. Y. 



BOTANIST. 

 Vvdt. John F. Cowell, Botanic Gardens, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. 



PATHOLOGIST. 



frof. H. H. Whetzcl, Ithaca, N. Y. 



ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 Dr. S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111. 



WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE. 

 William F. Gude, Washington, D. C. 

 TARIFF AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 



.Tohn G. Esler, Saddle River, N. J., cbairraan. 



V. H. Traendly, New York, N. Y. 



.T. C. Vaughan, Chicago, 111. 



Patrick Welch, Boston, Mass. • 



.T. O. Tbllow, Philadelphia, Pa. 



i;. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL GARDENS, 

 linujamin Hammond, Flshklll-on-Hudson, N. Y., 

 chiilrman. 



C. B. Whltnall, Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Michael Barker, Chicago, 111. 



STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



California — Edwin Lonsdale, Lompoc. 



District of Columbia— Z. D. Blacklstone, Wasli 

 iiiKton. 



(Jeorgla — Daniel C. Horgan, Macon. 



Illinois, North — Fred Lautenschlager, Chicago. 



Illinois, South — J. F. Ammann, Edwardsville. 



Indiana — Theo. Dorner, Lafayette. 



Iowa — James S. Wilson, Des Moines. 



Louisiana — Harry Papworth, New Orleans. 



.Maryland — Chas. L. Seybold, Baltimore. 



Mlcliigan, East — Norman A. Sullivan, Detroil. 



Michigan, West — Elmer D. Smith, Adrian. 



Missouri, East— Fred H. Weber, St. Louis. 



MlsslsslDpi— S. W. Crowell, Rich. 



New Hampshire — R. E. Hannaford, Portsmoutli. 



New York, East— A. L. Miller, Brooklyn. 



Ohio, North — Frank A. Friedley, Rocky River. 



Ohio. Soutli— C. E. Critchell, Cincinnati. 



Pennsylvania, East— S. S. Skldelsky, Phila- 

 (Iclphin. 



Rhode Island — L. J. Renter, Westerly. 



Tennessee — C. L. Baum, KuoxvUle. 



West Virginia — A. Langhans, Wheeling. 



Ontario — John Connon, Hamilton. 



.Manitoba— H. E. Philpott, Winnipeg. 



Quebec — George A. Robinson, Montreal. 



Alberta— A. -M. TerrlU, Calgary. 



H. B. Doruer, Sec'y. 



NEW S. A. F. DIRECTORS. 



E. Allan Peirce. 



E. Allan Peirce, eldest son of the 

 Elisha N. Peirce whose forefathers left 

 their home in England to seek their 

 fortune in the new colony at Boston in 

 1630, was born in West Cambridge, 

 Mass., May 18, 1869. After leaving 

 school he worked with his father until 

 1895, when he and his brother were 

 taken into partnership under the name 

 of E, N. Peirce & Sons, which was re- 

 organized under the name of Peirce 

 Bros, after the death of E. N. Peirce, 

 in 1905. 



From a few small greenhouses this 

 establishment has grown to a large and 

 successful plant, containing over 200,- 

 OOO feet of glass, making a specialty of 

 carnations, chrysanthemums and lilies, 

 of which the firm has been one of the 

 largest growers in New England. Much 

 glass is also devoted to plants, 6,000 

 cyclamens being flowered and over 10,- 

 000 azaleas forced, besides a variety of 

 other plants. 



Mr. Peirce and Margaret Wendell 

 Phillips were married in 1899 and they 

 have an interesting family of six chil- 

 dren, three boys and three girls. Mr. 

 Peirce has always been interested in 

 the militia and was a lieutenant in the 

 Massachusetts State Militia in 1S91, 

 and served during the Spanish war in 

 the Fifth Massachusetts U. S. V., at- 

 tached to the Second U. S. army corps. 

 He is a life member of the Massadui- 

 setts Horticultural Society, member of 



E. Allan Peirce. 



the Boston Florists' Club, and a director 

 in the Boston Florists' Exchange and 

 vice-president of the American Carnation 

 Society. He also belongs to numerous 

 societies, clubs and patriotic organiza- 

 tions, and is one of the committee of 

 five selected to have charge of arrange- 

 ments for the National Flower Show to 

 lie held in Boston in March. 



Harry A. Bunyard. 



Harry A. Bunyard. well known as a 

 traveling man and now general man- 

 ager for Arthur T. Boddington, was 

 born January 3, 1868, at Ashford, Kent, 

 England. His father, Thomas Bunyard, 

 was one of the sons of the old estab- 

 lished firm of Thomas Bunyard & Sons, 

 Maidstone, Kent, nurserymen, seedsmen 

 and florists. The boy was truly born 

 and raised in the nursery business, and 

 the house where he first saw the light 

 was in the Ashford Nursery, at that 

 time a branch of the Maidstone concern. 

 He received a common and grammar 

 school education and at 14 years of age 

 was apprenticed in his father's busi- 

 ness, going from there to Sander, at St. 

 Albans, spending considerable time in 

 the seed and orchid departments. 



In the Koyal Horticultural Society's 

 Gardens at Chiswick, London, he 

 studied and worked under the late 

 Archibald Barron and during that time 

 was foreman of the orchid and her- 

 baceous departments. While here, he 

 competed for the prize oflFered by the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle for the best essay 

 on "Roots and Their Work," securing 

 second prize against nearly 100 com- 

 petitors. 



In 1888 Mr. Bunyard arrived at Cas- 

 tle Garden as an emigrant, securing his 

 first employment with Peter Henderson 



& Co., working at their greenhouses in 

 Jersey Citj-. The following year he took 

 a position with Pitcher & Manda as 

 herbaceous foreman, going on the road 

 in the fall and remaining with them to 

 their dissolution. Later he traveled for 

 Clucas & Boddington Co., then again 

 with Arthur T. Boddington, where he 

 has been located for the last six years. 



Mr. Bunyard has been a well-known 

 figure at the S. A. F. conventions since 

 the one in Buffalo in 1889, and is a life 

 member. He is vice-president of the 

 New York Florists' Club and secretary 

 of the National Sweet Pea Society of 

 America, which was organized in 1909 

 on his initiative, and is an active mem- 

 ber of many other horticultural and 

 floricultural societies. 



Mr. Bunyard was the first eastern 

 manager of the Florists' Review. He 

 believes that a man's business should 

 be his hobby and is also a great believer 

 in advertising, but insists that the best 

 advertisement is the satisfied customer. 

 Among the other "chores" that he does 

 at odd times is the designing of the 

 covers for the Boddington catalogues. 



ARE WE PROGRESSIVE? 



(A paper by S. S. Skldelsky, of Philadelphia, 

 Pa., read before the Philadelphia Florists' Club, 

 January 3, 1911.] 



If I could prove to the satisfaction 



of the craft that at the bottom of most 



of our failures lies the inexorable 



cause of ignorance, inefliciency and a 



disregard for the little details which go 



a good way toward the make-up of 



the sum and substance of a successful 



business undertaking, I should indeed 



be proud of my achievement. I shall 



not venture, however, to treat the sub- 



