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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Program for the Boston Meetings. 



FIEST DAY— MONDAY, MARCH 27. 



Society of American Florists. 



10:30 A.M. General meeting for the opening of the conven- 

 tion. 

 Welcome by President Asmus. 

 Welcome by Boston Florists. 



American Rose Society. 



8:00 P.M. 



2:30 P.M. 



8:00 P.M. 



Call to order by President W. H. Elliott. 

 Address by president. 

 Secretary's report. 

 Treasurer's report. 

 Eeports of committees. 



Paper by August Poehlmann, Morton Grove, 111. 

 Paper, "The Science of Eose Grovping, " by W. 

 R. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn. 



American Carnation Society. 



Call to order. ' 



Deferred reports. 



Deferred business. 



Selection of meeting place for 1912. 



Discussion of president's address and secretary's 



report. 

 New business. 



Appointment of committees. 

 Election of officers. 



SECOND DAY— TUESDAY, MARCH 28. 



10:30 A.M. 



2:30 P.M. 



2:00 P.M. 



7:30 P.M. 



American Rose Society. 



Selection of place of meeting 1912. 



Election of officers. 



Discussion of new roses, to be opened by promi- 

 nent rosarians. 



Miscellaneous business. 



Papers by Eichard Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, 

 M"d., on his trip to Brussels Exhibition; by 

 Rev. Spencer S. Sulliger, Vancouver, Wash., 

 special representative at the National Rose 

 Society's exhibition h'eld in London England; 

 by W. G. MacKendrick, Toronto, Can. 



Unfinished business. 



National Sweet Pea Society. 



Meeting of Executive Committee. 



American Carnation Society. 



Call to order. 



President's address. 



Secretary's report. 



Treasurer's report. 



Report of nomenclature committee. 



Miscellaneous business. 



Invitations for 1912 meeting. 



Nomination of officers. 



Short talks on the American carnation in Europe 



by visitors from abroad. 

 Report of judges. 



FOURTH DAY— THURSDAY, MARCH 30. \ \ 



American Carnation Society. i 



9:30 A.M. Call to order. - ! '^ ' ] 



Final report of judges. 

 Deferred business. 

 Adjournment. ' , i 



American Gladiolus Society. 1 ' I 



2:00 P.M. Reading of minutes of last meeting. 



Report of officers. 



Report of bulletin committee. 



Report of exhibition committee. 



Report on Boston show. 



Report on Baltimore show. 



Report of committee on nomenclature. 



Report of exhibition committee on rules govern- 

 ing the awarding of certificates of merit and 

 suggesting a scale of points to use in judging. 



New business. 



Discussion: "What action shall our society 

 take when the same name has been given to 

 several different varieties of gladioli and 

 when different names have been given to the 

 same variety?" opened by Arthur Cowee, 

 Berlin, N. Y. 



National Society of Gardeners. 



No program yet announced. 



Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 



The evening of Thursday, March 30, is in the 

 hands of the Boston florists. 



9:00 A.M. 



THIRD DAY— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 



Chrysanthemum Society of America. 



10:00 A.M. Call to order. 



Discussion of questions of day. 

 Miscellaneous business. 



:00 P.M. 



10:00 A.M. 



3:00 P.M. 



2:3(\P.M. 



Florists' Telegraph Delivery. 

 Business meeting. 



National Sweet Pea Society. 



Welcome by George Asmus, president S. A. F. 



President's address and reply, 



"Trials of Sweet Peas Under Glass as Tested 

 in the Experiment Station at Cornell Uni- 

 versity," by Prof. A. C. Beal. 



"Sweet Peas and the Results of Our Experi- 

 ments at the Trial Grounds," by Prof. John 

 Craig. 



"The Growing of Sweet Peas Under Glass," by 

 Wm. Sim. 



"The Latest Novelties in Sweet Peas," by G. 

 W. Kerr. 



Invitations by cities and societies for meeting 

 place for the exhibition and convention next 

 summer. 



Florists' Telegraph Delivery. 



Business meeting. 



8:00 P.M. 



FIFTH DAY— FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 

 Society of American Florists. 



President's address. 



Report of the secretary. 



Report of the treasurer. 



Preliminary report of national flower show com- 

 mittee. 



Miscellaneous business. 



Ten minute talks by presidents of various so- 

 cieties. 



■ G.eorge Asmus, president S. A. F. & 0. H. 

 Fred Burki, president A. C. S. 

 W. H. Elliott, president A. R. S. 

 Elmer D. Smith, president C. S. A. 

 W. Atlee Burpee, president N. S. P. A. '■ 



I. S. Hendrickson, president A. G. S. 

 J. A. Valentine, president F. T. D. 

 William Kleinheinz, president N. S. G. 



Illustrated lecture, "Trees, Shrubs and Flower- 

 ing Plants," by John Dunbar, assistant super- 

 intendent of parks, Rochester, N. T. 



SIXTH DAY— SATURDAY, APRU, 1. 



Society of American Florists. 



9:00 A.M. Unfinished business. 

 Adjournment. 



The offices of the secretaries of the several societies are 

 in the Mechanics building, where those desiring to become 

 members of any of the societies should apply. Dues may 

 be paid and orders for members' tickets obtained at the 

 office of the respective secretaries. 



