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The Florists' Review 



March 6, 1913. 



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ILLINOIS STATE 



FLORISTS MEET 



Officers Be-elected. 



President — Charles Loveridge, Peoria. 

 Vice-president — C. W. Johnson, Mor- 

 gan Park. 



Treasurer — F. L. Washburn, Bloom- 

 ingtoy. 



Secretary — J. F. Ammann, Edwards- 

 ville. 



A Successful Convention. 

 Favored with an unusually large at- 

 tendance, the eighth annual meeting of 

 the Illinois State Florists' Association 

 opened at Peoria, March 4, and was pro- 

 nounced without question one of the 

 most successful conventions of the or- 

 ganization. In Peoria the visitors found 

 not only a warm welcome, as voiced 

 individually by Mayor E. N. Woodruff 

 in behalf of the city, but the Jefferson 

 hotel, where the meetings and headquar- 

 ters were located, offered a most excel- 

 lent means of displaying the exhibits to 

 advantage. Outside of offering the best 

 of meeting rooms, the Gold room afforded 

 exhibition possibilities such as have 

 never been available at any previous 

 meeting, and the rooms were thronged 

 during the session with public visitors, 

 who were better able to appreciate the 

 splendid displays. As to the flowers 

 exhibited, the entries were more than 

 worthy of the occasion, and not only 

 local but out-of-town exhibitors made 

 the best of the facilities offered. 



The business session of the first day 

 occupied the best part of the afternoon, 

 and after the re-election of the officers 

 installed last year only one matter of 

 importance was taken up. It was the 

 florists' experiment station at Urbana 

 that furnished the topic. On complaint 

 of George B. Franks, of Champaign, who 

 addressed a letter to the association, the 

 members entered into a debate on 

 whether or not the station should enter 

 into the Champaign market by selling 

 its surplus flowers to a Champaign re- 

 tailer. It was claimed by Mr. Franks 

 and others that the flowers when cut by 

 the experiment station had matured 

 beyond their best, and the sale of the 

 same in Champaign was a detriment to 

 the cut flower business, inasmuch as 

 they were below the standard sold by 

 other florists and lowered the public 

 opinion as to the keeping qualities of 

 carnations, the principal flower in ques- 

 tion. After a heated argument the mat- 

 ter was tabled without action, although 

 J. E. Yates offered a resolution that 

 these flowers be shipped to open mar- 

 kets rather than offered in any one 

 local market. 



President's Address. 

 President Loveridge addressed the as- 

 sociation in part as follows: "While we 

 have not grown in numbers as fast as 

 most of us would like, for I believe 

 every florist in Illinois should be a 

 member, yet. we have had the eyes of 

 other states on us in our progress in 

 experimental lines. But much as has 

 been accomplished in the past, there are 



greater things for the future, for won- 

 derful as has been the progress of the 

 florists' business during the last quarter 

 of a century, yet I consider it today 

 only in its infancy, and it is up to us, as 

 members of this association and as indi- 

 viduals, to do our part in bringing this 

 healthy infant to maturity. 



"There are a few things I would 

 recommend for the association to do. 

 First, we are all vitally interested in 

 fertilizers, and there should be a state 

 law enacted compelling every manufac- 

 turer or dealer in fertilizers to have an 

 analysis made and printed on the bags 

 or packages, so the purchaser may know 

 just what he is getting for his money. 

 And whenever the contents do not come 

 up to the standard, the state should 

 prosecute. 



"Second, I would recommend to our 

 advisory board to work with the faculty 

 at the university to have a portion of 

 our appropriation set aside to defray 

 the expenses of sending a competent 

 man to any part of the state where a 

 florist is troubled with any unusual in- 

 sect pest or plant disease, to study the 

 local conditions and find out the cause 

 of same and recommend a remedy, there- 

 by saving the florists of the state hun- 

 dreds and sometimes thousands of dol- 

 lars. 



"Then I would recommend that a 

 standing committee of three be ap- 

 pointed by this association to appraise 

 any loss a member of our association 

 may have through any cause where an 

 impartial appraisement is wanted. This 

 matter was brought forcibly to my at- 

 tention about a year ago while trying 

 to settle a loss I had through gas, with 

 the superintendent of the gas company, 

 when he told me the trouble he had in 

 getting competent and impartial advice 

 in the matter." 



Treasurer's Report. 



Treasurer Washburn reported on the 

 finances as follows: 



Balance Maroh 1, 1912 1234.01 



Received from secretary 147.00 



Total l-SSLOl 



Plsbursements 182.95 



Balance March 1. 1913 J/198.06 



Secretary's Report. 



Secretary J. F. Ammann reported hav- 

 ing added forty-nine new members to 

 the annual membership, and having en- 

 rolled six life members. Much of this 

 is due to the work of the booth com- 

 mittee during the S. A. F. meeting at 

 Chicago. "More credit is due C. F. 

 McCormick, of Chicago, than to any 

 other man for securing new members," 

 said Mr. Ammann, "yet we are indebted 

 to several other members for much 

 active work along this line. Our mem- 

 bership now stands 220 annual mem- 

 bers and forty-eight life members. We 

 lost one highly respected member in the 

 de.ith of that grand old pioneer florist, 

 Joseph Ileinl, of Jacksonville." 



The Annual Banquet. 

 The annual banquet was held Tuesda\' 

 evening, March 4, at the Jefferson hotel, 

 and was largely attended. It was a 

 most successful affair in every respect — 

 excellent repast and excellent talks fol- 

 lowing the feast. 



Wednesday's Session. 



Wednesday one session was held, de- 

 voted principally to the consideration 

 of the work done at the florists' experi- 

 ment station at the t'^niversity of 

 Illinois. Eeports were presented by 

 H. B.*Dorner, F. W. Muncie and G. L. 

 Peltier, which are given in this issue in 

 as much detail as their considerable 

 length will permit. 



W. N. Rudd presented a short paper 

 on landscape gardening as a means of 

 increasing a florist 's business and profits, 

 which is presented in full in this issue. 



The place of next meeting came up at 

 this session. Both Peoria and Danville 

 wanted the 1914 convention, with Dan- 

 ville the likely choice of the executive 

 committee, as a resolution was adopted 

 asking the Indiana State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation to meet at Danville in joint ses- 

 sion. 



During the afternoon of Wednesday 

 luncheon was served at the greenhouses 

 of President Loveridge, and the mem- 

 bers spent the hours inspecting this and 

 other establishments. 



The Exhibition. 



The exhibition was more than usually 

 interesting. While possibly not much 

 larger than at some of the earlier meet- 

 ings, the stock was more attractively 

 staged, amid better surroundings, and 

 attracted large crowds during the hours 

 the show was open to the public. The 

 exhibitors were : 



Peterson Floral Co., of Gibson Cit}-, 

 111., staged a handsome vase of Enchant- 

 ress carnations. 



Fred M. Hanson & Co.. of Peoria, 

 showed five varieties of good sweet peas 

 and a number of well grown cyclamens. 



G. Swenson, of Elmhurst, 111., exhib- 

 ited 100 flowers of a winter-blooming 

 Spencer sweet pea which caused much' 

 comment, the type being true and the 

 flowers and stems excellent. 



A. Washburn & Sons, of Bloomington. 

 exhibited ^ix vases of Princess of Wales 

 violets, long one of their specialties, and, 

 as usual, of excellent quality. 



M. & S. L. Dysinger, of Albion, Mich., 

 sent a vase of a pink seedling carnation, 

 a cross between Enchantress and Lawson, 

 that was well liked. 



Henry Baer, of Peoria, showed six va- 

 rieties of carnations, Benora. St. Nicho- 

 las, Rose-pink Enchantress, Washington, 

 Enchantress and White Enohantress, all 

 in good shape. 



Frank B. Smith's Sons, of Danville, 

 111., staged an exceedingly fine exhibit of 

 blooming plants, including cyclamens, 

 pansies, violets, begonias, etc. As was 

 the case last year, a violet, a sport of' 



