. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. F. R. PIERSON CO.'S EXHIBIT AT THE MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION. sentation of that class of plants. Take geraniums; they are grown by the millions, and they would make as fine a show as anything else to catch the eye of the public; still our New York growers fail to take the interest that some of our friends, in Boston and other cities did. If we ever get a National Flower Show again in New Y'ork city. I think, as Mr. Traendly says, that there is no doubt but that it will waken up the retailer—a sec- tion of the industr
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. F. R. PIERSON CO.'S EXHIBIT AT THE MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION. sentation of that class of plants. Take geraniums; they are grown by the millions, and they would make as fine a show as anything else to catch the eye of the public; still our New York growers fail to take the interest that some of our friends, in Boston and other cities did. If we ever get a National Flower Show again in New Y'ork city. I think, as Mr. Traendly says, that there is no doubt but that it will waken up the retailer—a sec- tion of the industry that has never given any support to flower shows. I hope the trade in general will take a little more interest, and even if they only make a small exhibit, that they will be more universally represented, and the exhibit of a more general character than it was at the last flower show. I was rather disap- pointed, as L said, that more people in the trade around New York city did not take a greater interest in the show and make some little exhibits there that would have evidenced their interest. Harry B. Bunyard: Mr. President and gentlemen, New l^ork will swell up in a little while if you keep' call- ing on us in this way. Y^ou must not forget that we only followed Chicago and Boston in making this show a success; that we built our success a great deal upon the foundations laid in Boston and Chicago during pre- vious years. Tlien again, Mr. Totty and myself went over to Europe to see if we could get a few pointers in regard to flower shows. The flower show in London last year covered 26 acres. We not only saw how they ran their flower show from its admin- istrative side, but also its constructive side, and from very many other view- points. In New York they will go to a flower show if you give them a good sent out and had boys distribute to small towns within a radius of one hundred miles from New York. Now let me tell you a little about the ad- ministrative end of the local
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