. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists^ Review w^^^mmmi^mimw November 1, 1917. suggested by Philip Breitmeyer. The boards show his grandchild seated on the floor, in the act of picking the petals of a rose and exclaiming as above. The idea has proved immensely suc- cessful. The color scheme is perfect and the subject is ; W. WIND STORM INSURANCE. What the Hoosiers Are Doing. Some time ago, when we wrote you in regard to the new wind and hail insur- ance association which is being fos- tered by the State Florists' Association of Indiana, we expected t
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 18 The Florists^ Review w^^^mmmi^mimw November 1, 1917. suggested by Philip Breitmeyer. The boards show his grandchild seated on the floor, in the act of picking the petals of a rose and exclaiming as above. The idea has proved immensely suc- cessful. The color scheme is perfect and the subject is ; W. WIND STORM INSURANCE. What the Hoosiers Are Doing. Some time ago, when we wrote you in regard to the new wind and hail insur- ance association which is being fos- tered by the State Florists' Association of Indiana, we expected to be organ- ized by November 1 and so announced in the literature we sent out. We did not anticipate th,e thousand and one lit- tle delays incident to the preliminary arrangements of mich an undertaking as this. We were detained from time to time, with the result that we were ready to get down to the real business of so- liciting insurance considerably later than we at first expected, and we have been obliged to revise our dates some- what. We are hoping now to have things ready to perfect the organization about December 1. The committee in charge of the pre- liminary work is meeting with excellent success. Applications are coming in daily, a great many of them without personal solicitation, which shows that there exists a real demand for this kind of protection and that a mutual organi- zation, operated within and controlled by the trade, is assured of success. Some fifty applications, ranging all the way from 5,000 to 200,000 feet of glass, have already been booked. We con- sider this a good showing for the time we have been at it and the methods of solicitation employed thus far. After such a destructive season as last summer, it would seem that no greenhouse owner, be he large or small, would care to be without adequate pro- tection against wind as well as hail. A number of localities which had pre- viously boasted of immunity from wind storms had a rude awakening last sum-
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