Minneapolis for Five Days Changes From “Flour City” to “Flower City,” All in Compliment to Nearly 2,000 Visitors From All Corners of the North American Continent.
Women Come With Husbands and Hold a Little Convention of Their Own While They Are Not Visiting, Outing or Shopping.
Theodore Wirth, Vice President of Association, Attempts Novel Displays of Most Beautiful Plants and Flowers on Grounds of the National Guard Armory. Growers From All Over the Country Send Their Rarest Specimens Which Have Been Successfully Cultivated and Will Be Featured of Convention Week.
Minneapolis will present to members Of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists when they meet hero Aug. 19 to 23, inclusive for their twenty-ninth annual meeting, the first outdoor commercial and educational exhibition of summer flowers and shrubbery of magnitude that has ever been displayed for such a purpose. The exhibit is located on the National Guard Armory ground and contains newly discovered species of well known plants and several entirely new to this part of the country. To the enterprise of Theodore Wirth, superintendent of Minneapolis parks, and vice president of the organization, is due the city’s ability to set a precedent for the society, the largest of its kind in the world. With Mr. Wirth’s demonstration that such an exhibit can be arranged, John Young of New York, secretary of the society, now in Minneapolis, completing arrangements, declares that in the future all conventions will have such exhibits and benefit by the innovation introduced by Mr. Wirth.
-Minneapolis Sunday Tribune- August 9th, 1913
