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courses required of each participant include 9 online courses, and 3 hands-on courses. The online courses include: principles of design, the care and handling of foliage, flowering plants and cut flowers, customer relations, floral delivery, merchandising, advertising and promotion, and business procedures. Online education is then supplemented with hands-on learning, and all participants in the certification program must attend the following three hands-on courses. The significance of sympathy flowers and floral design is the subject of "Sympathy Design Styles and
Techniques". Another socially-prominent ritual, the
116:. Its membership base includes a diverse assortment of people in the floral industry, and it is involved in professional services and marketing in support of floral interests, state legislation, and the provision of educational opportunities. It represents the Texas floral industry, and has members in ten additional states. The organization hosts an annual convention, the first of which occurred in 1914. The TSFA sponsors the Texas Certified Florists Program, and publishes a monthly magazine named
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184:. The convention included a welcome to the delegates from O.B. Black, the mayor of San Antonio, an annual address by Otto Lang, the head of the Texas State Florists' Association, various seminars and programs relating to floristry, and an election for the next year's leaders for the association.
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