The North Carolina State Florists Association is a a non-profit organization. The object and purpose of this association is to promote the love of floriculture in North Carolina and to promote and to encourage the development of their industries, to classify their products. to hold meetings and exhibitions, to cooperate with the national and state governments on all antitrust laws, and with horticultural bodies in disseminating horticultural knowledge, to encourage and foster business ethics and friendly understanding in and among the various branches of the industry, always remembering the interest of the ultimate users of its products and in general to assume responsibility as the trade organization of the florist industry within the confines of the State of North Carolina.