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HORTICULTURi; 



June 8, 1907 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Certificates and Prizes — $200.00 and 

 $100.00 for Outdoor Roses. 



Pursuant to notice, the Executive 

 Committee of the American Rose 

 Society held a meeting at the Hotel 

 Martinique. 33rd St. & Broadway, New 

 York city, on Tuesday afternoon and 

 evening. May 28th, at which meeting 

 there was taken up the matters per- 

 taining to the Washington Exhibition, 

 Mr. Bisset, president of the Washing- 

 ton Florists' Ciub being present. 



The minutes of the business meet- 

 ings were read and recommendations 

 for action passed at that meeting re- 

 ferred to the executive committee 

 were taken up, viz.: 



The recommendation that a certi- 

 ficate of merit be awarded to novel- 

 ties which did not score the requisite 

 number of points to receive either gold 

 or silver medals of the Society as now 

 provided. At the Washington meet- 

 ing, at the second session this subject 

 v/as discussed with interest by Messrs. 

 Ciaig, Elliott, Barry, Farenwald, 

 O'Mara and others. In accordance 

 with the authority then imposed upon 

 the Executive Committee, the following 

 resolutions were offered and carried: 



Resolved that hereafter any exhibit 

 competing for the Society's medals or 

 certificates shall consist of twelve 

 blooms. 



Resolved that a certificate of merit 

 be awarded to any novelty covering 80 

 or more points in accordance with the 

 recommendation made at the annual 

 meeting in Washington in March, 

 1907, and that this certificate be, and is 

 hereby added to the list of medals now 

 offered by the American Rose Society 

 for novelties but the certificate is not 

 to be delivered until the variety is 

 named. 



Resolved that a certificate of merit 

 be awarded to the varieties. Queen 

 Beatrice scoring 83 points, Rhea Reid 

 scoring 80 points and the variety ex- 

 hibited by Messrs. Myers & Samtman, 

 scoring 81 points. 



Resolved that the following varie- 

 ties of climbing roses exhibited by M. 

 H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., Para- 

 dise, La Fiamma, Delight and Juanita 

 be awarded a certificate of merit as 

 recommended by the judges of the 

 Washington Exhibition, March, 1907. 

 These resolutions were put to vote and 

 carried unanimously. 



Mr. E. G. Hill of Richmond, Ind., 

 advised that he would attend the 

 Nurserymen's Convention at Detroit 

 and if opportunity offered, bring be- 

 fore that body the advisability of the 

 support by nurserymen of the Rose 

 Society, especially in the interest of 

 hardy outdoor roses. On this point 

 Philip Breitmeyer, vice-president elect 

 of the Society, advocated that some 

 recognition should be offered to in- 

 duce exhibitions of outdoor roses, say- 

 ing, "I offered a prize when at the 

 meeting in Washington for an exhibi- 

 tion of outdoor roses in bloom, say 

 100 or 150 plants in a group. This 

 should be limited to outdoor roses bui 

 not limited to varieties. I have sug- 

 gested this idea to several men who 

 are largely interested in this class of 

 stock and in order to bring this to a 



head. I will offer |200 for a first prize 

 and Mr. Boddington will offer $100 as 

 a second prize to be awarded for such 

 an exhibition in any form that is de- 

 sired. 



This liberal offer provoked very 

 much interest, calling forth the be- 

 lief that so large a prize would stimu- 

 late efforts which had never been 

 made before in this direction. Mr. 

 Farenwald said that he had never yet 

 seen a good show of Hybrid roses in 

 pots at any of our exhibitions, but I 

 admire the pluck of Mr. Breitmeyer 

 in leading off as he has done in this 

 direction and Mr. Breitmeyer deserves 

 thanks for his liberal offer. The 

 Committee accepted the prizes of 

 Messrs. Breitmeyer and Boddington 

 with thanks. 



The matter of increasing the mem- 

 bership of the Rose Society was 

 brought forward and a further sugges- 

 tion of Mr. Breitmeyer was favorably 

 received, he having said, in speaking 

 of the coming show at Chicago, that 

 he believed our field in the west to 

 be large and that the growers as a 

 rule were in sympathy for mutual 

 benefit. 



Life memberships are greatly to be 

 desired so that thereby a permanent 

 fund may be acquired. A suggestion 

 was made, following the recommenda- 

 tion 01 President Simpson in his an- 

 nual address, that a list of names of 

 such men ;is may be eligible be dis- 

 tributed for life membership. Mr. 

 Breitmeyer said he would be glad to 

 be one of the executive committee to 

 secure life members or to increase the 

 membership to where it is desirable to 

 have it. 



A resolution was passed directing 

 the Secretary to prepare a Bulletin of 

 the proceedings of the last annual 

 meeting and exhibition and secure 

 specimens of suitable certificates of 

 merit and certificates of life member- 

 ship. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Sec. 



Flshkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHING- 

 TON. 



The June meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held at Gude's Hall on June 

 4th. One new member. D. N. Shoe- 

 maker, a recent addition to the car- 

 nation industry, was admitted to 

 membership in the club. 



Pres. Bisset exhibited several of his 

 new seedling roses: they were enthu- 

 siastically received by the members 

 present. One, a pink one, of exquisite 

 shade, named Rosalie, attracted espe- 

 cial attention. Another, somewhat 

 darker, more like La France, was es- 

 pecially handsome. It will be remem- 

 bered that Mr. Bisset was the origi- 

 nator of the Queen Beatrice rose, of 

 which the above mentioned are. 1 be- 

 lieve, descendants. 



A motion, made by Geo. H. Cooke, 

 to have a chrysanthemum show held 

 here next November, under auspices 

 of the Florists' Club, was carried. The 

 date has not yet been decided upon. 



A handsome silver cup, won by the 

 bowling team in their late contest, 

 was exhibited by W. H. Ernest. After 

 some minor discussions the meeting 

 adjourned to meet again the first Tues- 

 day in July. 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



Fourth Annual Meeting June 18 and 19 



at Ithaca, N. Y. 



The fourth annual meeting of the 

 American Peony Society is to be held 

 in the new buildings of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University. There are many reasons 

 why this meeting promises to be an 

 interesting and important one. There 

 will be an exhibition of blooms staged 

 in the auditorium of the College, which 

 will represent the best productions of 

 the various growers in the country. 

 Besides this there is an extensive col- 

 lection of varieties comprising nine- 

 teen hundred and thirty-three lots of 

 one, two or three plants each, growing 

 on the Experiment Station grounds, 

 which have been donated by peony 

 men all over Europe and America. 

 These blooms will be available for 

 study to all those interested. A check- 

 list, including all names ever pub- 

 lished with descriptions, and giving 

 references to sources and indicating 

 all pictures, will be available for use 

 at this meeting. Questions of nomen- 

 clature bearing upon the authenticity 

 of varieties and the grouping of 

 synonyms, will be brought up for dis- 

 cussion. 



The meeting, coming as it does in 

 Commencement week, will give an op- 

 portunity to visitors to inspect all 

 buildings of the University, and pleas- 

 ure parties may be made up to visit 

 some of the many interesting and 

 beautiful waterfalls, gorges and lakes, 

 for which this region is famed. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



A well attended meeting of this club 

 was held on the 4th inst. Antoine 

 Wintzer, on the "Deterioration of 

 Forcing Roses," was the principal 

 attraction. He dwelt especially on the 

 rage for cheapness and blamed the 

 shoddy spirit of the age for much of 

 the falling away. Some of the mem- 

 bers seemed to thing that Mr. Wintzer 

 took too pessimistic a view of things 

 declaring that there was always 

 a^ market for the best and that 

 if the best was always properly 

 advertised and eapha.sized there 

 would be no trouble in get- 

 ting good prices. Six new members 

 were elected to membership. Chas. D. 

 Ball, chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee on convention, reported satis- 

 factory progress, and predicted ample 

 resources for taking care of what is 

 felt now will be the banner crowd in 

 the history of the trade. Jno. Westcott 

 has recovered his health and is help- 

 ing the rest of the members to plan 

 arrangements with all his old-time 

 vim and spirit. A special meeting of 

 the Executive Committee will be held 

 on the 20th inst to perfect details on 

 convention progi-am. 



Joseph Heacock has been chosen as 

 head of the hotel committee for S. A. 

 F. convention at Philadelphia. Those 

 who wish to be forehanded in this 

 matter should address him at 

 Wyncote, Penn. 



