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HORTICULTURE 



September 7, 1918 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



AND 



ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 



CONVENTION AFTERMATH. 



The auto ride and dinner on Fri- 

 day, August 23, which brought the Con- 

 vention activities to a close was a 

 most enjoyable event. The autos 

 were richly decorated with flowers 

 and made quite a sensation as the pa- 

 rade passed through the streets. The 

 dinner was at the Century Boat Club 

 and was a gala affair from start to 

 finish. Of course there was an abun- 

 dance of singing and speech making. 



On the happy occasion of the visit 

 to the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 where the visitors were entertained 

 sumptuously by Dr. Moore and his as- 

 sociates, an event of notable interest 

 was the presentation to President Tot- 

 ty of a silver dinner and tea service 

 and that gentleman's reply to the elo- 

 quent speech of presentation by Presi- 

 dent-elect Ammann. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON 

 NOMENCLATURE 



E. A. Wliite, Chairman. 



The work of this committee for the 

 past year has been merged with toe 

 activities of the American Joint Com- 

 mittee on Horticultural Nomenclature, 

 representing the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, Ornamental Growers' 

 Association, American Society of 

 Landscape Architects, American Phar- 

 maceutical Association, American As- 

 sociation of Park Superintendents and 

 the Society of American Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists. 



From time to time the chairman has 

 received reports of the meetings of 

 the sub-committee, consisting of J. 

 Horace McFarland, chairman. Harlan 

 P. Kelsey, secretary, Frederick Law 

 Olmsted and Frederick V. Coville. 



At the annual convention of the S. 

 A. F. & O. H. in New York in 1917 this 

 organization voted to become an 

 active participant in the work of the 

 American Joint Committee on Horti- 

 cultural Nomenclature and voted an 

 appropriation of $300 for the work ot 

 the committee for 1917. Previous to 

 this action the 1917 Official Code had 

 been published, copies of which were 

 sent to all members of the affiliated 

 organizations. Because of the delayed 

 action of the S. A. F. & Q. H. in par- 

 ticipating in the activities of the joint 

 committee, but one hundred copies of 

 the Official Code were available for 

 its members. These were mailed in 

 January to those members of the 

 society to whom it was thought they 

 would be most useful. If other mem- 

 bers desire the Code and will write 

 the chairman of this committee, an 

 effort will be made to obtain them 



The Code has been generally ac- 

 cepted as authoritative for commer- 

 cial scientific nomenclature in the hor- 

 ticultural trade. 



In reporting the activities of the 

 Committee on Horticultural Nomen- 



clature, I cannot do better than to 

 quote from the report of the secretary 

 of the sub-committee>, Mr. J. Horace 

 McFarland: 



"The 1917 Official Code related 

 wholly to scientific names. It was 

 necessary to arrive at a determination 

 on these names before the work, 

 which your committee considers of 

 vast importance, of providing uniform 

 common names, could be undertaken. 

 That workhas now been considerably 

 advanced. Information, lists and au- 

 thorities on common names the world 

 over have been consulted and are 

 being codified. The energetic sub- 

 committee, consisting of Messrs. 

 Frederick Law Olmsted, the great 

 landscape architect, F. V. Coville. the 

 United States Botanist, and Harlan P. 

 Kelsey, our own indefatigable secre- 

 tary, met first in Washington, January 

 5, 1918, and are now continuing the 

 work so that the forthcoming edition 

 of the Code shall include usable com- 

 mon names for the plants in com- 

 merce. 



We are glad to report that the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, through Mr. 

 Coville, has been able to assist by )jut- 

 ting several of its experts to work m 

 verifying and correcting botanical and 

 common names, so that the sub-com- 

 mittee may more readily have at hand 

 the material for its expert labor. It 

 is the fervent hope of the committee 

 that the new edition of the Code in- 

 cluding the common names, may be 

 in shape for publication not later than 

 January 1, 1919. 



When this shall have been accom- 

 plished more will have been done to- 

 ward the aim back of the founding of 

 this committee, which was and is to 

 make buying easy, than it would have 

 deemed possible five years ago. 



It is incidentally noted tha. the com- 

 mittee has adopted a plan of page and 

 printing which will be more easily 

 read than the 1917 Official Code, which 

 was reprinted for the most part from 

 the plates of Bailey's Standard Cyclo- 

 pedia of Horticulture kindly lopned us 

 by consent of Dr. Bailey -ind the pub- 

 lishers, the Macmillan Company. Both 

 the editor of this great work and its 

 publishers have been in he;',rty 

 sympathy with the work and the pur- 

 poses of the American Joint Commit- 

 tee, and this has been evidenced, in 

 the supplying to that committee, with- 

 out charge, of a complete set of the 

 Standard Cyclopedia, as by the con- 

 sent above noted. Moreover, Dr. 

 Bailey is continuing his help and has 

 under consideration the material 

 adoption of the determined names 

 which will be published by this com- 

 mittee in another great work he has 

 tiow in prospect." 



The work of the American Joint 

 Committee on Horticultural Nomen- 



clature is far-reaching in its effects 

 and promises to be of increasing 

 value. Your committee feels that the 

 Society of American Florists and Or- 

 namental Horticulturists should give 

 the work of the committee its hearty 

 support and it, therefore, recommends: 



First. That the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists hereby formally adopt the 1917 

 Official Code published by the Ameri- 

 can Joint Committee, as its recom- 

 mended standard and that it urge all 

 its members to use this standard 'n 

 catalogues, trade lists, nursery labels, 

 check lists and all other relations with 

 the plants and trees involved, makm? 

 exceptions by cross-indexing, but not 

 altering from the determined and ac- 

 cepted Code. 



Second. That the Society continue 

 the appropriation of $300 to provide 

 for the publication of the Official Code, 

 including common names as soon as 

 it is ready, it being understood that 

 the funds so voted be paid over to 

 the treasurer of the American Joint 

 Committee on Horticultural Nomen- 

 clature for use in common with the 

 funds of the other constituent organi- 

 zations. 



ROSES IN MINNEAPOLIS. 

 The following interesting letter 

 was read at the meeting in St. Louis: 



August 20, 1918. 

 To the Members of the Society of American 



Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, 



in Convention Assembled. 

 Dear Fellow Horticulturists: 



We have here in Minneapolis a Municipal 

 Rose Garden, which has been the pride of 

 our city ever since its existence, or for the 

 past ten years. It has convinced the people 

 of the Northwest that roses can be grown 

 successfully in our climate, and roses are 

 now grown In thousands of home gardens 

 where formerly they were not accorded 

 space. 



I want to offer the use of our Garden for 

 trial purposes to every grower in the 

 country. Anyone who lias a new variety 

 that he wishes to try out is invited to send 

 us si.\ plants. We will plant, protect, and 

 cultivate them with all po.ssible care, keep 

 an accurate record of their behavior, good 

 and bad qualities during a period of three 

 years, and report annually to the owner of 

 the plants. 



Our object is to keep in touch with pro- 

 gressive work in outdoor rose culture and 

 to help the grower and introducer of new 

 roses to try out and disseminate his prod- 

 ucts. We have a standing committee of 

 three judges, professional men appointed 

 by the American Rose Society, to Judge 

 such exhibits. We are willing to pay the 

 express charges on the plants sent, if de- 

 manded, all for the sake of keeping to the 

 front and helping outdoor rose culture in 

 every possible way. 



We now have about twenty-five hundred 

 roses in about two hundred varieties, and 

 have set aside trial beds to accommodate 

 fifty varieties, or three hundred plants, and 

 can give still more space if necessary. 



I earnestly ask for the co-operation of 

 everyone interested in this work and hope: 

 to receive applications from all parts of the 

 country for space in our garden. 



Regretting that I cannot be with you at 

 this Convention, but with cordial greetings 

 tfi one and all. 1 beg to remain. 



Your friend ;ind co-worker. 



Theodore Wibth. 



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