March 26, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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bedewed beauties such as will enable 

 them to wrestle more effectively with 

 the problems of the day. Further- 

 more, they will enjoy talking to their 

 neighbors and friends on these 

 beauties of nature, instead of simply 

 filling each others minds, as they do 

 now, with exchanges of opinions on 

 the various sports of the day, stocks 

 and bonds, etc. That education no 

 other flower can bring, as no other 

 creation of nature has attained, as I 

 said before, such beauty, and won such 

 universal love as our Queen, when 

 once thoroughly understood by the 

 great amateur public. 



"The Rose the Brightest of Flowers." 

 When I started on this subject, I felt 

 that I could not do it proper Justice. 

 But I caught the inspiration as I 

 thought upon it, as everyone must be 

 inspired when once thoroughly 

 aroused to the charms of the Queen of 

 Flowers. I have tried to convey some 

 of my innermost thoughts on our 

 glorious Queen, and doing it has 

 brought back to my memory dreams 

 of long, long ago; and I hope that 

 for some, or all of you, it will also 

 call up memories of the "days of love 

 and roses." 



THE BANQUET. 



On Thursday evening, March 17, the 

 time-honored annual gathering of the 

 New York Florists' Club around the 

 festive board, came off with full glory 

 and refulgence, as befitted the verdant 

 holiday and the distinguished guests 

 which it was the Club's privilege to 

 entertain. The members of the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society with their ladies, 

 were treated to an entertainment such 

 as only the Metropolis could provide, 

 and no more care free and joyous com- 

 pany of nearly 300 banqueters was 

 ever gathered together than that of 

 which our cover illustration gives but 

 a faint suggestion. The menu was ex- 

 cellent — of course it was — and the 

 Fifth Avenue Resturant did its part 

 splendidly. There was music galore 

 during the feasting which lasted till 

 nearly midnight before the speech- 

 making was commenced. That only 

 the merest fragments of most of the 

 speeches were heard by anybody didn't 

 seem to give any worry and although 

 Toastmaster O'Mara and his gifted 

 fellow talkers were full of eloquence 

 and wit, yet so infectious was the pre- 

 vading merriment that had all the 

 speeches been left out, nobody would 

 have been any less happy. 



But an affair of this kind without 

 some post prandial proceedings would, 

 of course, be quite out of the question, 

 and so the following program had been 

 prepared and was adhered to as well 

 as the circumstances would permit: — 



PROGRAMME. 



M. H. KIRK, Conductor. 



PATRICK OMARA. Toastmaster. 



''The Star Spangled Banner". .. .Orchestra 



Song, "StiU wie die Nacht" 



Emoiy B. Brante 



Toast, "Our Guests" 



A. L. Miller, Pres., N. Y. F. C. 



Song, "Danza," by Chatlwick 



Miss Daisy Pollock 

 Address, "Florticulture from the Stand- 

 point of the Experiment Station".. 



Prof. John Craig 



Cello Solo, Selected Kussel Kelly 



Address, "Horticultui'e as an Educa- 

 tive Force" Geo. V. Nash 



Song, "Pearl of Brazil" 



Miss Saherv Doi'sell 



Toast, "Our Night" W. A. Manda 



Recitation, Selected Miss Barnett 



Address, 'National Horticulture" 



F. E. Pierson. Pres. S. A. F. 

 Song, Topical Maurice ,7. Hayes 



Soug, "Come Back to Erin" 



Miss Sabery Dorsell 

 Toast. "The American Rose Society," 



August F. Poehlmann. Pres. A. R. S. 

 Recitation. Selected. .. .Master K. J. Casey 

 Toast. "Our Hosts," Hon Phil Breitmeyer 

 Song, "Lass Mich dein Auge Kussum," 



by Fielitz Miss Daisy Pollock 



Toast, "The Ladies — 'God Bless 'em' " 



Richard Connel 

 Song. "Spirito Gentil". . .Emory B. Brante 

 Song, "The Heather". .Miss Sabery Dorsell 

 Song, 1 "Der Wanderer," Schubert.... 

 2 Irish Love Song, Margaret R. 



Lang Edmond A. Jahn 



"Auld Lang Syne." 



After perusing the above nobody 

 will wonder that it was well along 

 past the midnight hour before there 

 was any thought of home. As the 

 picture shows, there was no lack of 

 ladies on this occasion and they ap- 

 plauded with glee Toastmaster O'- 

 Mara's reminder that the first time 



A. Farenwalu 



Vice-president elect, American Rose Society. 



the American Carnation Society was 

 entertained in New York there was 

 only one lady present at the banquet 

 and she certainly brought a lot of 

 fame to the New York Florists' Club. 

 "Today," he said, "members don't have 

 to explain and apologize to their wives 

 after attending a club dinner, which 

 shows how we are growing." 



NEWS NOTES. 



Eidora, la.— J. M. Pierce of Des 

 aioines, publisher of the Pierce Farm- 

 ers' Weekly, has formed a company 

 with J. S. Polland, a local florist, un- 

 der the name of the J. S. Polland 

 Floral Co. A large acreage has been 

 purchased and greenhouse buildings 

 will be erected. It is expected they 

 will eventually branch out into a large 

 nursery business. 



New York — R. Grelsch is successor 

 to 0. V. Zangen as wholesale florist 

 at .52 West 2Sth street. 



The new 12-story Peter Cooper 

 Building at the corner of West 28th 

 street and Fourth avenue, is looked 

 upon favorably as a possible new cen- 

 tre for the wholesale flower trade of 

 New York. The first and second floors 

 are well adapted for the purpose and 

 the subway elevated and surface car 

 transportation accommodations are ex- 

 cellent. 



DINGEE, HELLER, SIVIITH ROSE. 



Perhaps this note on the warm con- 

 troversy now going on as to the iden- 

 tity of the above rose ought to be pre- 

 faced by an explanation of what was 

 intended by the S. A. F. when it in- 

 troduced its nomenclature registration. 

 The main purpose was to prevent 

 duplication of names. That idea was 

 for the protection of buyers, and is 

 sound in morals, ethics and business. 

 It has worked well and is doing good 

 right along. The writer is in thorough 

 sympathy with same and always will 

 be. 



A correspondent of HORTICULTURE 

 wishes to know why Conard & Jones 

 wish to register the name of W. R. 

 Smith at this late date — years and ■ 

 years after the variety has been oa 

 the market under various names, see- 

 ing that they were neither the origina- 

 tors nor had anything to do with the 

 early history of the variety. The nat- 

 ural supposition is that E. G. Hill, who 

 bought the stock from John Shellem, 

 who bought it from Richard Bagg (the 

 originator), would be the right party. 

 Where do Conard & Jones come in 

 on it? This question your correspond- 

 ent is unable to answer. 



A recent, interview with E. G. HUI 

 enables the writer to put his finger 

 on the real reason why this rose has 

 appeared under various names — and 

 that reason absolves all those who have 

 been by implication accused of re- 

 naming by this belated proposed reg- 

 istration. It is this: John Shellem 

 was one of the most amiable of men. 

 He would give a friend a plant of any- 

 thing new or good he might happen 

 to have — he did that with this then 

 new rose in many instances, long be- 

 fore it was named, and long before he 

 finally sold the whole stock of it to 

 E. G. Hill and long before it was 

 named W. R. Smith at a private lunch 

 at McGowan's restaurant, Philadelphia, 

 at which only Jno. Shellem, Robert 

 Craig and W. R. Smith were present. 

 No doubt Richard Bagg did the same 

 thing while he was in Bridgeton and 

 before he went to work for Jno. Shel- 

 lem. 



One can readily see, therefore, that 

 many people might have become pos- 

 sessed of this new rose, and in some 

 instances without knowing where they 

 got it, and on recognizing its merits 

 considered themselves doing a public 

 service in giving the unnamed a name 

 and letting the public know about it. 



This is an entirely different thing 

 from deliberately stealing another's 

 novelty and renaming it, and should 

 be so considered. It also invalidates 

 to a large extent, the present effort 

 to register the rose under the name of 

 W. R. Smith— whatever the motives of 

 the Conard & .Tones Co. may be. No 

 doubt they are perfectly honorable. 



In my_ judgment the S. A. F. have 

 a right to protect the innocent holders 

 of this rose under the names given It — 

 and should not boost any one of them 

 by registration at this late date, nor 

 do an injustice by implying dishonesty 

 to honest people. 



G. C. WATSON. 



