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HORTICULTUEE 



August 30, 1913 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



President Hendrickson's Address at 



Minneapolis. 



Another year has again demon- 

 strated the usefulness and increasing 

 popularity of the Gladiolus, and also a 

 need for a society such as ours, but as 

 we look over the past year we do not 

 feel satisfied with the work accom- 

 plished. While one of the main ob- 

 jects of the society is to create a de- 

 mand and love for the gladiolus it has 

 always seemed to me that another im- 

 portant work is the testing and prov- 

 ing out of the different varieties that 

 are put on the market, but we feel 

 that very little real good has been 

 done along these lines, largely owing 

 to the unwillingness of many growers 

 to submit their supposedly new and 

 valuable seedlings to the trial grounds 

 before putting them on the market, 

 and I am convinced more and more 

 that something definite ought to be 

 done along these lines, if our society Is 

 going to accomplish anything at all. 

 It has been my privilege this year to 

 observe many varieties in the trial 

 grounds and the trials show that there 

 is great anxiety on the part of many 

 growers to put many varieties on the 

 market regardless as to whether they 

 contain merit or not. or whether bet- 

 ter ones have been discarded years 

 ago. I believe if we could induce every 

 grower to register and submit for trial 

 every new variety before putting it on 

 the market, and get the opinion from 

 the committee on nomenclature it 

 would save a great deal of wasted time. 

 It seems to me it is to our own in- 

 terest to be careful along these lines 

 as nothing hurts business as much as 

 disappointment, and we cannot afford 

 to disappoint a buyer especially if he 

 is a florist who is depending upon ;>r 

 income from his crop, and each year 

 is proving to the general florist that 

 he must include gladioli if he would 

 be up-to-date, and he is beginning to 

 find out that they are a good income 

 producer. 



As far as I can ascertain the past 

 year has been a good one for most 

 American growers, but a new factor 

 has arisen in the way of almost unfair 

 competition with imported stock. I 

 believe that we all agree that healthy 

 competition is good for business, but 

 it is needless for me to point out that 

 it is impossible for the American 

 grower to compete with labor condi- 

 tions in other countries, and while I 

 would not want to go on record as do- 

 ing anything to restrict trade. I do 

 think we would be justified in having 

 a committee appointed to work for an 

 increase of duty to protect our own in- 

 terests. 



Regarding the future of the society, 

 we are having the same experience 

 that all other similar societies have 

 had, and that is, it is hard work to 

 keep up membership. It is always 

 easy to get members fast for a new 

 society, but in two or three years it 

 gets harder and harder, and 1 am of 

 the opinion that the sooner some plan 

 for affiliation with the S, A. F. can be 

 worked out the better it will be for all 

 concerned. 



In closing I wish to thank my asso- 

 ciates for the co-operation and re- 

 sponse that they have always given 

 me during my term of office. 



Nomenclature Committee's Report. 



Prof. Beal recommended that names 



presented for new varieties should be 

 filed for further investigation before 

 being registered. Prof. Beal said that 

 it was impossible to determine the 

 facts concerning many varieties under 

 dispute because of the failure of cer- 

 tain growers to comply with the re- 

 quest of the committee to furnish 

 bulbs for trial. It was voted that the 

 societ}' purchase such varieties, for 

 the purpose of comparison and identi- 

 fication in the trial grounds at Ithaca. 

 Officers Elected. 



President, Montague Chamberlain, 

 Boston, Mass.; vice-president, Geo. 

 Woodruff, Independence, Iowa; treas- 

 urer, Carl Cropp, Chicago, 111.; secre- 

 tary, L. Merton Gage, So. Natick, Mass. 



Executive Committee: I. S. Hen- 

 drickson. Floral Park, X. Y.; Mrs. A. 

 H. Austin. Wayland, Ohio; Alex. Hen- 

 derson, Chicago. 



Nomenclature Committee: Prof. A. 

 C. Beal, Ithaca. N. Y.; I. S. Hendrick- 

 son. Floral Park, N. Y. ; Leonard Joerg, 

 Flowerfield, N. Y. 



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