'iSC 



HOUTI CU LTU RE 



March 23. 191S 



SANDERS 



ST. ALBANS, ENGLAND 



LARGEST ORCHID GROWERS IN THE WORLD 



HYBRIDS A SPECIALTY 



\|>l'l> f"r llliiKlr.il.il I iilnlnxilc (<> 



MR. WALTER GOTT 



McAlpin Hotel - New York City 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



ELMER D. SMITH & CO. 



See Clasaified Advertisement 



names that a wayfaring man may 

 understand. F\irthermore much work 

 has been done toward bringing to com- 

 pletion a list of all roses originated 

 in the United States or Canada. 



There is one thing that I would like 

 to impress upon all firms who are com- 

 mercial rose plant growers; that is. 

 one and all of this class of men should 

 become life members of the American 

 Rose Society. 



Regarding the registration of new 

 roses, there have been some registered 

 with the Society of American Florists, 

 and as the American Rose Society has 

 grown, more have come direct for 

 official registration. At the Executive 

 Committee meeting of the S. A. F. & 

 O. H., held in January last, at St. 

 Louis, a resolution was then passed 

 directing that, hereafter, all new roses 

 should be registered with the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society, In this wise secur- 

 ing a permanent record of authorita- 

 tive value. 



In rose cultivation the National Rose 

 Society of England has been an inspir- 

 ing example, particularly the last few- 

 years, to the American Rose Society, 

 and has formally recognized with much 

 courtesy, our Society, and such action 

 tends to hasten the coming day of 

 Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men. 



We expect next June to have at 

 Hartford an open air show in the 

 Rose Garden at Ellzal)€th Park, of 

 more than ordinary interest. The 

 Park Department and others have 

 planned in advance for this public ex- 

 hibition to which we look forward 

 with much pleasure. 



The detail working of the Society 

 will be more fully shown In the re- 

 ports of our Secretary and Treasurer, 

 and the American Rose Society with 

 its large and growing membership 

 stands for Americanism — which Is 

 Fidelity, Patience. Industry, and Fear- 

 lessness, first, last and all the time, 

 and "A Rose For Every Home, A 

 Bush For Every Garden." 



Report of Secretary E. A. White. 



As your secretary has been in office 

 but nine months a report of the period 

 must of necessity be brief. In the 

 seventeenth report of the annual meet- 

 ing of the Society two years ago, Sec- 

 retary Hammond stated a paid-up 

 membership of 194 active and 51 asso- 



Ben.i. Hammond 

 President American Rose Society. 



elate members. -At the Cleveland meet- 

 ing in November, 1917, the Society 

 voted to so change the Constitution 

 and By-L>aws as to establish a uniform 

 membership fee of two dollars a year, 

 and since that date 1,114 paid member- 

 ships have been received with 895 

 memberships paid in 1917 yet to be 

 heard from. The life memberships 

 now number fifty-eight, two new mem- 

 bers having been added since July 1, 

 1917, F. R. Pierson of Tarrytown. New 



V(jrk and Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoff- 

 man, president of the International 

 Garden Club, New York City. 



The wonderful growth has been due 

 in no small measure to the active In- 

 terest in the work of the organization 

 and especially from the amateur view- 

 point, taken by the editor of the 

 American Rose Annual, Mr. J. Horace 

 McFarland, of Harrlsburg, Pa. Through 

 liis love of roses, his wide acquaintance 

 as president of the American Civic 

 Association and hia keen Interest In 

 the success of the American Rose An- 

 nual he has brought the rose indeed 

 near to everyone's home and garden. 



But In this period of the Socletjr's 

 success we must not forget that there 

 have been years of adversity and a 

 complete history of the American Ros« 

 Society would show that but for the 

 self-sacrifice of a few men who had an 

 insight Into the value which the or- 

 ganization might become, the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society probably would not 

 now be rn existence. Among the early 

 workers to whom much credit should 

 he given, no name stands out more 

 prominently than does that of our 

 president, Benjamin Hammond. He 

 served thia Society faithfully for many 

 years, gave both his time and money 

 to support the organization and he Is 

 now entitled to all the honors the So- 

 ciety can bestow. To the earnest etforta 

 also of Messrs. Pennock. Pierson, 

 Farenwald and the other eight ex- 

 presidents, the success of the society 

 to-day may be directly attributed. 

 The rose may well be taken as a sym- 

 bol of health and longevity, as but two 

 of the former presidents have died dur- 

 ing the nineteen years of the Society's 

 history. 



The funds of the Society are now 

 on a firm basis, but It must not be for- 

 gotten that the running expenses of 

 the Society have increased many fold 

 in the last two years. Financing the 

 Annual is not as simple a matter as 

 it was and with an increased cost 



