April 8, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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cerely hope that you will adopt their 

 report, believing that it will make for 

 the good of the society and for the 

 good of everyone who wants to do 

 business on honorable and straight 

 lines. 



Plant Pathology. 



It has occurred to a number of those 

 interested in roses, particularly those 

 Interested in the Society's future, that 

 we should have a department of plant 

 pathology, where information could be 

 gotten by the members who are in 

 trouble with diseases of any nature 

 or any character, whether it be indoor 

 or outdoor grown, and advice as to 

 how to handle this disease, and how 

 to avoid a recurrence. A great many 

 rose lovers, particularly the commer- 

 cial men, know how to cure certain 

 diseases but they do not always know 

 the fundamental principles, or what 

 causes these diseases; if they did 

 know they could i)robably handle 

 them in much better shape. How 

 many of the amateurs would welcome 

 a suggestion of how to prevent their 

 roses from mildewing or other dis- 

 eases. They generally know what to 

 do after they are diseased, but a very 

 much better way would be to prevent 

 the disease in the first place. 



What we would like to do would be 

 to establish a fund to take care of 

 such a department and do it on a basis 

 60 that it would be profitable to every 

 rose grower in the United States and 

 Canada, and I feel that every rose 

 grower, if for nothing else, sliould be 

 a member of the Rose Society to help 

 a department of this nature, feeling 

 that they would get back in returns 

 far more than tliey ever invested. 



There is not a grower in this coun- 



try but who would give money, and 

 liberally, if he could prevent black 

 spot, mildew, or any of the many other 

 diseases which rose plants are subject 

 to, and if we had this department on 

 a solid footing we believe it would be 

 only a matter of time when experi- 

 ments could be made that would elimi- 

 nate most of the diseases, possibly not 

 eliminate them but remedy them to a 

 great extent. So the department, no 

 matter what it would cost, instead of 

 being an expense, would be a saving 

 to the rose business as a whole. 



This work could be taken up with 

 any of our agricultural State colleges, 

 or preferably by the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and 

 carried on in a businesslike manner. 

 This would be much the better plan 

 to pursue, as it would then be nation- 

 al in its scope, and not confined to any 

 one state. 



At the annual meeting last year a 

 committee was appointed to look into 

 the grading of roses, and the naming 

 of tliose grades. The committee ap- 

 pointed by President Pierson was S. S. 

 Pennock, P. Welch and Frank Traend- 

 ly. H. O. May has been added to that 

 committee, and he will make the re- 

 port of its recommendation, and I 

 trust same will be adopted by the 

 society. 



In conclusion I want to add a word 

 of praise for our secretary who has 

 labored all these years unselfishly and 

 untiringly with tlie thought always of 

 what was best for the society. He 

 has spent time and money for the so- 

 ciety wherever and whenever needed, 

 and has been one of its mainstays, 

 taking hold of the secretaryship when 

 no one wanted the job, and when the 



society was almost down and out. To 

 him we owe, I believe, more than to 

 any other one person, the bringing of 

 the society where it is today. All this 

 work has been for love as there has 

 been no remuneration whatever in it 

 for him. 



Let us hope that our society can be 

 put on a financial basis, that will al- 

 low us to pay our secretary a salary 

 in the future and that every member 

 will work for a larger and better so- 

 ciety is the wish of your president.. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 

 The subject for the April meeting, 

 Tuesday night. April 5, was, "A sym- 

 posium on the newer roses; what tliey 

 think of those they have tested during 

 the past few seasons," assigned to 

 Stephen Mortensen, Edward Towill 

 and Martin Samtman. The three 

 speakers made very interesting ad- 

 dresses. Donations of twelve blooms 

 each of all the standard and new 

 varieties available were made by 

 .Messrs. Mortensen, Towill, Doemling, 

 Samtman. Casper Pennock and Leon- 

 ard. Robert Scott & Son exhibited 

 the now rod Dickinson rose which will 

 be sent out next year, magnificent in 

 every way and unique in color, 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The regular meeting of the Cincin- 

 nati Florists' Society will be held 

 Monday, .May 10th, at Hotel Gibson. 



Because of the success of the fall 

 flower show last year an effort is be- 

 ing made to arrange one for the 

 spring In CoUingswood, N. J. 



