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The Florists' Review 



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August 30, 1917. 



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THE ALLIED SOCIETIES 



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LADIES' S. A. F. 



The annual meeting of the Ladies' 

 S. A. F, was held at Hotel McAlpin, 

 New York, August 22, President Miss 

 Perle Pulmer, of Des Moines, la., in 

 the chair. 



The following officers were elected: 

 President, Mrs. Julius Roehrs, Euther- 

 ford, N. J.; first vice-president. Miss 

 Bertha Meinhardt, St. Louis; second 

 vice-president, Mrs. Joseph Manda, 

 South Orange, N. J.; treasurer, Mrs. A. 

 M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa. ; secretary, Mrs. 

 George W. Smith, Cleveland. 



A revision of the by-laws was 

 adopted. 



The New York Florists' Club gave 

 a reception for tne ladies at the Hotel 

 McAlpin on the evening of August 23. 

 A theater party was given for the 

 ladies August 22. 



President Miss Fulmer entertained 

 the officers and directors at luncheon 

 August 22, which was the birthday an- 

 niversary of Mrs. C. H. Maynard, the 

 retiring secretary, who was the recip- 

 ient of several gifts. 



AMERICAN CABNATION SOCIETY. 



President W. J. Vesey, Jr., of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., occupied the chair at a 

 well-attended meeting of the American 

 Carnation Society at Grand Central 

 Palace, New York, August 22. 



Plans were made for the annual con- 

 vention and exhibition of the society at 

 Boston, January 30 and 31, 1918. Vice- 

 president C. S. Strout outlined the ar- 

 rangements, which were approved. The 

 show will be staged in Horticultural 

 hall and the banquet also will be served 

 there, although the Copley-Plaza hotel 

 will be headquarters. 



It was decided to take charge of the 

 carnation section of the National Flow- 

 er Show at St. Louis, April 6 to 15, 

 1918, and to assume responsibility for 

 the premiums of $1,500. 



Secretary Baur spoke with every 

 confidence of large exhibitions at both 

 places. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the American Eose 

 Society held at the Grand Central Pal- 

 ace, New York, August 23, plans were 

 discussed for participation in the Cleve- 

 land flower show, November 10 to 12, 

 It was felt that the schedule for roses 

 demanded amplification if the display is 

 to be one such as will do credit to the 

 society. The next meeting of the so- 

 ciety will be held at that time. 



Eules for the guidance of the nomen- 

 clature committee in the registering of 

 new roses, drawn by a committee head- 

 ed by Prof. Mulf ord, were adopted with 

 some amendments to meet the views of 

 the introducers of new varieties. The 

 committee sought to simplify varietal 

 nomenclature by laying down the rule 

 that a name should consist of not more 

 than two words, but the novelty dealers 

 insisted that room must be left for the 

 full names of persons and for the use of 

 names of possession like Manda 's Tri- 

 umph, although both are frowned upon 

 by the purigts. 



A report was made of the finances 

 of the Philadelphia spring show. At 

 the call of President Hammond, Treas- 

 urer May reported a working balance 

 of $1,047.28. 



Robert Pyle spoke in behalf of the 

 great rose garden Prof. C. S. Sargent 

 purposes to establish at Arnold Arbo- 

 retum, Boston. 



W. R. Pierson again called attention 

 to the project to enlarge the rose gar- 

 den at Elizabeth park, Hartford, Conn., 

 next spring. He wants stock for sixty 

 beds. 



At a subsequent directors' meeting 

 Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y., filed 

 application for the registry of Eose 

 C^helia Supreme, sport of Ophelia, iden- 

 tical in habit but of deep and distinct 

 pink. 



The Eose Society already has planned 

 to participate in the National Flower 

 Show at St. Louis and Harry O. May, 

 Eobert Simpson and W. J. Keimel were 

 appointed -to prepare the premium list 

 for the rose section. The following 

 subscriptions were made toward the 

 guarantee fund for the National Flower 

 Show: Benjamin Hammond, $250; H. 

 O. May, $100; E. Allan Peirce, $100; 

 S. S. Pennock, $100; Wendland & 

 Keimel Co., $100; Eobert Simpson, $100; 

 Conard & Jones Co., $100. It was voted 

 that the following canvass given sec- 

 tions for further subscriptions: W. J. 

 Keimel, the middle and far west; S. S. 

 Pennock, Philadelphia; H. O. May, New 

 York; W. E. Pierson, New England: 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



Officers Elected. 



At the annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Gladiolus Society, held in the pri- 

 vate office of Dr. Britton at the Mu- 

 seum building in Bronx park, New 

 York, August 24, the organization was 

 handed back to the management of the 

 professional growers, commercial men 

 being elected to the offices recently held 

 by millionaire gladiolus fanciers. The 

 new officers are: 



President — E. A. Kunderd, Goshen, 

 Ind. 



Vice-president — E. H. Meader, Dover, 

 N. H. 



Treasurer — Madison Cooper, Calcium, 

 N. Y. 



Secretary — Henry Youell, Syracuse, 

 N. Y. 



The Business Meeting. 



In the absence of President Fair- 

 banks, Vice-president T. A. Havemeyer, 

 of sugar fame, occupied the chair. E. 

 H. Meader acted as secretary in place 

 of Mr. Youell, who is ill. Mr. Youell 

 sent a pessimistic report of the progress 

 of the society, which has been crab- 

 fashion in the last year, eight new mem- 

 bers having joined and eighteen having 

 been lost. Treasurer Kunderd reported 

 $742.05 in the bank, with only a few 

 small current bills outstanding. 



The new president was empowered to 

 appoint the executive and exhibition 

 committees with a view to holding the 

 annual show in the west next year, 

 preferably at Chicago. 



There was the annual discussion as to 

 a definition of what, constitutes ama- 

 teur and professional standing and how 

 to secure the participation of the for- 

 mer class of exhibitors. ■ It was as fruit- 

 less as heretofore. 



It was agreed that the executive 

 committee be recommended to engage 

 the services of a promoter to work up 

 interest in the 1918 exhibition. 



The Exhibition. 



The eighth annual exhibition of the 

 American Gladiolus Society was held 

 in the Museum building at Bronx park 

 August 23 to 26, in cooperation with 

 the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 which supplied the premiums. It proved 

 to be the largest display of cut gla- 

 diolus flowers ever staged in America. 

 Two floors of the big building were 

 occupied. A conservative estimate of 

 the number of spikes staged would be 

 9,000 to 10,000. Using an average of 

 eight flowers per spike, and some spikes 

 carried fourteen, it would give 70,000 

 to 80,000 open flowers in the show. 



Large as the show was, it would have 

 been much larger excepl; for misfortunes 

 that befell some of the would-be exhib- 

 itors. Arthur Cowee, of Berlin, N. Y., 

 always has been one of the chief fac- 

 tors in these shows, but this year he 

 did not participate, weather conditions 

 having been too unfavorable. The 

 president, C. F. Fairbanks, Boston ama- 

 teur, had planned a large showing, but 

 August 21, on the eve of cutting the 

 spikes, a hail storm destroyed his flow- 

 ers; he had nothing to show. 



Bronx park is about as undesirable 

 a place for a flower show as one could 

 imagine. It is not only far from the 

 center of the city, but it is not easy 

 of access, so that the attendance of 

 the trade was limited to those having a 

 special interest in the gladiolus. To 

 these, naturally, the new varieties were 

 the most important feature. There were 

 many seedlings, most notable of which 

 was the collection of some twenty from 

 T. A. Havemeyer 's Cedar Hill Nursery, 

 Glen Head, N. Y. The prize for the 

 best novelty, however, was awarded to 

 a primulinus hybrid of distinct color- 

 ing, reddish pink with cream throat, 

 exhibited by John Scheepers, Inc., a 

 most artistic flower. Mr. Scheepers also 

 staged a fine lot of white seedlings and 

 another lot in which purple or lavender 

 was predominant, said to be the work 

 of the originator of G. princeps. Wm. 

 Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., also sent a 

 large collection of seedlings. Herman 

 H. Baer, New Hyde Park, N. Y., staged 

 a group of Crystal White, which has so 

 large a blotch of purple in the throat 

 as almost to make the appellation a 

 misnomer. 



Good as are some of these novelties, 

 to the average grower it will appear 

 that Europa, as shown in the class for 

 whites, will be difficult to displace; that 

 Panama, as a pink, towers above any 

 other gladiolus in the show; that Gold- 

 en Measure, yellow, will sell in spite of 

 all competition, and that Evelyn Kirk- 

 land, as staged by Madison Cooper, 

 will hold its place for years. 



