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The Florists' Review 



August 30, 1!)17. 



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THE ALLIED SOCIETIES 



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LADIES' S. A. F. 



'I'lii' ;iiiiiii;il jiiiM't illy ol' the Ladies' 

 8. A. v. was licia at Hotel IMcAl])!]!, 

 New York, August L'L\ rrcsideiit LMiss 

 I'ciie FuliiHT, of Di's Moines, la., in 

 the cliair. 



The l'ollo\viM<i oflicers were elected: 

 J'resident, Mrs. .luliiis Jioehrs, Kutlier- 

 I'ord, N. .L; lirst vice jiresideiit, Miss 

 liertlia Meinliardt, St. Louis; second 

 vice-i)resident, Mrs. .losepli ^Manda, 

 South Oranj^c, X. ,].; treasurer, Mrs. A. 

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

 George AV. Smith, Ch-veland. 



A revision of tlie bydaws was 

 adopted. 



Tiie New York Florists' Club gave 

 a reception for t'lie ladies at the Hotel 

 McAlidn on the evening.; of August 23. 

 A tiieater ]>arty was given for the 

 ladies August '2-. 



President Miss Fulmer entertained 

 the oflicers and directors at luncheon 

 August L'-, which was the Inrthday an- 

 niversary of ]\Irs. r. 11. Maynard, the 

 retiring secretary, wlio was the recip- 

 ient of several Kit'ts. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



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

 Wayne, Ind., occupied the chair at a 

 well-attended meeting of the American 

 Carnation Society at (!rand Central 

 Palace, New York, August 212. 



I'lans were made for the annual con- 

 vention and exhibition of the society at 

 Boston, .lanuary .".ii and .11, IDIS. Vice- 

 ])resident C. S. fcStrout outlined the ar- 

 rangements, wliich Avere a]>]iroved. The 

 show Avill be staged in Horticultural 

 hall and the ban(iuet also will be served 

 there, although the Copley-Plaza hotel 

 will be liead(|uarters. 



It was decided to take charge of the 

 carnation section of the National Flow- 

 er Show at St. Louis, Ajiril to 15, 

 1918, and to assume rt'sponsibility for 

 the premiums of .$l,")nO. 



Secretary I'.aur sjioke with every 

 conlidence of large exhildt ions at both 

 places. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the American Kose 

 Society held at the Grand Central Pal- 

 ace, New York, August 2u, jd.ans were 

 discussed for ]iartici|iat ion in the Cleve- 

 land tlower slinw. No\«MuiM'r 10 to 12, 

 It was felt that tln' schedule for roses 

 demaiuled am]iliricat ion if tlie dis])lay is 

 to be one sueii as will do credit to the 

 society. Tlie next meeting of the so- 

 ciety will be held at that time. 



Rules for the guidance of the nomen- 

 clature committee in the registering of 

 new roses, drawn by a committee head- 

 ed by Prof. Mulfor(i, were adopted with 

 some aineiidinents 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 novtdty dealers 

 insisted that room must be left for the 

 full names of ])ersons and for the use of 

 names of possession like ^SLonda's Tri- 

 umph, although both are frouncd upon 

 by the purists. 



A report was made of the finances 

 of the l*liiladel])hia spring sliow. 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 I'rof. 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- 

 <len 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 Rose 

 ()j)helia Supreme, sport of Ophelia, iden- 

 tical in habit but of deep and distinct 

 j)ink. 



The Rose Society already has jdanned 

 to participate in the National Flower 

 Show at St. Louis and Harry O. May, 

 Robert Simpson and W. ,1. Keiniel were 

 appointed to prepare the i)reniuim list 

 for the rose section. The following 

 subscrii)tions were made towaril the 

 guarantee fuiul for the National Flower 

 Show: Benjamin Hiimniond, $250; IT. 

 (). :*Iay, $100; K. Allan Peirce, $100; 

 S. S. ' Pennock, $1(10; AVendland & 

 Keiiiud Co., $100; Robert Simpson, $100; 

 (Jonard & Jones Co., $100. It was voted 

 that the following canvass given sec- 

 tions for further subs(ri|itions: W. J. 

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

 Pennock, Philad(djiliia; H. O. May, New- 

 York; "\V. R. Pierson, New England. 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



Officers Elected. 



At the annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can (iladiobis Society, lield in the pri- 

 vate otlice of Dr. Jiritton at the Mu- 

 seum building in Bronx park, New 

 York, August 24, the organization was 

 lianded back to the management of the 

 professional growers, commercial men 

 being elected to the otTices recently held 

 by millionaire gladiolus fanciers. The 

 new oflicers are: 



President — E. A. Kunderd, Goshen, 

 Ind. 



^■iee president — E. II. Meader, Dover, 

 N. IL 



Treasurer — Madison Cooper, Calcium, 

 N. Y'. 



Secretarv — Hcnrv Y'ouell, 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. 

 11. Meader acted as secretarv 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 am] eighteen having 

 been lost. Treasurer Kunderd reported 

 $742.05 in the bank, with only a few 

 small current bills outstanding. 



The new jiresident was emjiowered to 

 appoint the executive and exhibition 

 committees with a view to holding the 

 annual show in the west next year, 

 preferably at Chicago. 



There Avas the annual discussion as to 

 .a deJinition of what constitutes ama- 

 teur and professional standing and how 

 to secure the ])articipation of the for- 

 mer class of exhibitors. It was as fruit- 

 less as heretofore. 



It w^as 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 20, in cooperation with 

 the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 which supplied the ])remiums. It proved 

 to be the largest display of cut gla- 

 diolus llowers ever staged in America. 

 Two lloors of the big building were 

 occupied. A conservative estimate of 

 the nund)er 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 except for misfortunes 

 that befell some of the AVould be exhib- 

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

 always has been one of the chief fac- 

 tors in these shows, but this year ho 

 did not ]iarticij>ate, weather conditions 

 having been too unfavoralde. The 

 president, C. F. Fairbanks, Boston ama- 

 teur, had planned a large showing, but 

 August 21, (Ml the eve of oitting the 

 spikes, a hail storm destroyed his llow- 

 ers; he had nothing to show. 



Bronx park is about ;is undesirable 

 a ])lace for a flower show as one could 

 inuigine. 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 tlios(> having a 

 special interest in the gl.'idiolus. To 

 these, naturally, the new varieties were 

 the most important feature. There were 

 many seedlings, most notable of wliicdi 

 was the collection of some twenty from 

 T. A. llavemeyer's Ced.ir Hill Nursery, 

 Glen Heail, N. Y. The jirize for the 

 best novelty, however, was awarded to 

 a jirimuliiius hybrid of <listinct color- 

 ing, reddish jdiik with cream throat, 

 exhibiteil liy John Scheepers, Inc., a 

 most artistic flower. Mr. Scheejiers also 

 staged a fine lot of white seedlings and 

 another lot in which purple or lavender 

 was prcilominant, said to be the work 

 of the ori^inatcu' of (>. princeps. Wm. 

 Sim, Cliftondale, ^Mass., also sent a 

 large cidlection of seedlings. Herman 

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

 a group of Crystal AVhite, which has so 

 large a blotch of jiurple in the throat 

 as alnuist to make the :ippellation 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 dillicult to displace; that 

 Panama, as a pijik, towers above any 

 other gladiolus in the show; that Gold- 

 en Measure, yellow, will sell in spite of 

 all competition, and th.at Evelyn Kirk- 

 land, as staged by Madison Cooper, 

 will hold its place for years. 



