OCTOBKU 2. 1919. 



The Flor&ts^ Review 



17 



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AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 



ANNUAL MEETING IN NEW YORK. 



Officers Elected. 



At the annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Dahlia Society, held in the audi- 

 torium of the Engineering building, 

 New York, Tuesday afternoon, Septem- 

 ber 23, the following ' oflScers were 

 elected for the coming year: 



President, Eichard Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md. 



Vice-presidents, Geo. L. Stillman, 

 Westerly, E. I.; Geo. W. Kerr, Phila- 

 delphia; Jas. Duthie, Oyster Bay, N. Y.; 

 W. W. Wilmore, Denver, Colo.; Major 

 N. F. Vanderbilt. 



Treasurer, William J. Eathgeber, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



Secretary, E. C. Vick, 205 Elwood 

 avenue, Newark, N. J. 



The executive committee includes I. 

 S. Hendrickson, Flowerfield, L. I., N. Y.; 

 P. W. Popp; J. H. Darnell, East Mor- 

 iches, N. Y.; F. Louis Ailing, New 

 Haven, Conn., and William Noonan, Lo- 

 cust Valley, N. Y. 



The nomenclature committee is Prof. 

 Geo. W. Eraser, Storrs, Conn.; James 

 Kirby, Huntington, N. Y.; E. Stanley 

 Brown, East Moriches, N. Y.; I. N. 

 Failor, Eichmond Hill, JQ^. Y.; Harold 

 Cottam, Wappingers Falls, N. Y. 



Oppose Quarantine No. 37. 



On motion of I. S. Hendrickson, the 

 society went on record as endorsing the 

 opposition presented by other societies 

 to Quarantine No. 37, and copies of 

 this resolution were directed to be for- 

 warded to the Federal Horticultural 

 Board and the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Prof. G. W. Fraser made a verbal re- 

 port covering the trial grounds and the 

 award of certificates, his official report 

 to be presented later to the executive 

 board. A vote of thanks was passed to 

 the professor for his services. 



The treasurer, F. E. Austin, Tucker- 

 ton, N. J., reported the finances of the 

 society in fairly good shape, with a 

 balance in hand altogether of just $700. 



President's Address. 



President Vincent said in his address: 



"The last year has been an eventful 

 one in many ways for our organization 

 and a number of unexpected problems 

 have come up for us to solve. But we 

 have aimed to meet conditions to the 

 best of our ability and have succeeded 

 to a certain extent. We think that we 

 have bright prospects before us for the 

 future. 



"On account o^.war, labor shortage 

 and other incidents, especially the 

 changing of secretaries, our membership 

 did not increase as much as was ex- 

 pected. Our earnest desire is to double 

 the present membership and make our 

 society one of the strongest in the coun- 

 try or as strong as our kindred societies. 



"Under the happy auspices of peace, 

 may I ask every member ^^ariiestly to 

 strive for the upbuilding of our Amer- 

 ican Dahlia Society? But let us not be 

 selfish, but help' other societies as well 

 as our own, especially the parent so- 

 ciety, the Society of American Florists, 



whose slogan is 'Say It with Flowers' 

 and which is doing everything possible 

 to build up the love and use of flowers. 



Bulletin for Inquiries. 



"As president of the society I receive" 

 numerous inquiries by lettfer as to varie- 

 ties for different purposes, planting, 

 manuring, insect pests, handling and 

 keeping the roots, etc. Some of these 

 questions are easy to answer, while 

 others, to a fellow like myself who does 

 not know it all, are puzzling. ■ If an- 

 swered by letter these inquiries only 

 benefit the individual or club, whereas, 

 if asked and answered through the bul- 

 letin, they may benefit many others. 

 So I suggest that our next year's bul- 

 letin contain an inquiry department. 



"The returns from the membership 

 are not up to the expectation. There 

 have been several reasons for this, but 

 we are hoping for the best in every 

 way. Several of us a few years ago 

 smarted a permanent fund. This matter 

 has not been pushed as it shouM have 

 ^den; in fact, few of our members know 

 of it and its advantages. I sincerely 

 hope that the present meeting will bring 

 results to this end, so that we shall have 

 an increase in number on the life mem- 

 bership roll. 



"The California Dahlia Society, 

 which is affiliated with ua, is certainly 

 doing wonderful work and its members 

 are surely interested, according to re- 

 ports from the bulletin. We have the 



support of a number of garden clubs 

 and other organizations of similar char- 

 acter, several having joined during the 

 last year, and we hope and expect that 

 more will affiliate with us in tlie near 

 future. 



New Varieties. 



"The increasing number of new va- 

 rieties has made extra work for the 

 society in watching that there are not 

 too many duplicates put on the market, 

 or something quite similar to what al- 

 ready exists. In the last few years, 

 since the formation of our society, 

 there has been an increased interest in 

 the raising of seedlings. Some of those 

 that have been shown, even by ama- 

 teurs, are equal to any that have been 

 produced, but, again, others have been 

 given a name that have no superiority 

 whatever over existing varieties. 



"Our friends on the Pacific coast 

 have produced some beautiful varieties, 

 as well as our own people, that are dis- 

 tinct from any produced elsewhere. It 

 appears from the ruling of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board that under Quaran- 

 tine No. 37 we shall have to depend on 

 our own country for new varieties, and 

 I here say that I believe that we are 

 equal to the necessity of the occasion 

 and can hybridize and produce new 

 varieties as good as are raised anywhere 

 else in the world. 



"The nomenclature committee of the 

 American Dahlia Society met in New 



Richard Vincent, Jr. 



(Ke-electpd President of the American Dahlia Society.) 



