JVKX 9, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



25 



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ROSE SOCIETY MEETS 



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BOSARIANS AT WASHINGTON. 



Dissemination of Van Fleet Rose. 



The public will soon be able to enjoy 

 the fruits of the labors of Dr. Walter 

 Van Fleet, for at the meeting, at the 

 store of Gude Bros. Co., on the evening 

 of June 1, of the executive committee 

 of the American Rose Society incident 

 to the annual visit of the society to the 

 rose gardens at Arlington, Va., June 2, 

 plans were laid whereby the commercial 

 growers, under certain restrictions and 

 regulations, are to get available stock 

 of the new rose heretofore known as 

 W. C. 124, but to be given to the trade 

 as Mary Wallace. 



Announcement was made some time 

 ago that this action was in contempla- 

 tion. Opportunity to participate in the 

 distributi^ of the available stock of 

 roses, or the wood of the plants, has 

 been offered to those members of the 

 American Rose Society who are growers 

 of roses, who issue a retail catalogue, 

 who will agree to the conditions as to 

 naming, prices, etc., as arranged with 

 the Department of Agriculture, and who 

 will further agree to propagate from 

 the material assigned, to offer promi- 

 nently in their catalogues the 2-year- 

 old plants and to pay to the American 

 Rose Society at the end of one selling 

 year a royalty of twenty-five per cent 

 of the retail price agreed upon. The 

 retail selling price of the new rose 

 Mary Wallace is to be $2. A deposit 

 on account of such royalty in the 

 amount of $50 will be required to be 

 made not less than thirty days prior to 

 the distribution of the propagating ma- 

 terial. Applications should be sent to 

 the secretary of the society at once and 

 will not be accepted after July 1. 



Prof. F. L. Mulford was named as 

 chairman of the committee that will 

 supervise the distribution of the wood, 

 which will be available at Bell, Md., in 

 sufficient quantities to take care of the 

 needs of all who wish to participate in 

 the plan to produce the plants for the 

 public. It is expected that the first of 

 these will make their appearance in the 

 fall of 1922, followed by a general dis- 

 tribution in the spring following. 



Text of Agreement. 



At the meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee, presided over by President 

 Pyle, various plans for carrying out the 

 agreement to be made by the American 

 Rose Society with the Department of 

 Agriculture, the text of which is as 

 follows, were discussed: 



1. The Department of Agriculture will turn 

 over to the Amerlcnn Rose Society n stock of at 

 least 100 plants of the roses ready for introduc- 

 tion. 



2. The American Rose Society undertakes to 

 insure the propagation of the variety in suf- 

 ficient quantity to introduce it properly to the 

 trade within five years from the date of the re- 

 ceipt of the parent stock material. 



3. In case of failure of the American Rose 

 Society to carry out its part of this agreement 

 within a period of five years, the Department of 

 Agriculture shall be free to make other arrange- 

 ments for the dissemination of the variety. 



4. The American Rose Society agrees to offer 

 the plants so propagated at a price not to ex- 

 ceed double the average price of a dozen stand- 

 ard varieties of the same type as the introduc- 

 tion, as listed by a half dozen leading rose Arms. 



5. The name of the rose shall be that ap- 



plied by the Department of Agriculture and the 

 identity of the plants shall be mnintainod. 



6. If the gross amount of sales in any one 

 .rear shall exceed $20,000, then twenty per cent 

 of the excess of this amount shall be paid into 

 the Treasury of the United States. 



The agreement will be formally 

 signed as soon as the incorporation of 

 the American Rose Society is com- 

 pleted, but in the meantime Secretary 

 Wister will send a letter of acceptance 

 of the agreement to the department 

 through Prof. C. L. Corbett, who is 

 directly in charge of this branch of the 

 department's activities. There are 

 sixty plants available at Bell, Md., at 

 the present time. 



To Guard Against Duplicating Names. 



The attention of the executive com- 

 mittee -was brought to the duplicating 

 of rose nnmes by the use of possessives. 

 It was agreed that the placing of a 

 man's name before a rose name would 

 bring about confusion when, in the 

 course of commercial transactions, the 

 first part of the possessive name was 

 dropped to shorten it. Sometimes, it 

 was pointed out, this is done where it 

 is believed that a rose name has be- 

 come obsolete, but the committee felt 

 that it was not in its power to state 

 when a name becomes vacant and at 

 the suggestion of J. Horace McFarland 

 the following was passed by unanimous 

 vote: 



"Resolved, That by reason of the 

 desirability of preventing duplication 

 of rose names, or of such similarity as 

 will result in duplication, it is the rule 



now adopted by the American Rose So- 

 ciety to refuse registration in such 

 cases and to discourage the use of pos- 

 sessive names for similar reasons, and, 

 further, 



' ' Resolved, That the committee on 

 registration is authorized to recommend 

 the simplification of such names in the 

 interest »f better nomenclature." 



The question came up at the meeting 

 as to the distribution to be made of sil- 

 ver and bronze medals. It was decided 

 that the offering of silver medals to 

 clubs and societies should be contingent 

 upon there being at least ten persons 

 participating in the public rose exhibi- 

 tion for which the medals are offered 

 who are members of the American Rose 

 Society and in the case of bronze 

 medals at least five of the contestants 

 must be members of the society. The 

 resolution carrying this provision con- 

 tains the phrase that the medals "may 

 l>e furnished," it not being compulsory 

 upon the society to do so. 



Morning at Bell Gardens. 



The annual meeting of the society 

 was lield in the soldiers ' mess room at 

 the Walter Reed hospital, at Takoma 

 Park, following a morning filled with 

 activit}'. The day was ideal and a 

 party of over 100 gathered at the store 

 of Gude Bros. Co., at 1214 F street. 

 Washington, D. C, at 9 a. m., June 2. 

 The out-of-town guests were soon as- 

 signed to waiting automobiles driven 

 bv members of the Florists' Club of 



Robert Pyle. 



(Thrice Elected President of the American Rose Society.) 



