Jdnb 9, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



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ROSE SOCIETY MEETS 



ROSARIANS AT WASHINGTON. 



Dissemination of Van Fleet Rose. 



The public will soon be mIiIc to '^njoy 

 tlic fruits of tlie labors of l)i-. Wiiltcr 

 Villi Fleet, for iit the meeting;, at the 

 store of (iude liros. Co., on the evening 

 of June ], of the executive coniiiiitte(' 

 of the American Rose Society incident 

 to the annual visit of the society to the 

 rose fj-ardcns at Arlington, \'a., Juno "2, 

 plans wero laid whereby the coniinercial 

 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 tliis action was in contempla- 

 tion. Opportunity to participate in the 

 distribution of the available stock of 

 roses, or the wood of the plants, has 

 been ofTcred to tliosc members of the 

 .\iiieriean Rose Society who are growers 

 of roses, who issue a retail catalogue, 

 wlio will agree to the conditions as to 

 naming, prices, etc., as arranged with 

 the Department of Agriculture, ;ind who 

 will further agree to propagate from 

 the material assigned, to offer promi- 

 nently in their catalogues the 2-ycar- 

 old plants and to pay to the American 

 Rose Society at the end of one selling 

 year a royalty of twenty-tive per cent 

 of the retail price agreed ujton. 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 $.')0 will be required to be 

 made not less than thirty days prior to 

 the distribution of the propagating m;i- 

 terial. Applications should be sent to 

 the secretary of the society at once and 

 will not be iicceptcd after July 1. 



I'rof. F. L. Mulford was named .'is 

 chairman of the committee that will 

 supervise the distribution of the wood, 

 which will be available at Bell, Md., in 

 suflicient quantities to take care of thi- 

 needs of all who wish to jiarticipate in 

 the plan to produce the ])lants for the 

 )iublic. It is expected that the lirst of 

 these will make their appearand' in the 

 fall of 1922, followed by a general ai>- 

 tribution in tlie spring following. 



Text of Agreement. 



At the meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee, presided over by President 

 Tyle, various plans for carrying out the 

 agreement to be made by the American 

 Rose Society with the De]iartinent of 

 -Vgriculture, the text of whieh is as 

 follows, were discussed: 



1. Tlip Drimrlmont of .XBrii'iiltmf will turn 

 iivpr to tlio .\T.icrir:in IJiisi' Soricty j -ici'k of ,Tt 

 loHSt 100 pliints of tlu> rosos rcaciv lor iiitrodnc- 

 tinn. 



2. The American Rose Society nmlert.Tlies to 

 insure tlie propii^'ation of the variety in snf 

 tiiient qiiantiiy to introilnci' it properly to tlie 

 trade williin live yiiirs frc.ni tli'' date of the rt- 

 leipt of till' paront st(i< k iiiatirial. 



3. In case iif failore of the .American Ro-^o 

 Soripty to carry out its part of this acreetnent 

 within 11 period of live years, the Department of 

 AKrienltnre shall be free to make other arrange- 

 ments for the dissemination of the variety. 



i. The .\merican Rose Society agrees to offer 

 the plants so propagated at a price not to ex- 

 ceed doiilile the average price of a dozen stand- 

 ard varieties fif the s«ine type as the iiitrodnc- 

 lion. as listed hy a half dozen leading rose firms. 



.">. The name of the rose shall be that ap- 



plied by the Deparlnient of Agriciiliuir and tin- 

 identity of the plants shall be niaintaiiicd. 



'J. if the gross aiMiiiinl nf sales in aii,\ oiii' 

 year siiall exceed .*i;(i,(MMI, tlicn twenty per . ,.iit 

 of the excess of this amoiiiil sliall he paid iiitu 

 tin- Treasury of the Initi'd Slates. 



The agreement will be fdiiniilly 

 signed as soon as the inc(ii|i(irnt ion o! 

 the American Rose Society !»; coiii 

 jileted, but in the meantime Secretary 

 Wister will send .a letter of acceptance 

 of the agreement to the deii.artment 

 through Prof. ('. L. Corbett, who is 

 directly in charge of this branch of the 

 department's acti\ities. There are 

 sixty plants available at Pell, .Md.. :it 

 the jiresent time. 



To Guard Against Duplicating Names. 



The attetition of the executixe i-oiu- 

 niittee -wns brought to the duiilicatiiig 

 of rose names by tli(> use of }»ossessi\ es. 

 It was agreed that the jilacing of a 

 man's name before a rose name xNould 

 bring about confusion when, in the 

 course of commercial transactions, the 

 lirst part of the possessive name was 

 dropjicd to shorten it. Sometiines, it 

 was pointed out, this is done where it 

 is believed that a rose name luis be- 

 come obsolete, but the committee felt 

 that it was not in its power to state 

 when a name becomes \acaiit and at 

 the suggestion of ,1. Horace .McFarland 

 the following was passed by iinaniiiious 

 vote: 



"Resolved, That by rea.soii ol' the 

 desirability of preventing duplication 

 of rose names, or of such similarity as 

 will result in duplication, it is the rule 



iMiw addptcii li\- tlie American Rose So- 

 ciety to irfiise registration in such 

 cases .'ind to discourage the use of yios- 

 sessive names for similar reasons, and, 

 riiii lier, 



■'ResdUcd, That the coiiiinit tec on 

 registration is authorized to recommend 

 the siiii]ilificaf ion tif such names in the 

 interest (•)!' lietter nomenclature." 



The ([uestion came u|i ;it the meeting 

 as to the distribution to be made of sil- 

 ver and lirfpii/i' medals. It was decided 

 that the offering of silver medals to 

 clubs and societies should be contingent 

 iipiiii there being at least ten persons 

 |i.irticipat iiig in the public rose exhilii- 

 lidii for which the medals are oft'ered 

 wlio ;ire members of the American Rose 

 Society :iiiil in the case of bronze 

 medals at least five of the contestants 

 must be members of the socit'ty. The 

 resolution carrying this provision con- 

 tains the ]dirase that the medals ' • may 

 be furiiishcii, ' ■ it not being comimlsory 

 upon the society to do so. 



Morning at Bell Gardens. 



The aiimial me(>tiiig of the society 

 was held in the soldiers' mess room at 

 the Walter Reed hospital, at Takoma 

 P;irk. following a morning tilled with 

 .ictivity. The day was ideal and a 

 party of over lOd gathered at the store 

 of (iude Bros. Co., at 1214 F street. 

 Washington, D. ('., at 9 a. m., June 2. 

 The out-of-town guests were soon as- 

 signed to w.'iiting .'lutomobiles driven 

 bv members of the Florists' Club of 



Robert Pyle. 



(Thrice Elected Pn-sident ..f the American liOBe S.x-iety.) 



