

1062 



TTieWeekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch so, 1906. 



MBdnated preTioaa to 1008, first, John N. May, 

 Cten. MuArthnr. 



l^eeUI prljw altered br John B. Na^irit, Jr., 

 for twen^-flT* blooms of any pink roae not dla- 

 aemlnated previoaa A(.JS03, flrat, John Brett- 

 meyer'a Sona, La DejKtnJ 



C^tecial priJM offeiM by Alexander 'Montgom- 

 ery for twenty-five blooma any American seed- 

 ling Introduced In or since 1901, Jobn Brelt- 

 meyer's Sons, La Detroit. 



l^MClal prlie offered by Slebrecbt & Sons .for 

 fifty blooms of KlUamey, Mr. Fitqtatrick. 



Special prise offered by John N. May (or dla- 

 play of blooms. Col. Charles Pfaff. 



BxecutlTe committee's prizes: Fifty blooms 

 of American Beanty, first, Waban Ilose Con- 

 ■erratories; second, Brlarcliff Greenhouses. 

 Fifty blooma of any other variety, first, A. 

 Farenwald, Liberty; second, W. H.EUlott, Lib- 

 erty. Six blooms of any variety introduced in 

 1901 or subsequently, first, Jobn N. May, Oen. 

 MacArthnr. Twenty-five blooms of any rose of 

 American origin not yet in commerce, Waban 

 Boae Conservatories, Wellesley. 



8];)ecial ptiBt offered by B. A. . Clark for 

 twenty-five blooms hyl>rld perpetual, for pri- 

 vate gardeners. Col. Charles Pfaff. 



Twenty-five hybrid perpetual roses in pots, 

 M. H. Wmlsb. a silver cup. 



Twelve hybrid perpetual roses In pots, W. W. 

 Bdgar. 



Six plants, any one variety, in not larger 

 than S-incta pots, F. R. Plerson, Baby Ram- 

 bler. 



Specimen plant, first, W. W. Bdgar, Mme. 

 Eugene Verdler; second, M. H. Walsh, Urania. 



Specimen climber, first, M. H. Walsh, Lady 

 Gay. 



Display of Rambler and climbing roses in 

 pots, M. a. Walsh. 



Peter Crowe prlie for best vase of Bride and 

 Bridesmaid, Waban Rose Conservatories, a gold 

 medal. 



Plerson-Sefton silver cup for vase of fifty as- 

 sorted roses, the Waban Rose Conservatories. 



Cup offered by A. H. Hews &. Oo. for best 

 plant, W. W. Edgar. 



Special prize offered by Welch Bros, for best 

 vase of roses In the hall, Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories. 



Lord & Burnham trophy, Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories. 



Businctt Sesuon. 



Tbe annual businese session of the 

 American Bose Society was held in the 

 directors' room at Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, on Friday, March 24, with a 

 good attendance. President Alexander 

 Montgomery in the chair. The president 

 read his address as follows: 



Pretident't Acfdresi. 



We have met again to take note of 

 our progress and do homage to our 

 queen and, although we have hardly 

 mad^ the progress that the Eose So- 

 ciety is entitled to, considering the vast 

 amount of capital invested in the busi- 

 ness and the number of able men who 

 make the cultivation of the rose their 

 life-work, yet I think that we are be- 

 ginning to see light ahead. There have 

 been suggested various reasons to ac- 

 count for the slow progress which this 

 society has made. It has been charged 

 against us that we are not national in 

 that we have failed to cover the princi- 

 pal cities of the country, but, with pa- 

 tience on the part of our critics, and 

 with the cooperation of those to whom 

 this society has a right to look for its 

 support, we will yet visit them all. The 

 few pioneers who have done so much to 

 nurse this society along are entitled to 

 our gratitude for work done, and when 

 the time comes for the Eose Society to 

 start on its peregrinations I think I do 

 not err in saying that it will have the 

 hearty cooperation of those who have 

 stood by it thus far. Distance will not 

 diminish their interest in the flower of 

 flowers nor the society which stands for 

 its advancement. 



The rose has not lacked for enthusi- 

 asts any more than the carnation, but 

 it has missed that incentive to bring 

 rose men together that the carnation 

 men have had, namely, something new. 

 The shows have had but little variety. 

 Practically the same few varieties were 

 forthcoming year after year, a little 

 larger or smaller as we happened to 



carry them in our minds, or whether 

 they happened to be our own or the 

 o1^^ fellow^' powers, but evidQUM ifi 

 ] n6t iranliil^ tbai this will all be^ q)i|>igea' 

 ' in the near future an^ wa exiiect to 

 again hear the cry go forth as it did 

 in '61, but this time, thank God, it is 

 not the soldier but the enthusiastic 

 rosarian who raises the cry, "On to 

 Bichmond. " 



The American rose grower has at last 

 awakened to the fact that if a race of 

 roses adapted to his needs is to be forth- 

 coming, it must be done by himself. 

 He has paid in the past thousands of 

 doUaxs for European varieties that 

 were seldom suited to his requirements, 

 notwithstanding that they might be all 

 that the raiser claimed for them when 

 growing under their own conditions. 

 This applies in large measure to roses 

 for outdoor cultivation, as well as to 

 those grown under glass, and I am in- 

 clined to think that the former is the 

 larger field for the hybridist, and with 

 a reasonable amount of encouragement, 

 I predict that the near future will see 

 commendable progress made in a truly 

 American type of roses adapted to the 

 climatic conditions found here. 



It should be the duty of this society 

 to encourage in every way possible the 

 rose hybridist, as in large measure the 

 future of the Bose Society will depend 

 on him for the stimulating interest cre- 

 ated by having something new. The 

 commercial man ought to l^ alive to the 

 fact that if the rose is to hold the place 

 of honor and profit he must have some- 

 thing to keep the buying public from 

 becoming tired of seeing only the few 

 familiar old varieties, however meritori- 

 ous they may be. 



A proceeding that I think would be 

 of especial benefit to the introducer and 

 buyer of new roses would be for this 

 society to appoint local committees at 

 the large centers, after the method of 

 the Chrysanthemum Society, to whom 

 flowers could be sent to be judged, ac- 

 cording to the scale of the American 

 Bose Society. For convenience this could 

 be done at the various fall shows, and 

 being judged by the official scale 

 would be of value to all. The same 

 committees could visit the new claim- 

 ants in their home quarters and report 

 on their winter qualities. These judges 

 could be appointed by the executive com- 

 mittee and the chairmen of these com- 

 mittees or as many of them as were 

 required could be the judges at the an- 

 nual show. 



Now a word about the show itself. 

 The schedule needs to be .practically re- 

 written and adapted to the particular 

 section of the country to which the show 

 is to go the following year. A prelimi- 

 nary schedule should be sent out in the 

 fall, otherwise the growers of pot roses 

 are largely eliminated, and it will be in 

 evidence at the Boston show that this 

 can be made both an interesting and 

 educational section of our shows. If 

 possible, a meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee should be held during the con- 

 vention of the Society of Americaai 

 Florists, otherwise it will be almost im- 

 possible to get a majority of them to- 

 gether later in the season, as they are, 

 and should be, men from wide apart 

 sections of the country and find it diffi- 

 cult to leave their business later on. 



In conclusion I would ask one and all 

 to stay and take part in this meeting, 

 and if they can offer anything for the 

 good of this society, it is their duty to 



do so. To the young men I would ex- 

 tend a pressing inVit^tion. to take part 

 in 'these proceedings ^^d if, with their 

 Jrpunff and nrogressive idea^ they can 

 showliur VhWein a part of the machin- 

 ery of tMs society has worn out or 

 become obsolete, I promise them that to 

 the best of my ability I will assist 

 them to have it replaced by more mod- 

 em works. Progress should be the hail- 

 ing sign of this society, for the only 

 place the American rosarian can afford 

 to sit is in the very prow of the ves- 

 sel, even at the risk of an occasional 

 wave splashing over him. 



The secretary's report was read by W. 

 J. Stewart and was as follows: 



Secretary's Report 



I have the honor to make the follow- 

 ing report as secretary since the resigna- 

 tion of Mr. Barron last fall. 



The number of members on the list 

 when it came to my hands was 191, of 

 whom thirty-six were life members, and 

 155 annual members. The majority of 

 the latter had paid no assessments for 

 two years or more. Bills were sent to 

 all and the returns have been quite sat- 

 isfactory, everything considered, as the 

 treasurer's report will show. In the 

 meantime five new life members and six- 

 teen annual have been added. 



Silver medals won two years ago, at 

 the Anandale Bose Show by Crumwold 

 Gardens and at Lenox, Mass., by Giraud 

 Foster, have been struck off and sent 

 to their owners. Through an error in 

 the schedule, a silver cup was awarded 

 at Poughkeepsie the same year, instead 

 of a medal, to F. Heeremans, of Lenox. 

 F. B. Newbold, who was president of the 

 American Bose Society at that time, has 

 generously provided the cup and it has 

 been forwarded, suitably engraved, to 

 Mr. Heeremans. 



The sentiment all over the country 

 towards this society is extremely cordial 

 so far as I have been able to learn, 

 and the outlook is most encouraging for 

 the organization and the objects for 

 which it stands. 



The treasurer's report in the unavoid- 

 able absence of John N. May was read 

 by the secretary. It showed a balance in 

 the treasury of $709.55 as compared with 

 $971.12 a year previous. 



M. H. Walsh, who was introduced as 

 the wizard of Cape Cod, then read a 

 paper for which H. A. Siebrecht moved 

 a vote of thanks. Mr. Siebrecht stated 

 that he hoped the result of this paper 

 and its discussion would be to bring 

 the society to the standard for which 

 it was organized. He advocated the ap- 

 pointment of a publishing committee to 

 get up a Bose Society bulletin at inter- 

 vals and disseminate useful information 

 and thus do a greater and broader work 

 than is being accomplished. The motion 

 was unanimously adopted. 



In the discussion on Mr. Walsh's 

 paper, James Wheeler said he thought 

 American growers were slow in taking 

 hold of hybridizing, the surest way to 

 popularize the rose. We must raise 

 kinds adapted for our climate and im- 

 port less kinds of doubtful value from 

 Europe. Bobert Simpson said people 

 needed education. People persisted in 

 buying cheap, trashy Dutch roses year 

 after year and become discouraged. 



A. Farenwald said the society needs 

 more spirit. Let it follow the lead of 

 the carnation men, who poke their noses 

 in at every show. The exhibition was 

 much better than Philadelphia, but he 



