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NOVEMBEB 23, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Gu-nation Victory — Two of the Blooms from the First Prize Exhibit at Chicago. 



end of each bench. The first is six 

 inches above the soil, the second twelve 

 and the third eighteen or twenty, as the 

 growth of the variety makes desirable. 

 Similar supports are placed every ten feet 

 along the bench. On these supports and 

 between each row of plants, lengthwise 

 of the bench, No. 16 wire is stretched. 

 To' Keep -this from pulling down the light 

 supports and destroying the whole con- 

 trivance, the end supports are set a lit- 

 tle way from the end of the bench and 

 the wires drawn over them and down to 

 the end board, where they are fastened. 

 The lower support is placed about eigh- 

 teen inches from the end of the bench, 

 the second one about thirty inches and 

 the third about forty-two inches. Then 

 a similar row of supports is put on the 

 end of the bench to take care of the 

 three or four rows of plants there. 

 Across these wires lengthwise of the 

 bench, cross wires are placed as needed. 



ENCHANTRESS SPORT. 



Under separate cover I am sending two 

 flowers of an Enchantress sport which 

 developed last season and of which 1 

 now have eighteen plants. Thus far it 

 appears identical wuth Enchantress ex- 

 cept in color. What do you think of it? 



S. T. D. 



This is another deeper pink En- 

 chantress. There are a number of these 

 sports, as well as several white ones. 

 The one in question is a pleasing shade 

 of rose pink, possibly a little lighter than 

 the one of B. Schroeter, of Detroit, of 

 which S. S. Skidelsky says he sold 4,000 

 at the Chicago flower show last week 

 and of which he expects to easily sell 

 50,000 before delivery begins. 



CARNATION REGISTERED. 



W. H. Thomas, of Convent Station, 

 Morris Co., N. J., registers the name 

 Snowstorm. A. M. Here, Sec'y. 



The Review will send Smith's Chrys- 

 anthemum Manual on receipt of 25 cents. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



At the Washington session of the 

 American Carnation Society, held during 

 the S. A. F. convention, the following 

 by-laws were prepared for the action 

 of the society at the Boston meeting, 

 January 24 and 25, 1906. 



Section 1. The president, or In his absence or 

 disability, the vice-president shall preside at all 

 meetings of the society. In the absence of both 

 president and vice-president, the secretary, treas- 

 urer, or any member of the board of directors 

 shall open the meeting and at once elect a 

 president pro tem. 



Section 2. The secretary shall keep a record 

 of the proceedings of the society and the board 

 of directors, and conduct the correspondence of 

 the society, and have charge of all books and 

 papers pertaining to the above duties. He shall 

 keep an accurate account between the members 

 and the society, collect the annual dues and any 

 other Indebtediuess they may have, and turn the 

 same over to the treasurer, taking his receipt 

 therefor. He shall keep a separate account of 

 all the moneys due from or owing to parties 

 outside of the society, collect and pay the same 

 (by an order on the treasurer). He shall also 

 turn over all moneys collected to the treasurer 

 and take his receipt for same. He shall keep an 

 accurate enrollment of the society's members and 

 make an annual report. 



Section 3. The treasurer shall keep an ac- 

 curate account of all moneys and securities be- 

 longing to the society, and have charge of all 

 books and papers pertaining to the same. He 

 shall pay out moneys only on orders Issued by 

 the secretary and countersigned by the president. 

 He shall receive from the secretary all moneys 

 collected and give his receipt therefor, deposit- 

 ing the same in the name of the society and 

 make annual report of receipts and disbursements 

 at each annual meeting of the society. He shall 

 give bond in such amount as may be, from time 

 to time required. 



Section 4. The annual membership fee shall 

 be $2, payable January 1, of each year. The 

 payment of $50 at one time shall constitute a 

 life membership. 



Section 5. All nominations shall be made from 

 the floor at the last session of the first day. and 

 presentation speeches shall be limited to three 

 minutes. 



Section 6. Invitations for the next annual 

 meeting place shall be presented the opening day 

 of the meeting, and the selection made by ballot 

 at the morning session of the second day. 



Section 7. The election of a president, a vice- 

 president, a secretary, a treasurer, one member 

 of the board of directors, and one Judge, shall 

 take place on the closing day of the annual 

 meeting and shall always be by ballot. 



Section 8. All members whose dues are unpaid 

 sixty days after the annual meeting shall be 

 notified in writing by the secretary to pay up. 

 When In arrears eighteen months they shall be 

 dropped from the roll of membership and re- 

 instated only when all arrearages are paid in 

 full, or by a majority vote of the board of 

 directors. 



Section 9. The annual meeting shall be held 

 the last Wednesday of January each year. A 

 special meeting may be called at the request of 

 twenty-flve active members of the society, as per 

 Section 4 of the constitution. 



Section 10. The presence of fifteen active 

 members shall be necessary to constitute a 

 quorum at any annual or special meeting. 



Section 11. The government Of the society and 

 the expenditure of any money, excepting that 

 pertaining to the actual running expenses of the 

 society, shall be in the hands of the board of 

 directors and the elective officers, as per Sec- 

 tion 6 of the constitution. 



Section 12. These laws may be amended or 

 added to at any annual meeting of the society 

 by a two-thirds vote of the members present, 

 said change or amendment having previously 

 been mailed to every member of the society at 

 least thirty days before the annual meeting. 



Order of Business. — Opening day. Calling to 

 order; reading the minutes of all special ses- 

 sions not embodied In the annual report; presi- 

 dent's address; secretary's report; treasurer's 

 report; reports of standing committees; reports 

 of special committees; miscellaneous business; 

 invitations for next annual meeting place; nom- 

 inations for officers; essays and discussions; 

 reports of the judges. 



Second day. Calling to order; deferred re- 

 ports; deferred business; selection of place of 

 meetings; essays and discussion; new business; 

 appointment of committees; election of officers; 

 question box; adjournment. 



SOME DORNER SEEDLINGS. 



What impressed me most during a re- 

 cent visit to Fred Dorner & Sons' estab- 

 lishment at Lafayette, liid., as they in- 

 variably impress every visitor, were his 

 seedlings, some in their first and others 

 in their second and third years. They 

 have whites of the "bread and butter" 

 type that would appeal to the small 

 grower, with whom quantity counts, and 

 whites that are fancies in the fullest 

 sense of the word, plus more shoots to 

 the plant than the average ' ' fancy ' ' can 

 claim. The same holds true as regards 

 scarlets, pinks and maroons. 



Thus a red seedling. No. 102, is the 

 ideal in habit of growth, color and 

 profusion of bloom, though lacking some- 

 what in size as judged by the standard 

 of exhibition varieties. On the other 

 hand, No. 153, another scarlet, has the 

 size, vigor and color, but lacks in free- 

 dom as compared with No. 102. A com- 

 bination of the two will give him an- 

 other world-beater. 



Apropos of maroons, I will mention 

 in passing, that Mr. Dorner is working 

 on a new strain of seedlings — distinct 

 from any known to the commercial flo- 

 rist. It is a coloi- between a scarlet and 



