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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Januaey 24, 1907. 



F. Dorner & ^ons Co., Lafayette, Ind., 

 had a number of seedlings, notable 

 among which were No. 97-03, yellow; 

 5-03, crimson; 14-04, red. 



P. E. Quinlan, Syracuse, exhibited a 

 number of commercial varieties, all well 

 grown. 



Trade Exhibits, 



The E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 staged a vase of its new rose, EheaEeid, 

 which was fine and attracted much atten- 

 tion. 



Wm. Fendley, Brampton, exhibited 

 some good Princess of "Wales violets. 



The Bedford Floral Co. staged an es- 

 pecially fine vase of Eichmond roses. 



J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, had a fine 

 exhibit of begonias and Farleyense for 

 which he is so well known. Two new 

 begonias also were shown. 



W. P. Craig, of Philadelphia, staged 

 some splendid plants of the new feruj 

 Nephrolepis Amerpohlii. 



H. H. Barrows & Son, Whitman, 

 Mass., exhibited some well grown speci- 

 men plants of Nephrolepis Whitmani. 



Grover Bros., of Buffalo, made an ex- 

 hibit of their ever-ready pot covers made 

 of waterproof crepe paper. 



Thursday's Sessions. 



The reading of essays occupied a large 

 part of Thursday's sessions. All save 

 that of E. O. King appear in this issue. 



The most important work of the meet- 

 ing followed the reading of the report 

 of the committee on nomenclature, which 

 was as follows: 



Nomenclature Committee Report. 



Your committee reports the registra- 

 tion of the following carnations during 

 the past year: 



Stevenson Bros., Govanstown, Md., 

 Splendor. 



James D. Cockcroft, Northport, N. Y., 

 Harvard, Georgia and Faust. 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., Po- 

 cahontas. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., Lafayette, Ind., 

 Eed Chief, Winona and Bonnie Maid. 



J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 111,, registered Lucile. 



H. Weber & Sons Co., Oakland, Md,, 

 Toreador, 



Chicago Carnation Co,, Joliet, 111., Eed 

 Eiding Hood. 



Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y,, 

 Welcome. The registration of Welcome 



Carnation Sarah A. Hill at B. K. & B. Floral Co., Richmond, Ind. 



Mr. Maxfield, of Maxfield & Dimond, 

 Warren, E, I., was on hand with an 

 exhibit of his artificial calyx, which he 

 offers as the ounce of prevention that is 

 better than a pound of cure, for its use 

 prevents split calyxes. 



The Baur Floral Co., Erie, Pa., showed 

 a device for mending split carnation 

 calyxes. It is an entirely original idea 

 and was of much interest to the growers. 



The King Construction Co., Toronto, 

 erected a model greenhouse, embodying a 

 number of their patent features of con- 

 struction. 



is provisional and subject to the approval 

 or disapproval of this society, it being a 

 pink sport of Mrs. T. W. Lawson and 

 will be on exhibition at the meeting. 



Malachi Tierney, Highlands, N. J., 

 Mrs, Eobert Hartshorne. 



Eegistration is getting to be quite a 

 bit of work. One of the above registra- 

 tions was effected after an interchange 

 of eight letters, several of the others re- 

 quiring three and four, owing to the fact 

 that the list of names that have been 

 used is cumbersomely large, and, also, to 

 the fact that some introducers of new 



varieties do not take the trouble or do 

 not care to go to the expense of registra- 

 tion. 



From the amount of space given by 

 our trade papers to this matter of regis- 

 tration, there is no excuse for any orig- 

 inator not to know that when he names 

 a carnation, the proper thing to do is to 

 have that name registered with the so- 

 ciety at once, the cost being but $1 per 

 name, and it is not necessary even to bo 

 a member of the society to have a vari- 

 ety registered. 



We, therefore, again recommend that 

 no variety under name be allowed to 

 compete in the exhibitions of this so- 

 ciety unless said name has been properly 

 registered, either with this society or the 

 S. A. F., and that this rule be in force 

 for our next exhibition, with the privi- 

 lege of registration the first morning of 

 the exhibition for those who may have 

 previously neglected it or do not know of 

 this rule. 



We would also recommend that all 

 names registered previous to 1896 be 

 eliminated from the working list of this 

 committee. 



The report was signed by Albert M. 

 Herr, A. Herrington and Eugene Daille- 

 douze. 



There was much discussion on allow- 

 ing the name. Welcome, to stand for a 

 flesh-colored Lawson. The name was 

 adopted by a vote of the society. The 

 by-law requiring that a committee judge 

 new varieties growing before they re- 

 ceive the society's certificate was re- 

 voked. 



The committee on colors, W. N. Eudd, 

 Fred Lemon and C. W. Ward, reported 

 the following definitions: Flesh pink, 

 those shades of a flesh and salmon type; 

 light pink, those lighter shades verging 

 on the true pink and lighter than Law- 

 son; dark pink, as dark and darker than 

 Lawson, including all so-called cerise not 

 dark enough to be classed as red; red or 

 carmine, all shades of red that can not 

 be classed as scarlet or cardinal; scarlet 

 or cardinal, all light shades now com- 

 monly known in the trade as scarlet; 

 crimson, those shades now classed as 

 crimson; any other color, any color dis- 

 tinct from the above; white, yellow and 

 variegated to stand. The committee rec- 

 ommended maroon instead of crimson, 

 but the society refused to concur. 



The society adopted resolutions ex- 

 pressive of sympathy for Wm, Scott in 

 his illness. 



The McKinley memorial fund was 

 voted $100. 



Election. 



When the hour arrived for the selec- 

 tion of the next place of meeting C. W. 

 Ward made a strong plea for Washing- 

 ton and carried the decision over Fred 

 Dorner 's earnest opposition in behalf of 

 Indianapolis. 



The election of officers then was pro- 

 ceeded with and resulted as follows: 

 President, Fred H. Lemon, Eichmond, 

 Ind,; vice-president, Peter Bisset, Wash- 

 ington; secretary, Albert M. Herr, Lan- 

 caster, Pa.; treasurer, Fred E. Dorner, 

 Lafayette, Ind. 



Entertainment Features. 



The ladies were entertained by a drive 

 about the city and at the theater. 



The Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club will entertain at a banquet at King 

 Edward's hotel this evening, Thursday. 



By invitation of the florists of Bramp- 

 ton, the convention party will go to that 

 city Friday morning on a special train 

 for a look at the greenhouses there. 



