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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 14, 1908. 



NEWCROP FLOWER SEEDS 



I4-0Z. Oz. 

 ▼erb«Ba Mammotli, in colors or mixed, 90.80 $1.00 



SalTUSplendens 35 1.25 



SsItU Bunfire 75 2.50 



Uly of the Valley, Karly ForolnSt to close 



out, per 1000, $11.00. 

 Fresli Tobacco Stems, bale of 300 lbs., $1.50 



W.C.BECKERT. Pittsburg, N. 8., Pa- 

 Mention The Bevlew when you write. 



FISKE SEED CO. 



Make a specialty of ASTER SEED. 



All the leading varieties; also Flo- 

 rists' Seed for immediate planting. 



H. E. FISKE SEED CO. 



12 and 18 Fanenll Hall Sq. BOSTON, MASS. 



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SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 



The local Florists' Club at the regu- 

 lar May meeting, held Monday, May 11, 

 decided on holding a flower show next 

 November, the date to be arranged later. 

 It is the intention of the club to donate 

 a part of the proceeds to city charities, 

 A. C. Brown, Harry Drake and F. A. 

 Friedley were appointed as the commit- 

 tee to take charge of the show. Presi- 

 dent Kauth appointed David Wirth, A. 

 T. Hey and Wm. Hornbureg to serve 

 as the finance committee. 



A lunch and smoker followed the meet- 

 ing. 



The club meets the second Monday in 

 each month. F. A. F. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The Question of Plant Registration. 



So much matter has been published 

 of late upon this subject, so much sharp 

 criticism has been made, and so many 

 have evidently failed to appreciate the 

 purpose of plant registration that it 

 seems desirable that the position of the 

 flociety upon this point, as imderstood 

 by its oflScers, should be made plain. 



Many of the recent Avriters seem to 

 confuse the registration of a name with 

 a certificate of merit. The writer's 

 idea of the matter is that the act of 

 regfistry has to do mainly with the owner- 

 ship of the name, and in this connection 

 the value of the plant is of no impor- 

 tance. 



The registry of a name is an announce- 

 ment to the public that a certain per- 

 son has selected that name for a variety 

 of some class of plants, and equitably 

 vests the ownership of that name in the 

 person registering it, always provided 

 that some other person has not previ- 

 ously selected the same name for a va- 

 riety of plant of the samt; class. The 

 value of the plant to which he proposes 

 to apply the name does not enter into 

 the proposition at all. The publication 

 of an application for registry is notice 

 to the public at large, and the main pur- 

 pose of making such publication is to 

 cause anyone having knowledge that the 

 same name had previously been used 

 for a variety of the same class of plants, 

 to make that fact known. 



The duplication of names, the writer 

 ventures to assert, has been, in ninety- 

 nine cases , out of a hundred, a matter 

 of oversight or error and not an inten- 

 tional deception, and while there have 

 been many cases, since the society first 

 started to register varieties, in which 

 application has been made to register 

 a name previously used for another plant 

 of the same class, the writer does not 



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PURE WHITE, BRILLIANT PINK, DEEP BLUE, CRIMSON, SALMON, XMAS 

 RED, WHITE WITH RED ExE. Also a splendid mixture of all colors. 

 100 seeds, SOc; 1000 seeds, $4.00. 



RAWSOIS'S SEEPS ALWAYS GgRMINATE 



W. W. RAWSON & CO. 



5 Union St., BOSTON, MASS. 



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ASTER GROWERS, ATTENTION 



Our seed is all sold. If you failed to get some it is your loss. 



HOWEVER, get a Competition Card Now, Enter your Name as an Aster Grower of America 

 and win part of our Sii'iO.OO offered in prizes. Entry free. All information gladly Riven. No cost to 

 you except to prepay the express on flowers sent in competition. 



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** The Fastest Growing and 

 Most Centrally Located Seed 

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 SEED CO. 



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 WESTERN HEADQUARTERS for FINEST 



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 VALLEY PIPS 



$14.00 per 1000; $1.75 per 100 



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believe that there has been a single 

 instance in which, when the facts were 

 brought out by the publication of the 

 application, the duplicate name has not 

 been' promptly withdrawn and never sub- 

 sequently made use of by the originator 

 in any way. Everyone will recall numer- 

 ous instances of this kind during the 

 last few years. 



We are not, of course, at this time 

 discussing plant names from the point 

 of euphony or utility. Setting this ques- 

 tion aside, the only matters in which the 

 horticulturist is interested regarding the 

 name of a plant are, first, that it shall 

 not be a name which has previously been 

 applied to another variety of the same 

 class; second, that it shall not be a new 

 name applied to a plant which has pre- 

 viously been given another name. The 



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Seeds of Asparagus plumosus 

 nanus, $8.0U per 1000 



Seeds of Asparag^us plumosus 

 robustus, • • $2.00 per 1000 



Cold Storage Liljf Of the Valley Pips 



JAPAN LILIES 

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For prices state quantities required. 



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FLOWER and VEGETABLE 



The Best Kiads fir Market 6ir4eaert »ni Flirists 



Aster Seed: All the leading varie- 

 ties. 



Tuberoses: Dwarf pearl, 



75c per 100; $7.00 per 1000. 



Dahlias: All the leading sorts. 



Roses, LlUes, Cannas, Gera> 

 nlums. Artichokes. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



SEEDSMEN 



Rochester, New York 



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present system of registry, which should 

 comprise a scrutiny of names previ- 

 ously registered by this society and a 

 publication in all the trade papers, fol- 

 lowed by a publication in the annual 

 report of the society, would seem to be 

 about as far as it is feasible to go in 

 guarding against the first error, and has, 



