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AUGUST 19, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



Mexico that came by mail in market 

 baskets at a less cost for postage than 

 would have been charged for the short- 

 ost haul by the express companies. On 

 motion of W. J. Vesey, further discus- 

 sion of the matter was postponed. 



An invitation was received to visit 

 Spring Grove cemetery, which Mr. Rudd 

 said is the model of all lawn-plan ceme- 

 teries in this country. 



President's Reception 



The annual reception by the president 

 f the S. A. F. was held Tuesday even- 

 ing, August 17, at the club house at the 

 Zoological Gardens, one of (Cincinnati's 

 liow places. It was a delightful even- 

 ing up on the hills, where the cool 

 lireezes blow, and President Valentine, 

 \\ith Mrs. Valentine and his official fam- 

 ily, greeted a long line of members, a 

 line that movdl for more than an hour 

 up the steps and along the veranda of 

 !lie club house. Albert McCullough made 

 the presentations. In the line were Sec- 

 retary and Mrs. Rudd, J. Q. Vaughan 

 and Mrs. Vaughan, president of the La- 

 dies' S. A. F. ; Treasurer and Mrs. 

 Heatty, and several ex-presidents and 

 I heir ladies. 



Before the reception was concluded a 

 iiand concert was under way, to be fol- 

 lowed by a display of fireworks and the 

 1 ndian play, ' ' Hiawatha. ' ' Refreshments 

 were served in the club house and, al- 

 tiiough the members kept arriving all 

 evening, tliere was ample provision for 

 •ill. It was a pleasant ride to strangers 

 in the city, in trolley cars, up the steep 

 liilis or the inclines to the park, and the 

 first social feature of the Aveek was a 

 most pronounced success. 



Value of Work in Heredity. 



Following the half hour's organ recital 

 whicli opened each session, Wednesday 

 morning Jesse B. Norton, of the V. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 I), r., delivered a lecture on "The Value 

 of the Recent W^ork in Heredity to the 

 I'ractical Flower Breeder." It was a 

 iieautiful morning outside and it is a 

 niatter of regret that, after inviting Mr. 

 Norton, the society could not give him a 

 lietter audience. The scientist spoke ex- 

 tenijioraneously and what he had to say 

 "■as entertaining as well as instructive. 



He used a chart on which lie illustrated 

 tlie law of chance wliicii gives nature's 

 icsults in the disjK)sition of pollen cells 

 in fertilizing flowers. He said that the 

 'liance, in crossing a blue iind white va- 

 lioty. would be for an intermediate light 

 l>lue progem-. Going to tlie second and 

 subsequent generations, he illustrated 

 Mendel 's law as it has worked out in Mr. 

 Norton's own experiments. By his charts 

 lie showed how in the second and subse- 

 inent generations of .seedlings of tho'light 

 lilue flower, one-fourth would go back 

 'o the original dark blue and one-fourth 

 •o the original white, witii half like the 

 light blue intermediate flower of the first 

 generation. Contiiniing the experiment 

 "I subsequent generations, lie illustrated 

 loH Mendel deduced his law of heredity 

 "id showetl the great number of ramifi- 

 ations when the subjects of the experi- 

 'I'ents include a considerable number of 

 ' liaracteristics which it is wished to re- 

 '■lin, eliminate or modify. The ratio of 

 '|iie to three he showed to hold good, one- 

 fourth the progeny showing each of the 

 'liaracteristics. Carrying the experiment 

 "ir enough, and accurately enough, the 

 speaker intimated that any combination 

 'd" characters could be arrived at and 

 'ixod. He showed how the diflferent re- 



sults vary as tiie square of the number 

 of characteristics considered, two charac- 

 ters giving four difl'erent combinations, 

 four characters giving sixteen different 

 combinations of characters, and so on up. 

 He therefore advised florists to consider 

 only the least possible number of charac- 

 teristics in the subjects of their cross 

 breeding as vastly simplifying the Avork. 

 On motion of E. G. Hill, seconded by 

 P. O 'Mara, a vote of thanks was given 

 Dr. Norton for his illustration of the 

 Mendeliau theory. 



Rochester Next. 



Mr. Rudd re^wrted a number of invita- 

 tions from city convention bureaus, but 

 only those which were in the nature of 

 supporting invitations of florists' clubs 

 were considered. 



Chas. H. Vick. on behalf of the Roch- 

 ester Florists' Club, presented the invita- 

 tion of the trade interests there to come 

 to Rochester next year, and Mr. Crum, 

 of the Chamber of Commerce, told of the 

 facilities that would be provided. Geo. 

 A. Hart also spoke for Rochester. 



Wm." Gammage presented the invitation 

 of the Montreal Gardeners ' and Florists ' 

 Club. Mr. Robinson, of Hall & Robinson, 

 backed up all that Mr. Gamnmge said 

 and spoke of the plans j)roposed. 



The ballot, polls open one hour, stood: 

 Rochester, 16.3; Montreal, 62. Joe Hill 

 and A. H. Bush were tellers. 



Nomination of Oifiicers. 



J. F. Cowell, Buffalo, nominated Frank 

 R. Pierson for president in 19H), sec- 

 onded by W. F. Gude, P. O 'Mara, W. J. 

 Vesey and E. G. Hill, each of whom spoke 

 briefly in appreciation of Mr. Pierson 's 

 work for the society. 



W. F. Gude nominated Fred W. Vick. 

 president of the Rochester Florists' Club, 



for vice-president, endorsed by Rochester 

 representatives. 



P. O'Mara, New York, nominated 

 Harry A. Bunyard for secretary, and 

 J. J. Beneke, St. Louis, seconde<l. Wm. 

 R. Smith, of Washington, nominated 

 Edwin Lonsdale. E. G. (Ullett, of Cincin- 

 nati, nominated Herman B. Dorner, en- 

 thusiastically seconded by Joseph Hea- 

 cock, J. D. Carmody and Irwin Berter- 

 mann. 



Col. W. W. Castle, Boston, nominated 

 H. B. Beatty to succeed himself as treas- 

 urer. John Westcott and W. N. Rudd 

 seconded. W. J. Vesey stated he real- 

 ized the difficulty of getting another so 

 capable a man as Mr. Beatty, but said he 

 would like to give the members a chance 

 to vote for a working florist for the posi- 

 tion, and nominated Adam Graham, of 

 Cleveland, but Mr. Graham refused to 

 permit his name to stand. 



Judges' Report. 



The judges of the trade exhibition were 

 J. F. Ammann, M. Bloy and Otto Koenig. 

 Under the rules they could consider only 

 novelties that had been specially entered 

 by the exhibitors. The awards were: 



Wilson Plant Oil and Fertilizer Co., 

 Chatham, N. J., honorable mention for 

 pot washer and turf carrier. 



R. E. Wilson. Brooklyn, corsage holder, 

 highly commended. 



J. M. McC'ullough Sons Co., Cincin- 

 nati, Taft rose and Paragon sprayer, 

 highly commended. 



Thomas Jackson, Latouia, Ky., new yel- 

 low alternanthera, honorable mention. 



Wm. Moll, Cleveland, pipe meniler, hon- 

 orable mention. 



A. C. Brown. Springfield, HI.. Carna- 

 lion Sangamo. honorable mention. 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Nephrol- 

 ppis Scholzeli. certificate of merit. As 



Herman B. Dorner, Secretary-elect Society of American Florists. 



