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The Florists^ Review 



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THE STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



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HE standard pots are all 

 right — nobody wants a 

 change. What is wanted is 

 that all potters stick to the 

 standard, so that pots from 

 all sources will be the same 

 size. 



The subject of the standard pot, or 

 rather, of variations from the stand- 

 ard, having been brought to the at- 

 tention of the S. A. F., it proved 

 difficult to determine exactly what 

 the standard is. 



Tbe Lost Standard. 



The S. A. F. adopted a standard in 

 1890, but because of some oversight 

 neither drawings nor scales were in- 

 corporated in the records of the so- 

 ciety, so that there was no official 

 guide. When the committee, headed 

 by Thomas Roland, began the inves- 

 tigation of the subject in 1914, twen- 

 ty-four years after the original stand- 

 ard was adopted, they found no de- 

 mand whatever for a change in the 

 standard, but an insistent demand that 

 potters adhere to that standard — the 



quarter-century-old standard that is 

 so satisfactory nobody can suggest any 

 change that would be worth while. But 

 the society had no record of the stand- 

 ard. It took search to find anyone 

 able to say just what the standard is. 



Now on Becord. 



The drawings reproduced herewith 

 are the standard reduced exactly one- 

 half in every dimension. It is a copy 

 of the original 1890 drawings pr^ared 

 by a committee headed by Robert 

 Craig, this copy having been supplied 

 to Mr, Roland's 1914 committee by A. 

 H. Hews & Co., who had preserved their 

 original for twenty-four years. Mr. 

 Roland presented these drawings, here 

 reproduced exactly one-half size, with 

 his report of the facts at the Boston 

 convention and the drawings now_are 

 a part of the official records of the 

 society. They are reproduced in The 

 Review, reduced exactly one-half in 

 every dimension, for the purpose of 

 making the standard measurements 

 available to the whole trade. 



Said Mr. Roland: "Your commit- 



tee recommends that this standard now 

 presented as a copy of the original 

 adopted in 1890 be adopted by the va- 

 rious manufacturers of pots, vases and 

 jardinieres. ' ' 



Observe the Standard. 



The trade wJH serve the general in- 

 terest by idoaistiag that all potters 

 follow the scale. It should be made 

 impossibles for anyone to sell flower 

 pots,"- v«8e«^ jardinieres or other articles 

 of like nature unless they conform to 

 the society's scale. The lack of readily 

 accessible copies of the standard has 

 led to probably unintentional varia- 

 tions from the standard. No doubt 

 these will cease now that The Review 

 has placed the scales, reduced exactly 

 one-half in every dimension, in the 

 hands of manufacturers and consumers 

 alike. If in the future pots and jar- 

 dinieres are not "standard" it will 

 be because the maker does not appre- 

 ciate the importance of the point and 

 it will rest with the trade to reject all 

 non-standard goods. 



