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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



11 



Peony Jeanne d' Arc. Peony Mrs. Wlllock. 



A Good Gdot Variety, and One Not Represented in the Cornell G>Uections. 



Ward, our ex-president and head of the 

 Cottage Gardens Co. 



Nomenclature Committee. 



Prof. Craig, chairman of the nomen- 

 clature committee, was not able to be 

 present, so Mr. Farr, chairman of the 

 special committee, reported on the 

 work done, as follows: 



It was realized last year that the 

 season of study was altogether too 

 short for any one locality to carry on 

 the work without extending it over a 

 number of years, and Mr. Jos. Dauphin, 

 of the Cottage Gardens Co., and myself 

 were appointed a special committee to 

 assist Prof. Batchelor, and the season 

 was greatly prolonged by beginning 

 the work at Wyomissing, following it 



ip at the Cottage Gardens Co., where 

 the meeting was held, and finally at 

 ithaca. The immediate results of this 

 ' ourse are shown in the large number 

 "f varieties added to our list in the 



lew bulletin. 



This year the same plan has been fol- 

 'i)wed. In addition to the work this 



oason at the nurseries mentioned in 

 'iiy address, the committee has since 



isited the collection of E. J. Shayler, 

 'ipre in Boston, and it is the intention, 



f possible, to visit other collections in 

 'he vicinity of Boston before leaving 

 'or Ithaca, where the work will be con- 

 ' inued until the close of the season 

 ' here. 



It is expected by the close of the sea- 

 "■on that practically everything will be 

 'lone in the old plot that it will be pos- 

 '^ible to do. There are still hundreds 

 '>f names existing in the plot which it 

 will never be possible to trace to any 

 •listinct origin, but the vast number of 

 names originally existing there have 

 been reduced to a large degree by the 

 great number of synonyms found, all 

 of which have been noted. As exam- 

 ples of this I might mention Edulis 

 Superba, Dr. Bretonneau, Queen Vic- 

 toria and others, which have been du- 

 plicated under twenty-five or thirty dif- 

 ferent names each, to say nothing of 

 the host of red varieties, most of them 



of inferior quality, which are to be 

 found. It would seem as if everyone 

 who has a red of any kind calls it 

 Delaehei, or Francois Ortegat, or Louis 

 Van Houtte, so that, strange as it may 

 seem, these, our most common varieties, 

 have been the hardest to determine 

 which is the true variety. And of the 

 many Delacheis it is a question if any 

 of us are positive just which one is the 

 true variety. 



There is a common pink peony which, 

 among its many other names, passes for 

 Edouard Andre, but the true Edouard 

 Andre is different in every way, being 

 an immense very double flower, very 

 late. 



These are merely examples of some 

 of the difficulties that the committee 

 has had to contend with. Of the varie- 

 ties left in the original plot it is doubt- 

 ful if there will be many remaining 

 which will be worth giving any further 

 consideration. Doubtless the larger 

 part of these have been unnamed seed- 

 lings sold in mixtures to which names 

 have been given in order to distinguish 

 them where they have been grown in 

 nurseries. 



It is not expected that no mistakes 

 have been made, but the committee has 

 had unusual facilities in making a wide 

 range of comparison in every case, and 

 we have every reason to believe that 

 in most instances we have reached con- 

 clusions and that the errors existing 

 will be detected and corrected before 

 the final publication is complete. The 

 decision of the committee may not in 

 every way agree with individual opin- 

 ion, but it will at least establish a basis 

 upon which the work for the future 

 may be done, and if it is adopted as a 

 standard eventually it fulfills the ob- 

 ject sought. 



I wish to again call attention to the 

 splendid services of Mr. Batchelor, and 

 I also wish to make mention of the 

 fortunate selection of Jos. Dauphin, 

 who by his remarkable memory and 

 ability to retain his impression of dis- 

 tinctions in color and form of flowers, 

 and the lo»g years of study he has 



giveu to this subject, has been able to 

 render us invaluable services. 



Nomenclature Committee Continued. 



After a general discussion, in which 

 President Farr spoke for the continua- 

 tion of the work at Ithaca, a motion was 

 adopted continuing the special nomen- 

 clature committee as previously consti- 

 tuted: B. H. Farr, J. Dauphin and 

 Prof. Batchelor. It also was ordered 

 that the society pay the personal ex- 

 penses of the committee while at Ithaca 

 on society work. President Farr spoke 

 of the new bulletin to be issued, to in- 

 clude this season's work in describing 

 varieties. It is to be pulilished jointly 

 by the society and by Cornell Univer- 

 sity, and it was voted to appropriate 

 funds to take care of the society's share 

 of the expense. 



Prof. Saunders urged the society to 

 encourage the raising of new varieties 

 by offering medals and other awards for 

 seedlings, but this did not meet with 

 approval, a member of the nomencla 

 ture committee remarking that too many 

 were now being raised without encour- 

 agement. Mr. Farr said raisers of seed- 

 lings should seek the society's approval 

 of same before naming or disseminating. 



On motion of A. H. Fewkes a new 

 committee was authorized, to reconsider 

 the recommendations of new varieties 

 made in 1907. The president named 

 William A. Peterson, Chicago; R. T. 

 Brown, Queens, N.Y., and A. H. Fewkes, 

 Newton Highlands, Mass. On motion, 

 President Farr was added to the com- 

 mittee and made its chairman. 



Five new members were elected. 



PhUadelphia Next. 



After some discussion Philadelphia 

 was selected for the meeting and exhi- 

 bition of 1911, with a more or less 

 definite idea of gathering again at 

 Ithaca in 1912. A committee was ap- 

 pointed to have charge of the Philadel- 

 phia arrangements, consisting of repre- 

 sentatives to be selected by the Andorra 

 Xurseries and H. A. Dreer, with J. J. 



