JANTARY 4, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



11 



THE DETROIT PROGRAM 



The American Rose Society and the American Carnation Society will hold a joint 

 exhibition and conventions at Wayne Pavilion, Detroit, Mich., VVednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday of next week. The programs as supplied by the secretaries of the two 

 societies are as follows : 



ROSE SOCIETY 



Wednesday, January 10, 7:30 P. M. 



A general meeting attended by each society and 

 the Detroit Florists' Qub. 



Thursday, January 11, 2:30 P. M. 



Calhng to Order of Tliirteenth Annual Meeting 

 by President Adolph Farenwald. 



Address by the President. 



Reading Minutes of Previous Session. 



Secretary's Report. 



Treasurer's Report. 



Reports of Committees. 



Selection of Place for Next Year's Meeting. 



Election of Officers. 



Appointment of Committees. 



Paper by Mr. Otto Koenig, St. Louis, Md.. 



entitled "Roses in the Mississippi Valley." 



A Question Box will be placed at the Secretary 's desk for 

 the purpose of receiving for discussion or answer pertinent 

 questions; the same to be opened at the evening session. 



Thursday, January 11, 7:45 P. M. 



Illustrated lecture by Mr. Robert Pyle, West 

 Grove, Pa., "The Rose as Noticed in Europe." 



Paper by Mr. Irwin Bertermann, of Indianapolis, 

 entitled, "Roses in the Middle West." 



The Question Box will be opened after this paper. 



Adjournment as Business May Require. 



Mr. William Dilger is Manager of the Exhibition. 



Judges on Roses: 



Emil Buettner, Park Ridge, 111. 

 Eber Holmes, Montrose, Mass. 

 Leo Niessen, Philadelphia, Pa. 



CARNATION SOCIETY 



Wednesday, January 10, 7:30 P. M. 



Meeting in charge of the Detroit Florists' Club. 



Thursday, January 11, 10 A. M. 



Reading Minutes of Meetings not in Annual 

 Report. 



President's Address. 



Secretary's Report. 



Treasurer's Report. 



Report of Standing Committees. 



Report of Special Committees, 

 f Miscellaneous Business — 



Report on Dorner Memorial Fund. 



Appoint Committee on President's Address. 



Vote on Amendment to the By-laws. 



Invitation for Next Meeting Place. 



Nomination of Officers. 



Paper by Prof. H. B. Dorner on "The Work 

 and Methods of Fred Dorner in Hybridizing Car- 

 nations." 



Report of the Judges. 



Friday, January 12, 10 A. M. 



Deferred Reports. 

 Deferred Business. 

 Selection of Meeting Place. 



Paper by Hugo Schroeter on "Everybody's 

 Flower." 



New Business. 



Appointment of Committees. 

 Election of Officers. 

 Question Box. 



Judges on Carnations: 



Wm. Nicholson, Framingham, Mass. 

 C. W. Johnson, Morgan Park. 111. 

 R. Witterstaetter, Cincinnati. 

 E. A. Stroud, Strafford, Pa. 

 Flugene Dailledouze, Brooklyn. 

 Joseph H. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



Granite That Crumbles. 



A word about alumina may be inter- 

 esting. It forms the larger part of 

 our earth and is the oxide of the metal, 

 aluminum. It occurs in nature in com- 

 bination with silica, in connection with 

 other bases. The most common of these 

 compounds is feldspar, a silicate of 

 alumina and potash. This is one of the 

 constituents of granite and several 

 other igneous rocks. Some varieties 

 of Ihese, by exposure to the atmosphere, 

 become completely disintegrated, pass- 

 ing from the hard granite we see in 

 buildings into the soft, crumbling. 



earthy masses. It is the feldspar which 

 undergoes the change, owing to the 

 action of rain water charged with car- 

 bonic acid, which dissolves the potash 

 and some of the silica in the feldspar, 

 leaving the greater part of the silica 

 and alumina still united. Pure clay is 

 white, owing to the dissolution of white 

 feldspar; if red, it contains iron; if 

 dark, it contains vegetable matter. 

 Science has never determined why some 

 of the granites will thus crumble, while 

 others have lasted for countless years. 



Different Forms of Alkali. 



The alkalis are also interesting in 



their relation to our soils. Alkalis 

 proper are potash, soda, lithia, rubid- 

 ium, cffisium, hydroxide and ammonia. 

 Potash is called the vegetable alkali, 

 soda the mineral alkali, and ammonia 

 the volatile alkali. Lime, magnesia, 

 baryta and strontia are called alkaline 

 earth. Alkalis belong to a general 

 class of substances called bases, which 

 are oxides of metals usually combined 

 with water, or compounds containing 

 carbon and nitrogen, called organic 

 bases, all of which unite with acids to 

 form salts. The bitter of alkalis and 

 the sour of acids neutralize each other 

 and disappear when a salt is formed. 



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