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January 11, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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THE ROSE AND 



CARNATION SHOW 



OFFICERS ELECTED. 



American Bose Society. 



President, A. Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa. 



Vice-president, Frank H. Traendly, 

 New York city. 



Secretary, Benjamin Hammond, Fish- 

 kill, N. Y. 



Treasurer, Harry O. May, Summit, 

 N. J. 



Next meeting place. New York city, 

 April, 1913. 



American Carnation Society. 



President, Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit. 



Secretary, A. F. J. Baur, Indianapolis. 



Treasurer, F. E. Dorner, La Fayette. 



The vice-president had not been 

 elected nor had the next meeting place 

 been chosen at the time of going to 

 press. 



JOINT MEETING A SUCCESS. 



General Approval Given. 



For the first time in the history of 

 the Carnation and Bose Societies it has 

 been possible to hold a joint midwinter 

 exhibition and convention and, except 

 for the upsetting of arrangements 

 by the cold weather, the unqualified 

 success achieved has met with almost 

 unanimous approval. The rose men, when 

 the January date was chosen, felt that 

 they were taking a serious chance of 

 not having the stock for a really cred- 

 itable showing by comparison with 

 what the Carnation Society has been 

 accustomed to do, but, possibly because 

 of their doubts and the extra effort 

 which resulted, their fears proved 

 groundless, for the Rose Society never 

 has made so fine a showing as it is 

 doing at Detroit this weeK. The num- 

 ber of rose exhibits is much greater 

 than anything in the recent history of 

 the society and for quality of stock 

 certainly nothing better could be asked. 

 Of course the novelties come in for a 

 large share of the attention, but the 

 classes for standard varieties are well 

 filled and the general quality of the 

 stock is a demonstration of the splen- 

 did progress the art of rose growing 

 has made in the last few years. The 

 rose men are not yet ready to admit 

 that January 10 is an ideal date for 

 their purpose, but they smile with sat- 

 isfaction when they consider that they 

 have done better than ever before on 

 a date not of their choosing. They ex- 

 press the opinion, which seems a fair 

 view, that the joint meeting is a fine 

 thing, and should be continued, but 

 that a later date should be tried next 

 time. 



So good a showing has the Rose So- 

 ciety made that the Carnation Society 

 was put upon its mettle to hold up its 

 end and maintain the position it has 

 gained through twenty years of success- 

 ful midwinter shows. The powers-that- 



be in the Carnation Society have in- 

 sisted that January is the only satis- 

 fiJctory date for an exhibition of the 

 flower for which the society stands 

 sponsor. Of course the show in prog- 

 ress at Detroit this week does not prove 

 that some other date would not be just 

 as good, for there have been other car- 

 nation meetings with more entries, but 

 it certainly does demonstrate that no 

 other month would bring out finer car- 

 nations. It is one of the little ironies 

 of fate that some of those who would 

 not consider a later month for this 

 year's joint exhibition were the prin- 

 cipal losers through frozen stock. 



Weather Delays Opening. 



The only unfavorable factor was the 

 severely cold weather. It upset all ar- 

 rangements. All trains were from three 

 to eight hours late on Wednesday, 

 January 10, the opening day, and hardly 

 any of the stock was out of the boxes 

 at the hour the exhibition had been 

 scheduled to open. In the middle of the 

 morning, when the completely disor- 

 ganized condition of the railroad serv- 

 ice became apparent, a hurried meet- 

 ing of the managers was held and it 

 was decided that, inasmuch as nearly 

 everyone was late, it would be neces- 

 sary to cancel the arrangement that 

 called for judging the show at one 

 o'clock. Instead, the carnation judges, 

 late in the afternoon, passed privately 

 on the exhibits which were in place, but 



aflfixed no awards, waiting to see what 

 the later trains would add to the show. 

 This was a departure from established 

 methods, but was with the approval of 

 the earliest exhibitors, who would them- 

 selves have been shut out by a strict 

 adherence to the rules. The rose men 

 put their judging through. 



A Splendid HaU. 



The Detroit Florists' Club was 

 warmly congratulated on the arrange- 

 ments for the show. Wayne Pavilion 

 affords ample floor space, with excel- 

 lent meeting room o,n the same floor 

 and hotel accommodations accessible 

 without going outdoors. The exhibi- 

 tion hall has glass roof and walls, af- 

 fording the finest of light and ventila- 

 tion. The only criticism is that it is 

 a little off from the center of the city, 

 which was only of importance as af- 

 fecting the attendance of the public. 

 So excellent an exhibition could not fail 

 to attract a large attendance of flower 

 lovers, but doubtless the^ crowds would 

 have been even larger had the loca- 

 tion been more central, though the hall 

 is the one in which the automobile and 

 all other big shows are held in Detroit. 



Manager Wm. Dilger assigned the 

 roses to one side of the big room, the 

 carnations to the other, and down the 

 center erected a white bark pergola 

 covered with wild smilax. The sides 

 of the hall were covered by trellises 

 decorated with the same green, festoon- 



General View of the Bose Section at the Detroit Show, January 10. 



