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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



January 11, 1912. 



the congress which was held in Kansas 

 City, August 25 to 28. The president 

 appointed as delegates W. L. Rock and 

 Samuel Murray, of Kansas City, J. F. 

 Wilcox, of Council Bluffs, and Fred 

 Meinhardt, of St. Louis. A report will 

 be made by these gentlemen at this 

 meeting. 



In compliance with instructions given 

 at the Boston meeting, the secretary ad- 

 dressed a letter to the members of this 

 society, asking for contributions to the 

 Frederick Dorner memorial fund. This 

 letter was followed up with two ad- 

 ditional ones, urging a general response. 

 The funds which were thus collected 

 were turned over to our treasurer, who 

 put them on interest as they were 

 turned over to him. A detailed report 

 will be made at this meeting. 



The joint meeting and exhibition of 

 our society and the rose society, which 

 are now in progress, were arranged for 

 an experiment. Whether you wish to 

 continue these joint exhibitions in the 

 future, will be for you to decide. An 

 admission fee is being charged at the 

 door of the exhibition. This society 

 shares in these receipts to the extent of 

 twenty-five per cent of the gross re- 

 ceipts. 



The premium schedule was gotten out 

 at the usual period preceding the ex- 

 hibition. Our friends have favored us 

 with a generous lot of advertising, some 

 twenty-three pages being taken. This 

 will pay for the printing and leave 

 a considerable balance for the treasury. 



No meeting was held by the board of 

 directors at Baltimore last August, as 

 there were not enough present for a 

 quorum. An informal meeting was held 

 with some of the rose society mem- 

 bers, in which the plans for the joint 

 meeting were discussed, but no action 

 could be taken on any of the ques- 

 tions discussed. 



To the trade press is due our thanks 

 for publishing gratuitously our regis- 

 trations and other matters. To the men 

 of Detroit credit is also due for the 

 manner in which the exhibition is 

 staged. To them we recommend a vote 

 of thanks. 



A. C. S. TBEASUItEB'S BEPOBT. 



Treasurer F. E. Dorner, of the Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society, presented the 

 following report at the convention of 

 the society in Detroit, January 10 to 

 12, 1912: 



REPORT TO JANUARY 10, 1912. 



Expenses. 



Paid by voucher $1,268.84 



Balance cash on band 416.62 



$1,685.46 



Receipts. 



Mar. 24, 1911. Casb on band. .$1,107.47 

 From A. F. J. 

 Baur, sec'y. 577.99 



Permanent Fund. 



Mar. 24, 1911. Cash balance. .$2,475.31 



Life membership 50.00 



Dorner Memorial Fund. 

 Cash from A. F. J. Baur, 



sec'y 



Interest 



1,685.46 



2,525.31 



437.00 

 7.04 



$444.04 



AMEBICAN BOSE SOCIETY. 



The American Rose Society was or- 

 ganized at New York city March 13, 

 1899, and has the following roll of ex- 

 presidents: 



W. C. Barry, 1899 Robt. Simpson, 1906-7 



BenJ. Dorrance, 1S90 A. F. Poehlmann. 1908-9 



F. R. Newbold, 1901 -.•? W. H. Elliott, 1910 

 Alex. Montgomery, 1904-5 



The officers for 1911-12 are as fol- 

 lows: 



President — Adolph Farenwald, Eos- 

 lyn, Pa. 



Vice-President — Philip Breitmeyer, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



Treasurer — Harry O. May, Summit, 



Secretary — Benjamin Hammond, Fish- 

 kill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



Executive Committee — August F. 

 Poehlmann, Morton Grove, 111.; J. A. 

 Valentine, Denver, Colo.; Eber Holmes, 

 Montrose, Mass.; Peter Bisset, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; Wallace R. Pierson, Crom- 

 well, Conn.; Wm. F. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 N, Y. 



A. B. S. SECBETAEY'S BEPOBT. 



[The following is the report of Secretary Ben- 

 jamin Hammond, read before the American Rose 

 Society, in convention at Detroit, January 10 

 to 12, 1912.] 



The American Rose Society brings 

 to the eyes of the people of Detroit 

 some of the choicest productions of the 

 rose which can be grown under glass. 

 Though this early season precludes the 

 exhibition of pot plants, nevertheless 

 the spirit of the brightest of flowers is 

 here to stimulate the spirit of mankind, 

 which admires beauty wherever it may 

 be seen; and in this city of homes and 

 enterprise, by the side of our greatest 

 highway of the inland seas, as the na- 

 tional society of America we pay our 

 respects, in the hope of encouraging 

 extended interest in things choice, 

 chaste and beautiful. 



The American Rose Society has pros- 

 pered during the past year. Addition 

 has been made to its permanent fund 

 and the members have paid dues; this 

 means stability. But, to the mind of 

 the secretary, there are two classes 

 which should be in greater numbers 

 among our membership — the growers of 

 rose plants and the amateurs. The first 

 should see the advantage and the sec- 

 ond needs a little encouragement to 

 feel in touch. 



After five years' experience as sec- 

 retary, I emphasize again the recom- 

 mendation made by several members 

 at the meeting held in Washington — 

 the issuing of a special quarterly bulle- 

 tin to amateur members. This would 

 keep them in touch with us and they 

 would feel that they were being looked 

 after. This cannot be done without 

 some expense. The suggestion was in 

 a measure worked out, but when re- 

 ported at the Chicago meeting it was 

 thought better to do another way. This 



other way, however, did not material- 

 ize. So we have only one way to reach, 

 the multitude, and that is .the annual 

 bulletin, which seems to be appreciated. 

 The able papers presented year by year 

 are thus made matters of permanent 

 record, and so far these papers have 

 been of real interest to rose grower* 

 and admirers of the rose, and the com- 

 mercial value of rose growing depend* 

 upon the admiration of the flower by 

 the people, 



At the Boston meeting a suggestion 

 was made concerning a rule of measure- 

 ment of stems as a- means to regulate 

 understandingly the value of various 

 grades of roses in the market. 



During the year the second gold 

 medal was issued, and awarded to M. H. 

 Walsh, of Woods Hole, in recognition 

 of the eminent service rendered by him 

 in the hybridizing of the Wichuraiana 

 class of roses. Silver medals were sent 

 to Robert Scott & Son, of Sharon Hill, 

 Pa.; to S. J. Reuter & Son, Inc., Wester- 

 ly, R. I., and to Waban Rose Conserva- 

 tories, Natick, Mass. One silver and one 

 bronze medal were sent to the Minne- 

 sota State Rose Society, one silver 

 medal to the Annandale rose meeting, 

 Annandale, N. Y., and two bronze med- 

 als for rose gardens made and tended 

 by a school girl and boy at Fishkill-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



There is another matter which seems 

 to me to be of prime importance for 

 the American Rose Society to take up 

 and act upon as a part of its perma- 

 nent work. Is there anywhere a full 

 list of the names and varieties of roses 

 originated in America? Such a record 

 should be made and, when a new rose 

 is disseminated, if it were recognized 

 by competent judgment on behalf of 

 the American Rose Society and then 

 recorded, this would be a safeguard 

 against duplication and of much value 

 to an originator. 



Our society holds a permanent in- 

 vested fund made by the late Mrs. 

 Gertrude M. Hubbell, of Washington, 

 D. C, to award each five years a valu- 

 able gold medal for the best rose of 

 American origin. Mrs. Frances Roche, 

 of Newport, R. I., has placed at the 

 disposal of the society a prize of $50 

 for the best yellow rose, to resemble in 

 color the Marechal Niel, but with 

 stronger stem, to be competed for at 

 any show selected by this society after 

 June, 1912. 



A G)rner of the Gurnation Section at the Detroit Show,* January 10. 



