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Mabch 80, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review: 



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cash or investments. The nomenclature 

 committee reported the registration of 

 sixteen seedlings and three sports 

 during the year, also that the variety 

 Viola Sinclair had been debarred from 

 competition at this exhibition because 

 it is not registered with the society. 



The resignation of W. N. Kudd was 

 accepted with regret and C. W. John- 

 eon was nominated to fill the unexpired 

 term, E. A. Stroud and Wm. Nicholson 

 being nominated to succeed themselves. 



Philip Breitmeyer invited the society 

 to hold its next meeting at Detroit and 

 urged that a joint date with the Eose 

 Society be selected. After some dis- 

 cussion of the advantages and disad- 

 vantages of such a combined exhibition, 

 the directors were instructed to confer 

 with the executive committee of the 

 Eose Society, to see what can be done. 



At the opening session there was 

 present J. S. Brunton, chairman of the 

 Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society 

 of England, also C. Engelmann and 

 W. E. Wallace, leading carnation grow- 

 ers in England, each of whom mad^^n 

 address. 



SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



The National Sweet Pea Society 

 held a meeting at Boston, March 29, 

 presided over bj' W. Atlee Burpee. 

 Prof. A. C. Beal and Prof. John Craig 

 reported on the society's trials of 

 sweet peas at Cornell and papers were 

 presented as follows: "Growing Sweet 

 Peas Under Glass," by William Sim; 

 "Latest Novelties in Sweet Peas," by 

 G. W. Kerr. 



TELEQBAPH DELIVERY. 



The Florists' Telegraph Delivery As- 

 Kociation held two sessions and made 

 progress toward completing organiza- 

 tion. H. B. Dorner resigned as secre- 

 tary, because of pressure of other 

 work, and Irwin Bertermann, of In- 

 dianapolis, was elected in his place. A 

 committee consisting of J. A. Valen- 

 tine, W. L. Eock, Irwin Bertermann, 

 F. E. Palmer and W. J. Smyth was 

 appointed to formulate certain changes 

 in the by-laws, to simplify the guaran- 

 tee fund feature and prepare a plan to 

 put the association into active opera- 

 tion. A paper on credits was read by 



^- A. Farenwald. 



(Pi-e'ldent-cl«ft American Hose Society.) 



Mr. Valentine and one on the methods 

 of handling the holiday rush by George 



WilKam H. EUiott. 



(PrMldent American Rose Society.) 



PRESIDENT BURKI'S ADDRESS. 



[Delivered before the American Carnation 

 Society, In convention at Boston, Marcli 25 to 

 April 1, 1011.] 



I wish most heartily to express my 

 appreciation of the work done by the 

 members who have worked so faith- 

 fully for the success of this meeting 

 and exhibition, and we jointly also 

 should show our appreciation of the 

 untiring efforts of our worthy vice- 

 president, Mr. Peirce, and our able 

 secretary, Mr. Baur. 



Boston, the recognized center of 

 horticulture, has acted as our host sev- 

 eral times before. It is a pleasure to 

 have the privilege of being here again, 

 and I trust this meeting will be the 

 best and most successful convention 

 that we have ever had. The premiums 

 offered at this convention are more 

 liberal than at any of our former ex- 

 hibitions; this is on account of our 

 joining with this great flower show. 



There are but few recommendations 

 that I have to offer, as the ground has 

 been well covered by our former presi 

 dent. 



The most important matter that I 

 wish you to consider is this: The so- 

 ciety's scale of points for judging our 

 exhibits. I especially refer to the 

 seedlings or coming new varieties. It 

 appears that we must rely on getting 

 new varieties to take the place of those 

 which we term standards, now grown. 

 These seem to lose vigor in a few years 

 under our present-day treatment. If 

 we are going to keep up the popularity 



of the carnation, we must give more 

 consideration to the keeping qualities, 

 which, to my understanding, would 

 mean substance. For fragrance we 

 only allow five points, just as if it did 

 not count at all. Should we not re- 

 quire fifteen points each for color, size, 

 substance and fragrance, ten points 

 each for calyx and form, and twenty 

 points for stem, making a total of 100 

 points! This scale, to my judgment, 

 would be more uniform than the per- 

 centage on which our judging has here- 

 tofore been made. 



I recommend the appointment of a 

 committee to take up the matter of 

 judging, and to consider the scale of 

 points on the percentage which I have 

 just mentioned. , 



Is it not true that the carnation was 

 made by the people the popular flower 

 on account of its fragrance, keeping 

 quality and reasonable price as com- 

 pared with the rose? 



I may add that some of our most 

 prominent retailers care to handle but 

 few carnations. In fact, they say that 

 they would rather not handle them at 

 all, on account of the many complaints 

 they receive, to the effect that the 

 carnation blooms which they sold to 

 their customers had gone to sleep on 

 the day they were purchased. We 

 should give this matter our serious con- 

 sideration, for the buyer of carnation 

 blooms has a right to expect both fra- 

 grance and keeping qualities in them. 

 It is too bad that we have been get- 

 ting away from this in most of our 

 present-day varieties. 



Now that we have a Carnation So- 

 ciety button, we want to carry out the 



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