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The RcMists' Review 



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Afril 17, 1913. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



At an adjourned meeting of the 

 American Carnation Society held at 

 the Hotel Manhattan, New York, 

 Wednesday evening, April 9, H. B. 

 Dorner, for the committee to which had 

 been referred the address of President 

 Breitpieyer and the report of Secretary 

 Baur, reported as follows: The com- 

 mittee recommends that the judges be 

 instructed, in scoring carnations on the 

 exhibition table, to award no points 

 for fragrance unless fragrance be pres- 

 ent; the committee recommends that 

 the by-law providing that the annual 

 meeting and exhibition be held the last 

 Wednesday in January be closely ad- 

 hered to and that the convention be not 

 held in conjunction with the meeting 

 of any other society; the committee 

 recommends that the conventions be 

 alternated, one year in the east, the 

 next in the west; the committee recom- 

 mends that no admission fee be 

 charged, the public being admitted free 

 under such rules as the executive com- 

 mittee shall adopt; the committee en- 

 dorses the recommendation that none 

 but members be allowed to compete in 

 the society's exhibitions and that only 

 members of the society and the local 

 florists' organization in the convention 

 city be privileged to attend such func- 

 tions as may occur; the committee 

 recommends that every member con- 

 stitute himself a committee of one to 

 secure new members. 



The report provoked a long discus- 

 sion. Eugene Dailledouze challenged 

 the wisdom of the proposed rule on 

 fragrance, saying that most carnations 

 possess more or less fragrance at home 

 but may lose it if shipped any distance; 

 that warmth makes a great deal of dif- 

 ference and that the credit ought not 

 to be arbitrarily cut out in this man- 

 ner. M. A. Patten and Peter Fisher 

 took the same view. Wm. Nicholson 

 pointed out that Rainbow is selling 

 splendidly in the Boston market 

 "solely on its fragrance" and that the 

 quality is one that should be encouraged. 

 No action was taken. 



In the matter of the society going 

 it alone and sticking to its favorite 

 date of meeting, Peter Fisher said that 

 the last two years of trial of other 

 plans have proved conclusively that the 

 society 's best interests have not been 

 served, the exhibition having deterio- 

 rated and the membership fallen off. 

 Several others spoke to the same effect, 

 E. G. Hill being the only one to voice 

 a mild protest. The recommendation 

 was adopted, as were the recommenda- 

 tions for the free admission of the pub- 

 lic, that members only be privileged 

 to compete, that hospitalities be re- 

 stricted and that everybody get busy 

 and boost the membership. 



After considerable discussion the sec- 

 retary and treasurer were instructed to 

 formulate a plan whereby the list of 

 names can be cut down by the elimina- 

 tion of the names of undisseminated 

 and undescribed varieties. 



The only invitation for the 1914 con- 

 vention, except several from conven- 

 tion bureaus, which could not be con- 

 sidered because not backed by the lo- 

 cal florists, was from H. B. Dorner, who 

 asked -the society to meet at the Uni- 

 versity of Hlinois if it considers it ad- 

 visable to go to so small a place as 

 TJrbana-Champaign. It was left to the 

 board of directors, but Prof. Dorner 

 was elected vice-president of the so- 



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E. T. BROWN. 



PROMOTION for merit seems to be the regular thing with the new president 

 of the American Carnation Society; he was advanced from the vice-presi- 

 dency. And Mr. Brown came to the direction of the affairs of the Cottage 

 Gardens Co., Queens, N. Y., in just the same way; he entered that concern as 

 assistant to Charles Willis Ward when that gentleman was devoting his personal 

 attention to the florists' business and, when Mr. Ward's other interests claimed 

 his time, Mr. Brown's broad shoulders seemed just fitted for the mantle. Mr. 

 Brown has carried on Mr. Ward 's work with the carnation, now even to the point 

 of succeeding him in the presidency of the flower's society, for Mr. Ward was at 

 its head in 1903. 



ciety, that office having been left open 

 at the time other officers were elected 

 because of the custom of choosing the 

 vice-president from the city that is to 

 have the next convention. 



With comparatively little discussion 

 it developed that the members present 

 were a unit in believing that greater 

 importance should be put on substance 

 and the scale of points was revised by 

 taking five from form and putting it 

 on substance, so that the scale now 

 stands: 



Color 25 



Stzo 20 



Calyx 5 



Stem 20 



Substance 15 



Form 10 



Fragrance 5 



Total 100 



R. T. Brown, the newly elected pres- 

 ident, was introduced and made the 

 usual pledges. Wm. Nicholson, M, A. 

 Patten and E. G. Hill told of the hos- 

 pitalities received at the hands of the 

 Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society 

 and its members, and what they saw at 

 their places on the occasion of their 

 trip to England last spring. 



For the committee on final resolu- 



tions Mr. Hill presented a report ex- 

 pressing the appreciation of the society 

 for the courtesies extended by all con- 

 nected with the management of the 

 National Flower Show, but especially C. 

 H. Totty, Wm. Duckham and Harry A. 

 Bunyard; also to the New York Flo- 

 rists' club and the men in the trade 

 who individually had contributed to 

 make the meeting one of the most siu'- 

 cessful and pleasurable in the annals of 

 the society. 



THE CARNATION; ITS SOCIETY. 



[The address of President Philip Breitmeyor 

 before the American Carnation Society at t'n' 

 New York meeting.] 



In reviewing the past year, we fii'd 

 new facts presenting themselves that 

 should lead this assembly into very in- 

 teresting discussions, which in tuvn 

 should bring forth suggestions and reso- 

 lutions of great benefit to all. The 

 general prosperity of the country has 

 left its golden traces among the grow- 

 ers of carnations as well as the re- 

 tailers of them, and many an up-to-date 

 structure has been added to bring about 

 the biggest development of the carna- 



