FLORICULTURAL INTERESTS. 



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eum, Venus de Medici, Castilliar, Zalinda, Sunrise, Constellation, Pluto, 

 Peach Blossom. 



By H. W. Rieman, Indianapolis, Ind.— J. J. B. Hatfield. Mrs. E. H. 

 Hunt, Mrs. F. G. Darlington. 



By John H. Sievers, San Francisco, Cal.— Mrs. J. Geo, Ills. 



By Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich.— Laredo, Oriana, Pompa- 

 dour, Iora, Miss Hattie Bailey, Nyanza, Ursino, Durango. 



By Thos. H. Spaulding, Orange, N. J.— Esther Cleveland. 



By Henky G. Stranden, Haveiford, Pa.— Miss Mary E. Simmons, 

 H. F. Michell, Mrs. Howard Roberts, Mrs. B. F. Cole, Queen Isabella, 

 Madame Dupuy de Lome, Mr. Wm. H. Joyce. 



By F. S. Walz, Cincinnati, O.— Mrs. Potter Palmer. 



By R. Witterst^ettek, Sedans ville, O. — Marie Louise, The 

 Debutant. 



The American Rose Society, for which the prelimi- 

 nary movements were made in 1892,* has been formally organ- 

 ized during the year by the adoption of a constitution f and 

 the election of the following temporary officers : President, M. 

 A. Hunt, Terre Haute, Ind. ; Vice-president, Robert Craig, Phila- 

 delphia ; Treasurer, John N. May, Summit, N. J. ; Secretary, 

 H. B. Beatty, Oil City, Pa. The first formal annual meeting of 

 the society was held this year at St. Louis, in connection with 

 the Society of American Florists, but, owing to the small num- 

 ber present, permanent organization was referred to a committee. 



Emblematic Flowers. — The discussion of emblematic 

 flowers has continued throughout the year. The most notable 

 contribution to this agitation is Miss Candace Wheeler's book, 

 "Columbia's Emblem : Indian Corn. A Garland of Tributes 

 in Prose and Verse." " No other plant," the author declares, 

 " is so typical of our greatness and prosperity as a nation ; no 

 other has such artistic meanings and possibilities ; no other is 

 so wholly and nobly and historically American." 



Upon the Fourth of July, a booth was opened in the 

 Woman's Building at the Columbian Exposition, to receive 

 votes upon a national flower, and it was noticeable that maize 

 led in popular favor.J The State of Washington, by a recent 

 action of its legislature, has adopted the native rhododendron 

 (it. Calif ornicurri) as the emblem of the commonwealth^ 



Flowers in Landscape Gardening*. — Among discus- 

 sions of general interest, there has arisen nothing more import- 

 ant during the year than the debates concerning the place of 



*See Annals for 1892, 57. 



t See Amer. Florist, viii. 890 (Mar. 30, 1893) for the constitution, and 

 also for much interesting matter pertaining to the rose. 



X The result of the vote on July 4th, for instance, was as follows : 

 Indian corn, adults, 216 

 children, __23 



239 



Sunflower, 37 

 Laurel (Kalmia), 22 

 § For other discussions of emblematic flowers, see Annals for 1889, 

 82; Annals for 1890, 35; Annals for 1892, 50. Also Horticulturists' Rule- 

 Book, 2nd Ed. 133. s 



