FOURTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 67 
AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 
The American Rose Society was organized at New York, March 13, 1899, 
the officers then elected being as follows: President, Wm. C. Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y.; vice-president, Benjamin Dorrance, Dorranceton, Pa.; secretary, Paul 
M. Pierson, Scarborough, N. Y.; treasurer, John N. May, Summit, N. J. 
Executive Committee: E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; E. G. Asmus, West Hobo- 
ken, N. J.; N. Butterbach, Oceanic, N. J.; Henry A. Siebrecht, New Rochelle, 
N. Y.; Edmund M. Wood, Natick, Mass.; Robert Craig, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The Society holds each year an annual exhibition in March and a Summer 
exhibition in June. The first annual exhibition was held at the Eden Musee, 
New York, March 27-29, 1900, and the first Summer exhibition at the same 
place, June 12-14, 1900. A bulletin, the first number of which appeared in 
March, 1900, is published occasionally. 
ITS OBJECT 
First: To increase the general interest in the cultivation and to improve 
the standard of excellence of the Rose for all the people. 
Second: To foster, stimulate and increase the production in every possible 
way of improved varieties of the Rose suitable to our American climate and 
requirements. 
Third: To organize a system of exhibitions at such times and places as 
this Society may from time to time decide on, to offer prizes of money, gold, 
silver and bronze medals, and certificates of merit for meritorious new varieties 
of Roses; also to offer prizes of money, cups, etc., for excellence of exhibits 
made at shows held by this Society. 
It is also proposed that the Society disseminate to its members the latest 
information pertaining to the Rose, recommending new varieties of undoubted 
merit, best methods of culture, how to fight insect and fungoid pests, the proper 
use of manures and other information from the pens of leading experts that, 
especially to amateurs, will be worth many times the cost of membership. 
The Society has three classes of members, viz. : Life, Active and Associate 
members. 
The Associate or Amateurs the Society invites, and that is why it has the 
Associate Members' class. Except voting, this membership entitles one to all 
the privileges of the Society; free admission to shows, and full reports of all 
proceedings as well as cultural articles of importance to Amateurs. 
Benjamin Hammond, 
Secretary 
Beacon, N. Y. 
