The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . EXHIBIT OF REED & KELLER, OF NEW YORK, AT DAYTON. /t^o6. The American Florist. 265 the same variety brought a mixed lotof pink peonies, all varying shades ofdark and light pink and purple and butII plants out of loo jeceived proved tobe the same kind sold us originally bythis same firm as Rose dAmour. Aninvestigation of the variety and compar-ing it with the true Rose dAmourwhich we purchased from a French firmand which answers to the originatorsdescription, disclosed the fact that noneof the peonies shipped us by the Holland to be wrong
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . EXHIBIT OF REED & KELLER, OF NEW YORK, AT DAYTON. /t^o6. The American Florist. 265 the same variety brought a mixed lotof pink peonies, all varying shades ofdark and light pink and purple and butII plants out of loo jeceived proved tobe the same kind sold us originally bythis same firm as Rose dAmour. Aninvestigation of the variety and compar-ing it with the true Rose dAmourwhich we purchased from a French firmand which answers to the originatorsdescription, disclosed the fact that noneof the peonies shipped us by the Holland to be wrong when we get them in flowerhere. Our own American firms do not seemto be in much better condition and itwould seem as if we are at presentalmost hopelessly mixed in our peonynomenclature which seems to be tooconfused even for our American firmsto deal intelligently among themselves. Take for instance, the peony we need looo of this variety formassing in a large piece of landscape l^>:.. ^^^^,. WAITING FOR THE OPENING OF A SESSION AT DAYTON. name, color, height and time of bloom-ing. As most of you know this society ismaking an effort to straighten out andidentify peonies in this country by co-operating with Cornell University, atIthaca, N. Y., in planting a test plot ofseveral thousand varieties from differ-ent sources and we are in hopes that bythis means we shall be able to settle ona list of 40 to 50 sorts, sufficiently dis-tinct, and accummulate a sufficientquantity of true stock to enable us to dobusiness with each other on a satisfac-tory basis. There are too many varieties now un-der name and there is not enough stockof the best sorts to supply any great de-mand and as these better sorts are soldat good prices, there is a great tempta-tion for a certain class of dealers toput in a few of the true sort orderedand then to fill up the with roots ofcommon kinds. We have found threeor four firms in Europe who are mak-ing an honest effort to send out rel
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