. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Sweet Pea Black Knight Spencer. Very Dark Bron/i—One-Third Ri'duction. The initial meeting at New York showed a fine personnel of interested men. I could not attend, but was glad to contribute a paper, and send my membership subscription, and my most cordial assurance of good will. The National Sweet Pea Society of Great Britain is nine years old, and was organized at the very favorable time of the two hundredth anniversary of the introduction of the sweet pea into England. If our American So- ciety worthily emula
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Sweet Pea Black Knight Spencer. Very Dark Bron/i—One-Third Ri'duction. The initial meeting at New York showed a fine personnel of interested men. I could not attend, but was glad to contribute a paper, and send my membership subscription, and my most cordial assurance of good will. The National Sweet Pea Society of Great Britain is nine years old, and was organized at the very favorable time of the two hundredth anniversary of the introduction of the sweet pea into England. If our American So- ciety worthily emulates the success of that society we in California will greatly rejoice. The society has promptly, through its nomenclature committee, deter- mined on doing two things—the elimi- nation of synonyms and the testing of new aspirants for public favor. Of course there will be exhibitions under its patronage and meetings for dis- cussion. I sincerely hope its active membership will follow closely the re- ports of the society across the water. The British sweet pea men are cer- tainly very enthusiastic and they have the advantage of being territorially more compact. They do a lot of visiting. The sweet pea is their spe- cialty. It is their love. They commit all sorts of pardonable foolishness in their endeavor to get something new and finer. But they are putting a quality into the flower, and in new varieties are carrying out Henry Eckford's idea of its grand possibili- ties. I think we could not do less here on the American side than to or- ganize as was done last July in New York. The flower has attained to that dignity and we have got to keep up with the van because we must supply the world with sweet pea seed. Our chief embarrassment is that Cali- fornia is so far from New York. If the American society is to mean any- thing it must hold its rulings right down to the matter of true and well grown seed. Our English friends scold more about this than anything else. I do not know w
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