. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgij. The America r.' Florist. 637. ITALIAN GARDEN AT THE PHILADELPHIA ROSE SHOW. least a j-ear. For example: his in- vestigation of the new trouble which besets cut flower rose growers—a form of crown root-gall—is likely to result in the early checking of a disease which certainly, under previously ex- isting conditions, might easily have put many growers entirely out of business. It is most important that every grower, particularly the commercial man, should take careful note of the disease. Dr. Massey has also
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgij. The America r.' Florist. 637. ITALIAN GARDEN AT THE PHILADELPHIA ROSE SHOW. least a j-ear. For example: his in- vestigation of the new trouble which besets cut flower rose growers—a form of crown root-gall—is likely to result in the early checking of a disease which certainly, under previously ex- isting conditions, might easily have put many growers entirely out of business. It is most important that every grower, particularly the commercial man, should take careful note of the disease. Dr. Massey has also taken up carefully the study of the difljcult black-spot, and in the 1917 Annual will be found his article bearing on this most important subject. The research fund was solicited largely through per- sonal effort, and it is my sincere hope that the subscriptions will be renewed and extended, so that the work may be carried on for another year, or as much longer as is necessary to keep the members of the society fully informed as to rose diseases, and as to the best means for combating them. The Nursery Trade.—It seems that here is an opportunity where the nur- serymen are not taking advantage of their opportunities, in coming in and being represented more strongly in the society. I would like to quote from a letter of February 17, 1917, received from John Watson, president of the American Association of Nurserymen : "I am a member of the American Rose Society, but a poor one, and a member of the committee for the Cor- nell garden. I especially regret not having been able to do anything for the garden except to send some rose- plants and to ask my friends among the foreign rose growers to do like- wise. The war has so seriously handi- capped them that they have not sent as many plants as they could have sent under normal conditions. No so- ciety of Its kind is of greater im- portance to the nursery trade than the .American Rose Society, for it has so much to do. I was
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