. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 108 The American Florist. Aug. lo, the only remains of the lost follicles. These crimson flecks are very common among flowers of this type, and may be found in the double reds on close exami- nation. In the tj-pical rose form, the guard or primary petals should not be differentiated from the rest; but this is not essential. A good example of the rose tjT)e is Avalanche (Crousse). HOW CONFUSION HAS ARISEN. The confusion in the names of peonies of which so much complaint is made, has arisen in several ways. Most imp
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 108 The American Florist. Aug. lo, the only remains of the lost follicles. These crimson flecks are very common among flowers of this type, and may be found in the double reds on close exami- nation. In the tj-pical rose form, the guard or primary petals should not be differentiated from the rest; but this is not essential. A good example of the rose tjT)e is Avalanche (Crousse). HOW CONFUSION HAS ARISEN. The confusion in the names of peonies of which so much complaint is made, has arisen in several ways. Most important of these is the habit of making inadequate descriptions. As an example I may say that the description we have of Mons. Bellart (Delache, 1850) consists of two words, "clear ; Today when we have such a large number of varieties on the market, such a description is useless and any description is inadequate which does not give the color, size, season, and horticultural type, together with the spe- cies to which it belongs. Other causes for confusion are the poor attachment of labels to the roots, and illegibly written labels. Then, too, the lack of a check- list has resulted in the same name being used over and over again for different seedlings. And then a certain amount of renaming of old varieties for purposes of pecuniary gain has been indulged in by irresponsible growers. I hope that the check-list will be used for reference to all names already published, and that, this society may maintain a register to take care of the new acquisitions from year to year. It remains for the mem- bers of this society to all work together to build up a sentiment which will cause every producer of a new variety to send in specimens and complete descriptions, together with a photograph and a pro- posed name, before he offers the variety to the trade. In return for this the so- ciety might issue to him a number and allow him to advertise his new variety as American Peony
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