. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. N many respects the Indian- apolis meeting of the American Carnation So- ciety, held last week, was the best in years, but the finest feature of it, prob- ably, was the fact that so many different people par- ticipated. Anyone reading the list of prize-winners in last week's issue of The Eeview could not fail to note the unusual number of growers awarded premiums—there was no walk-away. No matter how fine it is for the individual to sweep the decks, it adds perceptibly to the general inter- est when the premiums are well divided. Facetiously, this
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. N many respects the Indian- apolis meeting of the American Carnation So- ciety, held last week, was the best in years, but the finest feature of it, prob- ably, was the fact that so many different people par- ticipated. Anyone reading the list of prize-winners in last week's issue of The Eeview could not fail to note the unusual number of growers awarded premiums—there was no walk-away. No matter how fine it is for the individual to sweep the decks, it adds perceptibly to the general inter- est when the premiums are well divided. Facetiously, this was called the home meeting of the Indiana Carnation So- ciety — vice-president, secretary and treasurer were Hoosiers, and the presi- dent came from a contiguous state. Per- haps it had its effect in bringing out the local growers, but at any rate more of them exhibited than usual and most of them feel well repaid for it by the prizes they took. The Meetings. In the meetings, also, the general participation was a distinct stimulus to the interest. The elimination of long essays and the sub- stitution of extem- poraneous discus- cuss i o n bro^ight many members to their feet with a few words on one I'oiiit or another and made the ses- sions bright and snappy. While it was vot- ed to hold the next annual meeting at the usual date in 1918, at Boston, it was decided to ac- cept an invitation of the Society of American Florists to participate in the National Flower Sliow at St. Louis in the spring of that year, the S. A. F. placing $1,000 in premium monov at the disposal of the society. The result, The full list of premiums awarded in the exhibition, the election of officers, with their portraits, com- ment on the new varieties, reports of officers, etc., appeared in The Review for February 1. therefore, will be that the east and the west both will have a chance next year to work up a carnation show as interest- ing as the Indiana one was. The announced discussion of the "
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