. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 204 The American Florist. Mar. 5, possible. The growers have come to inspect, find fault with, compare, criticise and buy as many as they feel they can afford to risk trying. And right here I wish to quote from the minutes of the first meeting of the society of Philadel- phia, 1891 and 1892, one of the para- graphs in the report of the committee composed of Edwin Lonsdale, Wm. Swayne, C. W. Ward, C. J. Pennock, and Wm. Scott, upon one of the objects of the society, namely: To submit all new varieties to a test com
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 204 The American Florist. Mar. 5, possible. The growers have come to inspect, find fault with, compare, criticise and buy as many as they feel they can afford to risk trying. And right here I wish to quote from the minutes of the first meeting of the society of Philadel- phia, 1891 and 1892, one of the para- graphs in the report of the committee composed of Edwin Lonsdale, Wm. Swayne, C. W. Ward, C. J. Pennock, and Wm. Scott, upon one of the objects of the society, namely: To submit all new varieties to a test committee of practical and successful growers, to be located in different sections of the country. Now I believe if that was a good object then, it is one at present, and I do think no variety should be eligible for either a cer- tificate 01 registration which has not been shown at least three times during the season, say October, January and April, for two years before such a com- mittee. As we are to have a paper on this subject I will leave the matter in your hands with another quotation by the committee on awards, composed of John Westcott, Robt. Kift and H. H. Battles. "We are confident that the time is not far distant when the'Ameri- can Carnation Society will endorse cer- tain new ; This once done the buyer need have no doubts about the merits of that variety, and I venture to say if that were done in some honest and satisfactory way that our membership would be increased 100 per cent within two years. It is not the distributor that bu3'S 20,000, 30,000 and 40,000 lots of new carnations who suffers by the failure of success of the variety, but the one who buys 100, 250 or 1,000 of them from the distributor. To me the matter seems a serious one and very difficult of solution. I will again quote from the proceedings of the society. Ex-President Nicholson in his address at Philadelphia said; "There is one thing that I think we ought to encourage as muc
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