. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. ained, a description of which, often with moreor less embellishment, is promulgated broadcast, forthe. edification of the public, who may or may notbe influenced by the registration in the purchase ofthat plant when it is put on the market. The clause in the constitution of the S. A. F. O. registration reads as follows: He (thesecretary) shall keep a registration book in which shallbe recorded names and descriptions of new varietiesof plants under the rules of the
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. ained, a description of which, often with moreor less embellishment, is promulgated broadcast, forthe. edification of the public, who may or may notbe influenced by the registration in the purchase ofthat plant when it is put on the market. The clause in the constitution of the S. A. F. O. registration reads as follows: He (thesecretary) shall keep a registration book in which shallbe recorded names and descriptions of new varietiesof plants under the rules of the society, applicationfor same having been duly made by the ownerthereof, and shall give) prompt public notice of eachregistration with the date of same in such horticul-ture journals as the executive board may direct. By the carrying out of these instructions, the so-ciety, through its secretary, is made a party to therecording and dissemination of information con-cerning the correctness of which it has no officialknowledge, the mere bald statement of the applicantfor registration being taken for granted. This may. be commendable credulity, but it seems to us to beneither good business methods, nor justice to thesociety itself, which is responsible for the distribu-tion of particulars connected with a new plant,which may or may not be as set forth in the regis-tration notice. It is not so much the matter of curbing or con-trolling the raisers of new varieties in the givingof names to their plants, as it is the retaining ofconfidence in the work of the S. A. F. O. H., andthe safeguarding of it from criticism that we be-lieve a change in the registration system is an abso-lute necessity. That the plan, as at present pur-sued, has been abused there can, we think, be noquestion. That the existing system is loose andfaulty is beyond cavil, when it has been possibleto register new names for old plants as in the recentJapanese peonies case; or again, when the same namehas been publishe
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