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. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. This Year's Meeting, at Cornell. The annual meeting and exhibition of the American Peony Society will be held this year at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. The date of the meeting has not yet been decided upon, but it will be about June 20. The society has for some years been carrying out an important piece of work on the nomenclature of the peony. Peony growers do not need to be reminded that the names of many of even the commonest varieties have for a long time been under suspicion; that a variety ordered under the same name from half a dozen different grow- ers may bring as many different sorts, or even that the same variety ordered from the same dealer in successive years will not always prove identical. There are many reasons which have combined to produce this confusion in the nomenclature. One of the most potent was that there did not any- where exist a standard collection of varieties by means of which unnamed or misnamed sorts could be identified; there has not even been any authorita- tive descriptive list which would an- swer the purpose. The American Peony Society de- cided some years ago to meet this sit- uation by establishing a standard col- lection of varieties, and by publishing a descriptive check list. The authori- ties at Cornell University generously offered to take care of the collection, and, on an appeal from the society to growers in all parts of the world, about 2, 000 named sorts were received and planted. These have now been under observation by the nomenclature com- mittee of the society and by experts at Cornell for the last four or five years, and in addition the committee has worked over most of the larger collections in the eastern part of the country. An Official Check List. The results of these studies have been published from time to time in separate bulletins, which offer to the nurseryman and amateur authoritative descriptions of the named sorts, so far as tre