April 15, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



568c 



PROPOSED SEED LEGISLATION IN 

 NEW YORK. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — I lierewith enclose copy 

 of Assembly Bill, Int. No. S:^, which 

 was introduced by Assemblyman Gregg 

 on March 3rd, 1911, in the New York 

 State Legislature. The bill has been 

 read once and was then referred to the 

 Committee on Agriculture. The writer 

 is arranging to have a hearing on the 

 bill, which will take place some time 

 after April 17th, as the legislature has 

 adjourned until that date, owing to the 

 fire in the State Capitol at Albany. As 

 soon as I am advised as to the exact 

 date of the hearing, will communicate 

 further with you. 



You will note after reading this bill 

 that it is of the utmost importance, 

 not only to the seedsmen of the State 

 of New York, but to the seedsmen in 

 other parts of the country as well. Un- 

 fortunately, the matter has come up at 

 a very inopportune time of the year, 

 but I hope as many New York seeds- 

 men as possible will be present when 

 the hearing on this bill comes up. 

 Yours very truly, 



MARSHALL H. DURYEA, 



New York State Correspondent of 

 the American Seed Trade Association. 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 No. 925. Int. 834, 

 IN ASSEMBLY, 



March 3, 1911. 

 Introduced by Mr. GREGG — read once and 

 referred to the Committee on Agricul- 

 ture. 



AN ACT 



To amend the agricultural law, in relation 

 to the inspection and sale of seeds. 



The People of the State of N'ew York, 

 represented in Senate and Assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. Article fifteen and sections 

 Ihree tinndred and forty and three hun- 

 dred and forty-one of chapter nine of the 

 laws of nineteen hundred and nine, en- 

 titled "An act in relation to agriculture, 

 constituting chapter one of the consoli- 

 dated laws," are hereby renumbered to be 

 article sixteen and sections three hundred 

 and sixty and three hundred and slxty- 

 iine, respectively. 



Section 2. Such chapter is hereby 

 amended by adding thereto a new article 

 fifteen thereof, to read as follows; 



ARTICLE XV. 



Seeds. 



Section 340. Inspection and sale of 

 seeds. 



Section 341. Samples, publication of re- 

 sults of examination. 



Section 340. Inspection and sale of seeds. 

 Within the meaning of this article "agrl- 

 <?ultural seeds" are defined as the seeds of 

 alfalfa, barley, Canadian blue grass, Ken- 

 tucky blue grass, buckwheat, alsike clover, 

 crimson clover, red clover, white clover, 

 monmouth clover, field corn. meadow 

 fes4|ue, millet, oats, orchard grass, rape, 

 red top, rye, sorghum, timothy, wheat, 

 peas, lieans, vetch, c.ibliage. turnips, cauli- 

 flower, celer.v and onions, which are to be 

 used for sowing or seeding purposes. No 

 person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer, 

 exchange or have in his possession for sale 

 tor the purpose of seeding any cereals or 

 seeds as hereinafter mentioned, in quanti- 

 ties exceeding ten pounds, except cab- 

 bage, turnips, cauliflower, celery and on- 

 ions, which shall be not to exceed one 

 ponnd. unless every receptacle, package, 

 sack or bag containing such seeds, or a 

 label attached therein, is marked in a plain 

 Indelible manner as herein provided. Said 

 marks shall be on the receptacle, package, 

 sack or bag if-^ielf if there is more than 

 three per centum of in.iurious foreign seed. 

 Marks shall include' the following: 



a. The full name and address of the 

 seller. 



b. The name and the kind of the va- 

 riety thereof of seeds except in the case of 

 mixtures prepared for special purposes, 

 when thev shall be labeled as mixtures. 



giving the per centum of each kind and 

 variety. 



c. The name of any foreign injurious 

 seeds present of three per centum or over 

 by count and both the name and per cen- 

 tum of the followiug adulterants present: 

 Yellow trefoil in any variety of clover; 

 vellow trefoil, burr clover, sweet clover or 

 dodder in alfalfa ; Canadian blue grass. In 

 Kentucky blue grass: meadow fescue or 

 rye grass in orchard grass, or orchard 

 grass in meadow fescue. 



d. A guaranty, stating the per centum 

 of purity of the contents of the package 

 by count, which shall upou official exami- 

 nation in no case fall to exceed three be- 

 low the guaranteed per centum. 



All persons offering agricultural seeds 

 t(ir sale for sowing or planting purposes 

 in the state of New York shall make or 

 cause to be made a test of their germinat- 

 ing powers and shall state on such pack- 

 age or receptacle the maximum percentage 

 of the seed contained therein which are 

 guaranteed to germinate. 



The provisions of this article shall not 

 apply to any person growing and selling 

 agricultural seeds to seed merchants, or 

 shipping to a general market to be cleaned 

 or graded before being oBfered or exposed 

 for sale for seeding purposes. 



Section 341. Samples, publication of re- 

 sults of examination. Samples of seed 

 shall be taken in duplicate. Both samples 

 shall be sealed promptly and one shall 

 be tendered and, if accepted, shall be de- 

 livered at the time of taking to the person 

 apparently in charge and a receipt taken 

 therefor, unless refused. The commissioner 

 of agriculture is hereby authorized to pub- 

 lish in bulletin form, not later than Feb- 

 ruary 1st of each year, the findings of the 

 seed' examiners, together with the names 

 and addresses of the person or persons 

 from whom the samples examined were 

 taken. Examinations and tests shall be 

 made at the New York experiment station 

 at Geneva, by the agents of the depart- 

 ment of agriculture who are or may be ap- 

 pointed to take samples of commercial 

 fertilizers and feeding stuffs, with the date 

 of the test. If upon testing by the New- 

 York agricultural experiment station at 

 Geneva, said samples of seed shall fall 

 more than ten per centum below the guar- 

 anty, the dealer shall be liable therefor 

 as for a violation of this article. Any per- 

 son who shall violate any of the provisions 

 of this or of the preceding section of this 

 article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and for such offense shall, on conviction 

 thereof be fined not to exceed one hun- 

 dred dnllars for the first offense, and upon 

 conviction for each subsequent offense not 

 exceeding two hundred dollars, or im- 

 prisonment not exceeding one year, or 

 both, at the discretion of the court. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect Au- 

 gust 1st, nineteen hundred and eleven. 



INCORPORATED. 



Martinsburg, W. Va.— The Seibert 

 Orchard Co.. capital stock $.50,000. In- 

 corporators, Alex. Clohan, H. S. 

 Thompson, R. S. Thompson, L. H. 

 Thompson and Ben J. Thompson, all 

 of Martinsburg. 



NARCISSUS. 



One night, while yet the wold 

 Lav dormant with the cold, 



I flung the casement wide 

 And pausing, ere I drew 

 The outer shutters to. 



A lovely thing espied— 

 A thing of precious worth, 

 A bit of heaven in earth — 



A star in water. 

 Beneath the rose-bush bare 

 A rain-pool glassed it. There, 



By its own beauty glamored. 

 It poised above the brink, 

 Flashe<l down and seemed to sink 



To darkness, self-enamored. 



That vision of delight 



Oft walked my dreams at night. 



Lo! now 'tis frnotified ! 

 This morning when I rose 

 And scanned my garden close 



What marvel I espied! 

 A wonder of new birth. 



A bit of heaven in earth — 

 A star in blossom ! 

 Beneath the rose-bush bare 

 It braves the chilly air. 



With beauty's self to bless ns; 

 Spring's herald true! Behold. 

 With horn of gleaming gold. 



The heaven-born Narcissus! 



— Tom Ditl}\ in Catholic Stadard, 



Obituary. 



Louis Kessler. 



Louis Kessler, father of Kessler 

 Bros., N. Y., died at his home in Se- 

 caucus, N. J., March 30th, age 76 

 years: 



Milton Haussmann. 

 Milton Haussman, son of the late S. 

 Haussman, Los Angeles, Cal., grieving 

 over the death of his father recently, 

 committed suicide. He is survived by 

 Miss Pauline Haussmann who will 

 now take up the business. 



Mrs. L. B. Brosch. 

 Mrs. L. B. Brosch, wife of Anton 

 Brosch, Lynchburg, Va., after an ill- 

 ness of several months, died March 

 29th. She has been associated with 

 her husband in the florist business. 

 She is survived by her husband, two 

 sons and four daughters. 



Mrs. August Gehring. 



Mrs. August Gehring of Chicago, 

 whose husband is gardener for the 

 Northwestern Railway, died Sunday at 

 the home of their daughter where the 

 parents and their nine children were 

 celebrating the birthday anniversary of 

 Mrs. Gehring. In response to a joke 

 made by a grandchild Mis. Gehring 

 laughed heartily and died of heart 

 failure soon after. 



Dr. Noah M. Glatfelter. 

 Dr. Noah M. Glatfelter, of St. Louis, 

 Mo., died at his home on April 9, of 

 injuries inflicted by a fall from a lad- 

 der, while he was repairing a fence in 

 his garden. He was a noted botanist, 

 and famed for his special knowledge of 

 willow trees. He had written several 

 valuable pamphlets on the care and 

 culture of mushrooms. A son and 

 three daughters survive him. He was 

 73 vears old. 



Walter H. Knapp. 



Walter H. Knap)), for 26 years a 

 florist in Newton and Wellesley, Mass., 

 died April 11 at Rutland after an ill- 

 ness of two weeks, though he had been 

 in poor health since early winter. His 

 body was taken to Newton, where the 

 funeral took place from his home at 

 121 North street. Thursday afternoon. 

 Mr. Knapp was born in Brookline and 

 obtained his education in the public 

 schools and later at Amherst Agricul- 

 tural College, from which he was grad- 

 uated in 1S75. His first appearance in 

 the florist business was in partnership 

 with Mr. Callender as Callender & 

 Knapp. Since the dissolution of the 

 Arm he has done business in his own 

 name. He made a specialty of daisies, 

 coreopsis, centaureas, anemones and 

 such flowers of lesser prominence in 

 the markets for which he established 

 a steady demand in the Boston flower 

 stores, in addition to his own local re- 

 tail trade. 



Mr. Knapp was of a quiet gentle- 

 manly personality and highly regarded 

 by the trade. He was a member of 

 the S. A. F. Aside from his vocation 

 as a florist, he won considerable local 

 prominence as a singer in church 

 choirs in Newton and Wellsley Hills. 

 He was about 56 years old and is sur- 

 vived by his mother. 



