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HOETICULTUEE 



February 17, 1917 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, Kirby B. White, 

 Detroit, Mich.; First Vice-Presiilent, F. 

 W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, I>. L. Olds, Madi- 

 son, Wis.: ;secretar.v-Treasurer, C E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. — Convention at 

 Detroit, June 19, 191". 



An Important Post Office Ruling. 

 Seeds put up iu opaque- sealed en- 

 velopes, properly labeled, would ap- 

 pear to constitute "proprietary arti- 

 cles of merchandise and be mailable at 

 4tli class rates" as set forth in Sec. 

 469, Par. 5, instead of requiring trans- 

 parent envelopes (Par.' 4). This is a 

 new ruling obtained Dec. 20th, last, 

 from the Third Assistant Postmaster 

 General's Office by Howard M. Earl, 

 of W. Atlee Burpee & Co. and member 

 of the Executive Committee of the 

 American Seed Trade Association. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending Feb. 2. were recorded as fol- 

 lows: 



Bulks — .Xetherlands. $3,341; Eng- 

 land, $81; Japan, $1,469. 



Plants— France. $800; Netherlands, 

 $1,318; England, $977; Ireland, $35; 

 Brazil. $121; Japan. $32. 



Red clover seed — France. $12,861. 



Clover seed — France, $1,482. 



Other seeds — Denmark, $11,130 

 France. $21,489; Netherlands. $1,980 

 Portugal. $13,335. England, $36,236 

 British East Indies. $3,337; Italy 

 $1,853; Spain. $3,671; Panama. $38. 



Nitrate of soda— Chile. $12,983. 



Dried blood— Argentine. $9,853. 



Other fertilizers — Argentine, $5,939 



The loss at the recent fire in tlie St. 

 Louis Seed Co.'s establishment is given 

 as $100,000, fully covered by insurance. 



PATENT GRANTED. 



1.214,597. Lawn Edger. Christian L. 

 Schneider, Davenport, Iowa. 



New London, Conn. — Ed. Jenkins, of 

 Lenox, Mass., addressed the New Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society on Feb. 8, 

 ■on the Culture of Flowers, Fruits and 

 Vegetables. Carnations and freesias 

 from Stanley Jordan and lilies from 

 President Rough were on exhibition. 



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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Tiie Sweet Pea Annual for 1917, 

 published by the National Sweet 

 Pea Society (British), has been re- 

 ceived. This publication, edited by 

 J. S. Brunton. is the official organ 

 of the Society, of which Henry D. 

 Tigwell. Greenford. Middlesex, is 

 secretary. Notwithstanding the ter- 

 rible stress and strain of the times, 

 this book is fully the equal of any of 

 its predecessors and it shows that the 

 Sweet Pea Society, although bereft 

 of many members and beset with 

 many difficulties, in common with 

 other institutions, arising out of the 

 titanic struggle on the Continent, has 

 achieved a creditable measure of suc- 

 cess. The reports given indicate that 

 the trials of novelties were never 

 more successfully conducted and the 

 many beautiful full-page illustrations 

 show that the exhibitions of the past 

 year reached a high standard of ex- 

 cellence. There are twenty-seven 

 half-tone plates, including portraits of 

 the late W. Atlee Burpee and George 

 W. Kerr, president of the American 

 Sweet Pea Society. The book is gen- 

 erously supplied with advertisements 

 of the trade. 



. Annuals and Biennials. The Best 

 .\nnual and Biennal Plants and Their 

 lises in the Garden. By Gertrude 

 .Tekyll. with Cultural Notes by E. H. 

 Jenkins. This is the latest addition 

 to the popular Country Lite Library, 

 published at the office of Country 

 Life. Ltd., London, and in this coun- 



try by Charles Scribner's Sons, New 

 York. Miss Jekyll is widely known as 

 the author of "Color Schemes for the 

 Flower Garden." "Wall and Water 

 Gardens", "Gardens for Small Country 

 Homes." each of which has passed 

 through several editions. As with our 

 own Mrs. Francis King, color har- 

 monies and sequences in flower gar- 

 den arrangement is the key-note of 

 much of her writings and, in a like 

 degree with -Mrs. King is she a sub- 

 stantial friend to the catalogue seeds- 

 man for their specialties and improved 

 forms are given careful scrutiny and, 

 when found acceptable, generous pub- 

 licity. The many uses of annual and 

 biennial plants in pictorial flower gar- 

 dening are well covered in the book 

 before us and the descriptions will be 

 found very helpful by the amateur 

 reader. There are some useful lists 

 of selections for various purposes and 

 aspects, a chart of color and height 

 and 44 full page pictures of which 

 three are in natural flower colors. The 

 price of the book is $3.00 net. 



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