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HOKTICULTUEE 



July 1, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



OHirers— Fr»sident, Kirby B. White, 

 Detroit Mioli.; First Vice-President, 1". 

 W. Bolginno, Washington, D. ('. ; >>ee- 

 ond Viee-l'resident, L. L. Ohls, Madison, 

 Wis.; Seiretary-Treasurer. C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O, 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE CONVEN- 

 TION. 



The Thirty-fourth Annual Convention 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 closed its sessions on Thursday, the 

 22nd, after electing officers for the en- 

 suing year. The attendance at this 

 convention was by far the largest in 

 the history o£ the Association and 

 must have been very gratifying to the 

 officers. 



It is not the purpose of this article 

 to give any detailed report of the pro- 

 ceedings. Such details will no doubt 

 be given in the annual report of the 

 secretary, although we are advised 

 that the discussions, particularly that 

 relating to the Disclaimer, were so 

 prolific, that it was decided to omit 

 most of it, not only because of the 

 great length of the same, but because 

 it was not thought advisable to spread 

 on the records of the Association all 

 that was said on each side of this sub- 

 ject. 



The Disclaimer. 



While speaking of the Disclaimer it 

 may be well to say that it easily oc- 

 cupied the center of the stage, but we 

 are informed that although the dis- 

 cussions were warm and earnest, they 

 were conducted in excellent temper, 

 and the erring brethren were not spe- 

 cifically censured, and all promised to 

 support the Disclaimer in future, the 

 old form of which was re-afiirmed by 

 an overwhelming vote. It is perhaps 

 well to pass over this rather unpleas- 

 ant incident of the past year, trusting 

 that those who thought their interests 

 retjuired them to ignore the Disclaimer 

 have been convinced that their inter- 

 ests are best served in its observance. 



We have indicated on more than one 

 occasion that in our judgment a modi- 

 fication of the phraseology of the Dis- 

 claimer might be effected which, while 

 softening its rather frank and abi-upt 

 phraseology, would not materially im- 

 pair either its moral or legal value. 

 We are informed that this entered 

 largely into the discussion but for 

 fear of impairing its usefulness the 

 Association thought best to re-affirm 

 it in its old form. We believe, how- 

 ever, that now the matter has been 

 opened for discussion the agitation for 

 a modified form of Disclaimer will 

 continue until this has been effected. 



An_Honor Bestowed. 



A number of interesting and instruc- 

 tive papers were read on various sub- 

 jects which we will not attempt to 



mention in detail, but we do wish to 

 particularly mention the report of the 

 Association's counsel, Curtis Nye 

 Smith, which was an especially able 

 document and evidently greatly im- 

 pressed the Association. Mr. Smith. 

 by the way, was elected an honorary 

 mtmber of the Association, it being 

 the consensus of opinion that he could 

 .serve the Association better as a mem- 

 ber than simply as its counsel with- 

 out membership. 



Hospitalities. 



Among the features to which atten- 

 tion may be called was the very able 

 address of the president, which was 

 the subject of consideration by a spe- 

 cial committee, also a reception given 

 by the President and Mrs. Lupton and 

 their daughter. This was a very pleas- 

 ant social feature of the convention. 

 Attention may also be called to the 

 banquet which was very handsomely 

 arranged and although it was strictly 

 a dry one ofl;icially, there were little 

 oases in the desert w-hich relieved the 

 sombreness usually incident to cold 

 water banquets. It may also be re- 

 marked that these oases could readil.N' 

 be located by the volume of noise 

 emanating from those particular local- 

 ities. 



The Chicago seedsmen gave the la- 

 dies an automobile ride through the 

 parks and North Shore Drive, Wednes- 

 day afternoon, June 21, stopping in 

 Highland Park, where tea was served. 



Crop Reports. 



Very interesting crop reports were 

 read but owing to the extreme lateness 

 of the season both East and West, 

 crops liad not sufficiently developed t" 

 form any sort of judgment as to ulti- 

 mate results. It is certain, however, 

 that beans are going into the ground 

 exceptionally late in Michigan and 

 New York State, and the same may be 

 said of sugar corn. Reports on corn 

 and vine seeds from the West indi- 

 cated a better general condition tlian 

 in the East. We have learned from 

 leliable sources that in certain sec- 

 tions of New York State where beans 

 and sugar corn are grown very large- 

 ly for seed purposes, only a small per- 

 centage of these crops have thus far 

 been planted and the prospects of ma- 

 turing such crops are daily growing 

 dimmer. Only an exceptionally warm 

 and late autumn will make this possi- 

 ble. The pea crop in Michigan and 

 Wisconsin as also New York State, 

 both for cannini and seed purposes, is 

 in very unsatisfactory condition, the 

 odds being now that not over 50 per 

 cent, of a yield will be secured either 

 by the canners of the seed growers. 

 This is a situation that must be very 

 gratifying to those seedsmen who have 

 carried over considerable stocks of 

 seed peas, as well as to the canners 

 who refused to sell their product at 

 much below cost, taking their chances 

 of carrying it into another year in- 

 stead. Both sides are likely to reap 

 a liberal reward for their firmness and 

 confidence in the future. 



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Officers Elected. 



Officers for the ensuing year were 

 elected on Thursday, as follows: Kir- 

 by B. White, Detroit. Mich., president; 

 F. W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C, first 

 vice-president; L. L. Olds, Madison, 

 Wis., second vice-president; C. E. Ken- 

 del, Cleveland, O., secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



Executive Committee — J. M. Lupton, 

 Mattituck. N. Y.; J. L. Hunt, Cara- 

 liridge, N. Y.; H. M. Earl. Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; L. H. Vaughan, Chicago; W. G. 

 Scarlett, Baltimore, Md. 



Membership Committee — J. C. Rob- 

 inson, Waterloo. Neb.; Ben P. Cornel), 

 St. Louis, Mo.; H. G. Hastings, At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending June 16th, were recorded as fol- 

 lows : 



Bulbs — Netherlands, $36; Bermuda, 



n. 



Plants— Belgium, $7,117; Italy, $9; 

 England, $709; Bermuda, $49; Costa 

 Rica, $34; Brazil, $184; Trinidad, $4; 

 Colombia, $2,592. 



Red clover seed — France. $11,546. 



Clover seed— France, $14,636; New 

 Zealand, $4,022. 



Gi'ass seed — Scotland. $105. 



Other seeds— France, $28; Italy, $4S; 

 Malta, $1,129; Netherlands, $318; Eng- 

 land. $24,194; Mexico. $59; Argentine, 

 $976; Hongkong, $257; Japan, $35; 

 Dutch Guiana, $10. 



Carbonate of potash — Mexico, $1,829; 

 Peru, $50. 



Nitrate of soda— Chile, $60. 



Other fertilizers— England, $64,278. 



Notes, 



W. C. Grote. of Council Bluffs, la., 

 has been elected president of the Iowa 

 Seed Dealers' Association, at the ninth 

 annual meeting held in Des Moines, 

 June 8th. Other officers are E. M. 

 Cole, Pella, vice-president, A. M. EI- 

 dridge, secretary, and John T. Hamil- 

 ton, treasurer. 



Last week a New York consignee was. 

 obliged to plant in Neptune's pond 150 

 cases of unsalable nursery stock. No 

 doubt the flnney tribe will appreciate 

 swimming amongst the foliage, but it 

 is hard on the Dutch consignors. This 

 might be an object lesson to them in 

 the future that this country is no 

 dumping ground for the whole of Hol- 

 land. ' 



The Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' 

 .A,ssociation elected the following offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year at the an- 

 nual meeting held in Chicago. June 

 19th: President, A. E. Reynolds, Craw- 

 fordsville, Ind.; vice-president, C. C. 

 Massie, Indianapolis. Ind.; secretary- 

 treasurer, Wm. R. Jossman; commit- 

 tee on arbitration, John A. Smith, Geo. 

 S. Green and E. T. Stanford; counsel, 

 Curtis Nye Smith, Boston. 



Worcester, Mass. — The annual in- 

 spection trip in the Worcester parks 

 took place on Thursday, June 29. A 

 .,'oodly number of park officials from 

 other cities were present on invitation 

 of the Board of Park Commissioners 

 and H. J. Neale. city forester. Arthur 

 V. Parker is superintendent of the 

 parks of Worcester. 



