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HOETICULTUEE 



September 30, 1916 



VEGETABLE GROWERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION OF AMERICA. 



About 250 men and women were 

 registered at the. 9th annual conven- 

 tion of the Vegetable Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of America, at its opening ses- 

 sion (September 26), and another 

 hundred more lacked opportunity to 

 do so, making the attendance a rec- 

 ord-breaker, when the meeting was 

 called to order on the 19th floor of 

 the La Salle hotel. The place is ad- 

 mirably adapted to such conventions, 

 having room for trade exhibits, veg- 

 etable and canned fruit displays, and 

 assembly hall on the same floor. 

 Those who have attended the previ- 

 ous conventions are delighted with 

 the opening. 



Mr. Gore, of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce extended a welcome in behalf 

 of Chicago, and tried to impress his 

 hearers with the idea that the ac- 

 tivities they saw about them did not 

 mean there was no hospitality in the 

 hearts of Chicagoans. but that the 

 pursuit of business was here followed 

 with the spirit of "Run or you will be 



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stepped on." Fred Lautenschlager 

 briefly welcomed members in behalf 

 of the Chicago Convention Committee 

 and A. Geweke spoke for the Cook 

 Co. Truck Gardeners' and Farmers' 

 Association in which he emphasized 

 honesty in measure to the purchaser 

 and honesty to the soil that he culti- 

 vates. He referred to the devastation 

 wrought by the frost in the fields 

 which they would visit, and the great 

 loss to the growers who lose much of 

 the season's crop. In response E. A. 

 Dunbar of Ashtabula, O., briefly out- 

 lined the life of the organization and 

 said of its record "Work did it." How- 

 ard W. Selby of Philadelphia, vice- 

 president, ably presided and gave the 

 address in the absence of the presi- 

 dent. 



At this writing, the trade exhibits 

 are not all in place, but every foot of 

 space is taken. The displays of vege- 

 tables are remarkably good for the 

 season and are largely the results of 

 the work of the school children. 

 These also are not complete. 



R. L. Watts 



Junior Ex-President, Vegetable Growers' 

 Association of America. 



SEED TRADE. 



One Week's Imports. 

 Imports at the port of New York of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending Sept. 15, were recorded as fol- 

 lows: 



Bulbs — Prance, $63,780; England, 

 $2,230; Canada, $98; China, $4,049; 

 ■Hongkong, $460; Japan, $2,693. 



Plants— England, $117; Bermuda, 

 $148; British West Indies, $10; Brazil, 

 $80; Colombia, $816. 



Red Clover Seed — France, $4,500. 

 ■Clover Seed— France, $14,274. 



Grass Seed — Russia, $3,267; Scot- 

 land,, $511; New Zealand, $108. 



Other Seeds— France, $12,021; Scot- 

 land, $517; England, $403; Argentine, 

 $1,605; Cuba, $10; British India, 

 $2,552; Hongkong, $237; Morocco, 

 $5,588. 



Fertilizers — England, $167. 



The names of officials of the Vogt-tablo 

 Growers' Association in last -woelj's issup 

 were unfortunately mixed ui) in the print- 

 ing office. 



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pleasure of a visit here Sept. 22 from 

 a distinguished Philadelphian, How- 

 ard M. Earl, general manager for the 

 W. Atlee Burpee Co., who is on a crop 

 inspection tour at present on the Pa- 

 cific Coast. 



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