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The Florists^ Review 



February 12, 1920 



for it is bad judgment to require the 

 labeling of garden seeds in the same 

 fashion as that in respect to field seeds, 

 for reasons well known to those ac- 

 quainted with the difference in cha,rac- 

 ter of the seeds and of their planting, 

 cultivation and harvesting. 



Curtis Nye Smith. 



PENDING SEED UBOISLATION. 



In New York State. 



There have been filed in the New 

 York legislature now sitting two seed 

 bills, Senate 31 and Assembly 54, to 

 amend the existing seed laws of New 

 York, which are admitted by all persons 

 to be unsatisfactory. The two bills 

 mentioned are identical in wording and 

 sue similar to the Witter seed bill, 

 which was passed by the New York leg- 

 islature last year but vetoed by the gov- 

 ernor on the request of the seedsmen 

 for the reason that, by a clerical error, 

 the word "approximate," preceding 

 "percentages" of purity and germina- 

 tion, was omitted. The pending bills 

 correct that error. 



It is hoped by the seedsmen that the 

 pending bill may also be amended to 

 authorize the state experiment station, 

 at Geneva, under the charge of Analyst 

 Munn, to test seeds sent in by the seed 

 dealers of New York state. It seems 

 unfair to require seed dealers, under 

 heavy penalty, to sell seeds accurately 

 labeled as to purity and germination 

 and weed contents, etc., and not provide 

 them with an official laboratory where- 

 in this information may be obtained. 

 While the larger dealers may be able 

 to afford the expense of a private lab- 

 oratory and competent analysts, the 

 smaller dealers, many in number, would 

 have no means of testing their seeds, 

 as of course it is inconceivable, and in 

 some cases contrary to law, for the of- 

 ficial laboratories of other states to test 

 seeds for non-citizens, and the govern- 

 ment testing station at Washington 

 cannot be expected to handle the tests 

 for all parts of the country and in un- 

 limited quantities. If the state of New 

 York is unable to handle this expense 

 of testing commercial seeds, it is pos- 

 sible to cover this expense by charging 

 a reasonable fee for these commercial 

 tests. 



Definition Desired. 



Another modification of the pending 

 bill desired by seedsmen is to eliminate 

 the imperfect definition of the word 

 "approximate" in the bill, for the rea- 

 son that the definition applies to large 

 and small seeds with equal force, limit- 

 ing the margin of tolerance to an arbi- 

 trary two-tenths of one per cent plus 

 twenty per cent of the lesser part. It is 

 desired to eliminate this definition and 

 provide in the bill, as is found in the 

 uniform state seed bill approved by the 

 Seed Analysts' Association and the seed 

 trade associations, a provision permit- 

 ting the official administrator of the law 

 to promulgate reasonable regulations 

 carrying out the provisions of the act. 

 Under this mandate the administrator 

 could provide for this interpretation of 

 "approximate." This practice has 

 been followed in other states where the 

 uniform law has been adopted. 



These matters will be considered be- 

 fore the assembly committee on agri- 

 culture, Daniel P. Witter, chairman, at 

 the capitol at Albany, X. Y., February 

 18, at which hearing interested New 



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 individually makes a handsome corsage. Can be dried, if so desired, and will 

 readily sell at Christmas time and throughout the winter. The larger ones 

 should retail at $12.00 per dozen, as we received $6.00 per dozen for them 

 wholesale, and could not supply the demand of Chicago alone. 



They are very easily grown— seed sown in greenhouse in February and trans- 

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 out of doors about May 1st and will bloom from July until frost. 



We offer a limited 

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 larger supply. But owing to the repeated demands and urgings of the trade, we have 

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