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The Florists' Review 



NOTIUBEB 18. 1920 



Flowers WUl Be Very Scarce After Thanksgiving 



WE JUST RECEIVED A LATE SHIPMENT OF 



PAPER WHITES 



Plant them now. Get them in for Thanksgiving and Christmas and through 

 January, when stock is scarce, and you will make money on them. 



Special price to clean up the late surplus shipment: 



13 ctm., $19.00 per 1000 



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season will not differ materially from that 

 harvested last year. 



The market for seeds has not yet set- 

 tled down. There is no stability or uni- 

 formity, as the surpluses are not evenly 

 distributed. Consequently, there is no 

 market price and no one knows what he 

 is doing — if anything. 



VEGETABLE NOMENCLATURE. 



Joint Committee Reports. 



Official representatives of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association and the 

 Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America met at Washington October 21 

 to study the problem of vegetable va- 

 riety nomenclature. Principally through 

 the activity of Francis C. Stokes, of the 

 Stokes Seed Farms Co., Moorostown, 

 N. J., some active work is under way, 

 which gives promise of real progress in 

 the solution of this problem. Members 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 will remember that at the last conven- 

 tion a committee on vegetable nomencla- 

 ture was appointed as follows: Francis 

 C. Stokes, Moorestown, N. J., chairman; 

 Josiah Livingston, Columbus, O.; Calvin 

 N. Keency, Le Roy. N. Y.; Robert D. 

 Edwards, "Philadelphia; F. G. Cuthbert- 

 son, San Francisco, Cal. 



Preceding the appointment of this 

 committee, at its annual convention held 

 at Detroit in 1919 the Vegetable Grow- 

 ers' Association of America appointed 

 a committee on the same problem, com- 

 prising Francis C. Stokes, chairman; J. 

 T. Crow, Guclph, Ontario; H. F. Tomp- 

 son, Arlington, Mass., and T. C. Johnson, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



August 13, Chairman Stokes mailed a 

 questionnaire to members of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association. The re- 

 plies indicate a quite general support of 

 the standardization of varietal names 

 and promise of assistance from seed 

 firms. 



Meeting at Washington. 



At the call of Chairman Stokes the 

 following men met in joint committee 

 at the bureau of plant industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C: Francis C. Stokes, chair- 

 man of the joint committee; Calvin N. 

 Keeney, Josiah Livingston, Robert D. 

 Edwards, T. C. Johnson and H. F. Tomp- 

 son. Chairman Stokes invited Dr. W. 

 W. Tracy, Sr., Dr. D. N. Shoemaker and 

 John Tracy to join the committee in 

 their study, which invitation they ac- 

 cepted. This committee spent the entire 

 day and evening in discussing the prob- 

 lem, mapping out a plan of work and 



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shaping a code of vegetable nomencla- 

 ture to be submitted to the American 

 Seed Trade Association and the Vege- 

 table Growers' Association of America. 

 One of the first problems presenting 

 itself was the necessity of thorough in- 

 formation in regard to the trade names 

 and comparative market quality of the 

 different vegetables and their varieties. 

 It was quite evident that much assist- 

 ance must be obtained through a wider 

 circle of men to work on this part of the 

 problem. Consequently, the vegetables 

 were grouped together according to their 

 natural relationship, and some twenty- 

 one committees of the leading authori- 

 ties in the seed trade of America were 

 suggested as group committees and a 

 jjlan of work was mapped out for these 

 committees. Since the meeting of the 

 joint committee these men have all re- 

 ceived notice of their appointment, and 

 a gratifying response has been received, 

 indicating a general approval of the 

 work in hand and a willingness to co- 

 operate in carrying it out. It has been 

 thought best to delay the publication of 

 the individual committees until the re- 

 plies have been heard from all the men 

 who have been asked to do this work, 

 and any changes made which are neces- 

 sary. 



Follow St. Louis Code. 



The men of the bureau of plant indus- 

 try came to the assistance of the com- 

 mittee in the study of a code of nomen- 

 clature and provided a copy of the St. 

 Louis code, adopted by the American 



SEEDS 



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Pomological Society at its meeting in 

 St. Louis, Mo., in December 1919. 

 This code has been generally accepted as 

 a model, and was closely followed by the 

 joint committee in its work. 



The code suggested by the joint com- 

 mittee of the A. S. T. A. and the Vege- 

 table Growers' Association is here given 

 for study. The committee desires to 

 have suggestions and criticism so long 

 as it may be constructive, so that the 

 results of the adoption of the code will 

 be helpful to the seed trade in general 

 and tend to the adoption of a more 

 nearly standard list of names and an im- 

 proved quality in seeds, possible through 

 a clearer understanding of the real types 

 which are available, and their compara- 

 tive value as judged by seedsmen and 



