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The Florists' Review 



NOVEMBEB 18, 1020 



Flowers Will 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 



C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



si'.MSoii will not ilifl'cr iii;it<Ti!il!.v I'idiii that 

 harvostrtl last year. 



TllK iiiarkot for sccls has not yet set- 

 tled down. There is no stability or uni- 

 i'onnity, as tlie hiu]i1usi's are not evenly 

 distriirutcd. ('onse(|iiently. tlirre is no 

 market iiiice ami no one knows what he 

 is doin'T — if anything. 



VEGETABLE NOMENCLATURE. 



Joint Committee Reports. 



Onieial rejiresentalives of tlic Aiiui- 

 ican Seed Trade Association and l!ir 

 Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America met at Washington Oelober -I 

 to study the problem of vegetable va 

 rietv no"nuMudat\ire. rrincipally through 

 theactivitv of Francis C. Stokes, of \hv 

 Stokes Seed Farms Co., Moorestown, 

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

 which gives promise of real progress in 

 the solution of this problem. .\Ieml>er- 

 of the Am(>riran S.>ed Trade Association 

 will remember that at the last conven 

 tion a committee on vegel.able nonu'ncla 

 ture was ajijiointi^d ;is follows: Francis 

 C. Stokes, Mooreslown, N. J., chairman: 

 . .Tosiah Livingston, Columbus, ().; Calvin 

 N. Keenev, IjC "Roy. X. Y.: Robert ]>. 

 Edwards. 'T'hiladelidiia; V. *'<. Cuthbert- 

 son, San Francisco, <'ai. 



Preceding the appoint uumiI of this 

 committee, at its annual convention held 

 at T»etroit in 1910 the Vegetable Grow- 

 ers' Association of America ai>]ioin1r'd 

 a committee on the s;nue ]'roblem, com- 

 prising I'r.iucis ' '. Stokes, idiairman: .T. 

 T. Crow. Guelpli, Ont.-irio: 11. 1". Tonip 

 son, Arlington, ;M:is-;.. and T. <'. .Icdiuson. 

 Norfolk. Va. 



Aiiuuvl i;;. Chairuinn Stoker iniiiled :i 

 questionnaire to meiribcrs of the Ainev 

 ic;in Seed Trade AsM)ci;it ion. The re 

 idies indi<'ate a quite general support ot' 

 the standardizatio)! of varietal n.ame-- 

 and I'voinise of a^sistjuiee from si>e(| 



firms. 



Meetiug at Washington. 



At the c;ill of Chairman St(dves tlu^ 

 l"(dlowing men met in joint committee 

 at the bureau of phint industry, Unifeij 

 States ])ep;irtment of Agriculture. Wash- 

 ington. ]). C.: Francis C. Stokes, chair- 

 man of the .ioint committee; Calvin N. 

 Keenev, .losiah Idvingston, I\obert 1>. 

 Edwai'ils, T. C. Johnson and II. F. Tomje 

 son. Chairman Stid<es invited Dr. W. 

 W. Tracy, Sr., Dr. D. N. Slioemak(M- and 

 John Tracy to join the committee in 

 their stiulv, which invitation they :•.<■ 

 ccptcd. This committee spent the entiie 

 day and evening in discussing the prob 

 lem, niapidng out a plan of work and 



J. A. Vandervoort & Co. 



Wholesale Bulb Growers 

 NOORDWYK, - HOLLAND 



Also NurHerieg at SaHxenheiui 



Absolutely the largest growers in Holland of 



Bic. Victoria, Golden Spur and Von Sion 



Also large growers of 



HYACINTHS, TULIPS, ETC. 



.1. A. A WNDKKVOOKT. 



Mail Address— Care of 



MALTUS & WARE 



116 Broad St., New York City 



Our representatives 

 will be callirtg on you. 



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 i)roblenis presiMiting 

 itself was the necessity of thorotigh in- 

 f<irmation in regard to the trade iKiincs 

 .and comj'arative market quality of the 

 iliffercnt vegetables and their varieties. 

 It w;is quite evident that much assist 

 ance must be obtained through a wider 

 circle of men to work on this i)art of the 

 ]irobleni. Consequently, the vegetables 

 were grou])ed together according to their 

 natnr:il relationship, and some twenty- 

 one committees of the leading authori- 

 ties in the seed trade of Americ;i were 

 suggested as group committees and a 

 jihin of wurk w;is niap])ed out for these 

 committees. Since the meeting of the 

 jeiiil committee these men have all re- 

 ceived iu>tice of their a])]iointment, and 

 :i gratifying resjionse has been received, 

 indicating a. getieral ajiproxiil of the 

 work in hand ;ind ;i willingness to co 

 o]]erate in carrying it otit. It has been 

 thought best to (bday the jmblication of 

 the individual committees until the re- 

 ]ilies h;i\e been heard from all the men 

 who liiive been asked to do this work, 

 .Mhl ;iny changes made which are neces 

 s;i ?y. 



Follow St. Louis Code. 



The men of the bureau of pl;nit Indus 

 try canu^ to the assistance of the com 

 mittee in the study of a code of nomen 

 clature and ])rovi<led a copy of the St. 

 Louis coile, adojitcd by the American 



Tomato Seed and 



Sweet Potato Plants 



PIc-iHOcI to qnoto you prices on qiiantltlos and 

 varieties wanted lor present or future delivery. 



H. AUSTIN Felton, Del. 



I'omological Society at its meeting in 

 St. Louis, Mo., in December li)19. 

 This code has been generally accepted as 

 .1 mo<l(d, and was (dosely followed by the 

 joint committee in its work. 



The coile suggested by the joint com- 

 mittee of the A. S. T. .\. 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 hel]iful to the seed trade in general 

 and tend to the adoption of a more 

 ne.'irly st;indard list of names and an im- 

 ]iroved qujility in sei'ds, possiljlc through 

 ;i clearer understamling of the real types 

 which are available, and their compara- 

 tive \alue ;is judged by seedsmen and 



