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The Florists' Review 



May 



1922 



foil vi'iit ion at Cliicaj^o at tlio same time, 

 its ineiiibers have been cordially invited 

 to attend all the open meetings and to 

 participate in them. 



The executive coiiiinittee plans to 

 have all the executive iiusiness of the 

 association transacted at one session if 

 possible, leaviiifi; all the other sessions 

 of the convention o])en to everyone. 



Apj)lication has already been made 

 for reduced rates at fare and one-half 

 on all the railroads, and it is expected 

 that the recjuest of the application will 

 be granted. 



The president of the American Seed 

 Trade Association is L. L. Olds, Madi- 

 son, Wis., and the secretary is C. K. 

 Kendel, of Cleveland, O. 



What Tliey Plan to Do. 



The program for this convention has 

 already been issued. It is as follows: 



WEDNKSDAY MOUNING, JUNE 121. 

 Opening: session, 10 a, m. 



Address of wclwime, by Ix^iniicl F'. Owen, t'lii- 

 Ciigo Building Exchange. 



I'rpsidont's address. 



Keports of treasurer and secretary. 



Keport of membership committee, by Alex- 

 ander Forbes, Newark, N. J., chairman. 



Keport of committee on customs and tariff, 

 by J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, chairman. 



Report of committee on postal laws, by G. K. 

 Bradley, Cleveland, chairman. 



Keport of committee on necrology, by Cliarlcs 

 P. Guelph, Cambridge, N. Y., chairman. 



Announcements of entertainment committee. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 

 Garden seed session, 2 p, m. 



Keport of committee on garden bureau, by 

 I..e«nard H. Vaughan, Chicago, chairman; James 

 II. Burdett, Chicago, director. 



Report of committee on nomenclature and 

 registration, by Francis C. Stokes, Moorestown. 

 N. J., cliairman. 



"The Growing of Vegetable Seed in Califor- 

 nia," by Lester Tj. Morse. San Francisco. 



"Seed-Borne Diseases," by Dr. C. U. Ortoii. 

 secretary of the crop inspection institute and pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology, Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



Entertainment to be announced. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JI'NE 2J 

 Joint session with the Association of Official 



Seed Analysts, 2 p. m. 



"Research and Seed Testing." by Dr. E. 11. 

 To(de, TI. S. Department of Agriculture. 



"Problems of a Commercial Seed Analyst." 

 by W. C. Pfaender, Albert Dickinson Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



"Safeguards in tlie Seed Business," by I.co 

 nard II. Vaughan. Cliicago. 



"Some of the DifHcultie.s Field Seedsmen Km- 

 oounter in Securing Clean Seed," by George s. 

 Green, Clii<ago. 



"Practical ('oiiiVTatiou between the Seed Trade 

 and Seed Analysts' Association," by W. L. Os- 

 wald, Chicago. 



THURSDAY EVENING. 



.\nnual banquet, with addresses by -\. 1!. 

 Brubaker and others. 



FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE S.*?. 

 Field seed session. 0:30 a. m. 



Reiiort of committee on experimental statinns. 

 by II. H. Miller, Bloomington. 111., chairman. 



Report of ciunmittee on seedtestinc apparatus 

 and publicity, by C. C. Massie, Minneapolis. 

 Minn., chairman. 



"The Farmer and the Seedsmen." by James 

 R. Howard, president of the American Faiui 

 Bureau Federation. 



Miscellaneous and unfinished business. 



Election of officers. 



FRENCH BULB PRICES. 



May 121 the bulb growers in the vicin- 

 ity of Ollinules held their tiiniutil moct- 

 ing to discuss ]iri('('s. and May 122 a ca>)le 

 from one of the exjxjrtcrs n;imed the 

 first ]iri('es for this season's shi]mients 

 of Paper "Whites as ^C^'> and 190 francs, 

 whicli is about ten per cent above the 

 prices finally settled ii])on after last sea- 

 son '.s deadlock. 



SOUTHERN SEEDSMEN TO MEET. 



Next to the meeting of the national 

 organization, the convention of the 

 Southi'rn Seedsmen's Association is the 

 largest gathering of members of the 

 trade. This has become the case largely 

 through the enthusiastic work of promo- 



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