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The Florists^ Review 



June 22, 1922 



the torrid weather which has greeted 

 them in the Garden city at some pre- 

 vious conventions. Such climatic condi- 

 tions were welcome, because the seeds- 

 men had much to discuss and were in- 

 terested to learn what others had to say. 

 The last two years have been among the 

 hardest that seedsmen have experienced 

 in a decade or more. Though the pres- 

 ent viewpoint is tinged with optimism, 

 the concern which has burdened the 

 members of the trade in the last two 

 seasons still is present. The necessity 

 for close watchfulness in seed produc- 

 tion and selling just now makes the 

 present week's gathering welcomed as 

 an opportunity by members of the trade 

 to get a rather accurate account of 

 what others are doing and planning to 

 do. The groups which discuss matters 

 not mentioned on the convention pro- 

 gram are more in evidence than ever 

 and their discussion is more interesting 

 and interested than usual. 



The visit of some of the oflScers of 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 to the last annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Official Seed Analysts was 

 considered of such value to both organ- 

 izations that provision was made to 

 hold the convention of the latter organ- 

 ization at the same time as the meeting 

 of the seedsmen this week. A joint ses- 

 sion of members of both bodies was ar- 

 ranged for Thursday afternoon, June 

 22, when matters of interest to ana- 

 lysts and seedsmen were on the pro- 

 gram. 



Opening Session. 



The seedsmen held their opening ses- 

 sion at the Hotel Sherman, Wednesday 

 morning, June 21, when A. C. Babbize, 

 editor of Investment News, Chicago, 

 gave the address of welcome, to which 

 J. C. Robinson replied. 



This was followed by the president's 

 address. 



President's Address. 



In his address as president, L. L. 

 Olds, after touching on the responsibili- 

 ties of his office, greeting the seed ana- 

 lysts and recalling the loss of six mem- 

 bers during the past year, thanked the 

 chairmen of some of the important com- 

 mittees, naming particularly Charles D. 

 Boyles and Kirby B. White, chairman 

 and vice-chairman of the legislative 

 committee, and Leonard Vaughan, chair- 

 man of the garden bureau committee, 

 as well as Curtis Nye Smith, counsel, 

 and James H. Burdett, director of the 

 garden bureau. He expressed the 

 trade's rejoicing at the ten per cent 

 reduction in freight rates and hoped ere 

 long the free seed distribution by Con- 

 gress would be eliminated. His re- 

 marks concerning the garden bureau led 

 him to talk of truth in advertising and 

 business integrity, regarding which he 

 said: 



"Along in last April one of our Illi- 

 nois members called my attention to an 

 advertisement of a certain Kansas 

 firm, which he said had been running in 

 many of the leading farm papers, par- 

 ticularly in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and 

 the south. The advertisement was 

 headed, 'Red Clover, $11 Bushel,' and 

 went on to quote ridiculously low prices 

 on a number of staple field seed items. 

 It was of the same stripe as the adver- 

 tisements that have been put out by cer- 

 tain Iowa and Illinois seed firms of 

 rather unsavory reputation during the 

 last few years, and I am sorry to say 

 these advertisements have been ac- 



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