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The Florists' Review 



July 3, 1913. 



showing of continuous growth that has 

 been characteristic of its recent years. 



The Parcel Post. 



The discussion of the parcel post oc- 

 cupied the greater part of one of the 

 sessions and brought out the same di- 

 vergent views previously expressed. 

 Complaint was universal; nobody was 

 satisfied, but the reasons for dissatis- 

 - faction were various and the remedies 

 proposed were of all sorts and kinds. 

 While the discussion was going on the 

 postmaster general issued an order that 

 will do away with one serious com- 

 plaint — he directed that on and after 

 July 1 ordinary postage stamps and par- 

 cel post stamps can be used interchange- 

 ably, letter stamps on parcels and par- 

 cel stamps on letters. This will let 

 seedsmen clean up the embarrassing 

 accumulations of ordinary stamps that 

 have resulted from the operation of 

 the season just closed. Some of the 

 argument was for the improvement of 

 the present system under which seeds 

 and plants do not take the parcel post 

 rates at all, while others wanted sim- 

 ply to have seeds and catalogues classed 

 with other merchandise under the pres- 

 ent zone system, ^till others wanted a 

 parcel post on the zone plan, only with 

 fewer zones, but the majority were not 

 in favor of either of these propositions 

 and in the end a resolution was adopted 

 favoring the abandoning of the present 

 arrangements and the inauguration of 

 an entirely new parcel post under a 

 flat rate law, a no-zone plan. It was 

 recognized, of course, that there is no 

 immediate prospect of such a radical 

 change in the law, but it was thought 

 to be sure to come, sooner or later. 



"The trouble is," said Secretary 

 Kendel, "that it takes an enormous 

 amount of time to look up each pack- 

 age and find out what zone it goes into. 

 To a small firm which only sends out 

 a half dozen parcels a day, this is of 

 little moment, but to a firm sending a 

 thousand, the time consumed by the 

 clerical force in looking up the zone, 

 soon amounts to a great deal of money. 

 A flat rate to all places would eliminate 

 this expense. " 



Crop Reports. 



For the last two years the feature 

 of confidential crop reports has been 

 made much of at the convention, grow- 

 ers being urged to supply the latest 

 information under the pledge that it 

 would not be made public except to the 

 members in executive session. This year 

 the crop reports were not featured in 

 the program, perhaps because practically 

 all such news is of a most discouraging 

 nature. In spite of the fact that the 

 previous efforts were nqjt made, some 

 crop reports were received. L. Da}hn- 

 feldt, of Odense, Denmark, sent a mail 

 report and supplemented it by cable 

 June 23, sending a copy of the cable 

 to The Review. It was: 



"Mangels, carrots, promising; cab- 

 bages, cauliflowers, spinaches, middle; 

 rutabagas, beets, turnips, radishes, kale, 

 below middle." 



Visit to PainesvUle. 



One of the pleasantest afternoons 

 ever spent by the members of the 

 American Seed Trade Association was 

 that of June 26. At the adjournment 

 of the convention two special cars on 

 the interurban railroad were in waiting 

 to take the party to Painesville, where 

 fifteen automobiles met them and took 



J. W. EDMUNDSON. Manager 



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