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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 18, 1908. 



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 America on the basis of 50% commission 

 for the sale of rare plants, tubers and 

 flowier bulbs. Please write, preferably 

 in French. Address No. 24, care 

 Florists' Review, Chicago. 



Holland correspondent of the Horti- 

 cultural Trades Journal, we may look 

 out for a most satisfactory season, but 

 unfortunately we know from experience 

 that there is no connection whatever be- 

 tween the two. 



ALLEN, OCTOGENARIAN. 



Saturday, June 13, C. L. Allen, the 

 widely known seed grower of Floral 

 Park, N. Y., was 80 years of age and 

 the occasion was celebrated by a con- 

 siderable gathering of his friends, both 

 afternoon and evening, to whom he read 

 a paper he had prepared, entitled "At 

 Eighty." He is enjoying good health, 

 despite the fact that he was very ill this 

 spring with pneumonia. Pulling through 

 this was due to his remarkable constitu- 

 tion and the good care he had while 

 sick. 



IOWA SEED DEALERS MEET. 



The second annual meeting of the 

 Iowa Seed Dealers' Association was held 

 at Des Moines June 10, with the attend- 

 ance of most of the seedsmen of the 

 state, nine new members being elected. 

 Three sessions weie held, the principal 

 business being the consideration of the 

 Iowa pur« seed law, which now has had 

 a year's test and been found inadequate, 

 unjust and burdensome. 



In his opening address. President 

 Page urged co-operation among the mem- 

 bers of the society with the object of 

 competing more successfully with deal- 

 ers of other states. He dwelt upon the 

 advantages of a change in the state seed 

 law and asked the members of the or- 

 ganization to work in conjunction to 

 bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the 

 state legislature to secure a repeal or 

 amendment of the measure. He declared 

 that the law discriminates against deal- 

 ers in the state in favor of seedsmen 

 from surrounding territory. 



Among those present were Prof. L. H. 

 Pammel, of Ames, one of the framers of 

 the law, and State Seed Commissioner 

 H. R. Wright, who is charged with its 

 enforcement. Prof. Pammel said that 

 since the law has had a year's practical 

 test he has seen its defects and admitted 

 that it needed remedying. Commissioner 

 Wright said that , during the year he 

 has observed between 500 and 1,000 

 cases of where seed dealers might be 



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prosecuted under the pure seed law, but 

 because of the law being a new one he 

 had overlooked minor offenses. 



A legislative committee consisting of 

 C. N. Page, Des Moines; H. A. Johns, 

 Sioux City, and B. H. Adams, of De- 

 corah, was appointed to urge the amend- 

 ment of the law by the next legislature. 

 H. A. Johns was appointed to take up 

 the subject of freight rates with the rail- 

 roads. 



Officers were re-elected as follows: 

 President, C. N. Page, Des Moines ; vice- 



C. L. Allen. 



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Millipedes, Eelworms, Ants, 

 Beetles, Woodlice, Slugs, and 

 all kinds of bugs in the soil 



Killed 



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