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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 24, 1009. 



Wood, Gordon F., of T. W. Wood & Sons, 

 Richmond, Va. 



Wood, Henry W., of T. W. Wood & Sons, 

 Richmond, Va. 



Woodruff, Frank C, of S. D. Woodruff & 

 Sons, New Yorli. 



Woodruff, W. S., of S. D. Woodruff & Sons, 

 Orange, Conn. 



Zimmers, Herman, Toronto, Ontario. 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



National Legislation Not Imminent. 



After brief reference to the- general 

 prosperity in the trade and to those 

 members who died during the year, 

 President Woodrufif discussed the ques- 

 tions affecting seedsmen's interests, as 

 follows : 



"We have been spared the anxiety and 

 labor that came so severely upon my 

 predecessor, Mr. Green, and his associ- 

 ates in struggling with the Mann pure 

 seed bill in March and April of 1908, 

 and as far as federal seed legislation is 

 Qoncerned the immediate future seems to 

 offer no special resistance. However, 

 Mr. Green, chairman of committee on 

 seed legislation, has, with characteristic 

 diplomacy, worked out a draft of a bill 

 which he will tell you more about in 

 his report later on. 



Bills regulating the sale of agricultural 

 seeds have been introduced in 1909 ses- 

 sions of the following named state legis- 

 latures: New Hampshire, Wyoming, 

 North Carolina, North Dakota, Michigan, 

 Missouri, New York, South Dakota, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, Rhode Island and Minne- 

 sota. This presents what I consider one 

 of the most serious matters that our as- 

 sociation has ever had to face. I might 

 go so tar as to call it a crisis. 



Flood of StatoSilli Alarming. 



It is true that about nine states prior 

 to 1909 enacted statutes affecting seeds, 

 but this current year 1909 has been nota- 

 ble for the widespread interest in this 

 subject in legislative bodies. So many 

 seed bills have been filed, some fairly 

 reasonable in their requirements, but 

 most of them so severe that a contem- 

 plation of the effect of such laws, if 

 passed generally, on the legitimate seed 

 trade ' is not merely disquieting but is 

 alarming. Within the past year these 

 bills have been introduced in the legis- 

 latures of twelve states, and eight states 

 have placed on their statute books so- 

 called pure seed acts. 



In one state the statute requires a 

 guarantee of the percentages of both 

 purity and germination of all seeds, a 

 warranty which seed organizations and 

 seed growers and merchants generally 

 have after careful and mature considera- 

 tion deemed unfair, impracticable and 

 impossible. Already from that state are 

 coming demands on seedsmen in other 

 states to warrant the purity and germin- 

 ation of their seeds. As most legislation 

 is the adoption of the legislation of other 

 countries or states, the example of this 

 state will undoubtedly be felt in future 

 legislation. Another state statute, be- 

 sides requiring warranty of purity and 

 germination, demands that whoever sells 

 seeds in that state shall pay a license tax 

 of $25 per annum. This is the first at- 

 tempt in this line, which, if generally fol- 

 lowed, may entail rather a heavy item 

 of expense to seedsmen doing a large 

 interstate business. The constitution- 

 ality of this act is at least questionable, 

 but it is nevertheless a statute law, and 

 must be treated as such until it has been 

 thoroughly tried out. Several states have 

 recently proposed to fix arbitrary stand- 



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