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topics were reported upon by committees. The committee on 

 express rates on plants reported the adoption by leading ex- 

 press companies of the following "uniform schedule of rates 

 for plants of all kinds:" "When packed close in boxes or 

 crates, regular merchandise rates ; when packed open, double 

 rates; when not so packed, single rates." A committee ap- 

 pointed to consider the status of duty on bulbs was "con- 

 tinued with instructions to use their best endeavors to have 

 the duty on bulbs rescinded." 



A committee upon "exaggerations in illustrated cata- 

 logues " made the following report, which, after much dis- 

 cussion was "accepted as read and referred to the executive 

 committee for final action, with power to act :" 



1. "That catalogue makers be invited, before publishing a cut of any new 

 flower, plant, fruit, or vegetable, to submit such cat to the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Society of American Florists, or to any three members of that 

 committee, together with a specimen of the original flower, fruit, etc., as 

 the case may be, for comparison ; and that the said committee or sub-com- 

 mittee be authorized, in the name of the Society of American Florists, to 

 accept and approve such cuts as they find true to nature, and the publisher 

 be given certificates of such approval, with liberty to print the same in his 

 catalogues." 



2. "That all publishers of illustrated catalogues be invited to send in 

 specimen copies for competition at our annual exhibitions ; and that a certi- 

 ficate of highest merit be given to the best catalogue submitted, and a 

 special certificate of merit be given to every catalogue that is found to be 

 quite free from false, exaggerated, and misleading illustrations." 



3. " That when the attention of the committee is called to any catalogue 

 which continues persistently to show false and misleading cuts, it shall be 

 the duty of the committee to call the attention of the publisher to the occa- 

 sion for complaint, and if he fails or refuses to remove the offending cuts 

 then to bring the matter before the next general convention so that the 

 name of such recalcitrant publisher may become generally known." 



The committee on uniformity in pots reported progress in 

 the lines of its former efforts. Several manufacturers are now 

 making the standard pots. These pots are graded entirely by 

 inside measurements, the depth and breadth being equal, and 

 they are rimmed or shouldered. 



A gratifying feature of the exhibit at the convention was a 

 number of herbariums, presented in competition for a one 

 hundred dollar prize offered by Peter Henderson. The com- 

 mittee on herbariums state that "of all the exhibits in the 

 building there is not one which has received so much atten- 

 tion and afforded so much pleasure as this one. This goes to 



