He spoke of the color chart cards which are obtainable at 
the Central Office and urged the cooperation of the members 
in their use, saying he had definite assurance from one or two 
members that they would submit a certain number of cards to 
his committee and he hoped his plea would bring a wide 
response. The committee propose to collect these cards and soon- 
er or later to publish the data thus compiled in the Bulletin. 
either through the various issues or perhaps in a separate sup- 
plement, making this information available to every member. 
Mr. Steele explained that the committee has charted 336 
plants. They are now working on Roses. They have advised 
with plant societies, nurseries and individuals and have succeed- 
ed in arousing considerable interest. Forty charts have been 
sold to members. 
Mr. Steele stated that he could get the Ridgway Chart $2.00 
cheaper than it could be purchased at the book shops and would 
be very glad to obtain it for members requesting it. 
He finished with an earnest plea for the help of all the 
members in compiling this information, urging them to obtain 
the books and cards, chart the colors and send in the material to 
his committee, so that it might be ultimately shared with all the 
readers of the Bulletin. 
Miss Rose Standish Nichols, Chairman of the Committee on 
Trade Relations, presented the following report : 
The Committee on Trade Relations is cooperating with cor- Trade 
responding committees of the American Society of Landscape Relations 
Architects, the American Association of Nurserymen and the 
Ornamental Growers Association. Our chief objects at present 
are: 
First. To eliminate the giving or acceptance of commissions 
to gardeners. If this evil could be stamped out we should indeed 
justify our existence. 
Second. Standardization of sizes and grades of nursery 
stock and the desirability of making a draft of specifications. 
For instance, when you order a standard lilac you may receive 
simply an ordinary lilac which has had the lower branches cut 
off. The nurserymen are trying to work out a vocabulary to 
make it easier for us to know how to get what we want. 
Third. Standardization of prices. 
Fourth. Uniformity in the matter of discounts allowed by 
nursery men to clients of landscape gardeners. 
Fifth. Modification of the law on administrative methods 
governing the importation of plants. The nurserymen are in 
favor of the embargo on foreign plants but object to state 
quarantines and embargos. 
A memorandum in regard to the obligations which are 
normally implied by the placing and acceptance of an order for 
nursery stock in the absence of specific stipulation to some other 
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