Round of the Year 
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and animals have become extinct within the memory of persons now 
living. 
The annual meeting of the New Jersey Association of Nurserymen 
was held at New Brunswick on Feb. 14. 
The sixth annual convention of the New England Nurserymen’s 
Association was held at New Haven, Conn., on Jan. 30. 
Special prizes are to be offered for good gardens in the next five 
years, 1918-1922, offered and arranged for by the Mass. Horticultural 
Society. 
St. Valentine’s business was reported as the heaviest ever known 
at Chicago; stock in general was scarce and cleared up at remarkably 
good prices. A shipment of 201,000 Violets intended for St. Valen- 
tine’s Day arrived in a badly frozen condition. Throughout the Middle 
West dealers reported that business was the hea'dest on record. 
Many telegraphic orders were received. Had the weather been warmer 
considerably more business, it was felt, would have been done. 
St. Patrick’s Day business was almost a failure owing to the 
extremely cold, wet weather. 
Philadelphia plant gi'owers raised the price of plants 25 per cent, 
at Easter. 
A LESSENING Supply of stable manure attracted attention to new 
humus materials. 
The amount of advertising done by florists in general magazines 
and daily and weekly newspapers was very extensive in March. 
The American Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n, with head- 
quarters in Chicago, was organized in February. 
The Ohio Nurserymen’s Ass’n held its tenth annual meeting on 
Feb. 1. 
The fight was renewed by the Ohio florists against the licensed 
fireman law, back of which were the Firemen’s Union who tried to 
have the law enforced as regards all florists. 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n held its seventh annual 
meeting at Ithaca, Feb. 13, 14 and 15. 
The Japanese Potato king, George Shima of Berkeley, Cal., had 
