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show were used: Accessories, 10; 
rarity, 10; cultural perfection, 15; 
arrangement, 40; quality of flow- 
ers, 15; foliage, 10; total, 100. 
flobicultural society was 
formed by the employees of the 
A. N. Pierson, Inc. A boarding 
house and recreation hall were also 
built. 
The glass situation was acute 
in the Spring, owing to the de- 
mand for soda ash from which 
caustic soda, the chief component 
of glass is got. 
ViRoiNiA, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, 
and Texas comprise the early Po- 
tato sections of the South. ' The 
increased acreage planted was 
27,000. Potatoes require a cool, 
moist Summer climate. 
The Chrysanthemum midge or fly, introduced about 1915, has been 
attracting serious attention. 
The American Sweet Pea Society published a 24-page bulletin in 
the Spring. 
Two BULLETINS On Gladiolus studies from Cornell, were among the 
most important publications of the year. 
During the year a fertilizer plant was erected by the Federal 
Government under the Department of Agriculture on the Southern Pa- 
cific Coast to experiment with the problem of extracting potash from 
kelp. The appropriation made for this was $175,000. Two hundred 
tons of seaweed per day were cut and treated. 
The Seed Analysts’ convention was held in New York at the end 
of December. 
In the Winter 1916-1917 there was a great shortage of Manetti 
Rose stocks. 
Lilium regale was oft'ered in 1917 for the first time. It has been 
called the finest commercial species in cultivation. 
A large Eastern States Exposition was held at Springfield, Mass., 
Oct. 12-20. Flowers, fruits and vegetables were shown in connection 
therewith. 
Advertising for membership was adopted for the first time in its 
history by -the Horticultural Trades’ Association of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 
The second annual banquet and reunion of the Association of Kew 
Gardeners in America, was held in New York on March 16. The same 
officers were re-elected. 
