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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for J9J8 
Seed imports for June, 1917, totaled $4,093,805. Plant imports 
totaled $41,009. We exported during June seeds to the value of $270,755, 
as against $88,525 the previous year. 
The annual meeting of the New York State Federation of Horti- 
cultural Societies and Floral Cluibs was held at Syracuse, Sept. 12. 
President F. R. Pierson, Secretary E. A. White, and Treasurer W. A. 
Adams of Buffalo, were re-elected. The funds on hands are $215.80. 
It was reported that plans are under way for erection of a horticultural 
building on the State Fair Grounds, Syracuse. It is hoped this building 
would be ready for the next show. 
A. G. Hecht was appointed head of the Department of Floriculture, 
Amherst College, Mass., at the end of July. 
Pennock-Meehan Co. dissolved partnership July 1. S. S. Pennock 
formed the S. S. Pennock Co., Chas. Meehan going into business for 
himself. 
A new edition of the famous “Johnson’s Gardeners’ Dictionary,’’ 
of wliich the De La Mare Co. has the American publishing rights, was 
published in July. 
A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Ccnn., who usually employ 500 men, 
were 100 short in November. 
The hew dwarf Solanum Cleveland, was offered in the Fall. 
In connection with the Galesburg (111.) flower show, 1500 Chrysan- 
themum plants were given away to the boys and girls to grow on. 
Several new varieties of Delphinium hybrids of the Belladonna type 
were shown by F. W. Fletcher & Co., at Boston. 
Mother’s Day was voted as a day to be recognized nationally by 
the Order of Elks at their Boston convention. 
The first of a series of )>ractical lessons in floral designing in The 
Florists’ Exchange appeared July 28. 
Extensions and improvements at the New York Botanical Garden, 
Bronx Park, called for the expenditure of over $500,000. 
A memorial garden to take the place of the old Croton reservoir 
in Central Park, New York, was proposed. 
Circular No. 72 of the N. J. Agri. Exp. Sta., New Brunswick, N. J., 
dealt with “The Seed Situation.” 
The addition of fish-oil to Bordeaux mixture was said to aid in the 
control of Tomato leaf spot. 
The conventioif number of The Florists’ Exchange, Aug. 11, con- 
tained portraits of a large number of leading New York seedsmen and 
florists. 
Primula malacoides Townsendi, a valuable new commercial form, 
was put on the market. 
'The volume of cut flower business in August in most sections ex- 
ceeded all previous records. 
The names of large numbers of florists and seedsmen who had 
joined the U. S. Army and Navy apjieared in tlie trade papers during 
the Summer and Fall. 
A destructive hail storm occurred in September in Virginia. 
The American Association of Park Superintendents held its 19th 
annual convention in St. Louis, Mo., on Sept. 11-13. 
The second annual flower show was held at Denver, Col., Oct. 24-26. 
