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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for J9J8 
American Seed Trade Association 
The thirty-fifth annual meeting was held at Detroit, Mich., June 19tli 
and 21st, and was the most largely attended of any for several years. 
The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, 
F. W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C.; first vice-president, W. G. Scarlett, 
Baltimore, Md. ; second vice-president, David Burpee, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
secretary-treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; assistant secretary- 
treasurer, Kirby B. White, Detroit, Mich. Executive Committees Kirby 
B. White, E. L. Page, Chas. S. Burge, Leonard H. Vaughan, Howard 
M. Earl. Membership Committee: J. C. Robinson, B. P. Cornell, H. G. 
Hastings. Invitations for the next convention city were received from 
Cincinnati, Columbus, San Francisco, New York City and Cedar Point, 
Ohio. 
After a very strenuous season the seedsmen were out for a good 
time, and the gathering was largely of a social nature, with automobile 
drives through the parks of Detroit, and a trip to the Oak View Farms 
and trial grounds of the D. M. Ferry Co. 
Two papers were read, one explaining the purpose and scope of the 
Bureau of Markets lately established at Washington, D. C., and the 
other on voluntary seed control. 
The various committees also made reports, and a change in the by- 
laws left the date of tlie annual meeting to be fixed for any time in 
the month of June rather than the Tuesday of the last full week in June. 
President Kirby B. White in his address reported that 118 bills 
dealing with seed legislation had oome before various State legislatures 
during the year, but most of them had been rescinded or thrown out. 
He also referred to the voluntary action of the seed trade as to marking 
up the'purity and viability of the seeds sold, which had met with almost 
universal compliance. This amounted to a system of voluntary control 
in this matter. He favored the continuation of the bulletin, and sug- 
gested that prices be quoted therein, also crop reports. 
The seed trade went on record as offering its fullest services to the 
Government in the present war. 
A petition was sent to the Secretary of Agriculture asking that the 
same facilities that the Canadian Government offers' to Americans be 
offered by Americans to Canadians as to seed imports. 
The secretary’s report stated that the membership was 196, and the 
total balance on hand was $1527. 
A committee was appointed to keep in touch with the war council. 
American Sweet Pea Society 
The ninth annual show and meeting were held at Boston, July 7-8. 
The following ofiicers were elected for the ensuing year: President, 
Geo. W. Kerr, Doylestown, Pa.; vice-president, Edwin Jenkins, Lenox, 
Mass.; secretary, Wm. Gray, Bellevue ave., Newport, R. I.; treasurer, 
Wm. Sim, Cliftondale, Mass. 
The season was a late one, and the flowers of local growers were 
scarcely ready; nevertheless, competition was good throughout and 
flowers of the highest quality yet seen at these shows were staged. The 
sense of the annual meeting was that next year’s show should be held 
in New York. It was resolved to publish a bulletin in Midwinter. 
