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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for f9J8 
points covered are use of standard 
crates where possible, uniformity’ 
of size of Melons in crate and 
necessity of product not being 
overripe or underripe when placed 
on the market. 
Advertisement was given ex- 
tensively to the work of several 
nurserymen in California who are 
ambitious to establish Azalea 
growing, Bay tree cultivation, and 
the “Dutch bulb” industry there 
and on the Northern Pacific 
Coast. C. W. Ward of Eureka, Cal., was active in this campaign. 
Attention was drawn in The FloHsts’ Exchange to the lack of 
any organized uniform system of awarding certificates to plant novel- 
ties throughout the country, nor did any of the well established lead- 
ing societies seemingly have a recognized Floral Committee to award 
such certificates. 
A plant called the Tomtato was offered by an English grower. This 
was no hybrid or cross-bred plant, but simply the result of grafting. 
“Field Notes on Sweet Peas” was published in January by C. C. 
IMorse & Co. of San Francisco. 
The Pasadena Rose Tournament on New Year’s Day was witnessed 
by 200,000 visitors. Literally hundreds of thousands of blooms were 
used from the many gardens of Southern California. It is estimated 
that the cost o<f the floats and decorations amounted to $50,000. 
E. H. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum left on Jan. 6 for Korea 
to collect plants. This was his sixth plant collecting trip to the East. 
By a fire near the end of January the Lancaster County Seed Co.’s 
warehouse was completelv destroyed, the loss being estimated at 
$85,000. 
Prices of 1917 crops, such as Wheat, Oats, Potatoes, were fixed 
at the beginning of the year by the British Government as follows: 
Wheat, 60 shillings per quarter of 504 pounds; Oats, 38s. 6d. per quar- 
ter of 336 pounds. Potatoes, in not less than six-ton lots f. o. b., 115 
shillings per ton, from Sept. 15 to Jan. 31; 120 shillings for delivery 
in February and March, and 130 shillings other times. 
A total of 404,967,582 copies of publications of all kinds have been 
issued by the United States Department of Agriculture during the 
fiscal , years 1890 to 1916, inclusive. 
The Farmers’ Non-partisan League of North Dakota, having a 
majority in the Legislature of that State, intend to get what they want. 
We note one of the things they intend to have is State hail insurance. 
“The Garden Guide,” the amateur gardeners’ handbook, which has 
had a large sale, was published IMarch 15 by the A. T. De La Mare 
Co., Inc. 
The funeral of Admiral Dewey of the U. S. Navy, toward the end 
