. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ? ' . j'n ,- •^ ?*.?.<? ? ? .T^vf ?!-. e done if there was a better organization Ijetween the trade and the laboiatories. Photo- graj)hs were passed about showing how winter blight affects tomatoes. Tips from the Analysts. E. IT. Toole, of the Dejiartment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., aimed to prove in his lecture, on "Research and Seed Testing," just how important it is to keep trueness to ty])e j)aramount. He showe(i the many angles that an analyst must work from, explained the difficulties presented in a study of dormancy
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ? ' . j'n ,- •^ ?*.?.<? ? ? .T^vf ?!-. e done if there was a better organization Ijetween the trade and the laboiatories. Photo- graj)hs were passed about showing how winter blight affects tomatoes. Tips from the Analysts. E. IT. Toole, of the Dejiartment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., aimed to prove in his lecture, on "Research and Seed Testing," just how important it is to keep trueness to ty])e j)aramount. He showe(i the many angles that an analyst must work from, explained the difficulties presented in a study of dormancy and described methods of seed treatment. Vegetable seeds and flower seeds, he explained, require varied attention. He proved to satis- faction how important it is for seeds- men to present their problems to the analyst, so that a spirit of mutual h(d])- fulness may develop between those who arc commercially engaged and those who work in theory only. Ap])ropriately following Mr. Toole, W. C. Pfaender, commercial seed an- alyst of the Albert Dickinson Co., Chi- cago, arose to deliver a pa])er on the "I'roblenis of a Commercial Seed An- ; The actual testing of seed, Mr. Pfaender said, was not the greatest trouble of a commercial analyst. Tag- ging stfick for the different states pre- sents tlie chief ])roblein. There ar(> thirty-eight states witli seed laws and they arc jiractically all different, he explained. Wome require one method of description, some another, and wdien th(> same stock is sent to different states with different laws the analyst must be jierpetually watchful to see that no laws are broken. -And mistakes are bound to occur. These difficulties, it would seiMn, are all pointing to uniformity in seed laws. "We don't ask for tlie abtdishnicnt of seed laws," said Mr. T'faender; "what we want is uniform ; Next ajipcared Leonard If. Vaughan, Chicago, with his ]ia]ier, "Safeguards in the Seed ; This pape
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