. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The Late E. Dillwyn Darlington. See Obituary, Page 497. Seed trade visitors during the week of the rose show were: D. I. Bushnell and Benjamin I. Cornell, from St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph E. Northrup, Minne- apolis, Minn.; Charles E. Page, of Des Moines, la.; T. M. Landrum, with C. C. Morse & Co., San Francisco, Calif. All Imported Seeds 100 Per Cent Alive. In the report made by Mr. Mann to the House of Representatives, accom- panying Bill H. R. 13835 and printed as Report No. 1278, it is stated as follows: "S
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The Late E. Dillwyn Darlington. See Obituary, Page 497. Seed trade visitors during the week of the rose show were: D. I. Bushnell and Benjamin I. Cornell, from St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph E. Northrup, Minne- apolis, Minn.; Charles E. Page, of Des Moines, la.; T. M. Landrum, with C. C. Morse & Co., San Francisco, Calif. All Imported Seeds 100 Per Cent Alive. In the report made by Mr. Mann to the House of Representatives, accom- panying Bill H. R. 13835 and printed as Report No. 1278, it is stated as follows: "Section 3 also provides that, if weed seed or dead seed, or other matter materially reducing the val- ue of seed, shall be added to seed, it shall be deemed an adulteration. This provision does not apply to seed as it is gathered or garnered, but only forbids the deliberate adul- teration of seed by intentionally adding foreign matter to seed for the purpose of defrauding the pur- chaser or ; Now while this provision does not ap- ply to seed as it is gathered, the following paragraph in Section III regarding which Representative Mann makes no com- ment in his report, seems to be virtu- ally prohibitive of nearly all business in ' the importing of seeds (see proposed Act page 453 of the last issue of the Ameeican Floeist)' Section III, third with line 23, says seeds and bulbs shall paragraph, page 3, as printed,, beginning be deemed to be adulterated: "If any seed or bulbs Contain re- spectively dead seed or dead bulbs or any other matter 1-educing the value for seeding or planting pur- poses, provided that this paragraph shall extend only to seed and bulbs intended or offered ror export or imported from a foreign ; From this it will be seen that the seedsman who has in his possession through importation, any seeds which will germinate materially less than 1()0 per cent, whether such seeds be dead or unfertile, is a violator of the law, even if such se
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