. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 44o The American Florist. April 75, Ufte 3®®^ ITra^e. SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. H. W. Johnson, Philadelphia, president; Al- bert M. McCuLLOUGH, Cincinnati, secretary and treasurer. The eighth annual meeting at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June, iSgo. Later reports locate Mr. A. B. Cleve- land in Melbourne. Mr. Alfred Henderso.\ is somewhat improved in health, he is still at Rich- mond, Va. It is stated that Mr. C. N. Jordan, formerly connected with the II. S. Treas- nrv Department, will take charge of the ;B. Cle
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 44o The American Florist. April 75, Ufte 3®®^ ITra^e. SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. H. W. Johnson, Philadelphia, president; Al- bert M. McCuLLOUGH, Cincinnati, secretary and treasurer. The eighth annual meeting at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June, iSgo. Later reports locate Mr. A. B. Cleve- land in Melbourne. Mr. Alfred Henderso.\ is somewhat improved in health, he is still at Rich- mond, Va. It is stated that Mr. C. N. Jordan, formerly connected with the II. S. Treas- nrv Department, will take charge of the ;B. Cleveland Co. Mr. Sidney Wilkinson, for some years with Henry A. Dreer, and formerly with Michel Plant and Seed Co., died at his home in Philadelphia March 28, of t^-phoid fever. Mr. Wilkinson was an able seedsman and office man. Mrs. Chas. P. Braslan died at Minne- ajiolis March 26. The funeral services were held at Boston, Mass., April 2, and the interment at Mount Hope cemetery. Mr. Braslan has the sincere sympathy of the entire trade in his great loss. A change in the duty on peas, beans and barley to 40 cents per bushel and a change on garden seeds from 20 to 30 per cent and a rate of 30 per cent placed on agricultural seeds, has been favorably reported to the U. S. Senate, and is re- ported as likely to pass both houses. This continued tinkering with the tariff can not be beneficial to the trade. A "Model" Seed Catalogue. A New England paper among many notices of seed catalogues, contributes the following which we produce for the bene- fit of the trade with some slight omissions of names and figures: "We have already had a good deal to say about the seedsmen's catalogues for , but to our great pleasure we have now occasion to say the best "good word " of all. We are led to do so by the receipt of a catalogvie which is at once original, readable and beautifully illus- trated. This is the handsome annual of Jt/hn Thomas Model, of , , , a seedsme
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