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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw40amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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judge somewhat of the debt of grati- tude we owe to men who have devoted such a large amount of valuable time to the work of this association. I would be dull indeed if I did not appreciate the great honor you have paid me in choosing me as your presi- dent this year when our convention is in my home city. I ~ know you will deal gently with all my shortcomings as a presiding officer and I shall be glad to be corrected when in error. And now, gentlemen, in closing, wel- come to our city and may your sojourn with us rest and cheer you and may you return to your homes feeling that it was good to have come to this place. Election Of Officers. The officers nominated at the even- ing session on June 9 and elected on Thursday morning were as follows: P. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kans., president. W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo., vice- president. Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. T., secretary (re-elected). C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y., treas- urer (re-elected). This makes Mr. Seager's sixteenth term as secretary, and his re-election was very popular. Wm. Pitkin, chair- man of the legislature committee, summarized a bill that was introduced at the last session of congress, but defeated by his committee. He pointed out some of its defects and made sug- gestions .'for a new bill, saying in part: Nursery Stock Inspection Bill, "Perhaps the most important mat- ter which has come up for action by this committee was a bill introduced in the last congress providing for the inspection of foreign nursery stock at ports of entry. Contrary to a tacit understanding, which had existed for a number of years, this bill was pre- pared by Dr. Howard of the Depart- ment of Agriculture at Washington in connection with several state ento- mologists, and without consulting our association. The bill passed the house of representatives, and had been re- ported favorably'by the senate com- mittee on agriculture, before your leg- dslative committee had any informa- tion regarding the matter. The chair- man of the committee called to his as- sistance Irving Rouse, James M. Pit- kin, J. H. Dayton, Abner Hoopes, W. H. Moon and Thomas B. Meehan, and the committee went to Washington, and after a hard fight succeeded in killing the measure for the last ses- sion of congress. "It was agreed that the bill would be laid over, with the understanding that before the next session of con- gress the legislative committees of your association, together with Dr. Howard of the Department of Agri- culture, and other entomologists would get together and endeavor to agree on a bill that would be mutually satisfac- tory. Following this agreement, and at the suggestion of Dr. Howard, your committee formulated a bill and sent it to Dr. Howard for his considera- tion about two months ago. Shortly after that time your chairman and some of the members of the commit- tee were in Washington in connection with matters of tariff, and called on Dr. Howard for the purpose of dis-

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