BE IT RESOLVED: That a Committee of Five be appointed by the Chair at this session to have discretionary powers in co-operating with Prof. Tracy and to decide whether these descriptions, as amended and approved by the Committee, shall be presented at the next annual meeting for the approval of this Association; the Committee also to have discretionary powers to make recommendations as to further work along this and the kindred lines, named in President Grenell's Address, in regard to the Registration Bureau.

The Committee understand that Prof. Tracy is going to devote a great deal of his time during this year to properly describing the standard varieties of seeds, and he wants the co-operation of the trade in this matter; but there were so many questions that came up in regard to the matter that the Committee deemed it the wisest point to co-operate with Prof. Tracy in this matter rather than to recommend the establishment at this time of a registry bureau, but to give that committee the power to recommend a permanent committee on registration bureau at the next meeting of the Association.

The report, or recommendation rather of the President in regard to the Committee on Experiment Stations we deemed it wise simply to refer to the Committee on Experiment Stations.

In regard to the recommendation as to honorary membership we deemed that it was necessary to have an amendment to the by-laws; and as notice has already been given of such amendment, we deem no further action necessary.

In regard to the Literary Committee proposed, Mr. Willard will make a statement in that connection. We thought that can be worked in connection with the National Council of Horticulture.

This concludes our report.

President Grenell: The first matter is action upon the first recommendation, to reimburse Messrs. Page and McVay.

Mr. C. N. Page: Mr. Chairman, I object to that resolution. I see no more reason to reimburse me for the expense of that Committee than that you should reimburse the other members of other committees for expenses that they have been to.

I do think that if it is of benefit to the Association that committees be sent to various localities to look after business for the Association that the expense should be borne by the Association. I think that is correct, and there is no reason why any one member should bear the expense; but I do object to being singled out to be reimbursed simply because my expenses

were higher coming from a long distance to Washington when others were not. (Applause)

President Grenell: I think that the matter before us includes two names for reimbursement; if you will make your remarks as an amendment to strike out one name, we will vote on the amendment.

Mr. Page: I offer it as an amendment.

President Grenell: Does any one second the amendment? There were several voices saying "No", and the Chair therefore declined to recognize the amendment, and put the question on the motion to adopt the recommendation of the Committee, which carried.

President Grenell:

The next matter is the recommendation of the Committee to appoint a committee on Registration Bureau.

Mr. Kendel: I move that the recommendation be adopted. Which was seconded and carried.

President Grenell: I will appoint as such Committee on Registration Bureau, Messrs. H. W. Wood, Burpee, Willard, Woodruff and Cropp.

Mr. Willard: Mr. President, in regard to the President's recommendation regarding a Literary Committee, it has appeared to us that inasmuch as we understand that we are entitled to two delegates to the National Council of Horticulture, and we have already made a cash appropriation of two hundred dollars to further the interests of this Association, that we should at this session appoint those delegates, and that we should consider those men as our committee to see that the American Seed Trade Association and its varied interests are represented. I would like to move the appointment of Messrs. J. C. Vaughn, who is a member of this Association and also President of the National Council of Horticulture, and our Secretary, Mr. C. E. Kendel, who has done. such good work on that committee this past year, as our delegates to the National Council of Horticulture for the ensuing year; and that they be considered a committee to represent the Association in all interests.

Which motion, being duly seconded, was agreed to.

President Grenell: The next order of business is reading of communications. The Secretary will read what he has. Secretary Kendel read the following:

(Telegram)

Washington, D. C., June 27, 1906. C. E. Kendel, Esq., Secy. American Seed Trade Association, Toledo, O.

I congratulate your Association upon its interest in the preservation of Niagara Falls. The bill agreed upon in congress yesterday while not altogether an ideal measure will, I trust, secure the object so dear to many of the American people. T. E. Burton.

Secretary Kendel: Mr. Burton is Chairman of the Committe on Rivers and Harbors of the House. Here is a letter dated May 21st, and addressed to the President, viz.: National Cash Register Co.,

Dayton, O. May 21, 1906.

Mr. W. H. Grenell, President,
American Seed Trade Association,
Pierrepont Manor, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Please accept our thanks for your letter advising us of the date of your annual convention.

We wish to extend to your members through you a cordial invitation to visit our institution. We shall endeavor to make your stay both profitable and entertaining.

Your party could leave Toledo Friday morning, June 29th, and spend the day with us. The trip would be very inexpensive owing to the new two cent mileage in this State.

We should be pleased to have you wire us a day or so previous to your visit.

Yours very truly,

The National Cash Register Company,

A. W. Sinclair, Welfare Director.

Mr. Burpee: That is worth considering, is it not?

I move that the Secretary, with or without the aid of Mr. McCullough's stenographer, write a suitable acknowledgement.

Mr. A. McCullough: May I ask the President of the Association here to inform Mr. McCullough that we have not the stenographer now that he used to know? (A voice: "Where is she?")

Mr. McCullough stated that the lady was in other employ. President Grenell: If there is no objection, the communications will be filed, with thanks, and the Secretary directed to suitably acknowledge same. The next order of business is unfinished business; if there are any matters to come up we. would be pleased to consider them.

Mr. Burpee: Unfortunately I was not here at the opening session, and I do not know whether any resolutions giving the sense of this Association as opposed to continued government free distribution of seeds has been passed, or not. I think it would be well if some member were to offer some such resolu

tion. We want to gather a similar resolution from every commercial body in the country. We are now working to get the different Granges; as I told you yesterday, we have the National Grange. It would be rather bad to come before Congress as representing only seed men. We expect to have a hearing before the Agricultural Committee of the House as well as the Senate. The Senate hearing was the only one we had last year. We want resolutions from all commercial bodies of every kind who deal with the farming and gardening classes; and naturally it would be rather bad if we did not have some strong resolutions from the 24th Annual Meeting of the American Seed Trade Association. Several of us were talking this over the other evening. I think possibly Mr. H. W. Wood has prepared such a resolution.

Mr. H. W. Wood: I think it would be well for the President to appoint a Committee to draw up a strong resolution to present to the meeting later.

Mr. A. McCullough: It strikes me that inasmuch as we have at various times had committees prepare resolutions and go into the matter very thoroughly, that we might arrange to pass a resolution confirming and repeating our former action. Last year I believe we had no formal expression on our minutes but several years ago we adopted a resolution that covered the ground very thoroughly. Am I not right, Mr. Willard, on that?

Mr. Willard: Yes, I think you are, Mr. McCullough; but it occurs to me that it would be better to have it entirely rewritten.

President Grenell: Very well; if it is the will of the convention, I will appoint as such committee Mr. H. W. Wood and Mr. A. McCullough. They can retire to my room, No. 122. Mr. A. McCullough: May I ask to have Mr. Willard put in my place? I am getting so old.

President Grenell: Very well, I will appoint Mr. Willard. Is there any other unfinished business, or any new business? Captain Landreth: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have a proposition to make which is somewhat novel and I think entirely practical, and therefore, I hope to gain your attention and your support. It is the adoption of a color scale to aid us all, seedsmen, horticulturists, botanists, travelers in foreign countries, etc., in describing the color of a vegetable or flower. At present it is very difficult for one to describe the color of a plant or flower so that every one will have the same conception, of the plant or flower described. What one man says

is rose color, for instance, another man may describe differently. Who is to tell where violet ends and where blue begins? Now when one attempts to describe we will say sweet peas, two men of equal intelligence may differ very much upon the tint. Who is to be right? What shall be the standard? What scale have we to determine those things?

Now what I would suggest would be the adoption of a scale which would be a national scale, and possibly in time an international scale. Take for instance the seven primary colors, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red; divide those seven colors into fourteen gradations each, making altogether 98, or into twenty-one each, making 147, and number each shade, the numbers to appear on the scale, whatever numbers are decided upon. We will then have a means of reference by which we can refer with accuracy to any shade desired. Then when a flower is described, in referring to its tints as to the respective parts of the flower, these numbers can be employed, and the meaning positively understood and conveyed. A traveling botanist who is describing some rare find he has made in a foreign country, and writing home a description, having taken with him one of the charts that will be issued, has only to find the color he wishes on the chart and say that such and such a part of the flower or plant is No. 20 on the Scale, such another part is color No. 70; such another, No. 99, and so on. Those of us who remain at home and are not present with him observing the flower can from his description know by referring to our charts just what color is meant.

Now something on a similar order has been done in France, but it is on a rather expensive scale. The charts which have been introduced by a certain French Society cost $16.00. There are very many of them; there is a aparate chart for each color, and each color is probabl; divided into 50 or 60 tints; consequently it is very expensive to procure a set of their charts. The entire set is also rather cumbersome, and at least inconvenient for a traveler to carry about with him. It makes a great big atlas three or four feet square, and taking the entire number of charts together, probably an inch or two thick. What I propose is one map or chart containing these colors. The colors to be chosen under the auspices of this Association, with the assistance of a capable artist who has made a study of colors. After the kinds and numbers of tints are determined upon they can be reproduced by lithographic art cheaply. Such a chart could be gotten up to be sold at five