SEEDSMEN'S SESSION. THIS session, which was presided over by Mr. W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadelphia, president-elect of the American Reed Trade Association, was held on Thursday forenoon, August 17, 189o. There was a large and enthusiastic attendance, and the papers read were listened to with the closest attention. Mr. Burpee, in opening the proceedings of the day, said :-After the opening of the Horticultural Congress yesterday by Mr. Bonney, the addresses of welcome by Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Berckmans, it only remains for the chairman of the Seedsmen's session to introduce the speakers whose names you will find on the programme. This Congress is certainly very well timed ; while not so well attended, owing to the counter attractions, the papers read will be of high interest and have wide influence after their publication. Horticulture, for its proper advancement and full development, seems necessarily to be as international in its character as are the finances of the world. The advancement of American horticulture and of American seed growing, while it has been great, has ever looked to Europe for much of its knowledge, for many of its improved types, and must continue to do so, just as Europe will look to America and each nation to the other for the special advantages of soil or intelligence which each nation may offer.