June 26, 1915 



HOETICULTUEE 



849 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, Lester L,. Morse, 

 San Francisco, Calif.; First Vice-Presi- 

 dent, J. M. Lapton, Mattltnck, L. I.; 

 Second Vice-President, E. C. Dnngan, 

 Philadelpfaia, Pa.; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; As- 

 sistant Secretary, S. F. Willard, Jr., 

 Cleveland, O. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



The American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion is in session at San Francisco as 

 we go to press. We talie pleasure in 

 presenting tiie address of President 

 Morse and tlie report of Secretary 

 Kendel. We had hoped to receive tel- 

 egraphic reports on the proceedings in 

 time for this issue but it's a long, long 

 way from San Francisco to Boston 

 and nothing further has come to hand. 

 Full report will appear next week. 



President Lester L. Morse's Address, 

 In Part. 

 The year of my administration has 

 been uneventful so far as affairs af- 

 fecting the American seedsman is con- 

 cerned. The trade has had a normal 

 season with no great shortages except 

 on certain kinds of beans and no great 

 overproduction of any particular line. 

 When the war broke out, a feeling of 

 fear and distrust filled us with grave 

 doubt as to whether or not seeds from 

 the belligerent countries would be de- 

 livered and as to whether or not seeds 

 grown here for delivery abroad could 

 be shipped. Except in a few isolated 

 cases, I understand that practically all 

 contracts were delivered either in full 

 or pro rata when short, and most of 

 the growers on this side were able to 

 fill their contracts. So the season 

 proved to be one of fair averages all 

 round. If there was some reason for 

 doubt as to deliveries last autumn, 

 there is greater cause for fear this 

 year. Any sort of prediction will be 

 idle and all we can do at this time is 

 to hope. In spite of the fact that 

 large areas of such crops as are usual- 

 ly secured from Europe are being 

 grown in .America, there are many 

 things that will be very greatly af- 

 fected if they are not secured from 

 Europe since even with a good crop in 

 this country, there will still be a seri- 

 ous shortage of many varieties. I un- 

 derstand there is a large acreage of 

 tvnip and calibage in the northwest, 

 while in California there is a lib- 

 eral acreage of radish and carrot and 

 some table beet. Most of the sugar 

 factories, I understand, have protected 

 themselves with an acreage of beets 



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181 Chambers St., New York City 



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Fine Florists' Flower Seeds 



1000 10,000 



.\SP.\K.AOl .S iilumosus niinus,. True IJieenbouse-ljlrown $3.50 ?30.00 



.4SP.4RAOI IS plumu!,u> nanuo. Field-Grown 2.0O 17.50 



ASPAR.4Gl'S Sprenueri 75 6.00 



100 1000 



ASPARAGUS Hatclieri S(J.,t() %\m 



Tr. Vi Tr. 



pkt. pkt. 



t'.^,I,CEOI..\RIA. BodilinKton'N Perfection Mixed $1.00 $0.00 



CINERARI.V. Bodclington's .Matcliless Mi.ved 1.00 .60 



CINER.\RI.4, Boddington's Stellata .Mixed 1.00 .60 



P.\NSY, Boddinnon's ClialienKe Mixture. All Giants: 14 Tr. pkt, 2.0c. ; 



Tr. pkt.. .%<■.: 'i <n.., 7.'>c. ; i, oz.. .?1..50; V. i>z., .$2.75; oz., $5.00. 

 P.4XSY. .Sim's Gold Medal Mixture. Tr. pkt., 75c. ; 3 pkts, .$2.00; 



'i oz., ?;3..i0. 

 PRIJUL.A Sinensis, Boddington's Matchless Strain. Pure White, Rose. 



Scarlet, Orange, Koyal Blue and Mi.\ture 1.00 .60 



I'Kl.Ml L.4 obconica gigantea. Lilac, Rosea, Kermesina, Pure Wliite, 



and Mixture .50 .30 



PRI.MILA malacoide^,. LU:.c, Rose, and White. Tr. pkt., 50c.; collection of 3 



varieties, .^1.2.0. 

 SCHIZ.4NTHrs Boddingtonii. Select Hybrids Tr. pkt., 75c. ; 3 for $2.00 



5% discount for cash with order. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, "If^w york c^r 



for seed. The California flower seed 

 growers have planted a good acreage 

 of standard varieties which will take 

 care of some lines, but there are many 

 varieties of flowers and vegetables 

 which are only used in limited quan- 

 tity and which a seedsman needs bad- 

 ly for catalogue and store trade. 

 These items will keep the retail dealer 

 in a dilemma for a good part of the 

 coming months or until he finally 

 learns whether he can or cannot get 

 them. Stocks of all kinds. I under- 

 stand, are pretty well cleaned up and 

 the trade generally is ready for a good 

 harvest. 



Legislation. 

 The principal matters of interest to 

 the association during the past year 

 have been those affecting legislation. 

 The legislatures of most of the states 

 were in session last winter and in a 

 number of states some attempt was 

 made to pass legislation affecting the 

 seed trade. The details of these mat- 

 ters will be duly considered in the re- 

 port of our attorney, Curtis Nye Smith. 

 On the whole, the proposed legislation 

 was less unjust and unwise than it 

 has been in the past and there is a 

 cheerful evidence of a better under- 

 standing between the public, law- 

 makers, and the seed trade. 



The Disclaimer. 

 The grower and dealer in vegetable 

 seeds must insist on the protection of 

 the disclaimer, and we must contest 

 all efforts to nullify it. The market 

 gardener and large planter must know 

 as we do that there is a certain ele- 

 ment of risk in planting seeds for a 

 marketable crop. We who know that 

 all varieties of cabbage, turnip, cauli- 

 flower, rape, mustard and kindred 

 types of Brassica are similar if not 

 identical in appearance; that the seed 

 of thirty colors, types and varieties 

 of onion seed all looks alike, that the 

 seed of mangels, beets and chard in all 

 their multitude of variety is identical 

 in appearance, know that mistakes 

 are going to occur, this, too, in spite 

 of intelligence and system in handling 

 seed. If guaranteed seed means 

 surety for the resulting crop or, in 

 other words, if ten dollars' worth of 



celery seed means the responsibility 

 for a thousand dollars' worth of crop 

 with no share in the ultimate antici- 

 pated profit, then we are in a business 

 too hazardous to warrant credit. The 

 banks would soon put us all in the 

 war risk class if they believed we 

 were in such a business. The terrible 

 results in loss of business in event of 

 error is sufficient punishment to com- 

 pel the utmost care and vigilence on 

 the part of the seedsman. 



1 believe that the seed grower and 

 dealer are both trying to produce and 

 sell reliable seed and I believe that 

 threatened punishment will have but 



Pansy Seed 



NEW CROP 



GIANT EXHIBITION MIXED. A Giant 

 strain which for size of bloom, heavy 

 texture and varied colors and shades, 

 • annot be surpassed. Half trade pkt. 

 .30c ; 50e per trade pkt. ; V^ oz. 75c ; $5.00 

 per oz. 



TRIUMPH OF THE GIANTS, MIXED. 

 Produces on long stems, flowers of ex- 

 tra large size; petals broad and over- 

 lapping; many beautiful rich and rare 

 shades. 



GIANT TRIMABDEAC, MIXED. Very 

 large flowering; choice colors. Trade 

 pkt. 30c: $1.00 per oz. 



GIANT PRIZE, SEPAR.\TE COLORS 



Tr. pkt. Oz. 



Giant .*zure Bine $0.40 $1.75 



Giant Black Blue 40 1.75 



<iiant Emperor William Bine. .40 1.75 



Giant llortensia Red 40 2.50 



(tiant King of tlie Blacks 40 1.75 



Giant I.nrd Beaconsfleld, Pur- 

 ple-Violet 40 1.75 



Giant Pcai'ock, Blue, Claret 



an<l White 40 2.50 



(■innt Snow Queen, Pure 



White 40 1.75 



Giant Striped and Mottled... .40 1.75 



Giiint White, with Eje 40 1.75 



(ihint Pure Yellow 40 1.75 



(;iant Vcllow, with Ej-e 40 1.75 



.Also t'incraria, Daisy, Myosolis, I*rl- 



niiila and all other Seasonable Seeds. 



Bulbs and Supplies. 



I..VTEST WIIOLKS.VI.E CAT.VL,OG, 

 I |{i:i-. lOK TlIK .\SKI>(i. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Market St., Phila. 



