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HORTI CULTUKE 



August 7, 1915 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, J 

 Mattituck, L. I., N. y.; 1- 

 dent, Kirby B. White. 

 Second Vice-Fresident, Y 

 VVaBhlngton. D. C; Secrei 

 C. E. Kendel, Cleveland 

 Secretary, S. F. Willard, 

 O. Cincinnati, O., next 



M. LiUpt»>n, 

 irht Vice-1'resi- 

 Uetroit. Mich.; 

 . AV. liolgiano, 

 tary-Treasurer, 

 o". ; Assistant 

 Jr., Cleveland, 

 meeting place. 



Convention Joys. 



Echoes of the recent seedsmen's 

 convention at San Francisco are 

 heard in the way o£ enthusiastic ex- 

 pressions of appreciation of the almost 

 prodigal hospitality shown the visiting 

 seedsmen by the California seed 

 growers, and it will doubtless be many 

 long days before the memory of the 

 good time the seedsmen enjoyed in 

 the Golden State will be forgotten. 



California Seed Crops. 

 We have mentioned in recent issues 

 that the onion seed crop would un- 

 doubtedly prove very disappointing, 

 some estimates placing deliveries as 

 low as 2.5 to 40 per cent. We think, 

 however, that this is rather low and 

 believe that when actual deliveries 

 are made they will come pretty close 

 to .50 per cent. This undoubtedly will 

 mean a very great shortage, but prob- 

 ably there will be enough to meet the 

 demand at a considerably advanced 

 price over recent years. Nearly all 

 other California crops are reported to 

 be promising, especially sweet peas 

 which will evidently prove a Inimper 

 crop. 



Vine Seeds. 



Vine seeds are still an uncertain 

 quantity. Cucumbers are very late, 

 two and sometimes three replantings 

 having been necessary to secure a 

 good stand. Still if the chinch bugs 

 and other insect pests will only give 

 the plants a chance we will, no doubt, 

 get a very good crop of cucumber 

 seed. Muskmelons are less promising 

 and indications are that there will be 

 a considerable shortage of certain 

 varieties. This estimate of cucumbers 

 and muskmelons will cover conditions 

 both in Nebraska and at Rocky Ford, 

 Colorado. At the latter place we are 

 advised that the shipment of melons 

 to the markets will prol)al)ly not ex- 

 ceed 25 per cent, of normal. Whether 

 the shortage will be serious eno'igh to 

 affect prices remains to be seen. 



Beans and Seed Peas. 

 Garden beans in both Michigan and 

 New York State are rather late, but 

 in the former state the stand is the 

 best for several years, and there is 

 every indication of at least a full aver- 

 age crop. Conditions are not quite so 

 favorable in New York State owing in 

 large measure to too much rain. The 

 seed pea crops both in Micliigan. Wis- 

 consin. Montana and Idaho are very 

 promising, though in the last named 

 states, rather late. They have not 



yet passed the danger point either of 

 frost or wet weather during the 

 threshing season. These two factors 

 have to be considered in estimating 

 the crop, but assuming that conditions 

 are normal there will be an abundance 

 of most of the leading varieties of 

 pea seed with probably a considerable 

 surplus of some sorts left in the hands 

 of the growers. Speaking of the pea 

 crop it may not be amiss to say that 

 the canners this year are having a 

 very large pack and of fine quality. 

 The extra fine ouality will undoubted- 

 ly helj) in putting the peas into con- 

 sumption, but prices will inevitably 

 rule very low, and very few will be 

 able to realize cost on their surplus. 

 This, of course, is very unfortunate 

 not only for the canner but for the 

 seedsmen and seed growers, as a 

 ready market for the canned products 

 at profitable prices usually means an 

 active demand for the various varie- 

 ties of seed used by the canners, and 

 this demand is likely to be more or 

 less disappointing the coming season. 

 Inquiry among the canners shows 

 quite conclusively that there was a 

 considerable reduction in acreage 

 from that of a year ago. an average 

 of at least 20 per cent, but the greatlv 

 increased yield will probably result 

 in as large a pack the country over 

 as last year, but, as already stated, 

 fortunately of much higher quality. 



Important Action on Belgian Plant 

 Embargo. 



The following resolution was unani- 

 riously adopted by the Horticultural 

 Importers' Association at a special 

 meeting held at New York July 22. 

 1915. 



Whebeas, The British "Order in 

 Council" effective March 15. 1915, was 

 intended to stop the export trade of 

 the nations at war with Great Britain, 

 lut is at present so interpreted by the 

 British authorities as to also stop the 

 exportation of Azaleas and other Bel- 

 gian Plants to the United States, be- 

 cause they are grown in that part of 

 Belgium now occupied by the enemies 

 of Great Britain, and 



WiiEHEAs, This interpretation of the 

 "Order in Council" by the British au- 

 thorities will do incalculable damage 

 to the interests of the American Flor- 

 ists and the Belgian growers, without 

 unfavorably affecting the interests of 

 the enemies of Great Britain, since it 

 is generally known that Azaleas are 

 only grown in the vicinity of Ghent, 

 Belgium, and that the enemies of 

 Great Britain also must get them 

 there, and 



Wheheas, It can be clearly shown 

 that these Azaleas and other Belgian 

 Plants are of Belgian production and 

 origin, exclusively grown by Belgians 

 for Belgian interests, and that none 

 other than Belgians get any revenue 

 or benefit from their sale. Therefore 

 be it 



Resoivei), That the Horticultural Im- 

 porters' Association respectfully re- 

 quests our State Department to use its 

 influence to have the British author- 

 ities permit these shipments of Azaleas 

 and other Belgian Plants and Bulbs 

 to be exported here the coming fall 

 dating from August 20, and be it also 



Resolved, That the Secretary of this 



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ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS 



Northern Greenhouse Grown Seed 



1.000 seeds $.3.30 



."i.llOO seeds 13.50 



10,000 seeds 30.00 



Lathhouse-Grown Seed 



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o.ono seeds 9.75 



10,000 seeds 18.50 



Also all other Seasonable Seeds, Bulbs 

 and Supplies. 



Send for Wholesale Catalogue and 

 Price List of you haven't one. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



Flower Seed Specialists 



518 Market St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Association be instructed to present 

 this resolution personally to the De- 

 partment of State at Washington. 



Ja.s. McHfTCHisox. Sec'y. 

 17 Murray street. New York City. 



Notes, 



Boulder, Col. — A new seed store 

 was opened on July 16th by J. D. 

 Long. 



East Jordan, Mich. — The Everett 

 B. Clark Seed Company are building 

 an addition to their seed warehouse. 



The value of horticultural imports 

 at the port of New York for the week 

 ending July 24, 1915, is given as fol- 

 lows: Nitrate of soda, $306,530; fer- 

 tilizer, $187; clover seed, $10,200; 

 grass seed, $1,103; trees and plants, 

 $1,719. 



Louisville, Ky. — The Ross Seed 

 Company was dissolved July 19, Wm. 

 Ross selling his interest to the re- 

 maining partners, A. S. Chescheir and 

 Chas. D. Foss. Business will be con- 

 tinued under the name of the Ross 

 Seed Company. 



NEW CORPORATION. 



Oshkosh, Wis. — Wisconsin Seed & 

 Fertilizer Co., capital stock. $1,000. 

 Incorporators, Carl and Henry Rowe- 

 camp and A, Ross. 



