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HORTICULTURE 



October 2, 1915 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Oflicers — President, J. M. Lnpton, 

 Mattiturk, L. I., N. Y.: First Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Kirby B. White, Uetroit, Mich.; 

 Second Vice-President. F. W. Bolgiano, 

 Washington, D. C. : Secretary-Treasurer, 

 C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. ; Assistant 

 Secretary, S. F. Willard, Jr., Cleveland, 

 O. Cincinnati, O., next meeting place. 



Hon. W. B. Fleming, Foreign Trade 

 Adviser, Department ot State, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, who will transmit them 

 to the British Embassy." 



Chas. a. Dards. 



Shipments of Belgian Goods. 

 Horticulture Publishing Co. 



I am in receipt of the following from 

 The Merchants' Association of New 

 York: 



"I have to inform you that the De- 

 partment has received from the Ameri- 

 can Ambassador at London the follow- 

 ing telegram, supplementing that dated 

 September 8: 



" 'I have today received the follow- 

 ing note from Sir Edward Grey, dated 

 September 16: 



" 'With reference to my note of the 

 7th ultimo, regarding the conditions on 

 which His Majesty's Government are 

 prepared to issue permits for the ex- 

 ports of goods of Belgian origin to 

 neutral countries, I have the honor to 

 inform Your Excellency that an agree- 

 ment has now been reached with the 

 Belgian Government by which the de- 

 posit of documents covering the sale 

 and shipment of such goods with a 

 bank in the United Kingdom will be 

 accepted in lieu ot the deposit of the 

 purchase money itself, in cases where 

 the latter condition is not practi- 

 cable.' " 



I am also in receipt of the following: 



"The Department of State has sent 

 word to the Merchants' Association 

 that formal notification has come to 

 the Department from the British gov- 

 ernment to the effect that applications 

 for the release of goods of German or 

 Austrian origin, contracted for by the 

 American importer prior to March 1st, 

 last, would henceforth be received at 

 the British Embassy at Washington 

 when filed by the Foreign Trade Ad- 

 visers of the Department of State. 

 That Department is now, therefore, 

 filing applications with the British Em- 

 bassy for the release of such ship- 

 ments. The assumption of liability to 

 pay for the goods before March 1st by 

 the American importer is now the 

 basis on which such permits are issued 

 by the British government. Hereafter, 

 all applications for the release of these 

 goods are to be filed at the British Em- 

 bassy in Washington and not in Lon- 

 don. 



"Applications should be addressed to 



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With regard to Fall shipments of 

 Azaleas and other plants from Bel- 

 gium, we have been in constant cable 

 communication with our connections 

 in Belgium, Holland and London, but 

 the arrangements have been made and 

 upset so often that we feared to make 

 any definite statement. Now we can 

 say definitely that Fall shipments will 

 come. We review briefly the changes 

 as follows: 



1. From June to August the ship- 

 ments were included with the British 

 "Order in Council" goods and ship- 

 ments were embargoed by the British 

 authorities and could not leave. 



2. During August, all arrangements 

 were made with the British author- 

 ities, the embargo was lifted, permits 

 were given to individual Belgium ship- 

 pers on the understanding that pay- 

 ments for the shipments be made in 

 England before the shipments left 

 Belgium. 



3. Early in September— when shii)- 

 ments were ready to leave, the Ger- 

 man authorities — learning that pro- 

 ceeds would not go directly into Bel- 

 gium — prevented shipments from leav- 

 ing Belgium. 



4. Now arrangements have been 

 made with both the German and 

 British authorities and shipments are 

 now leaving Belgium. 



The above refers exclusively to our 

 own shipments— we cannot speak for 

 all Belgium shippers, or all American 

 consignees. Within a few days we 

 expect to be able to advise you what 

 Belgium shipments have already left 

 Rotterdam. Yours truly. 



McHuTCHlSOX & Co. 



Value of imports of horticultural 

 merchandise at the Port of New York 

 for week ending September 18 is given 

 as follows: Clover seed, $43; grass 

 seed, $32t;; palm seed, $300; trees, 

 plants and bulbs. $163,740. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Bay State Nurseries of North 

 Abington, Mass., have just sent out a 

 little folder. "Why You Should Plant 

 in the Fall." being a reprint of an 

 article by A. E. Wilkinson, of Cornell 

 University, which appeared in the 

 Garden Magazine. It is a very con- 

 vincing little document on lines on 

 which it would pay every nurseryman 

 to push. 



Sixty-Second Annual Report of the 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts State 

 Board ot Agriculture for 1914. — A 

 splendid volume of 700 pages, contain- 

 ing reports of meetings, lectures and 

 essays of much practical value, agri- 

 cultural legislation, and reports of 

 State officials, including Nursery In- 

 spector. Ornithologist, Dairy Bureau. 

 Apiary Inspector, Boys' and Girls' Club 

 Work. State Forester and Incorporated 

 Agricultural Societies, all finely illus- 

 trated with insert plates. Secretary 

 Wheeler has in this volume given the 

 people of the State the best agricul- 

 tural report ever presented in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



PERTINENT ADVICE ON THE 

 ASTER QUESTION. 



There is no one connected with the 

 flower business who sees the question 

 from all sides as does the wholesale 

 commission man. To get the best 

 flowers to sell to the trade and to get 

 the best prices for those flowers he 

 must know a lot on the subject, a 

 recent discussion of the aster question 

 took place in one of Chicago's largest 

 wholesale commission houses and a 

 man long in the business of turning 

 flowers into money said that a few 

 things only were needed to turn the 

 growing of asters from a poor propo- 

 sition to a paying one. When asked 

 what they were, he said that, first of 

 all, the grower must get away from 

 the idea of quantity to that of quality, 

 because people buy garden flowers 

 from a florist only when they can get 

 better ones than they can grow them- 

 selves. Next, loose types of asters 

 produce, in proportion, more imperfect 

 flowers and the grower should study 

 to have his proportion of imperfect 

 flowers reduced to a minimum. Then 

 there are too many dark asters tor the 

 demand and more light tints should 

 take their places. Center buds should 

 be picked out as soon as they form and 

 not more than six blooms should be 

 allowed on any aster plant. Imperfect 

 flowers should not be sent into the 

 market but should be destroyed, as 

 they bring down the price by compet- 

 ing with good stock. Aster foliage 

 should be stripped from six to eight 

 inches of the stems. Asters should be 

 bunched with heads put even so cus- 

 tomers can readily see the quality of 

 the flowers. He ended by remarking 

 that it is easier to sell good asters at 

 a good price than to sell poor ones at 

 any price. 



Bloomfield, N. J.— J. J. Brozat, who 

 has a commodious flower store with 

 semi-conservatory glass front at 554 

 Bloomfield avenue, has seen seriously 

 ill for several weeks, but is now on 

 the road to recovery and expects to 

 be soon out again. 



The name of the Providence Horti- 

 cultural Company got incorrectly into 

 our column of New Flower Stores last 

 week. The business of this company, 

 of which Edward Mora Pope is pro- 

 prietor is that of landscape gardening, 

 forestry, agricultural blasting and sim- 

 ilar work, and the addresses at 107 

 Westminister stsreet. Providence, R. 

 I., is their office and not a flower store. 



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 French Golden Spnr. 



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