December L3, L919 



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509 



Wiu. F. Dreer, the son of the founder, 

 was known the world over as a great 

 seedsman, his early training having 

 been supplemented by some years' ex- 

 perience in the foremost European 

 houses. 



Henry P, Miehell got his early train- 

 ing in Dreers and his establishment 

 has grown in the past thirty years to 

 countrywide proportions. Houses in 

 the West are getting more and more 

 plentiful as population has increased 

 and called for larger variety in seeds 

 as farming has changed more to gar- 

 dening until now nearly every city of 

 any size has its own seed house. The 

 growing of seeds is not confined to 

 any one locality but spreads all over 

 North, South, East and West as soil 

 and climate may best suit any partic- 

 ular item of the many thousands now 

 Standard in gardening, farming and 

 floriculture. Europe, Australia, New 

 Zealand, South Africa, are also called 

 on for a large part of the supplies and 

 even the little island of Teneriffe like 

 Bermuda has been found super excel- 

 lent for a number of crops. 



The name of D. M. Ferry in a 

 special branch of the trade — known as 

 the box commission packet trade — is a 

 household word all over the country — 

 every country grocery and drug store 

 having handled these for many years. 

 The Ferry business has long been the 

 largest of its kind but there are scores 

 of other houses now doing business 

 along the same lines. In his later 

 years Mr. Ferry enjoyed high political 

 honors — governor of the state of Mich- 

 gan being one of them. The name of 

 James Vick of Rochester also stands 

 high in the annals of horticulture and 

 the seed trade. About forty years ago 

 Hiram Sibley, a millionaire contractor, 

 made quite a splurge in the business 

 in Chicago and Rochester but he got 

 tired of it after losing about a million. 

 Another millionaire made a similar 

 effort fifteen or twenty years ago in 

 San Francisco with nearly the same 

 results. These two instances are not 

 the only ones but they emphasize the 

 fact that the seed business is not par- 

 ticularly a good field for the plunger. 

 The humbler citizens, after the style 

 of James J. H. Gregory of Hubbard 

 squash fame, are better adapted for it. 

 (On second thought it was Grant 

 Thorburn, not James, who was 

 "Laurie Todd.") A word of mention 

 may be in order for Uncle Sam as a 

 seedsman. His special branch is giv- 

 ing seeds away for nothing, and few 

 of us can afford that. Even Apple 

 Seed Johnny, who flourished from 

 1800 to 1840 in the backwoods of 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio, got his meals 

 in return for his welcome gifts of 

 seeds of the forbidden fruit. 



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Last Summer a florist who had Imagined 

 be was outside of the hall section lost 

 upwards of 50,000 square feet of glass 

 by bail with no insurance to recom- 

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