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HORTICULTURE 



February 1, 1919 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEBD TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President. F. W. Bolelano, 

 Washington, !>.<.; First Vice-President, 

 Win. O. Scarlett, Baltimore, M<1 Second 

 Vice-President, David Burpee, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer, C. K. 

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Department Seed Experts Visit 

 Europe. 



The United States Department of 

 Agriculture has sent two of its experts 

 to Europe to secure information con- 

 cerning clover, grass, and vegetable 

 seed stocks and requirements in the 

 various European countries. 



These men — Dr. A. J. Pieters, of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, and W. A. 

 Wheeler, of the Bureau of Markets — 

 sailed for Europe December 30. They 

 expect to visit Great Britain, France, 

 Belgium, Italy, Holland, and Denmark, 

 and the immediately important mat- 

 ters of information that they gather 

 will be cabled to Washington for use 

 by the Department of Agriculture, the 

 War Trade Board, and other govern- 

 mental agencies in shaping the export 

 policy as to certain kinds of seed. The 

 information will then be disseminated 

 to the seed trade in order that a better 

 general idea may be had of the prob- 

 able future requirements for field and 

 vegetable seed. 



Conservation Need Indicated. 



Indications are that the supplies of 

 several kinds of seed in this country 

 must be carefully conserved in order 

 to maintain crop production. At the 

 same time it appears that it may be 

 necessary for the United States to 

 take chances on incurring a shortage 

 of some kinds of seeds in order to 

 meet the pressing needs of the nations 

 that were associated with this country 

 in the war. 



Up to this time there is no definite 

 information available as to the needs 

 of Great Britain, France, Italy, and 

 Belgium for various kinds of seeds. 

 Holland, Denmark, and other neutral 

 countries very likely have consider- 

 able surpluses of certain kinds of 

 seeds ready for export to the United 

 States and may at the same time need 

 some kinds of which this country has 

 a surplus. That information, it is ex- 

 pected, will be forthcoming from Dr. 

 Pieters, the forage-crop expert, and 

 Mr. Wheeler, the seed-trade expert. 



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ever before. Early in the war it he- 

 came apparent that seed production 

 was very largely at a standstill in 

 most of the European countries and 

 that with the great obstacles to 

 ocean transportation the compara- 

 tively small quantities that were pro- 

 duced could not be brought across. 

 Seed growers in the United States un- 

 dertook to extend their production 

 both as to quantity and varieties, and 

 the result has been that many of them 

 who were formerly importers have 

 now become exporters. Indications 

 are that there is a considerable sur- 

 plus of several kinds of seeds, and 

 growers are at a loss to know whether 

 to increase or decrease their acreage 

 or to maintain it at last year's 

 standard. A study of conditions in 

 this country alone would not suffice to 

 answer these questions, but must be 

 supplemented with the information 

 now about to be gathered in the coun- 

 tries of Europe. 



More Seed Grown During War 

 Seed production has been carried 

 forward on a larger scale in the United 

 States during the past few years than 



Government Help Needed. 

 Perhaps no line of business was 

 more deeply disturbed by the war than 

 that of seed growing and distribution. 

 Many agencies were paralyzed, and 

 the machinery of the seed trade on 

 the Continent of Europe continues so 

 disrupted as to make the interchange 

 of seeds needed for next spring's plant- 

 ing very difficult. Seed growers and 

 dealers feel that individual initiative 

 has been ' practically exhausted and 

 that during the period of reconstruc- 

 tion the work should be carried for- 

 ward through Government agencies. 

 It was largely in response to this de- 

 mand that Dr. Pieters and Mr. 

 Wheeler were sent to Europe by the 

 Department of Agriculture to make a 

 first-hand study of seed production 

 and marketing problems. 



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TO TEST DAHLIA VARIETIES. 



The American Dahlia Society has 

 made arrangements to establish a test 

 garden for new dahlias at Connecticut 

 Agricultural College at Storrs. The 

 garden will be under the direction of 

 G. W. Fraser, instructor in floriculture. 



The object of the plan is to test new 

 varieties of dahlias not yet listed or 

 commercialized and to score and clas- 

 sify them. This will make it possible 

 for anyone having a new variety to 

 introduce, or a new seedling of prom- 

 ise, to have it tested and compared 

 with others growing under the same 

 conditions. At the end of the season 

 the varieties will be scored and clas- 

 sified according to their respective 

 merits and the A. D. S. certificate of 

 merit will be awarded to those scoring 

 the required number of points. 



The American Dahlia Society has 

 test gardens at Geneva, N. Y., and at 

 the University of Minnesota at St. 

 Paul, Minn. The U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture may establish one next 

 year at Arlington Farm. 



The fourteenth annual convention of 

 the Tennessee State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, Tennessee State Horticultural 

 Society, Tennessee State Nursery- 

 men's Association and Tennessee Bee- 

 keepers' Association was held January 

 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st, at Nashville, 

 Tennessee, and a most interesting pro- 

 gram of events was carried out. 



