April 19. 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



377 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SBBD TRADB ASSOCIATION 



OtSoen — President, F. w. Bolciaas. 

 Wuhllttvi, D. O.J First Vice- 1' resident. 

 Wm. O. Searlett, Baltimore, Md.; Beoond 

 Vlee-President, David Burpee. Philadel- 

 phia. Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer, 0. K. 

 Kendel. Clntlnnd. O. 



Seed Trade with European Countries. 



It has been recognized for years that 

 Hamburg, Germany, was the seed mar- 

 keting center of Europe. It not only 

 handled those seeds which were pro- 

 duced within German borders for ex- 

 port to foreign countries, but gathered 

 in the surplus production of many 

 other European countries for export. 

 This was particularly true with refer- 

 ence to the seed surpluses of France 

 and Russia. The larger part of the 

 French seed which reached the United 

 States, except vegetable seeds grown 

 under contract, came through Ham- 

 burg or other seed marketing points of 

 Germany. Hamburg not only served 

 as a distribution point for European 

 seeds, but also served as a point from 

 which seeds produced in America and 

 elsewhere were distributed throughout 

 Europe. Hamburg was not so impor- 

 tant in its relation to distribution 

 from the United States to the United 

 Kingdom, or vice versa, but it did han- 

 dle a large portion of this trade mov- 

 ing in both directions. 



The question today is what read- 

 justment will be made in the trade re- 

 lations between the United States and 

 the European Allied countries and be- 

 tween the United States and the Cen- 

 tral Powers. At present it seems that 

 the wholesale seed concerns of London, 

 Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Belfast are 

 bidding for Continental trade, with the 

 advantage, naturally, with London as 

 the important seed marketing center. 

 There seems to be no logical reason 

 for not establishing and maintaining 

 direct trade relations in the distribu- 

 tion of seeds between the United 

 States and France. It seems to be 

 merely a matter of the American seed 

 concerns and the French seed concerns 

 getting together on a business basis 

 and establishing confidential business 

 relations between each other. An im- 

 portant factor which enters into the 

 matter is the question of variety 



names and grades or standards on 

 which the French people heretofore 

 have purchased American-grown seeds 

 through German commercial agencies. 

 Referring particularly to the matter of 

 seed peas, the French appear not to 

 be familiar with the variety names 

 used by American seedsmen in offer- 

 ing their output to France. They are 

 more familiar with the names which 

 have been attached to American varie- 

 ties and stocks by German seedsmen 

 in their trade with France. It would 

 be necessary, in this particular com- 

 modity, to determine the German 

 synonyms for American-grown varie- 

 ties and to indicate these so that the 

 French dealers would recognize them 

 under the names by which they had 

 formerly purchased them. A special 

 effort should be made by American 

 seed concerns, either individually or 

 through the national seed associations, 

 to establish direct trade relations with 

 French seed concerns. It would be 

 better both for American and French 

 concerns to deal in this way. With the 

 establishment of an American mer- 

 chant marine, there will undoubtedly 

 be ample shipping facilities between 

 the two countries so that charges for 

 transportation will at least be as low 

 as, and probably considerably lower, 

 by direct routing than be re-routing 

 through some other country. It is sim- 

 ply a matter of establishing the most 

 economic and efficient distribution pos- 

 sible. 



In Italy there seem to be very few, 

 if any, American seeds that they are 

 in need of. They seem to be well sup- 

 plied at the present time with both 

 field and vegetable seeds, and their 

 normal production of practically all 

 of these items probably will normally 

 take care of their home requirements 

 in the future. They are particularly 

 interested in sugar-beet seed, which 

 they are unable to obtain at the pres- 

 ent time and which cannot be furn- 

 ished them by the United States, but 

 they hope to be able to establish areas 

 of profitable sugar-beet seed produc- 

 tion within their own borders. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Mount Clemens, Mich. — K. Velthuys 

 and P. Vos, well-known bulb special- 

 ists of Holland, have purchased sixty 

 acres of land here and will specialize 

 in gladioli bulbs. Their place will be 

 known as Maple Park Farm. 



Oak Park, III. — The greenhouses of 

 the C. Pfund Company have been pur- 

 chased by George Jung, who will do 

 business under the name of the Home 

 Florist. 



MICHELL'S 



PRIMULA SEED 



PRIMULA CHINENSIS 



(Chinese Primrose) 



Ms tr. pkt. tr. pkt. 

 MIohell's Prize Mixture. An 

 even blending of all colors. $0.60 $1.00 



Alba Magnifies. White 60 1.00 



ChUwlck Bed. Bright red.. .60 1.00 

 Duchess. White, with zone 

 of rosy carmine, yellow eye. .60 1.00 



Holbnrn Blue .60 1.00 



Krrmesina Snlendens. Crim- 

 son oo ioo 



Rosy Morn. Pink 60 1.00 



PR1NULA 0BC0NICA G1GANTEA 



A great improvement over the old type, 

 flowers much larger tr. pkt. 



Lilacina. Pale lilac $0.50 



Kermesina. Deep crimson 50 



Rosea. Pink 50 



Alba. White 50 



Also all other Seasonable Seeds, Bulbs 

 and supplies. SEND FOR WHOLE- 

 SALE CATALOG. 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO. 



518 Market St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Iron Mountain, Mich. — Odin F. Es- 

 kill, house 28 x 100. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — E. H. Mazey, 

 3003 Ewing Ave., one house. 



Providence, R. I.— Quidnick Green- 

 houses, additions and alterations. 



Brandywine Summit, Pa. — E. A. Har- 

 vey & Sons, rebuilding. 



STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, 



MANAGEMENT, ETC., OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



As Required by the Act of Congress 

 Aug. 24, 1912. 



Publisher — Horticulture Publishing Co., 

 Boston. Editor and Business Manager — 

 William W. Castle. List of stockholders 

 holding one per cent, or more of total 

 amount of stock— W. W. Castle, N. P. Per- 

 kins, Estate of Wm. J. Stewart, Ralph W. 

 Messinger, J. K. M. L. Farquhar, P. Welch, 

 Estate of David Welch of Boston, Mass. ; 

 Estate of F. R. Matbison, Waltham, Mass.; 

 Thos. Young, Jr., W. F. Sheridan, F. H. 

 Traendlv. ChaB. Schenek, John I. Raynor, 

 New York City; Estate of W. F. Hasting, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; A. S. Burns, Elmhurst, N. 

 Y. ; Wm. S. Person, S. S. Pennock, Phila- 

 delphia. Pa. ; John Burton, Chestnut mil, 

 Philadelphia, Pa ; Estate of Carl Jurgens, 

 Newport. R. I. ; Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit, 

 Mich.; Fred Lautenschlager, Chicago, 111. 

 Bondholders, mortgagees and other secur- 

 ity holders — none. 



Sworn to and subscribed before Notary 

 Public by WM. W. CASTLE. 



Business Manager. 



Boston, April, 1010. 



SEEDS AND BULBS 

 JBobbington'8 



128 Chambers St , N. Y. City 



