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HORTICULTURE 



August 5, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



officers — President, Kirby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

 W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C. j Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, L. L. Olds, Madison, 

 Wis. ; Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. Kendel, 

 CleTeland, O. 



Holland Shipments Not Insured 

 Against Loss by Delays. 



The statement having been circu- 

 lated by Dutch bulb drummers in this 

 country that Holland insures against 

 damage to plants and bulbs, caused by 

 delays en route, Mr. W. Rolker, of New- 

 York, wrote to the principal Dutch in- 

 surance brokers in Rotterdam asking 

 for information on this matter and in 

 due time received the following reply 

 under date of July 14, 1916: 



"In prompt reply to yours of the 19th of 

 June, received today, we are sorry to tell 

 you that we must decline your request. The 

 companies in this market do not feel much 

 Interested in insurances of this nature, so 

 they prefer not to extend such to any for- 

 eign business. We regret that we cannot 

 afford you an insurance on any conditions 

 whatever." 



We learn that Lloyds who did some 

 underwriting for the Hollanders last 

 season are so dis.susted with the many 

 claims put in that they will not write 

 another similar policy this year. Such 

 is in accordance with the views of our 

 American insurance companies gen- 

 erally. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending July 21, were recorded as fol- 

 lows: 



Bulbs— England. $6; Hongkong, $1.30. 



Plants— Italy, $.51; England, $653; 

 Guatemala, $20; Panama. $6; Colom- 

 bia, $1,172; Venezuela. $S32. 



Red clover seed — Italy, $95; Japan, 

 $4. 



Other clover seed — France. $6,793. 



Grass seed — England, $3,159. 



Other seeds — Denmark, $301; 

 France, $12; England, $4,103; China, 

 $671; Morocco, $715; Argentine, $1,663; 

 Hongkong. $26; Italy, $97; Nether- 

 lands, $250. 



Nitrate of potash— England, $133,- 

 222. 



Nitrate of soda— Chile. $65,542. 



Dried blood — Argentine, $5,028. 



Guano — Venezuela, $4. 



In Chicago. 



Louis Bloom, one of the best known 

 and best liked seed representatives on 

 the road and who has had a great deal 

 of practical experience in growing and 

 marketing seed and produce, has 

 taken over the eastern and southeast- 

 ern territory for the Leonard Seed Co. 

 of Chicago. This territory was for- 

 merly worked by Mr. Sutherland, who 

 no longer represents the Leonard 

 Seed Co. Mr. Bloom has been work- 



ing other territory for the Leonard 

 Seed Co. for many years and handling 

 their larger jobbing trade. 



The Leonard Seed Company have 

 recently held a convention of travel- 

 ing men, many of their men being 

 called in and going over the trial 

 grounds and fields of onion sets. It 

 is the custom of the Leonard Seed Co. 

 to take their men into their confi- 

 dence and have them examine care- 

 fully all trials and growing crops so 

 that they are well posted on condi- 

 tions. In spite of the temperature 

 being 100 in the shade, they tramped 

 the onion set fields and proved them- 

 selves to be more able to stand hot 

 weather than the militia on the bor- 

 der. It was probably the interesting 

 crop conditions they were examining 

 which prevented them from knowing 

 how hot it really was. A. H. Smith. 

 who was with them, states that it was 

 one of the best meetings this company 

 has ever held. Mr. Smith reports as 

 a result of their inspection that they 

 find the onion set acreage this year 

 around Chicago very much reduced, 

 and in addition to that, the crop was 

 much damaged early in the season by 

 wet weather and the maggots ate the 

 sets quite badly, leaving spaces and 

 skips in the rows, so that with the 

 very best weather conditions from 

 now until they are pulled, onion sets 

 will be a very light crop and the prices 

 should be correspondingly higher this 

 season. The quality promises to be 

 very good, as the last two or three 

 weeks the weather has been dry and 

 hot, which had a tendency to make 

 good-keeping sets, and if there is not 

 very much rain during the next ten 

 days or two weeks, Chicago should 

 harvest choice, small, good-keeping 

 sets of the very finest quality, but the 

 crop will be a small one. 



Seed Legislation. 



The provision for the free distribu- 

 tion of flower and vegetable seeds will 

 probably be replaced in the Agricul- 

 tural Appropriation Bill as suggested 

 by the conferees and again a large 

 sum of money will be used as "salve." 

 The appropriation amounts to $252,- 

 540. The item of $3,000 to enable the 

 Department of Agriculture to cooper- 

 ate with horticultural organizations in 

 the standardization of botanical 

 names is in all probability lost for the 

 conferees recommend that it be not 

 adopted. A total of $105,000 is pro- 

 vided for the enforcement of the in- 

 secticide act and $28,700 for the dis- 

 covery of seeds that are not up to 

 standard under the "pure" seed regu- 

 lations. 



Notes. 



The pea crop in Wisconsin is a very 

 light one. Men now taking in peas 

 at different growing stations through- 

 out the state report the quality veir 

 good indeed. Peas are a better sam- 

 ple than they have been for two 



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years, but the yield has been cut 

 short and there will be a short crop 

 harvested. 



We learn from our British exchanges 

 that copious rains, and the prevalence 

 of cold nights are keeping seed grow- 

 ers in an anxious frame of mind. 

 Unless atmospheric change comes 

 quickly some crops will be scarce, and 

 not only the growers, but the buyers 

 for big seed houses will have difiBcult 

 problems to solve. 



Beans in Michigan are being hurt 

 now by the hot, dry weather, but up 

 till this week the crop was growing 

 well and the prospects good. If Mich- 

 igan is fortunate in getting some good 

 showers during the next few days, it 

 will help the bean crop considerable, 

 otherwise there will be much damage 

 done, as beans are just beginning to 

 bloom and the next week or ten days 

 will tell the story in regard to the 

 crop. 



Lawn seed. No. 21957. — An Ameri- 

 can consular officer in France writes 

 that a firm in his district desires to 

 be placed in touch with American ex- 

 porters of grass seed. Terms desir- 

 ed are: Seed subject to examination 

 as to purity and thrift in a municipal 

 laboratory before acceptance; pay- 

 ment to be made on receipt. Quota- 

 tions should be in French currency 

 and correspondence in French lan- 

 guage. — Bureau of Commerce Report. 



Reserved addresses may be obtained 

 from the Bureau and its district offlces. 

 .state opportunity number. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



C. S. Sheldon, Shady Shore Gardens, 

 Oswego, N. Y. — American and Holland 

 Grown Bulbs. 



Royal Tottenham Nurseries, Dedem- 

 svaat, Holland. — Wholesale Trade List 

 of Hardy Perennials, Azaleas, Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Rock Plants, Aquatics, etc. 

 A very complete and useful catalogue. 

 McHutchison & Co., New York City, 

 are the sole representatives for the 

 United States and Canada. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Independence, Mo. — ■ S. Bryson 

 Ayres, voluntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. Liabilities, $4,300, assets, a 

 very little personal property. 



Newark, O. — The Miller Green- 

 houses, E. S. Brown, trustee, were sold 

 at auction July 29th. The eight houses 

 were all planted and the land and 

 buildings were appraised at $12,000. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 Portland, Me. — Jordan-Blanchard 

 Nursery Co., capital stock, $10,000. In- 

 corporators, Alvin C. and Harold C. 

 Jordan. 



Plainfield, N. J. — American Bulb Co., 

 to raise and deal in seeds, flowers and 

 bulbs, capital stock, $50,000. Incor- 

 porators, Wm. Newcorn, Pauline Bot- 

 tenstein and Elsie Davidson. 



Kniffht & Struck Co. announce their 

 removal to 258 Fifth avenue. New 

 York City where they have acquired 

 the entire fourth floor for stock and 

 salesrooms. 



