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HORTICULTURE 



September 23, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers— President, Kirby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

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

 ond Vice-President, I.. L. Olds, Hadison, 

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

 Cleveland, O. 



Clover for Seed 



The Department of .4griculture re- 

 ports that the acreage of clover for 

 seed increased this year over last 9.1 

 per cent., equal or gi'eater acreages be- 

 ing reported in all States except New 

 York, in which it suffered a reduction 

 to 97 from drought, and Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota, in which it fell to 90 

 and 95 per cent, of last year from the 

 effects of winterkill, drought, and the 

 pasturing of the clover meadows. 

 Marked increases are shown in all 

 other important clover seed states of 

 the North Central group, ranging from 

 105 in Iowa to 125 in Michigan and 

 Nebraska. 



The condition of the crop is reported 

 at 84.1 per cent, of a normal, which is 

 3.8 higher than last year and 4.8 above 

 the ten-year average, the condition be- 

 ing between 80 and 90 per cent, in all 

 important clover seed states. Oregon 

 reports 94, Washington 97. Mississippi 

 99 and New Jersey 100. 



One Week's Imports 



Imports at the port of New York, of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending September 8. were recorded as 

 follows: 



Bulbs.— Azores, $345; France, $134.- 

 527; Netherlands. $9,970; England, 

 $249: Bermuda, $204; Japan, $2,005. 



Plants.— England, $64; Bermuda, $76. 



Red clover seed. ^Canada, $424. 



Clover seed. — France, $4,620; Canada, 

 $6,143. 



Grass seed. — Denmark, $1,078; Eng- 

 land. $5,108. 



Other seeds.— France, $21,501; Italy, 

 $1,301; England, $21,198. 



Nitrate of potash. — England, $35. 



Other fertilizers. — England, $244. 



Largest Bulb Shipment 

 Twelve thousand five hundred cases 

 of Dutch flower bulbs, said to be the 

 largest cargo of its kind ever imported 

 into the United States on one vessel. 

 arrived at New York Sunday, Sep- 

 tember 17, on the Holland-America 

 freighter Poeldyk from Rotterdam. 



French Bulbs, etc. 



All French bulbs are cleaning up 

 rapidly in New York. Roman hya- 

 cinths are very scarce. Paper whties 

 are firm in price. Candidum lilies, 

 large sizes are all sold. French 

 freesias are in fair demand, stocks 

 small. 



Notes 



San Francisco, Cal. — A new seed 

 store has been opened at 326-328 Mar- 

 ket St., by W. F. Pitts Seed & Nur- 

 sery Co. 



Owensboro, Ky.— The Rapier Grain 

 & Seed Company are erecting a new 

 building to replace the one recent- 

 ly destroyed by fire. 



LIL. FORMOSUM 



Green Stem Type 



This variety la desirable for flower- 

 ing in January, February and Marcli. 



Bulbs in 

 each case 100 1000 



0-8 iuch 400 $4.75 $42.50 



7-9 inch 300 6.50 58.00 



S-9 inch 250 6.50 62.50 



8-10 inch 225 8.75 82.50 



n-10 inch 200 10.00 92.50 



10-12 inch 150 14.00 130.00 



12-14 inch 17.50 165.00 



Send for New Wholesale Catalogue 

 of Bulbs, etc., if you haven't a copy. 



HENRY F. MIOHELL CO. 



518 Market St., Philadelphia 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trials grounds, Raynes 



Park, London, Elngland. Send for Ccitalogue 



CARTERO FESTLD SEEDS, Inc., Conmierce Bld^Soalo^H^ 



RE BELGIAN SHIPMENTS. 



McHutchison & Co. are sending out 

 the following statement: 



With legard to fall shipments of 

 Azaleas, etc. from Belgium, we are up 

 against a serious problem; the Ger- 

 man authorities will not allow the 

 shipments to leave Belgium unless 

 payment is made to the Belgian grow- 

 ers in advance. This of course is im- 

 practicable; money cannot be sent 

 into Belgium, and the British will not 

 pass the shipments through the block- 

 ade if payment is made to the Bel- 

 gians, who of course are under the 

 control of the German military 

 authorities. 



Up to June, 1915, the German 

 authorities made no objection to the 

 shipping of these goods. The British 

 "Order in Council" went into effect 

 about that time, and British permits 

 were given on the understanding that 

 payment be deposited in a bank in 

 Great Britain to the credit of the ship- 

 per — not to be withdrawn without 

 British consent. The German authori- 

 ties evidently agreed to these con- 

 ditions, as after much negotiation 

 with the Belgian growers they like- 

 wise gave permits to ship, and ship- 

 ments have come forward since on 

 that basis. 



As the strong censorship in Belgium 

 prevents information coming from 

 there, we did not get the exact text of 

 the former agreement made; but from 

 information which reached us in devi- 

 ous ways, we understood the British 

 would release, through Belgian banks, 

 part of the funds accumulated in the 

 Banque Beige pour I'Etranger, London. 

 Evidently not enough of the funds 

 were released to satisfy the Germans, 

 and that is likely the reason why they 

 now stop shipments. 



We surmounted all previous obsta- 

 cles, got shipments through from Bel- 

 gium each fall and spring since the 

 war began, but the German authori- 

 ties probably acted with deliberation 

 in this case and did not allow suffici- 



ent time for pressure to be brought to 

 bear upon them to change or even 

 modify their orders. Still, the situa- 

 tion was almost as bad last fall — yet 

 shipments came, late we admit, but we 

 shipped all our orders, so we are not 

 without hope that this fall's shipments 

 will yet come, though we feel you 

 should know the situation. 



The United States State Department 

 acted energetically and placed the 

 matter by cable directly before the 

 German authorities in Belgium. The 

 German and British Embassies are 

 both lending assistance. Our Holland 

 connections are in touch with Berlin 

 and London, and the strong Syndicate 

 of Belgian growers is negotiating direct 

 with the German military authorities 

 in Belgium, so you will see that every 

 agency is working to the end that 

 these shipments will come this season. 



If shipments can be made, you will 

 get yours— more we cannot promise. 

 We even offered to advance payments 

 through Holland for the shipments, 

 then pay a second time through Lon- 

 don, but the British authorities re- 

 fused to allow the shipments to pass 

 the blockade if payment had been 

 made in advance for them. 



Importers and others interested in 

 getting into the United States the 

 azaleas and other plants being held up 

 through the action of Great Britain 

 and Germany in refusing export per- 

 mits on these from Belgium, are not 

 dealing with possibilities, and are 

 going right ahead in their efforts to 

 prevail upon the Governments named, 

 through our own State Department, to 

 reverse their decisions. The whole 

 story is aptly told by William F. Gude 

 in a recent letter addressed to the Sec- 

 retary of State. 



ROBERT DYSART 



C3ERTinED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 



Simple method ■ of correct acrountlnr 



npMlally adapted for florlati' use. 



BO0K8 BAUANCSD AND ADjrBTED. 



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