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The Horists^ Review 



Afbil 8, 1«20 



Seed Trade News 



AJflBIOAM SUDD TBADI ASSOOIATION. 



PiMldsBt. 1. O. Duncan, PhlUdelptaU. Pft.; 

 Mcretary-trearanr, 0. R. Kendel, OlereUnd, O. 



Eetail stores have a problem in secur- 

 ing sufficient help to handle the spring 

 rush adequately. 



The Poole Implement & Seed Co., of 

 Tacoma, Wash., has been experiencing a 

 heavy demand for seeds this season. 



Seedsmen can save a lot of paper and 

 presswork by editing their mailing lists. 

 It is the exceptional list v?hich does not 

 contain many dead names and duplicates. 



Confidence has succeeded suspicion in 

 the attitude of buyer toward seller in the 

 business world and only those continue 

 prosperously who develop that feeling by 

 their transactions. 



The call for tomato seed is not ex- 

 pected to be so large this season as in 

 other years, since the packers are clos- 

 ing their factories and growers curtailing 

 production because of the present over- 

 stock of canned goods. 



Catalogue houses have an interesting 

 problem in the purchase of paper for 

 1921 books. Under present conditions 

 orders must be placed months in advance 

 of delivery and the price today is more 

 than fifty per cent higher than a year ago. 

 The question is, should one insure his 

 needs by contracting now at market price 

 time of delivery or te,ke a chance by wait- 

 ing! 



When 147 cases of valley arrived in 

 Chicago badly sprouted as the result of 

 delays in transit, H. N. Bruns refused to 

 accept them and they were sold by the 

 government for duty for a total sum of 

 $59 to a farmer. Though the insurance 

 covers Mr. Bruns' monetary loss, he is 

 still the loser, for the stock was of excel- 

 lent quality and such as is much in de- 

 mand now. 



The seed warehouse of the Livingston 

 Seed Co., at 59 East Chestnut street, 

 Columbus, O., was damaged by fire early 

 in the morning of April 1. There was no 

 interruption in the routine of business, as 

 all orders were handled from the retail 

 store on High street and all stock was 

 brought in from the warehouses on the 

 farms at Kirkersville, 0., and the True 

 Blue trial grounds, near Columbus, O. 



FREE SEEDS FIGHT AGAIN. 



Once more the tussle is on to see 

 whether economy and good sense will 

 end the time-worn and joke-ridden cus- 

 tom of the congressional distribution of 

 free seeds or whether the ancient pre- 

 rogative of the federal legislator to send 

 his constituents a few packets of beans, 

 etc., will be continued. So little does 

 this custom hold the serious attention 

 of any but members of the lower house 

 of Congress that its annual appearance 

 evokes almost no serious argument, but 

 merely treatment such as that in I he 

 editorial columns of the New York Trib- 

 une, which, says S. S. Skidelsky, of that 

 city, will give the trade an idea of 

 others' attitude toward this long-stand- 

 ing irritation of seedsmen: 



THE FREE SEED COMEDY. 



In all the high regolves at Washington to cut 

 out superfluous expenditure the existence of one i 

 ancient eleemoajuarj custom seems to have been I 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Ground* 



Did you ever sow Peacock's Flower 

 Seeds? If not— why not? Other 

 florists do. 



Please see full list of Florists' and Market 

 Gardeners' Seeds in the 16-page Green Sec- 

 tion, pages 117 to 132 of The Review for 

 January 29. 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



I SEEP GROWERS AND IMPORTERSI 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



