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The Florists^ Review 



March 23, 1916. 



TURNIP SEED 



Seed Trade News 



AMEEIOAM SEED TKABE ASSOCIATION. 



President, John M. Lupton, Mattltuck, L. I.; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, C. K. Kendel, CleTeland. O. 



Thirty-fourth annual convention, Chicago, June 

 20 to 22, 1916. 



Considering the situation as regards 

 supply, the prices of seeds have been held 

 down, not boosted. 



One of the difficulties the importers of 

 Japanese bulbs will have to contend with 

 this season will be lack of transportation, 

 Japanese boats alone being now avail- 

 able. 



Anton C. Zvolanek, of Lompoc, Cal., 

 whose specialty is seed of winter-flower- 

 ing Spencer sweet peas, is making an 

 eastern trip. He will be at Philadelphia 

 next week, during the show. 



The California seed growers especially, 

 but also those of other sections, are pretty 

 well booked up with all the business 

 they can handle for 1916, and in a gen- 

 eral way they have been able to name 

 their own contract prices. 



Onion seed amounting to 39,654 

 pounds, valued at $40,828, was invoiced 

 at the American consulate at Teneriffe, 

 Canary Islands, for the United States 

 during 1915, compared with 39,490 

 pounds, valued at $43,293, for 1914. 



J. Kaufmann, who styles himself 

 ' * Authorized growers ' contracting 

 agent," has an office at 550 East Sixty- 

 second street, Chicago, representing 

 growers of onion sets in the district south 

 of that city, where the onion set acre- 

 age has increased notably of recent years. 



So unfavorable has the weather been 

 that certain rather large seed houses are 

 said to be from thirty to forty per cent 

 behind the usual March business to date. 

 It means a grand rush when the ground 

 opens, with the probability of one of the 

 shortest spring seasons on record. A 

 short season never is a big season. 



It is reported that Sutton & Sons, of 

 Reading, England, who have branches in 

 New York and San Francisco, are about 

 to open a large seed depot in Calcutta, 

 which will act as a center for the distri- 

 bution of seeds to every part of India. 

 Hitherto the greater part of the seeds 

 used there have been supplied by German 

 seedsmen. 



Charles Dickinson, of the Albert 

 Dickinson Co., was one of the first to 

 lend assistance to the development of 

 air craft and is president of the Aero 

 Club of Illinois. When the United 

 States army was ordered into Mexico 

 last week Mr. Dickinson telegraphed 

 to Washington an offer of the free use 

 of the 640-acre field of the club at Chi- 

 cago for an aviation training camp for 

 military fliers. 



SEED SALES IN IOWA. 



While so many seedsmen are com- 

 plaining of the backwardness of the 

 season, it is pleasant to get this breath 

 of spring in a letter from Henry Field, 

 Shenandoah, la., dated March 20: 



" I thought you would be interested 

 in knowing how the mail orders are 

 coming for us this season. Here are 

 the figures: 



"Week ending March 18, 12,200 or- 

 ders, against 8,230 same week last year. 



"Average size of order about $3.20, 

 which is approximately five per cent I 



TURNIP SEED g q C O . 



1 E O H A R Bx» 5-T. ^"'^"•* 



Im »- aas-aao w. ^ GROWERS fOR THE TRADt 



ONION SETS Write for PricM 



YOU will be satisfied witli tlie products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Qro w** 



Batter write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for aew Complete Catalogue^ 



Braslan 



Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only. Onion, Lkttuok, Cabbot, 

 Paksnip, PAB8I4EY, CKI.KBT, KNDrvK, Sai^ift, Named and Mjsxd 



OBANDIFLOBA and SPBNCBB SWKKT PKA8, and SUJCrLOWXB. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE. CALIFORNIA 



Company 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, Conn. 



Orewliis StatiMM at Emm* Jm4mi. Mich., QreMi Bay, Wla^ •t.A a tlioa y . Mahe 



Beans, Peas, Sweet Corn, Onion, Beet, Turnip, Tomato, Etc. Etc. 



97th Yemr 



J. B0L8I«N0 & SON 



Whotosala flianlan and FtoM Saada, 

 Oalan Sato, Saad Patatoaa. 



-r^^ar BALTIMORE, MD. 



Contract Seed Growers 



Spedaltii 



|M* Pepper, EjrKPl*lt, Tomato, 



Vine 8Md and Field Gora. 



Correspondence Solicited 



George R. Pedrick & Son 



PKPmCKTOWW, N. I. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, g™^ NEB. 



Wholesale Growers of Hifh-grade Seeds 



Cacumber, Muikmelon, Squash and Pump' 

 Idfv Sweet, Flint and Dent Seed Com 



—THE— 



J. C. Robinson Seed'Co. 



WATERLOO, NEB. 



ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



Contract growers of Cucumber. Cantaloupe, 

 Watermelon, Squash and Pumpkin Seed, Sugar 

 Flint and Field Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialtlei : Lettuce, Onion. Sweet Peai. Aiter^ 

 Cosmoa, Mltmonette, Verbena, in rariety. 

 rnrrARDondencn solicited 



above the size at the same time last 

 year. 



"Increase in number of orders over 

 same period last year, about fifty per 

 cent. Increase in volume a little more. 



"This is all retail mail order, as we 

 have no counter trade and do not sell 

 to dealers or agents. Trade seems well 



EVEREnE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^<=s55tt>^ SETS 



4«1S Mllwaukaa Avanua, CHICASO 



Mention The Hevlew when yon write. 



THE KINBERUN SEED CO. 



S«ederowen SANTA CLARAi CALi 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE, RADISH, EtCc 



Correspondence Solicited 



HeRry Fish Seed COc 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA, -> CAl^ 



TOMATO SEED 



Grown lor the 

 Wholeaaie Seed Trade 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



SANTA ANA, 



CAUVOBHIA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper. Hgg Plant. Squash. Pumpkin, 

 Cucumber, Cantaloupe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Corn, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Correspondence Solicited. Bwadaaboro. N. J. 



