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The Florists' Review 



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April 13, 1916. 



Seed Trade News 



AXESICAN SEED TKAOE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Secretary-Treasurer, C. K. Eendel, CleTelana, O. 



Thirty-fourth annual convention, Chicago, June 

 20 to 22, 1916. 



The death of E. Reece, senior member 

 of McKay, Reece & Co., Nashville, Tenn., 

 is recorded in the obituary column this 

 week. 



The affairs of the bankrupt Johnson 

 Seed Co., Philadelphia, will be closed up 

 at a meeting April 17, at the oflSce of the 

 referee. 



March weather in April is prolonging 



the season to some extent, but most of the 



mail-order seed houses have given up hope 



that April 's increase will make up for the 



» shrinkage in last month's sales. 



The cool weather has proved a boon 

 to the seedsmen handling onion sets, as 

 it is making the shipping of them much 

 less wasteful than it otherwise would be. 

 The market is well cleaned up. 



The heaviest fall of snow of the year 

 in western Pennsylvania, with a blanket 

 of white over the entire Atlantic coast 

 from Washington to Portland, April 8 

 put a damper on mail orders and counter 

 trade in that part of the country where 

 seed stores are most numerous. 



After operating successfully in the 

 onion set territory south of Chicago for 

 five years, as growers' contracting agent 

 on a commission basis, J. Kaufman has 

 decided to engage in the business on his 

 own account and has leased a warehouse 

 of about half an acre in area at Thorn- 

 ton Junction, South Holland, 111., where 

 he has sidetrack connection with two rail- 

 roads. His recent operations have ap- 

 proximated 100,000 bushels per year. 



IMPORTS OF BXTLBS. 



The following are the official records 

 of the imports of bulbs and bulbous 

 roots or corms imported during the last 

 three years for which statistics are 

 available: 



Year ending June 30 Quantity Value 



1913 288,046,000 |1,82.S,307 



1914 216,1.38,000 2,0«2,1.'!P 



1915 255,700,000 2,375,316 



CABBOT SEED WANTED. 



More than 8,000 pounds of carrot 

 seed are needed to plant a crop suf- 

 ficient for the requirements of the Brit- 

 ish government contract for 600,000,000 

 cans of beef stew for the army, ac- 

 cording to a statement from Philadel- 

 phia. The $91,000,000 order for this 

 special army ration is being handled 

 by the Imperial Canners, Ltd., a Cana- 

 dian concern formed especially for that 

 purpose a month ago by Philadelphians 

 interested in the Colonial Packing Co. 



Referring to the negotiations now un- 

 der way for the required supplies of 

 carrot seed, the Ledger says: 



"A local seed house expects to land 

 the contract for about 6,000 pounds of 

 carrot seed this week. This concern 

 bid on 4,500 pounds of seed two weeks 

 ago for the J. T. Polk Co., an Indian- 

 apolis cannery, which is allied with the 

 Colonial Packing Co., in the Imperial 

 Canners, Ltd. The name of the seed 

 house is withheld for the present, but 

 an official of the concern said yesterday 

 that the Indianapolis firm is seeking to 

 place contracts for at least 8,000 pounds 

 of seed, or nearly double the quantity 

 originally figured on. 



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TURNIP SEED ^ -^ 



^mi ARD SEED , 



I e O N Aw K„ .SUr. cH.e».. 

 Ba ■• 2xe-2to w. » CROWtRS fOR THE TRADt 



ONION SETS wriMiwptiMs 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia.— tor eew Complete Catalosneo 



Braslan 



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

 Pabsnif, Pabsuet, Cklkby, Endiyk, Sai^ift, Named and MizzD 



OBANDiriiOBA AND SFKNOKB SWKKT PKAS, AND SmrTLOWKB. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Company 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milfonl, Com. 



•rawkiS « to tl> — at last larrfam lllak..«raaa Ba». Wla« St. Aatbaay. Maha 



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



97tb Ymt 



J. BOLGIIMO & SON 



Whalaaala «acdaa aad FlaM Saada. 

 Sata,8aad P at a taa a . 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



Contract Seed Growers 



jCaarulHac • P*VP«r> >n Plut, Tomato, 

 OpCUUUa. YiBo 8ood u4 Flold Con. 



Correapondence Solicited 



George R. Pedrick & Son 



PKomfcirrowN. m. j. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, KSS: NEB. 



Wholesale Grawen •t Hifh-grade Seeds 



Cacumbefy Mttikmelon, Squash and Ptnnp' 

 kio, Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Com 



— THX— 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO, NKB. 



ROCKT FORD, COLO. 



Contract growers of Cucumber, Cantaloupe, 

 Watermelon. Sauash and Pumpkin Seed, Sugar 

 Flint and Fi<>ld Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY. CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialtdei : Lettaoe. Onion. Sweet Peai, Atter, 

 Ooamos. Mlsnonette. Verbena, in raiiatj. 

 Corro^nondennM Nollpited 



Mention The HeTlew whwi yon writo. 



"The J. T. Polk Co. already has 4,500 

 acres in small farms in Georgia, Louisi- 

 ana and Florida under lease, it is un- 

 derstood, and planting will be started 

 within a few days. The crop, seedsmen 

 say, will require from sixty to seventy 

 days to grow in the south. 



EVEREHE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^<=3B?=^ sns 



40 IS MUwaakaa Avann*. 



CHICA«0 



THE KMBERLIN SEED CO. 



8oe4<Kwon SANTA CLARAi CAL 



Growers of 

 ONION, LBTTUCB, RADISH, BtCc 



Correspondence Solicited 



Heiry Fish Seed COe 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trader 

 CARPINTBRIA, -;- CAL. 



TOMATO SEED 



Gr o^f u for the 

 Wholeaale Seed Trade 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



BAMTA AHA, 



CAUVOBMIA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Bgg Plant, Squash, Pampkiii, 

 Cucnmber, Cantaloupe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Com, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Correspondence Solicited, ■wadasbora. H. J. 



