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The Florists' Review 



JCNB 1, 1016. 



Seed Trade News 



AKEKICAN SEED XKADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Secretary-Treasurer, 0. B. Kendel, Cleyelaud; -O. 



Thirty-fourth annual convention, Chicago, June 

 20 to 22, 1916. 



Peter Hollenbach, Chicago, cele- 

 brated his sixty-sixth birthday anniver- 

 sary May 26. 



L. L. May, of St. Paul, who is in 

 Mount Sinai hospital, Milwaukee, is re- 

 ported as manifesting much cheerfulness. 

 He has many visitors and his room always 

 has flowers. 



Why has it been that most seed houses 

 that cater to the local retail trade have 

 had a banner season while the mail order 

 season was not up to last year in most 

 of the houses ? ■ Of course it is to be taken 

 into consideration that a steadily larger 

 part of the counter sales are plants, not 

 seeds. 



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In the Chicago district, where the 



greater part of America's onion sets now 

 are grown, the acreage has not been re- 

 duced as a result of last year's bad sea- 

 son, but there is an unusual difference 

 in the present condition of the crop, due 

 to some pieces having been planted weeks 

 earlier than others. 



May has in a measure made up for the 

 decrease in sales shown by the earlier 

 months of the year in the records of most 

 of the mail-order seed houses. One never 

 looks for much in the way of mail orders 

 after April,, but this year the first half 

 of May brought quite a little business, 

 due to the season being two to three weeks 

 late in many places. 



M. AND W. H. LuGBX, farmers living 

 near Osseo, Minn., a suburb of Minne- 

 apolis, who, two years ago, achieved wide 

 fame through their ability to raise on 

 twenty acres an onion crop that sold for 

 $9,000, report that their efforts in 1915 

 duplicated the former feat. The last of 

 the crop was sold recently at slightly 

 above $9,000. The net profit is esti- 

 mated at about $7,000. 



WHAT OF THE BULB MARKET? 



As predicted in The Eeview some 

 weeks ago, the British government has 

 at length taken definite action to re- 

 strict the importation of bulbs into the 

 United Kingdom. The Order in Council 

 signed by the king May 10 also prohib- 

 its the importation of flower roots, 

 plants, trees and shrubs, except under 

 license from the Board of Trade. 



The question at once arises as to the 

 effect on the bulb market in the United 

 States. Will the growers seek to un- 

 load their surplus on ust Especially in 

 the matter of Holland bulbs, the United 

 Kingdom normally has used more than 

 twice as many as the United States. 

 No figures are available showing the 

 bulb exports of last year; the latest 

 statistics are those of ante-bellum times 

 and show the following as Holland's 

 bulb exports for a normal season, in 

 kilos, a kilo being approximately two 

 and one-half pounds: 



Exoorts to — Kilos 



Great Britain and Ireland ^^ 7,752.600 



Germany and Austria 5,771,000 



France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portu- 

 gal, Greece and Turltey 2,141,200 



ScandlnaTia and Denmark 2,107,600 



RusBia 882,500 



Japan 



United States 3,815.000 



Other countries 281,600 



Total 22,751,500 



TURSlllP SEED 



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SEED CO 



ONION SETS 



GROWERS FOR THE TRADt 



Writ* for Prlc«s 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow'' 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— tor new Complete Catalogueo 



^^^<a #^ ^% M ^^ "M*^ Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only. Onion, Lettucx, Cabbot, 

 B 'Mb ^^H^M ^TB B M Paesnip, Pabsucy, Ckucby, Kndivi:, Salsify, Namxd and Mixed 



^■^^^ ^^B^^^^i^*^ ^ Geandoxoba and Spenokb Swikt Peas, and Sxthixovxb. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA f^OTYl'nAT^V 



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



arawtas StattoM at laat Janlaa, MlalL, Qraaa Bay. Wla^ St. Aatha a y. Maha 



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



97th Ymt 



J. BOLSIANO & SON 



Whotosala aardan and FtoM Saada. 

 Oalaa Sata, Saad Patataaa. 



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T— «t« l M <« 



BALTIMORE; MD. 



Contract Seed Growers 



.'^IMinilHM* ^*VVr, InPlMt, Tomato, 

 OpeOUUR. vine SMd and Field Cora. 



CiorresDondence Solicited 



George II. Pedrick & Son 



PKBBICKT0WII, M. J. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, SSS?: NEB. 



Wholesale Gnmen af Hifli-gride Seeds 



Cacumbcf, Muskmelon* Squaih and Pump- 

 kin. Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Com 



— THI— 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO. NKB. 



ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



Contract srowers of Cucumber. Cantaloupe, 

 Watermelon, Sauash and Pumpkin Seed, Susar, 

 Flint and Field Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Spedaltiei: Lettace, Onion. Sweet Peaa, Aatex. 

 Cosmos. Misnonette. Verbena, in raiietj. 

 Corretioondenoe solicited. 



Pieters-Wheeler Seed Company 



eilroy, :: :: California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Onion. Radish, Lettuce, 

 Sweet Peas, Etc. :: 



Corraapondanoa SoUcltad. 



EVEREnE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION -.=jErt>^ SETS 



401S Blllwaakaa Avaaua. 



GHICABO 



HIE KIMBERLIN SEED CO. 



Seed Growen SANTA CLARAi CALi 



Growth of 

 ONION, LETTUCE. RADISH, Etc 



Correspondence Solicited 



Heiry Fish Seed Co< 



BEAN QROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA, «> CAL. 



TOMATO SEED 



Gro w u for the 

 Wholeaale Seed Trmde 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



8ANTA AHA. 



CAUVORHXA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Ekk Plant. Squash, Pampkin, 

 Cucumber, Cantaloupe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Com, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Correspondence Solicited. Swadaaboro, M. J. 



