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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbbuabt 20, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AMEBIOAV BEES XBASE ASSOOIAZZOK. 

 Preildent, I*. W. Bolglano, Washington, D. 0.; 

 Mcret«i7-tr«ainrer. 0. B. Kendel. OlsTaland. O. 



Cannas, ftaladiums and tuberoses are 

 among the items that are held as good 

 property. 



The Department of Agriculture is ad- 

 vising farmers that there is no shortage 

 of seeds this season. 



The early-bird seed catalogue certainly 

 caught the order worm this year. The 

 man whose book is not yet mailed is tear- 

 ing his hair, if he has any. 



The death of N. J. Burt, of N, J. Burt 

 & Co., seedsmen, Burlington, la., which 

 occurred in that city recently, is recorded 

 in the obituary^ column of this issue. 



Visited Chicago: L. W. Wheeler, of 

 the Pieters-Wheeler Seed Co., Gilroy, Cal., 

 on his way home from an eastern con- 

 tracting trip; C. W. Scott, of the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co., New York, booking 

 jobbers' orders for 1919 crop lily bulbs. 



The situation in the seed trade, last 

 season and this, again illustrates the fact 

 that a widely advertised shortage and 

 high prices tend to disclose stocks no one 

 knew to be in existence, to check demand 

 while increasing the supply, one being 

 less and the other more than was ex- 

 pected. 



While the prices of seeds as a whole 

 have been slipping, there is no prospect 

 of anything except a continued high level 

 of values; the cost of doing business, 

 which is an important factor in determin- 

 ing the price of seeds, can not go down 

 rapidly and 1919 growing costs will be 

 in proportion to the prices of other farm 

 products. 



The demand for gladiolus bulbs has 

 let up, but it is expected to revive at any 

 moment. At the moment the gladiolus 

 bulb season is between hay and grass; 

 the bulbs have to a large extent passed 

 from the hands of the producers to those 

 of dealers, the buying for forcing has 

 ceased and buying for outdoor planting 

 hardly has begun. 



Warm weather has resulted in an un- 

 precedented volume of early mail orders, 

 practically all from planters whose or- 

 ders were later last year, with little 

 change in the average size. Still, the av- 

 erage mail order seed house looks on ev- 

 ery dollar of increased sales in the first 

 six weeks of the year as being so much 

 clear gain, the second six weeks being 

 busy enough under any conditions. 



Something new in receiverships has 

 developed at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., whence 

 unopened mail is coming back rubber- 

 stamped "Returned by Walter W. Rus- 

 sell, receiver for Harris Bros. Seed Co." 

 As an instance, a letter with regard to a 

 paid-in-advance order which had been 

 shipped C. O. D, was held unopened by 

 Receiver Russell from September 21 to 

 February 13 and then returned to the 

 sender. 



EAISEB PEA CHANOES ITS NAME. 



Those who want to buy quantities of 

 the variety of field pea introduced sev- 

 eral years ago by the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture from Germany, 

 and then known as the Kaiser pea, will 

 save trouble by not using that name any 



NRS. 



DAVIS 



SAYS: 



Onion Sets 



"The Poplars" 



Lancaster, N. Y. , 



Feb. 14, 1919. 



Everette R. Peacock Co., 



Chicago , 111 . 

 Gentlemen: - 



My seed came this morning, 

 and I wish to compliment you 

 on your packing. I have 

 bought a great deal of seed, 

 but yours was the BEST 

 PACKED of any I have ever 

 received, and the SEED 

 LOOKS GOOD. 



Kindly send me your Trade 

 LIST, so I can give you my 

 order for balance I want. 



Respectfully yours, 



Mrs. George W. Davis. 



RED $2.25 per bu. (32 lbs.) 



WHITE $3.00 per bu. (32 lbs.) 



YELLOW $2.15 per bu. (32 lbs.) 



NET CASH -BAGS 10c EXTRA. 



All cabbage seed as listed is of 1917 

 crop of reliable growth and high germ- 

 ination and has been proven in our 

 trials this past season, — suitable for the 

 most critical trade. 



CABBAGE. Per lb. 



Jersey Wakefield $5.00 



Glory of Enkhuizen 8.00 



Fottler's Brunswick 4.00 



Premium Flat Dutch 3.75 



All Seasons 5.00 



All Head Early 6.00 



Charleston Wakefield 5.00 



Copenhagen Market 11.00 



Lupton 4.00 



Vandergaw 4.00 



Autumn King 4.00 



Early Winningstadt 6.00 



Early Dwarf Flat Dutch 4.00 



Drumhead 4.00 



Surehead 4.00 



CARROT. 



Danvers Half Long $ .45 



Ox Heart or Guerande 50 



Improved Long Orange 45 



Early Scarlet Short Horn 56 



Chantenay 45 



Early Nantes 45 



CAULIFLOWER. 

 Early Snowball (Cal. Grown) $25.00 



ALL OUR SEEDS 



ARE 



GOOD STUFF 



Write for 1919 Catalocu* 



CHICORY. Ferlb. 



Wltloof $2.60 



ENDIVE. 



Green Curled $ .55 



LEEK. 



American Flag $1.25 



Large Musselburg 1.26 



London Flag 1.25 



PEAS. Per lb. 



Thomas Laxton $ .20 



Gradus or Prosperity 20 



PUMPKIN. 

 Connecticut Field $ .60 



RADISH. 



Scarlet Turnip White Tip $ .65 



Sparkler 65 



Scarlet Globe 75 



White Vienna 75 



Cincinnati Market 65 



Icicle 80 



French Breakfast 75 



A POSTAL WILL BRING 

 OUR 1919 CATALOGUE 



ONION SEED. 



We have tons of the finest seed in our 

 storage houses. Wire or write. Per lb. 



Peacock's New Yellow Globe $2.00 



Southport Yellow Globe 1.40 



Southport Red Globe 1.60 



Southport White Globe 1.75 



Michigan Yellow Globe 1.50 



Yellow Globe Danvers 1.35 



Yellow Flat Danvers 1.60 



Ohio Yellow Globe 1.50 



Prizetaker 2.00 



Yellow Cracker 1.60 



Australian Brown 1.16 



Large Red Wethersfield 1.50 



Yellow Strasburg 1.60 



White Portugal 1.75 



Crystal White Wax 1.60 



Red Bermuda 1.10 



White or Straw Colored Bermuda.. 1.10 



SPECIAL BEETS. Per lb. 



Crimson Globe $ .60 



Crosby's Egyptian 40 



Detroit Dark Red 60 



Early Blood Turnip 40 



Edmand's Blood Tuiinip 40 



Arlington 40 



Dewing's Blood Turnip 40 



Swiss Chard 60 



Everette R. Peacock Co,, Seedsmen/^'^^^tT*" Chicago 



