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The Florists^ Review 



FiBBVABT 20. 1019. 



more. These peas are now known as 

 McAdoos, and they are as widely dis- 

 tributed through the northwest as Lib- 

 erty bonds, which caused the substitu- 

 tion in nomenclature. 



THE SEED SITUATION. 



"You can say that seedsmen are like 

 other business men, waiting, just wait- 

 ing, for something to turn up." 



The speaker was a California grower 

 who had just completed a trip that in- 

 cluded a call on all the principal seed 

 buyers in the United States. 



"Retail mail order trade has started 

 earlier or is in larger volume than ever 

 before, but the wholesale trade is slow. 

 The seedsman is confident of his ability 

 to obtain in quick time almost any item 

 he finds himself running short on and 

 he is buying only a little from day to 

 day. There is every confidence that a 

 big retail seed season is under way, but 

 there is no disposition to get excited 

 over it. The conditions are the opposite 

 of a year ago. 



"Nor is the trade keenly interested 

 in 1919 contracts. The growers have 

 put out acreage without contracts back 

 of them and are not placing the crops 

 readily. Their costs are high and they 

 are compelled to ask prices that are 

 higher than the present spot delivery 

 market. The trade is willing to let the 

 growers speculate. 



"For the last two or three years the 

 California growers have put out all the 

 acreage they could, with confidence they 

 could not lose. There still is a world- 

 wide demand for seeds, but it is in the 

 tomorrow, not today. The 1918 crop was 

 a poor one, but the acreage was so large 

 that it was only the interposition of 

 Providence that cut down the production 

 to a point that leaves everyone fairly 

 comfortable. There is no need to sacri- 

 fice anything, especially in view of the 

 continued high cost of production. 



"Tlie acreage in California this year 

 probably does not exceed seventy-five 

 per cent of last year's acreage under 

 seed crops. Some growers may not 

 agree that the reduction is as much as 

 twenty-five per cent, but my own belief 

 is that it is greater rather than less." 



THE GIGANTEUM SITUATION. 



Within the last few days month-old 

 letters have been coming to hand from 

 the exporters of lily bulbs at Yokohama. 

 It is apparent that not all the 1918 

 crop of giganteum was dumped; mod- 

 erate quantities, at least, went into cold 

 storage. It seems that the British gov- 

 ernment granted import permits about 

 a week before Washington did and that 

 the cable at once started considerable 

 quantities of bulbs toward England. 

 Some advices say all the bulbs went to 

 England and that only hardy lilies are 

 left for America, but other letters indi- 

 cate that it might be possible to pick 

 up a few hundred cases of giganteums if 

 a suitable price were offered. 



As to the 1919 crop, the planting is 

 reported to be about half of an aver- 

 age year. As the largest output was 

 about 22,000,000 bulbs and the recent 

 crops were about 16,000,000 bulbs, the 

 outlook is for from 8,000,000 to 10,000,- 

 000 bulbs in 1919. It is to be remem- 

 bered, too, that in 1917 the United 

 States and Canada took practically the 

 whole crop, while in 1919 it is expected 

 the whole world will be buying again. 

 The exporters explain all thia as a pre- 



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