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The Florists' Review 



March 20, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AHEBIOAK SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Prealdent, F. W. Bolglano, Washington, D. C.; 

 •eeretary-treasurer, O. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; 

 thirty-seventh annual convention. Hotel Sherman, 

 Chicago, June 24, 25, 26, 1919. 



There probably never will be an ideal 

 growing season, but thus far the Cali- 

 fornians have excellent prospects for the 

 1919 seed harvest. 



It looks as though the peak of the mail 

 order season may have come earlier this 

 year than ever before. Usually "Big 

 Monday " is in the last week of March. 



There will be interesting doings at 

 Hotel Sherman, Chicago, in June. With- 

 out intention of so doing, the American 

 Seed Trade Association and the American 

 Association of Nurserymen have chosen 

 the same week and place for their annual 

 conventions. 



The acreage under seed crops in Cali- 

 fornia is variously estimated as from ten 

 to thirty per cent less than last year. One 

 of the conservative contract growers fig- 

 ures the total acreage at seventy-five per 

 cent of last year's and says there is a 

 lot of it that still represents the planter 's 

 speculation. 



George Tegelaar, of Drevon-Tegelaar 

 & Co., who makes his home in Chicago, 

 will leave next week for Holland, where 

 he will spend a few days on business, pro- 

 ceeding thence to OUioules, France, where 

 he will remain until the firm's bulb crop 

 is lifted. He expects to return to the 

 United States about August 1. 



RED CLOVER MAY BE EXPORTED, 



The War Trade Board issued a revised 

 export conservation list March 17. Red 

 clover no longer appears on the list and 

 is the last seed item to be stricken from 

 the list of seeds over the movement of 

 which the government exercised some 

 measure of control during the war. All 

 seeds of whatever kind and character 

 now may be exported without license. 

 The war thus definitely ends so far as 

 the seed trade is concerned. 



DUTCH BULB PRICES. 



The Dutch bulb situation is a sur- 

 prise to most of the buyers in the United 

 States; they had expected that the end 

 of the war would see a i)rompt change 

 in trend which would indicate a return 

 toward more or less normal conditions, 

 but instead there is an ace^tjiuation of 

 the conditions which prevaileala^t year. 

 Things are worse than ever. 



There was a disposition to regard last 

 season's prices as unwarrantably high, 

 but prices for the 1919 crop are much 

 higher. It appears that the exporters 

 have got together and agreed on uni- 

 form prices, packing charges and terms, 

 the whole presenting a proposition which 

 puts bulb forcing in America on quite 

 a new* basis and which, therefore, puts 

 the bulb dealers here in the position of 

 speculating on what the trade will do in 

 the face of the greatly increased prices. 



Of course the Holland exporters predi- 

 cate their argument on the greatly de- 

 creased acreage of bulbs, the high cost 

 of doing business and on the expectation 

 that the markets closed by the war will 

 be reopened before shipping time. 



There now are abundant transporta- 

 tion facilities for exporting bulbs from 



Peacock Brand — Superior Seeds 



We have shipped thousands 

 of pounds of seed and car 

 loads of onion sets to Europe 



Let's Send Some to You 



Look Over Our Prices on Cabbage Below 



WEIARE 



I CONTRACT GROWERS 



IMPORTERS EXPORTERS 



Onion Sets 



RED $2.00 per bu. (32 lbs.) 



WHITE 3.10 per bu. (32 lbs.) 



YELLOW 2.00 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 3.00 



All Seasons 3.00 



All Head Early 3.00 



Charleston Wakefield 5.00 



Copenhagen Market 10.00 



Lupton 3.25 



Vandergaw 4.01) 



Autumn King 3.00 



Early Winningstadt 3.00 



Early Dwarf Flat Dutch 3.00 



Drumhead 3.00 



Surehead 3.25 



CARROT. 



Danvers Half Long $ .45 



Ox Heart or Guerande 50 



Improved Long Orange 45 



Early Scarlet Short Horn 55 



Chantenay 45 



Early Nantes 45 



CAULIFLOWER. 

 Early Snowball (Cal. Grown) $25.00 



PEAS. 



Thomas Laxton 



Gradus or Prosperity. . 



Per lb. 

 ...$ .20 

 ... .20 



ALL OUR SEEDS 



ARE 



GOOD STUFF 



Write for 1919 Cataloarue 



CHICORY. Per lb. 



WItloof $2.50 



ENDIVE. 



Green Curled $ .55 



LEEK. 



American Flag $1.25 



Large Musselburg 1.25 



London Flag 1.25 



PUMPKIN. 

 Connecticut Field $ .60 



RADISH. 



Scarlet Turnip White Tip $ .65 



Sparkler 65 



Scarlet Globe 75 



HORSE RADISH ROOTS. 

 Extra fine strong roots of our own 

 growing— 10 to 14 inches in length— 

 $3.50 per 1000. 

 5000 or more at $3.25 per 1000. 



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 1.25 



Southport Red Globe 1.50 



Southport White Globe 1.76 



Michigan Yellow Globe 1.40 



Yellow Globe Danvers 1.25 



Yellow Flat Danvers 1.50 



Ohio Yellow Globe 1.40 



Prizetaker 1.75 



Yellow Cracker , . ' ] 1^40 



Australian Brown j.jR 



Large Red Wethersfield 1.40 



Yellow Strasburg 1 50 



White Portugal 1.76 



Crystal White Wax 1.60 



Red Bermuda l.lO 



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 Tunnip 40 



Arlington 40 



Dewlng's Blood Turnip 40 



Swiss Chard 60 



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



