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The Florists^ Review 



December 5, 1918. 



Seed Trade News 



AKEBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Presldeot, P. W. Holglano, WaablnKton, D. 0.; 

 •epretary-treaanrpr. C. B. Kendel. Cl<>Teland, O. 



The War Industries Board, while urg- 

 ing that waste be eliniiuateil, has canceled 

 all paper restrictions excei)t on news- 

 papers; the seedsman may do as he will 

 with liis catalogue. 



Charles F. (jUELF, representing the 

 Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. 

 Y., spent the week end in Chicago, recu- 

 perating from the strenuosity of the 

 Wisconsin Canners' convention at Mil- 

 waukee. 



Visited Cliicago: II. A. Johns, presi- 

 dent of the Sioux City Seed ('o., Sioux 

 City, la.; Joseph Edmundsen, of the Cali- 

 fornia Seed Cf rowers' Association, San 

 Jose, Cal. Mr. Edmundsen is contracting 

 for 1919, principally onion seed. 



Geokoe Tegelaah, of Drevon, Tegelaar 

 & Co., Marseilles, France, who makes his 

 home and lieadipmrters in Chicago, has 

 arrived after having been marooned for 

 months at Marseilles because of his in- 

 ability to secure passage to the United 

 States. 



The indications are that the exporters 

 of French and Dutch bulbs will do much 

 less than the usual amount of traveling to 

 the United States this winter and spring. 

 The houses w'hich have American branches 

 will seek to book orders by correspond- 

 ence. 



Cables of inquiry from Japanese ex- 

 porters of lily bulbs seem to indicate that 

 there are quantities of bulbs in storage 

 at Yokohama, held in anticipation of the 

 removal of the present importation re- 

 strictions Qf our War Trade Board. If 

 the bulbs can be brought in they will be 

 extremely welcome. 



That the price of onion sets will be ad- 

 vanced when shipments are begun after 

 January 1 is the assertion of A. H. Smith, 

 of the Leonard Seed Co., Chicago. Grow- 

 ers in and about Chicago say that the 

 warm weather this fall has caused a con- 

 siderable loss through sprouting, which 

 makes for higlier jjrices on good stock. 



C. O. Wilcox, who has represented the 

 W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, in southern 

 territory during the last nine years, has 

 resigned and will be connected with 

 Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville. His 

 connection with the Barnard company 

 ended Novemher .'id. He has just re- 

 turned from a southern trip and reports 

 that liusiness in that section is excellent. 



J. BoLCUAXO «& 

 have added to the 

 Bixler, in the fie 

 Mr. Bixler conies 

 seedsmen, being ii 

 grandfatlu'r, .). 

 founded the house 

 Co., New York cit 

 years Mr. Bixler 

 with the wliolesale 



Sox, Baltimore, Md., 

 ir force Thorburn A. 

 Id seed department, 

 from an old line of 

 lanied for his great- 

 M. Thorburn, who 

 of .1. M. Thorburn & 

 y. For a numl)er of 

 has been connected 

 field seed trade. 



The Great Western Seed Co., Hamil- 

 ton, Mont., Mill ]iay .$l.l(),()(i() to the fann- 

 ers of Bitter Kdot valley this season for 

 seed crops. Tlie company lias rented a 

 warehouse nlon^r the tracks of the Xortli- 

 crn racific railway and installed a seed 

 cleaner. Tiie cajiacity of the warehouse 

 is from ;"i(i(i to 1,000' Inishels of seeds a 

 day, according to the cleanliness of the 

 seed. This company is ojierating a simi- 



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