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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcembeb 26, 1918. 



now may not only be overcome, but may 

 also be turned to the permanent ad- 

 vantage of the empire," says one of 

 the British horticultural writers. 

 "Among these difficulties were, first, 

 the lack of transport, and second, the 

 lack of labor. 



"As is well known, the shortage of 

 transport and the activity of the sub- 

 marines seriously restricted the free ex- 

 change of commodities. Both export 

 and import were interfered with. Ped- 

 igree stock seeds, raised in this country 

 and ordinarily sent abroad to better 

 seed-raising districts for producing seed 

 in large quantities, were often held up, 

 and, as a consequence, the supplies, 

 which should be returned to this coun- 

 try, were not forthcoming. It might be 

 argued that this was not altogether a 

 disadvantage, inasmuch as it should 

 lead to a large increase of seed-raising 

 in this country. But, unfortunately, 

 this happy solution was by no means al- 

 ways practicable, and this for two rea- 

 sons. In the first place, there are im- 

 portant vegetables — and also flowers — 

 which fail to ripen their seeds well in 

 this country. This, we believe, is the 

 case with cauliflower, carrot and onion, 

 and, among flowers, phlox and aster. In 

 the second place, with the lack of labor, 

 many seed farmers, who were in the 

 habit of accepting contracts for seed 

 raising, were less disposed than in normal 

 times to enter into contracts. It is 

 probable, also, that with the higher 

 prospective prices for purely agricul- 

 tural crops, farmers are finding, on bal- 

 ancing probable profits and amount of 

 labor available, that it is more profitable 

 for them to grow corn than to raise 

 vegetable crops for seed. The urgent 

 need for increasing the wheat supply, 

 moreover, caused agriculturists generally 

 to look with disfavor on the farmer who 

 gave up part of his land to growing 

 minor crops. The fact that this prej- 

 udice is due to shortsightedness did not 

 mitigate the seriousness of its effect. 

 Since the war ended, however, the out- 

 look of the seed industry is more cheer- 

 ful. 



"Yet, by a strange irony, the condi- 

 tions offered an opportunity for the dras- 

 tic revision of our customs with respect 

 to seed-raising. In the past a large 

 section of this trade has been allowed 

 to pass into German hands. With their 

 customary thoroughness, the Germans 

 had made something like a monopoly of 

 the seed trade in some parts of the 

 world. Of the seed they sold, some was 

 of their own growing, but much was 

 raised by other countries and purchased 

 and sold again by the Germans. There 

 would seem to be no reason why much 

 of this trade should not now pass perma- 

 nently into the hands of British firms. 

 It is true, as we have said, that not 

 all seeds can be raised successfully on 

 a large scale in this country; but, on 

 the other hand, many of the seeds of 

 vegetables and flowers might quite 

 easily be raised here. In any case, the 

 empire, which comprises every soil and 

 every climate, gives ample ground for 

 the raising of all the seeds of every 

 kind of vegetable and flower which 

 we require. Why, therefore, should not 

 the great firms of British seedsmen 

 seek the cooperation of the government 

 and endeavor to arrange a system of 

 seed-raising within the empire, which 

 should free them and ourselves for the 

 future of the risk of finding our sup- 

 plies cut off or curtailed in time of 

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