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The Florists^ Rcviriv 



Jolt 17, 1919; 



Seed Trade News 



AXEKIOAN SEED TBASE ASSOCIATION. 



President, B. 0. Dungran, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 secretary-treasurer, C, B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



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The table says French bulbs are afloat; 

 hJso that Paper Whites are to be had 

 Deitlier at Ollioules nor at London. 



Herbert G. Pressing has been elected 

 president of the W. C. Pressing Seed Co., 

 Norwalk, 0., to succeed his father, who 

 (lied June 11. ' 



And now comes word from California 

 Uiat the freesia crop is turning out 

 smaller than expected, due to dry weather, 

 with the probability that seventy-five per 

 cent will be an average delivery. Of 

 course prices are going up. 



Those who have an ear to the ground 

 bear sounds that are thought to be in- 

 dications of strong competition in Japan 

 for possession of the season's limited 

 crops of giganteum bulbs. At least three 

 American importers have direct repre- 

 sentatives on the scene, but their presence 

 is not the cause of excitement; it merely 

 adds to the gayety of nations. You can 

 trust the J^p to get what his goods will 

 liring. 



Up to the present time the Consolidated 

 ('lassification Committee has taken no 

 action on the proposal to prohibit the 

 shipment of onion sets in bags and the 

 Cook County Onion Set Shippers feel that 

 their objections to the proposed rule, as 

 voiced by Captain Balph B. Howe at the 

 hearing in Chicago May 27, have carried 

 weight. All that the shippers ' spokesman 

 asked was that the classification be un- 

 changed, permitting tlie use of bags or 

 other containers as in the past. Capt. 

 TIowo believes that the failure to take ac- 

 tion within the time that has elapsed in- 

 dicates that probably no action will be 

 taken in the matter, which will be a vic- 

 tory for the shippers, whose combined 

 shipments aggregate forty million pounds 

 |>er year, with an estimated value of 

 .t2.2r)0,000. 



GERMAN SEEDS MAY COME. 



•Inly 11 the allies and the United 

 States announced the raising of the 

 blockade of Germany, with unrestricted 

 trading between tlie countries except as 

 t(i a few articles to he controlled by the 

 re|)aratioiis coniiuission. German seeds 

 ajfaiii are available, after four years. 



At the rec?nt Chicago convention of 

 ilic American Seed Trade Association an 

 +4T()rt was made to secure discussion 

 looking to possible action along the 

 lines of the British association, which 

 has pledged its members not to deal in 

 German seeds for three years, but no 

 [•rogress was made. It seemed that a 

 ijood many of the seed trade feel that, 

 fur themselves, they will do as little 

 businc^ss as possible with Germany, but 

 thai there are a few items they may 

 need and th*y will handle them if they 

 arc not to be had elsewhere. 



HEARING ON FREIGHT RATES. 



Sliippcrs of onion sets and bulbs will 

 have an ojtportunity tp combat the ia- 

 creases in <liarges an9 the changes, in 

 rules and regulatio>nl on perishable 

 freight at the hearffigl held in various 

 cities by the Interstate- Commerce Com- 

 mission. The proposed perishable pro 



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