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The Horists^ Review 



July 24, 1919. 



Seed Trade Hews 



AMEKIOAN SEED TSASE ASSOCIATION. 



President, E. 0. Dungan, Pbiladelpbia, Pa.; 

 secretary-treaBurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



;i The prospects for peas do not improve. 



;|' Dry weather is producing the usual 

 '; crop of reports of declining estimates as 

 J to seed yields. 



If lily bulbs cost a quarter apiece, 

 ' ! how many will the trade take? It is a 

 !,. question many dealers are asking. 



!'■ Formosa lily bulbs are on "the water, 

 I what there are of them. The crop was 

 'i^ virtually a failure, so the cables say. 



'; At a recent opening of a new ware- 

 i'^ house, McKenzie & Co., Brandoii, Man., 

 ;!^ entertained 1,W0 townspeople, who were 



• shown the place. There are two acres of 

 'nSoor 'spactf and an u)p-to-date seed «lean- 



,; ing equipment. 



i The leading prizes for display? of 



■ gladioli and dahlias at the New England 



' fair at Worcester, Mass., were offered by 



W. D. Boss, president of the Worcester 



Agricultural Society, and by Boss Bros. 



Co., of Worcester. 



The fall retail bulb catalogues are be- 

 ginning to appear, with prices only mod- 

 ora,tely increased, although no man can be 

 sure as yet what he will get in the way 

 of bulb deliveries from any country, or 

 , wh^^t j3>e cost will be., 



' A PAMPHLET entitled "Getting Ac- 

 quainted with Your Seedsman, ' ' compiled 

 1^ Beckert's Seed Store, Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 explains to seed buyers the firm's trial 

 grounds, "their value and usefulness," 

 as one of the captions reads. 



The Mangelsdorf Seed Co., Atchison, 

 Kan., has handsomely reprinted and is 

 distributing the celebrated apostrophe to 

 ^rass with this footnote : ' * From a copy- 

 righted article by our distinguished fel- 

 . low-townsman, the late Senator John J. 

 ingalls, reproduced by special permission 

 <of Mrs. Ingalls." 



; W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, has been 

 i)ur^ing a new pea for ten years or more. 

 Twice within that time the stock has been 

 reduced by bad weather, to a few quarts, 

 but this season a crop of about fifteen 

 bushels is expected and introduction to 

 the trade is in sight. The pea is a mon- 

 ster, larger than Gradus. 



Importers who once did a large busi- 

 ness with German valley pips say there 

 is no probability of important quantities 

 reaching the United States until after 

 the 1920 crop ig ready. In the meantime, 

 they say, we must depend on limited sup- 

 plies of JPutch pips, which are offered at 

 $18 per thousand, a fairly stiff price. 



OMION SETS AT OHIOAOO. 



The hot, dry weather around Chicago 

 the last three or four weeks has badly 

 damaged the crop of onion sets. The 

 sets 'are row maturing, small. Many 

 fields did not grow much larger "than 

 grass and. did not have any pipes, oi 

 stems, of size ;tt) make' bulbs. Conse- 

 quently sets around Chicago will be 

 choice, providing there arp favorable 

 weather conditions during harvest, which 

 will probably be well started the week 

 of July 28, ' ' 



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