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The Florists^ Review 



May 15, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AMESICAN SE£D TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 secretary-treasurer, 0. B. Kendel, CleTeland, 0.; 

 thirty-seventh annual convention. Hotel Sherman, 

 ChicBKO, June 24. 25, 26. 1919. 



Some of the Holland houses have called 

 their salesmen home ahead of time and 

 there are those who predict that the orders 

 for tulips will not be filled over fifty per 

 cent on the average, even at prevailing 

 high prices. 



The end of the season finds the Chicago 

 market with a heavier load of surplus 

 onion sets than last year, when large quan- 

 tities were dumped. There is no market 

 price. Indications are that dealers in 

 other sections also are stuck. 



It is said by those well informed on 

 the subject that forty will cover the num- 

 ber of Holland bulb salesmen who have 

 visited the United States this season, 

 where there have been as high as 125 here 

 in a year of large supply and unrestricted 

 travel. 



The Michigan Bulb Farm, which is the 

 personal business of A. G. Pruyser, of 

 Westerbeek & Klyn, recently acquired a 

 near-by dairy farm of 177 acres at Ben- 

 ton Harbor, Mich. The planting of gladi- 

 oli is progressing and seventy acres will 

 be out soon. 



The R. & S. Flower Store, Missoula, 

 Mont., has added a bulk seed department 

 and changed the name to the R. & S. 

 Flower & Seed Store. In addition to the 

 vegetable and flower seeds handled this 

 year, grass and field seeds will be put in 

 for 1920. F. X. Scully is proprietor. 



The onion set acreage around Chicago, 

 the country's great producing center, is 

 considerably reduced this season because 

 of two consecutive years of low spring 

 prices. The crop has been planted under 

 difliculties, because of much rain, and 

 germination has been irregular because of 

 flooded fields. 



The Food Administration prohibited 

 dealing in futures during the war and the 

 canning trade is having difiiculty in get- 

 ting the jobbers to resume the old meth- 

 ods. There is a similar tendency in the 

 seed trade, and it may be that the system 

 will change, making the growing of seeds 

 even more speculative than heretofore. 



The Gurney Seed & Nursery Co. is one 

 of the biggest industries in Yankton, 

 S. D. It employs 150 persons and daily 

 fills orders for an average of thirty-seven 

 states. The firm has customers in every 

 state of the Union, and in many foreign 

 places. The concern started in Iowa in 

 1866, moving to Yankton in 1892. Its 

 present capital is $160,000. 



MADSON'S REORGANIZED. 



A reorganization of the M. G. Madson 

 Seed Co., of Manitowoc, Wis., was com- 

 pleted recently. The Madson interests 

 have sold their stock in the company 

 and retired from business, though the 

 company will continue to operate under 

 its old name and on a much more ex- 

 tensive scale than formerly, going into 

 all branches of the seed trade. The 

 capitalization of the company has been 

 increased to $150,000. New buildings 

 are to be erected. 



Charles L. Kunz has been elected 

 president and general manager of the 

 new company, while Frank A. Miller, 



When in a Hurry fo r Stuff 



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PEACOCK 



Orders Shipped the Day Received 



WEARS 



CONTRACT GROWERS 

 IMPORTERS EXPORTERS 



Profit in Cabbage Plants 



Sow In open field NOW 



1 oz. produces 5000 plants. 1 oz. seed costs 30-60c 



400 dozen at 15c brlogrs $60.00. Sow In the open NOW 



All cabbaere seed as listed is of 1917 

 crop of reliable grrowth and high germ- 

 ination and has been proven in our 

 trials this past season, — suitable for the 

 most critical trade. 



Per Per 

 CABBAGE oz. lb. 



Jersey Wakefield 30c $5.00 



Glory of Enlchuizen 60c 8.00 



Fottler's Brunswick 30c 4.00 



Premium Flat Dutch 30c 3.00 



All Seasons 30c 3.00 



All Head Early 30c 3.00 



Charleston Wakefield 30c S.OO 



Copenhagen Market 60c 10.00 



Lupton 30c 3.2S 



Vandergaw 30c 4.U0 



Autumn King 30c 3.00 



Early Winningstadt 30c 3.00 



Early Dwarf Flat Dutch 30c 3.00 



Drumhead 30c 3.00 



Surehead 30c 3.2S 



Rhubarb Roots 



$2.25 per bbl. 



LAWN SEED 



Per ICO lb. 



Quality $18.00 



Ubicago Parks I5,0o 



Good Mixed 12.D0 



Paris Green 



42c PER LB. 



In 100 lb. Containers, $42.00 



EVEREHE R. PEACOCK CO., Seedsmen, 



4013 Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



