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The Florists^ Review 



May 22, 1919. 



"The Relation o( Seed Koportiiig Setvlce to 

 Southern Seedsmen," address by W. A. Wlu-eler, 

 seed reporting service. 



Banquet, 6:30 p. m. 



Morning Session, May 27, 10 o'clock. 



"Co-operation," address by Ricliard O'Haiinon, 

 president of the O'Bannon Co. 



General talks on benefit of nssocialion. 



Afternoon Session, 2:30 o'clock. 



Committee Reports. 



Election of Officers. 



The officers of the association are as 

 follows: President, Louis B, Eeuter; 

 first vice-president, E. A. Martin; sec- 

 ond vice-president, E. B. Buchanan; 

 secretary-treasurer, Frank S. Love; field 

 agent, H. H. Gardner. 



SEED FOR CENTRAL EUROPE. 



Survey Shows Shortage. 



Dutch, Italian and French seed deal- 

 ers state that Germany and Austria- 

 Hungary are practically out of field 

 seeds and will have to depend for them 

 on foreign sources next year at least, 

 according to representatives of the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, who recently returned from an 

 investigation of field seeds in England, 

 France, Belgium, Holland and Italy. 



Foreign seedsmen anticipate a heavy 

 trade with the countries of central Eu- 

 rope and American dealers will have to 

 take this fact into consideration in mak- 

 ing their plans for the future. The 

 red clover seed crop of 1918 was short 

 in Italy, as well as in France. Normal- 

 ly, both of these countries export large 

 quantities of red clover seed. Italy ex- 

 ported to Hungary and the United 

 States, while France exported chiefly to 

 England and the United States. 



Italy Stops Exports. 



Because of the short crop of 1918, the 

 Italian government prohibited exports 

 of red clover seed, although some were 

 allowed to go to France. High prices 

 in Italy would have restricted exports 

 of red clover seed to America, even if 

 exports had been permitted. 



There is no demand in Italy for Amer- 

 ican grass and clover seeds, because the 

 Italians do not use tlie grasses exten- 

 sively grown in the United States and 

 produce enough clover and alfalfa seed 

 for their own use and for export. Eye 

 grass is the most important meadow 

 grass in Italy. The balance of the mead- 

 ow consists of wild grasses, in com- 

 bination with red and white clover and 

 alfalfa. Eecently the price of clover 

 hay has been so high that much of the 

 clover crop, which otherwise would have 

 been saved for seed, was mowed. 



Belgium in Need. 



The supply of oats, red clover and 

 grass seeds is short in Belgium at this 

 time. Some of these seeds could have 

 been supplied by the United States if 

 a request for them had been made last 

 fall. It is, of course, too late to export 

 any American seeds to Belgium for the 

 current season. Belgian livestock, 

 however, will not suffer, because it has 

 decreased to such an extent that there 

 is plenty of pasture for the remaining 

 animals for next year at least. 



Efforts are being made to establish an 

 organized vegetable seed industry in 

 Belgium. The director of horticulture 

 of Belgium has expressed the hope that 

 his country will be made self-support- 

 ing in the matter of seed supplies. The 

 supply of vegetable seed available at 

 present is said to be ample for the use 

 of Belgium this year, in most cases. If 



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