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The Florists' Review 



June 19, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AXESIOAN SEES TRADE ASSOOIATIOli^. 



Presldeiit. F. W. Bolgiano, Waibington, D. C; 

 ■ecratmry-treararer, 0. B. Kendel, OleTeland, 0.; 

 thirtj-WTentb annual conTention, Hotel Bberman, 

 Oblcago, June 24, 26, 26, 1918. 



All the conditions seem to point to a 

 seed trade convention at Chicago next 

 week on lines grown familiar through 

 many years. 



Wholesale dealers in seeds will be at 

 Chicago in unusual force next week, be- 

 cause the quest of orders is more ener- 

 getic than for the last two or three years. 



In Chicago the board of assessors has 

 valued the personal property of the Albert 

 Dickinson Seed Co. at $1,750,000, against 

 a valuation of $354,000 a year ago, ac- 

 cording to figures published in Chicago 

 daily papers. 



STOKES QUITS RETAIL STORE. 



In accordance with the plan of the 

 Stokes Seed Farms Co. to develop the 

 mail order end of the business to the ex- 

 clusion of all other departments, the 

 company will abandon the retail Seed 

 store at 219 Market street, Philadel- 

 phia, which has been occupied for that 

 trade for nearly forty years, and will 

 have its sole office at Moorestown, N. J., 

 where headquarters of the company 

 have been for the last five years. 



On the morning of June 30 an auction 

 sale will be held to dispose of certain 

 store fixtures, farm, garden and poultry 

 supplies no longer needed by the com- 

 pany. 



TWO Bia CHANOES. 



The reorganization of the M. G. Mad- 

 son Seed Co., of Manitowoc, Wis., takes 

 from Chicago one of the oldest em- 

 ployees in the seed trade in the city, 

 Morris S. Smith, of the W. W. Barnard 

 Co., who has connected himself with the 

 new organization. Mr. Smith is not a 

 stranger to the M. G. Madson Seed Co., 

 having been with them for nine years 

 prior to coming to Chicago He leaves 

 the W. W. Barnard Co. with the best 

 wishes of his employers and associates 

 in the trade in Chicago. 



Balph B. Howe will take over the 

 work which has been under Mr. Smith's 

 direction in the W. W. Barnard Co. Mr. 

 Howe is a graduate of the agricultural 

 department of the University of Illinois, 

 where he specialized in horticulture. 

 Since coming to the W. W. Barnard Co. 

 in 1910 he had been directly in charge 

 of onion sets and florists' supplies, up to 

 the outbreak of the war, when he was 

 called into service as captain in the 

 Quartermaster's Corps. He was honor- 

 ably discharged in March, 1919, resum- 

 ing his former position with the W. W. 

 Barnard Co. Mr. Howe brings to his 

 present position considerable practical 

 experience in horticulture and modern 

 business methods. 



ENGLAND ADMITS STOCK WE BAR. 



The British authorities have an- 

 nounced their policy with regard to the 

 importation of bulbs and nursery stock 

 growTi in Holland and Belgium, most of 

 which is excluded from America by the 

 new plant quarantine. The controller 

 announces: 



"I am prepared to issue licenses for 



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