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The Florists'^ Review 



OCTOBBB 2, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AKEXZOAV 8ZED T&ADE ASBOOZATZON. 

 PiMldrat, B. 0. Duncan, PhlUdelpliU, Pa.; 

 Mcretary-treainnr, 0. K. Kendel, OleTeland, O. 



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Instead of the scarcity reported, there 

 proves to be some surplus of freesias. It 

 may be true some of the growers had more 

 orders than they could fill, but it was nbt 

 BO with the jobbers. 



Deliveries of English cyclamen seed 

 are only fifty per cent of the orders. 

 Some of the dealers, many of whom there- 

 fore find themselves oyersold, are trying 

 to get stock from Germany, late as it is. 



Watson S. Woodrupi", of S. D. Wood- 

 ruff & Sons, Orange, Conn., with Mrs. 

 Woodruff, will sail for France on the 

 steamship Nieuw Amsterdam, of the Hol- 

 land-America line, October 4, on a com- 

 bined business and pleasure trip for a 

 stay of about two months. 



Charles W. Witbeck, well-known 

 among American seedsmen, is now one of 

 the staff of the Everett© R. Peacock Co., 

 Chicago. Mr. Witbeck 's experience cov- 

 ers a large part of the United States, but 

 for the last few years he has had charge 

 of the trial grounds of one of the large 

 seed firms in the south, where the Ever- 

 ette E. Peacock Co. is about to establish 

 A branch of its business. 



Harry Saier, Lansing, Mich., has pur- 

 chased the 3-story building opposite his 

 store at 111 East Ottawa street, to which 

 he expects to move about the middle of 

 October. Mr. Saier is reenforcing the 

 building with steel beams to support 200 

 tons and will install an elevator and new 

 equipment, including a $1,200 cleaning 

 machine and seed bins on the third 

 floor. The retail seed store will Ije 

 on the ground floor and the offices 

 and mail order department on the 

 second floor. The seed business is Be- 

 ing done at the flower store, on West 

 Michigan avenue, until the seed sales 

 house is ready. 



BECOBD BUI.B CABOO ABBIVES 



The largest shipload of bulbs which 

 ever crossed the Atlantic reached the 

 port of New York September 22 on the 

 steamer Norman Monarch, of the Cu- 

 nard line. A total of 27,564 cases of 

 Holland bulbs appeared on the vessel's 

 manifest. Shipments of 10,000 or 12,000 

 cases of Dutch bulbs have been brought 

 by a single boat occasionally, but none 

 so large as this. The figures are so big 

 that at first glance skeptical statisti- 

 cians begin to apply pencil to paper to 

 figure out if the vessel's capacity is 

 equal to such a cargo. They find it is, 

 for the Norman Monarch carried little 

 other freight aside from eighty bags of 

 seed from Rotterdam and 250 bags from 

 London and also some consignments of 

 hides from the latter port. 



The steamer Valacia was expected to 

 bring a cargo of Holland bulbs when it 

 arrived the same day, but there were 

 none on board. A fire in the hold had 

 caused the change of the consignments 

 of bulbs from the Valacia to the Nor- 

 man Monarch and the Valacia brought 

 home troops from Brest instead. This 

 change accounts for the unusually large 

 number of bulbs on one vessel. 



The consignees of the Rotterdam cargo 

 of the Norman Monarch were not given 

 for publication by the Cunard line, but 

 only the total figures. The reason is 



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