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The Florists^ Review 



OcxoBBB 23, 1919. 



Seel Trade News 



AKEXXOAV SEED TXADE ASSOOIATXOM. 



Pnaldrat, B. 0. Dangan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Mcretarj-treaanrer, 0. H. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



From the southern trade comes the re- 

 port that the buying of fall seeds is 

 heavier than last year. 



Although the French crop of Paper 

 ■Whites was so short that some people 

 •called it a crop failure, there still are 

 some unsold bulbs in jobbers' hands in 

 America. 



L. Feank Post, who recently resigned 

 from the vice-presidency of the I. W. Scott 

 Seed Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Post, 

 have left Pittsburgh to make their home 

 at Conneaut Lake, Pa. 



John T. Oxley, formerly with the Al- 

 bert Dickinson Seed Co., Chicago; Noble 

 Bros., Gibson City, 111., and also in a 

 wholesale business of his own for four 

 years, is now with the Nebraska Seed Co., 

 at Omaha. 



Taking it by and large, seed crops are 

 turning out about an average. There are 

 spots, like the vine seed district in Colo- 

 rado, peas in Montana and the tomato 

 seed districts in the east, where the acre- 

 age abandoned is larger than usual, but 

 on the whole the failures are not more 

 numerous than usual. 



A LATE importation of narcissus bulbs, 

 which arrived from Marseilles on the 

 steamship Canada, consisted of sixty-four 

 cases. Of these, thirty-seven cases were 

 consigned to the Equitable Trust Co., and 

 twenty-seven to the American Express Co. 

 This small shipment, together with the 

 three previous shipments, which aggre- 

 gated 14,813, brings the season's total 

 imports of French bulbs up to 14,877 

 cases. 



FRENCH SEEDS AND THE WAB. 



The influence of the war on this coun- 

 try 's seed importations from France is 

 shown in figures given in a recent sup- 

 plement to the government commerce 

 reports. For seeds, the statistics of the 

 invoiced values declared at the Paris 

 consulate general show that America's 

 seed imports of 1917 were valued at 

 $602,773, whereas the 1918 imports sank 

 to $425,413, a twenty-eight per cent de- 

 crease. In commenting on these and 

 similar figures, the report classes seeds 

 with articles "the American demand 

 for which has hitherto been supplied 

 mostly by countries other than France. 

 In this class are many articles which 

 were exported to the United States 

 chiefly by Germany before the war." 



STEIKE STILL DELAYS BULBS. 



Importations of Holland bulbs are still 

 being hold up in New York harbor by 

 the lonf^shoremen's strike. While the 

 government has sent two regiments of 

 soldiers to unload ships which are purely 

 in the government's service, commercial 

 vessels are waiting for resumption of 

 work by the strikers, which seems re- 

 mote at present, or the employment of 

 strike-breakers, which, though threat- 

 ened, has not been done yet. In the 

 meantime congestion of shipments is 

 growing, and even after work com- 

 mences again in earnest in the harbor 

 there will be long delay in forwarding 

 the bulbs now held there, which are a 

 large part of the season 's supply. Three 



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