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ThcfFIorists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 80, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AKEaiOAV SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 

 Prealdent. B. C. Dungan, PblladelpbU, Pa.; 

 Mcretary-treaanrer. C. B. Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, of J. M. Thorburn 

 & Co., New York, passed his eighty-ninth 

 milestone October 13. 



Bad luck pursues bulbs this season — 

 short crop, disease, shipwreck, dock 

 strikes and railroad delays. 



Theke were flowers on the desk of 

 Fred Barteldes, Lawrence, Kan., Octo- 

 ber 28. It was his sixty-seventh birthday 

 anniversary. 



Dutch bulb shipments are moving in 

 spite of the stevedores' strike at New 

 York. One way or another, the forward- 

 ing agents are getting the cases onto the 

 cars. 



Letters from Yokolinma confirm the 

 report of the sinkiii<; of the steamer 

 Yoten Maru with nearly a million gigan- 

 teum liulbs on board. The steamer was 

 on its way to New York via the Panama 

 canal. 



We all know Holland has no wood 

 and that shijiping cases are costly there, 

 but to find this year's bulb boxes charged 

 at .$;i is something of a shock to many 

 inii)orters. Last year's charge of $2 was 

 thought extortionate. 



TiiK board of trustees of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, at a meet- 

 ing licld 0(tol)er 20, unanimously awarded 

 tlie (icorge R. White Medal of Honor for 

 1919 to Vilmorin, Amlrieux & Co., Paris, 

 France, for distinguisiied services to hor- 

 ticulture. 



Some of the men who recently have ob- 

 tained figures on 1920 catalogues have ex- 

 pressed surprise at the difference over 

 what they thouglit was high cost last 

 year; also tliat they were told the esti- 

 mates were subject to revision unless tiic 

 work could be done at once. . 



BiMTisH dealers cannot reconcile the 

 fact that Dutch bullis are again being 

 shipped to London for sale l)y pulilic auc- 

 tion with the statements heard "tliat 

 stocks in Holland are so extremely short 

 that orders ( ;niiu)t be cxeiuted in full and 

 that the high prices in vogue were com- 

 pulsory on that acconnt.'' 



The pink aster which created much 

 comment at the meeting of the Wiscon- 

 sin State Florists' Association has been 

 named Kugowski's Meritorious Pink. The 

 raiser, J. K. Rugowski. Miiiiitownc, Wis., 

 expects to send out seed of tliis aster and 

 of the white one, called Pure Honor, 

 about the first of the year. 



The firm of Wed. P. de JnnL'l'., soed 

 growers, at Goes, Holland, established in 

 181(1, was incorjiorated July 1, 1'J19. Its 

 representative, Gerard K. Klyn, arrived 

 at New York on the steamship Rotter- 

 dam, October 21. to call on the wholesale 

 trade in the United States. Until now 

 the concern has confined itself largely 

 to the European trade. 



It seems likely the bulb trade will suf- 

 fer seriously from the d(days in trans- 

 portation. While the stevedores' strike 

 in New York has caused the loss of weeks 

 with many thousand of cases of Dutch 

 bulbs, scarcely less serious is the subse- 

 quent congestion and slow shipment. Rail 

 movement is irregular. In the meantime 

 the selling season is slipping past. It 



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