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The Florists^ Review 



August 21, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AXEBIOAK SEES TBAOE ASBOOIATION. 



President, B. 0. Dungan, Phlladelpbia, Pa.; 

 •ecretary-treasurer, C. B. Kendel, CieTeland, O. 



Albert Hopkins Smith, treasurer of 

 the Leonard Seed Co., was 45 years of age 

 August 16. 



Under present conditions there doesn't 

 seem to be much in 5-cent packets for 

 anybody, planter, retailer or seedsman. 



The pessimistic crop reports from Cali- 

 fornia are tinged with optimism, possibly 

 because of the belief that a small crop will 

 restore prices. 



NO ROMANS THIS YEAB. 



George Tegelaar, of Drevon-Tegelaar 

 & Co., Ollioules, Var, France, who was 

 reported last week as having returned 

 from France, states that while he was 

 there the French inspector of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture refused to is- 

 sue permit of inspection on Eoman hya- 

 cinths. He says he now is in receipt 

 of a cable from his office abroad stating 

 definitely that no certificate of inspec- 

 tion will be issued on this variety. 

 Consequently, no Eoman hyacinths can 

 be exported to this country. The reason 

 is not stated. 



CANNERS' PUBLICITY PLAN. 



The National Canners' Association 

 has issued a booklet explaining the 

 method and rules under which it is 

 planned to have the 1919 pack of corn, 

 beans and peas officially inspected and 

 certified under the association's pub- 

 licity plan, and stating that at least 

 30,000,000 cases of this year's pack will 

 be processed under the official inspec- 

 tion system. 



It is expected to use the proceeds of 

 .the sale of inspection certificate stamps 

 (at 3^ cents per case) for carrying on 

 the work and to follow up inspection 

 with an intensive plan of advertising 

 which, in 1920, will feature the certifi- 

 cate of inspection issued by the Na- 

 tional Canners ' Association. There will 

 be a general campaign of advertising in 

 1919, in the benefits of which the indus- 

 try as a whole will share. 



PASSING THE BUCK. 



Beyond question there is demand for 

 more Japanese lilies than the 1919 crop 

 will produce, which accounts for the 

 higher prices, but who started the ball 

 rolling is another question. American 

 importers say they had to bid up to the 

 Japs to prevent the bulbs all going to 

 England, where the price of the flowers 

 has been higher than here, but the Brit- 

 ish tell another story. Here it is, from 

 the Horticultural Trade- Journal: 



"I have it on the best authority that 

 we stand a poor chance of getting more 

 than a mere fraction of the Japanese 

 liliums which the government were will- 

 ing to admit to the country. The Japan- 

 ese growers were, as we all know, 

 affected by the war, and many acres of 

 liliums were plowed in. Now that 

 stocks are far below normal, there has 

 arisen an unexpectedly heavy demand 

 from America. The big merchants have 

 sent representatives to Japan to buy up 

 whole stocks. High prices are not deter- 

 rent to Uncle Sam, and money is forth- 

 coming in advance, even before lifting 



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