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The Florists' Review 



Sbptbhbbh 4, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AMZSIOAV SEED TXAOE ASSOCIATION. 

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

 Mcretary-treaaurer, 0. K. Kendel, CleTeUnd, O. 



S. F. Leonard was 67 years of age Sep- 

 tember 4. He was born in Chicago and 

 has been in the seed business since 1884. 



OuRTis Nye Smith, counsel for the 

 American Seed Trade Association, no 

 longer serves the nurserymen in that ca- 

 pacity. 



Inteepbetation of regulation 14 of 

 Quarantine No. 37, under which seeds and 

 bulbs may be imported in limited quanti- 

 ties, is given in the article headed ' ' Loop- 

 holes in Quarantine 37, ' ' which appears in 

 the Nursery Trade department this week. 



Those who have not contracted for 1920 

 catalogues are advised to do so without 

 delay. Paper is certain not to fall and 

 may rise, while wages in the printing 

 trades are due for another boost, which 

 will add fifteen to twenty per cent to 

 printers' estimates. 



Approximately 600 acres of cabbage 

 seed are being grown this year in the 

 neighborhood of La Conner, "Wash., the 

 fields ranging from five to sixty acres, 

 report specialists of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. As the season 

 has been favorable for the crop, growers 

 are prophesying high yields. 



W. H. Bofferdino has retired from the 

 W. H. Bofferding Co., Minneapolis. This 

 company will be conducted by Carroll W. 

 Armstrong and F. H. Virtue. Mr. Bof- 

 ferding has purchased the mail order seed 

 business of Emma V. White and will con- 

 duct it under the name of the Emma V. 

 White Co., at 3010 Aldrich avenue, south. 



That ninety per cent of the acreage of 

 California devoted to vegetable seed is 

 now in the hands of Japanese farmers is 

 the estimate of the office of State Market 

 Director Harris Weinstock. The Japanese 

 Agricultural Association, acting for the 

 great mass of Japanese farmers in the 

 state, has made application for the or- 

 ganization of the Japanese vegetable seed 

 growers. The Japanese have, either as 

 tenants or lessees of agricultural lands, 

 developed an industry which is said to 

 virtually control the sugar beet, carrot, 

 onion, tomato and beet seed output of 

 California. 



INSPECTING THE BULBS. 



The regulations with regard to in- 

 specting bulb imports are making a lot 

 of extra work for the seed houses and 

 bulb dealers, as well as causing consid- 

 erable delay in the delivery of the stock. 

 In some cases the regulations have not 

 been lived up to, because they were not 

 understood, but the importers are doing 

 their best to meet the requirements of 

 the inspection authorities, even to noti- 

 fying them, on the duplicate forms pro- 

 vided, of the distribution of retail or- 

 ders shipped, even dozen lots! At this 

 first application of the new regulations 

 the inspectors, naturally, are zealous, as 

 was expected, but it was hoped that a 

 little experience of the task of inspect- 

 ing several thousands of cases of bulbs 

 at one time would result in accepting 

 the foreign certificate. It now seems 

 likely, however, that such an idea is 

 premature, because the inspectors are 

 finding things on the bulbs I It develops 

 that the reason there are no Bomans 

 this season is that the French author- 



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