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The Florists' Review 



Seftembbr 18. 191t. 



Seed Trade News 



AXESZOAV SEED TBABE ASSOCIATION. 



Pmldeat, B. 0. Bungan, Philadelphia. Pa.; 

 Mcretary-treaaurer, 0. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



S. F. Leonard, president of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., Chicago, is in California. 



How can onion seed be grown for low 

 prices as long as the price of the onion 

 bulbs holds upf 



GiGANTEUM bulbs are afloat, due at 

 Seattle in about a fortnight. Delivery 

 probably will be delayed by the new re- 

 quirements as to government inspection. 



It is the general report that, even if 

 the price is high, the buyers of Formosa 

 lily bulbs have got something for their 

 money, the bulbs being of exceptional 

 quality this season. 



To protect Illinois against the European 

 corn borer, the state department of agri- 

 •ulture has issued a quarantine order 

 against the shipment of seed sweet corn 

 into Illinois from Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Ehode Island and New 

 York. 



C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, secretary of 

 the American Seed Trade Association, has 

 just sent to members the annual volume 

 of "Proceedings," covering the Chicago 

 convention. It puts in permanent verba- 

 tim form the matter published last June 

 by the trade press and also includes a list 

 of members, the by-laws and other asso- 

 ciation matter. 



The onion set crop seldom has been in 

 the warehouses so early as this year. The 

 consensus is that Chicago has half a crop, 

 a yield of between two and three bushels 

 per pound of seed, where an average crop 

 would give from four to five bushels. The 

 inference drawn from the early housing 

 of the crop is that the dealers feared it 

 might slip away. 



The American consul at Teneriffe, 

 Canary Islands, reports under date of Au- 

 gust 26 that 70,000 pounds of onion seed 

 have been invoiced at that consulate for 

 shipment to the United States during this 

 year. Much of this was from last year's 

 crop, owing to the fact that there was a 

 large decrease in purchases by the United 

 States last year. 



The Everette R. Peacock Co., Chicago, 

 had an interesting exhibit at the con- 

 vention of the Vegetable Growers' As- 

 sociation at Detroit last week, including 

 practical seed testing, using modern test- 

 ing apparatus. The firm was represent- 

 ed by Chas. W. Witbeck, Fred Gunther, 

 Wm. C. Ilitzemann, Miss M. Fennessy, 

 Herbert J. Saff and H. R. Kaeding. 



MOTT-LY GLEANINGS. 



"Just what I told you in the spring," 

 observed Oscar Machholz, of Milwaukee, 

 a veteran seedsman; "there was no 

 shortage to speak of and the same con- 

 ditions will prevail this coming season. 

 We had a good trade and sold out clean, 

 keeping prices moderate." 



Manager Annandale, of the Steele- 

 Briggs Seed Co., Toronto, was seen for a 

 brief moment, presumably on his way to 

 the west, and expressed the opinion that, 

 80 far as the Canadian seedsmen were 

 concerned, they had had the best season 

 for many years, and prospects for fall 

 business were fully as bright. 



Ralph B, Howe, of the W. W. Barnard 



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