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The Florists^ Review 



Sbptembeb 25, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AXESIOJlH 8XED TKABE ASSOCIATION. 



PKildent, B. 0. Dangan, PhUadelpbia. Pa.; 

 MOtctair-treaannr, 0. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



After two bad seasons, it looks as 

 though onion sets might be a good specu- 

 lation this year. 



According to reports from Seattle, the 

 delay in the delivery of the last of the 

 season's shipments of Formosa lily bulbs 

 has been due to the grounding of the 

 steamer bringing them into that port. 



The "Vegetable Growers ' Association of 

 America, in connection with its convention 

 at Detroit last week, visited the seed farm 

 of D. M. Ferry & Co. September 11 and 

 the Grass Lake farm of the Jerome B. 

 Rice Seed Co. September 13. 



Candidums from the north of France 

 are in, but the stock is below average in 

 size. There never is enough of this 

 thick-petaled type to go around and prac- 

 tically the entire supply now comes from 

 one Paris shipper. The south of France 

 stock is another story. 



The latest reports from Japan do not 

 indicate lower prices for giganteums. On 

 the other hand, they make it appear that 

 earlier predictions of shortage will be 

 more than realized. It is said that when 

 some of those who had bought the stock 

 in the field came to dig their purchases 

 they were shocked to find how little they 

 had got. 



DUTCH BULBS. 



The steamer Gorredijk, from Rotter- 

 dam, docked at Hoboken September 20. 

 It brought the following consignments 

 of bulbs: 



Consignee Cases 



Stumpp & Walter Co 115 



Maltus & Ware 37 



C. J. Hunt 13 



McHutcliison & Co 100 



Henderson, P. , & Co 52 



Bernard, Judae & Co 14 



Downing & Co 127 



Van Doom, W 155 



Total 619 



Previously reported 3,143 



Total to date 3,762 



The Nieuw Amsterdam arrived Sep- 

 tember 23, but the manifest, showing the 

 quantities of bulbs on board, was not 

 filed at the customhouse in New York 

 in time for this issue of The Review. 



The earlier shipments of Dutch bulbs, 

 for distribution in the middle and far 

 west, began arriving at Chicago last 

 week, were inspected and passed by the 

 Illinois inspection authorities and re- 

 leased from the further operation of the 

 quarantine regulations. 



CALIFORNIA SEED CROPS. 



The prevailing dry season, which ob- 

 tained in California from February un- 

 til harvesting time, has had a tendency 

 to mature the crops somewhat earlier 

 than usual. Seed of all of the crops 

 except those which always mature later 

 in the season is on the drying sheets 

 or is being threshed. Recleaning of 

 some kinds of seed has begun and the 

 growers expect to be ready to make 

 shipments somewhat earlier than last 

 fall. 



It appears that the actual yield per 

 acre for most crops will not exceed the 

 estimates made earlier in the season. 

 The onion burn in the Delta district 

 has proved more severe in some fields 



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