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The Florists^ Review 



Jancabt 1, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



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PtMldMit, ■. 0. Dancan, Phlladttlplila. Pa.; 

 McrcUiT-trMniTCr, O. 1. Kcndel, OleTtUnd, O. 



There isn 't much doing in onion sets at 

 Chicago just now. The prices are so high 

 buyers are holding off for a fall and sell- 

 ers are holding on for a rise. 



The officers of the firm of Bandall-Mc- 

 Loughlin, Seattle, Wash., are: President, 

 Balph B. Bandall; secretary, Lyman B. 

 Colt; treasurer, Thomas F. McLoughlin. 



A. H. Goodwin, of the W. W. Barnard 

 Co., Chicago, went to New York December 

 26, to spend New Year 'a with Mrs. Good- 

 win, who is staying at the Hotel Manhat- 

 tan this winter. 



For accommodation of his growing 

 business A. W. Masser, 10 South Ninth 

 street, Beading, Pa., has purchased a 3- 

 story brick building, 18x120 feet, on the 

 main street of the city. 



First hands holding onion sets in the 

 Chicago district ask $3 for reds or yel- 

 lows and $3.50 to $4 for whites. Dealers 

 base their March delivery prices on these 

 values. The consensus is there was half 

 a crop. Beport has it that the California 

 onion seed growers already have placed 

 enough seed in the Chicago district so 

 that, with decent weather, it wiU be quite 

 another story next season. 



M. M. CARBOIJ. WHITES. 



I am still receiving catalogues and 

 other pieces of business mail. Evident- 

 ly many of the trade do not know I 

 have been married since August 30, 

 1919. I met a New York broker while 

 in Miami, Fla., during the winter of 

 1917 while touring the south. Well, I 

 did the usual thing a girl does when 

 she falls in love. 



I am no longer at Cincinnati, but am 

 spending this winter at Gainesville, Fla. 

 M. M. Carroll Marshall. 



SCARCE ITEMS IN NOBTHWEST. 



"Field seeds are being pretty well 

 cleaned up by the ranchers and g^row- 

 ers," reports the State Nursery & Seed 

 Co., at Helena, Mont., "and good stock 

 of such items as alfalfa and clovers is 

 getting scarce. Seed potatoes vvill be 

 higher in price than for many years. 

 The severe weather that the northwest 

 has experienced has delayed deliveries 

 from many growers to the dealers." 



PROBLEM IN PEA PAILXJBE. 



In discussing the seed pea situation 

 a prominent Wisconsin canner said re- 

 cently: "Not since the period follow- 

 ing the lean years of 1909 and 1910 and 

 immediately preceding the growing of 

 peas in a large way under irrigation 

 have the growers of seed peas faced 

 future production with as little confi- 

 dence in the returns to be received from 

 their plantings. The almost total failure 

 of 1919, following the unsatisfactory 

 yields of the three previous years, in 

 the most promising growing sections of 

 proven reliability, is causing the seeds- 

 men to also ask 'whither are we going!' 

 The cost of production has always in- 

 creased following a crop failure. Other 

 crops did not meet writh disaster as did 

 the pea crop and as a consequence seeds- 

 men face a bad situation with their 



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