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The Rorists^ Review 



Januabt 8, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



AMZaXOAM 8ZKD TKAOB ABSOOZATION. 



PiMlduit, B. O. Dangan, PIilUd*lpIila, Pa.; 

 MenUry-trMaonr, C. B. Kendel, OleyeUnd. O. 



Seed selling in the south is opening 

 well., 



David Burpee spent New Year's in 

 the south. 



During 1920 seed stocks will be nearer 

 normal than in the last five years. 



Taking the situation as a whole, the 

 price of seeds is falling. Can you think 

 of anything else that isn't going up? 



The death of William C. Heller, 

 founder of the miceproof seed case busi- 

 ness, occurred December 19. He was 47 

 years of age. 



Boot & Co., bulb growers at Voor- 

 hout, Holland, are preparing to open a 

 permanent American office, in New York. 

 P. Boot is here with his salesman. 



With so many Holland bulb houses 

 booking orders for French bulbs they 

 must buy, how can it be otherwise than 

 that their bidding will put prices up? 



The high cost of living furnishes seeds- 

 men persuasive arguments in behalf of 

 home gardens. How much prosperous 

 householders Avill heed them is another 

 story. 



Commission-box people Avho figured on 

 a return to 5-cent packets have found 

 that, while the price of seeds has fallen, 

 the cost of labor and supplies has in- 

 creased in even greater measure. 



Thomas C. Fagan, of Fagan's Seed 

 Store, Indianapolis, one of the veterans 

 of the trade, and his son, Thomas M. 

 Fagan, traveler for the Madson Seed Co., 

 Manitowoc, Wis., spent New Year's in 

 Chicago. 



William Satter, who for fifteen years 

 has made an American tour for Ebbinger 

 & Van Groos, of Boskoop, has been com- 

 pelled to relinquish that connection be- 

 cause of the plant quarantine and has 

 come over with the bulb line of Rotteveel 

 Bros., of Sassenheim. 



The official roster of Wm. Henry 

 Maule, Inc., Philadelphia, which was 

 established in 1877 and incorporated in 

 1913 with $150,000 capital, comprises 

 the following: President, M. H. Maule; 

 vice-president, Chas. P. Maule; treasurer 

 and general manager, Edward C. Dun- 

 gan; secretary, H. E. Maule. 



It is early yet, but it is a quite general 

 report that the trade is not ordering 

 bulbs with the freedom that the Holland 

 travelers had hoped. With the numer- 

 ous new houses represented here this sea- 

 son for the first time, order taking is 

 not proving as easy as it might, and even 

 the old, established exporters find a dis- 

 position on the part of large buyers to 

 hold off for the present. 



The Seed Reporter, the government 

 ))ublication covering crop conditions of 

 field and vegetable seeds which died a 

 natural death last October, has been suc- 

 ceeded by the Market Reporter, a weekly 

 bulletin of the government which will 

 combine a number of market reports of 

 various kinds. The essential information 

 contained in the Seed Reporter will, it is 

 said, be given in the new publication, 



Greenhouse Men 



and 



Florists! 



The J 920 ^fo"'*fe' Catalogue 



18 now beins^ mailed to our thous- 

 ands of customers in the trade 



We carry large stocks of nearly all 

 varieties of Flower Seeds of the best 

 strains. All our Flower Seeds have 

 been TESTED and we offer them to you 

 as being DEPENDABLE. 



Did you ever sow Peacock's Flower 

 Seeds? If not — why not? Other 

 florists do. 



Drop us a post card TODAY and we 

 will mail you our Florists' and Market 

 Gardeners' Catalogue. Please write us 

 your requirements and let us figure on 

 your order. 



Tested Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Grounds 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSi 



4011-15 Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



