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The Florists^ Review 



January 15, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



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Prices on field seeds show a constant 

 tendency upward. 



There is said to be a strong call for 

 bulbs of Calla EUiottiana among the 

 growers on the coast. 



Out of the war have come many hor- 

 ticultural names. Kelway & Son, Lang- 

 port, England, have named their leading 

 pea "Allotment Holder." 



Steamers arriving from Hamburg 

 bring good-sized consignments of clover 

 seed, though importations are not enough 

 to provide adequate supplies. 



JuDD Carpenter, of Provo, Utah, haa 

 sold out his seed business and has moved 

 to Long Beach, Cal. Mr. Carpenter, who 

 is about 70 years of age, was in the nur- 

 sery business in Fairbury, Neb. 



Visited Chicago: John Bodger, Los 

 Angeles, bound for Europe; Walter L. 

 Hamilton, secretary and treasurer of the 

 M. Or. Madson Seed Co., Manitowoc, Wis. ; 

 S. Bryson Ayres, Kansas City. 



Southern seedsmen whose catalogues 

 have been delayed by labor troubles in 

 the printing trades are sweating blood 

 and making life a burden for the master 

 printers — their selling season has opened. 



On the steamer Mar Rojo, which 

 reached New York from Hamburg, Jan- 

 uary 6, were twenty-three cases of lUy 

 of the valley pips for the International 

 Forwarding Co. and 183 cases for the 

 Guaranty Trust Co. 



What the supply of valley pips will 

 be is still uncertain. Shipments are com- 

 ing from Germany, some via Hamburg 

 and some by way of Holland. The pros- 

 pects are that there will be an adequate 

 amoimt for the trade's use. 



Consignments of Dutch bulbs still 

 drift along. On the steamer Westerdyk, 

 which arrived at New York from Eotter- 

 dam, January 8, were two, one of two 

 cases for G. W. Sheldon & Co., and one 

 of eight cases for Maltus & Ware. 



The official roster of the Iowa Seed 

 Co., Des Moines, la., which was estab- 

 lished in 1865, is as follows: President, 

 M. KurtzweU; vice-president, E. T. 

 Pierce; secretary, Gteorge L. Kurtzweil; 

 treasurer, J. N. Albright; director, C. W. 

 Davison. 



Eeports from shippers and growers in 

 producing sections indicate that the total 

 quantity of lespedeza seed that wUl enter 

 commercial channels this season is equal 

 to, or slightly greater than, that of last 

 season. In some sections heavy rains at 

 harvest time resulted in the loss of much 

 seed, but the quality of seed harvested 

 was not materially affected. 



The thirteenth annual convention of 

 the National Canners' Association will be 

 held at Cleveland, with headquarters at 

 Hotel Statler, January 26 to 30, and it 

 promises to be one of the busiest and 

 most important the association has ever 

 held. As usual, the canners will be 

 joined with the Canning Machinery and 

 Supplies' Association and the National 

 Canned Food and Dried Fruit Brokers' 

 Association, while the sections of the 

 canners, with their several sessions, will 



Greenhouse Men 



and 



The 1920 florists 'Catalogue 



is now beins mailed to our iliou- 

 sands 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 IMPORTERS 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



