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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbbdabt 5, 1920 



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was devoted entirely to a discussion of 

 the advertising plans which have al- 

 ready been started in the effort to get 

 every canner interested. The half-mil- 

 lion dollar advertising program was 

 fully explained by Mr. Boss, of the 

 Blackman-Eoss Co. 



About 4,500 members and guests were 

 in attendance at the convention. Many 

 seed firms had representatives present. 

 Among them were John H. Allan Seed 

 Co., Sheboygan, Wis.; A. J. Brown Seed 

 Co., Grand Eapids, Mich.; Edgar F. 

 HurfiF, Swedesboro, N. J.; Jerome B. 

 Bice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y.; Rogers 

 Bros., Alpena, Mich.; W. W. Barnard 

 Co., Chicago; J. Bolgiano & Son, Balti- 

 more, Md.; S. D. Woodruff & Sons, 

 Orange, Conn.; Leonard Seed Co., Chi- 

 cago; Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Mil- 

 ford, Conn.; D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, 

 Mich.; Hogg & Lytle, Toronto, Ont.; 

 D. Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, Pa.; N. B. 

 Keeney & Son, Leroy, N. Y., and W. C. 

 Pressing Seed Co., Norwalk, O. 



BRITISH SEED SITUATION. 



Last Season and Next. 



Reviewing the seed season just past 

 and the outlook for that ahead, a lead- 

 ing British trade publication states: 



"Home production of seeds made a 

 certain amount of progress, and during 

 last summer fairly large areas of what 

 may be termed staple vegetables were 

 met with in places where seed growing 

 was quite a new venture. 



"The wet spring, followed by a dry, 

 but cold and sunless period, made 

 gfTOwth somewhat backward, but subse- 

 quent warmth quickened the pace and 

 at one period crops in most districts 

 wore a pleasing and promising aspect. 

 Drought and heat, however, were later 

 experienced, and on the whole yields 

 were light and some seeds finished off 

 rather too rapidly. Pea and bean crops 

 were considerably below the average in 

 weight, but they harvested particularly 

 well and hand-picking is a much lighter 

 task than was the case last season. 



"The dry autumn was favorable to 

 the onion seed harvest, and some really 

 good batches have been met with. The 

 onion is undoubtedly one of the most 

 important of the seed crops grown in 

 England, and were it not for the uncer- 

 tainty of our climate in autumn we 

 might well produce the greater part of 

 our required supplies, for without doubt 

 English-grown onion seed maintains 

 quality and stamina better than most 

 foreign produce. 



"Some fairly good batches of beet 

 seed and of the brassica tribe were se- 

 cured, while carrot and parsnip also pro- 

 duced respectable yields, but on the 



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