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The Florists^ Review 



Febbuabz 12, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



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TiMMrat, a. 0. DoBfan, PklUdalphla, Pa.; 

 4MntW7-tnamn«r, O. 1. Kandal, OlcTelud, O. 



There is no sign of weakness in the 

 onion set market. 



Enough narcissus and tulip bulbs trere 

 grown by the Department of Agriculture 

 to supply the congressional distribution 

 this year. 



The seed selling season is making an 

 excellent start. The mail order houses 

 are unusually busy, provided their cata- 

 logues are out. 



The Department of Agriculture in- 

 cluded in its appropriation bill for next 

 year $5,000 for the work of producing 

 American bulbs. 



The C. S. Osborn Co., Newark, O., is 

 well settled in its new store, where it is 

 selling plants besides conducting its reg- 

 ular seed business. 



Seed catalogues cost real money this 

 season, and were slow of manufacture, 

 but they will cost still more next autmnn 

 unless all signs fail. 



A GOOD many seedsmen would gain by 

 going over their mailing lists for dupli- 

 cate names, judging by the fact that The 

 Eeview has received from two to half 

 a dozen copies of numerous 1920 editions. 



Free seeds for congressmen's constit- 

 uents prevailed in the House of Bepre- 

 sentatives, when a motion to eliminate an 

 appropriation of $239,000 for seed dis- 

 tribution was defeated February 9 by a 

 vote of 130 to 71. 



NEW IJ^W IN HOLLAND. 



The representatives of Holland houses 

 now traveling in this country, in many 

 cases have received word of a new lav^r 

 affecting horticultural interests in their 

 country. It appears that at the instiga- 

 tion of the nurserymen's organization 

 the Dutch Chamber has enacted a law 

 prohibiting the shipment of any nursery 

 stock which has not been sold. In other 

 words, it prevents the 'consignment of 

 surplus stock to auction houses. The 

 law is of principal interest in England, 

 because America was closed last Juno 

 to practically everything in the way of 

 nursery stock from HoUand. 



The new law, as reported to bulb 

 salesmen traveling here, does not include 

 the regulation of the bulb traffic. Prob- 

 ably pressure will be put on, Avith the 

 object of prohibiting the shipment of 

 bulbs to America unless to fill bona fide 

 orders. 



MISSISSIPPI IfOISLATION. 



Unreasonable Label Bequirements. 



House bill 316, filed January 28 by 

 Mr. Gipson in the Mississippi state leg- 

 islature and referred to the House com- 

 mittee on agriculture, is a close copy of 

 the Texas seed law, approved July 28, 

 1919, with, however, some most tftihappy 

 alterations. The bill affects both agri- 

 cultural and garden seeds. 



The label required of agricultural 

 seeds is hardly possible because of its 

 indefinite provisions and unreasonable 

 requirements. The label is only required 

 to be attached to field seeds in whole- 

 sale lots, without any definition as to 



Tested 



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Early View of Oar Trial Groimda 



Did you ever sow Peacock's Flower 

 Seeds? If not — why not? Other 

 florists do. 



Please see full list of Florists' and Market 

 Gardeners' Seeds in the 16-page Green Sec- 

 tion, pages 117 to 132 of The Review for 

 January 29. 



Everette R. Peacock Co 



SEEP GROWERS AND IMPORTERSi 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



