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The Florists^ Review 



Fdbbcabx 10. 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMWIIOilH BZZD TKAOS A8S00ZATZ0H. 

 FiMldaat, ■. 0. Ooafan, PklUd«lpUa, Pa.; 

 4Mi*Ur7-trMiiarar, 0. ■. Ktndel. 01«T*Und, O. 



Peter M. Miller, of the well-known 

 Boston seed concern, T. J. Qrey Co., has, 

 been seriously ill with pneumonia. 



Thb official roster of the Williams 

 Seed Co., growers and merchants, Nor- 

 folk, Va,, is: President, Lyons H. Wil- 

 liams; vice-president, O. D. Williams; 

 secretary and treasurer, Charles H. Wil- 

 liams. 



Carl Barts, of the seed department 

 of the Storrs & Harrison Co., Paines- 

 ville, O., has resumed his duties after ill- 

 ness. The company's stock of seeds is 

 excellent this year, reporting scarcity 

 only of clover and peas. 



Stokes Seed Farms Co., originally 

 organized for seed growing and whole- 

 saling, is entering the retiul mail order 

 end of the trade and has issued a cata- 

 logue which lists a large line of agricul- 

 tural supplies other than seeds. 



Becesrt's Seed Store, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., reports that the mail order business 

 is opening up well. The demand for 

 flower seeds has so far been exceptionally 

 heavy and many of the rarer varieties are 

 already sold out. This firm has doubled 

 its capacity for filling orders in the fiower 

 seed department through the installation 

 of a new set of Walker bins, which in- 

 cludes an individual box for each im- 

 portant class, and in some cases two or 

 three, as needed, with a total of 760 

 bozea. 



DEOP BETAIL BUSINESS. 



Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, 

 will no longer handle retail business, 

 devoting their efforts solely to whole- 

 saling in future. Orders from former 

 retail customers for their Sterling brand 

 seeds will be received henceforth only 

 through dealers, according to an an- 

 nouncement sent out last week. In stat- 

 ing this decision, they said: 



"The demand for Sterling seeds and 

 feeds has been growing so fast that 

 changes in our system of operation have 

 become imperative, making it uneconom- 

 ical to attempt to handle retail business. 



"Moreover, our distribution through 

 dealers has increased to the point where 

 we are represented in practically every 

 community west of the Great Lakes 

 and the Mississippi river, and we feel 

 that in this way our customers can be 

 better and more quickly served at 

 prices just as satisfactory as if they 

 ordered direct from us." 



PBIOE OF BED OLOVEB. 



Considerable concern was felt last 

 spring lest the high price of red clover 

 would curtail the acreage sown, states 

 the Market Beporter issued this week 

 by the Department of Agriculture, but 

 apparently the reduction in acreage 

 from this cause was not so great as was 

 supposed. Doubtless the greatly in- 

 creased acreage of winter wheat, on 

 which nearly five-sixths of the red 

 clover seed annually is sown, the need 

 for red clover to build up some of the 

 farms, and the fact that prices were 

 high for many other kinds of seed and 

 for other important agricoltural prod* 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Grounds 



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. 



I SEED G«^OWERS AMD IMPORTERS 



4021'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



