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The Florists^ Review 



Febbdabt 26. 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMBBIGAN SEED TBAOB ASSOCIATION. 



PTMident, B. 0. Dnngan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 ■ecretary-treaanrer, C. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



It is going to cost money to grow 

 leeds in 1920. 



Supplies of all seeds seem to be ade- 

 quate but peas. 



Increases of small size are made in 

 retail prices for 1920 on muskmelon, 

 summer and winter squash and tomato 

 seed. 



The high price of onion sets and the 

 low price of onion seed will result in 

 a large increase in the acreage for sets 

 at Chicago this season. 



Adolph Kruhm, secretary of Beckert's 

 Seed Store, Pittsburgh, delivered a lec- 

 ture on "Vegetable Gardens" before the 

 Horticultural Society of New York, Feb- 

 ruary 18. 



There is a big retail mail order de- 

 mand so far this season, exceeding the 

 expectations of many concerned, but it 

 has not yet resulted in stiffening the 

 wholesale market. 



Whether the high rents in the large 

 cities have caused so many to buy their 

 own homes that the resulting back-yard 

 gardens will boom seed orders, is a ques- 

 tion given consideration by some retail 

 seedsmen. 



The Philippine Seed Co., 363 Calle 

 Baon, Manila, gains splendid returns from 

 advertising, using a number of various 

 sizes of s^dvertisements in Progressive 

 Agriculture, a local paper printed in both 

 English and Spanish. 



Betail prices for vegetable seeds for 

 1920 are less in most cases than in the 

 last two years, the greatest reduction be- 

 ing for cabbage seed. Marked reduc- 

 tions are also shown in beet, carrot, onion, 

 spinach and English and Swede turnip 

 seed. 



The widely known firm, Dobbie & Co., 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, has transformed its 

 business into a private limited liability 

 company, with a capital of £50,000, or at 

 normal exchange approximately $250,000. 

 The management remains unaltered and 

 the partners, Messrs. Cuthbertson, Fife 

 and Bumie, continue the same. 



The American Mutual Seed Co., Chi- 

 cago, sends to agricultural seed buyers 

 a 16-page house organ called Advance 

 Seed News. It is gotten up in newspaper 

 style, but practically everything in it 

 is propaganda or direct advertising for 

 the publisher. Judging from the size 

 of the pile of mail sacks, a large edition 

 is printed and distributed widely. 



WHEN TITLE PASSES TO BUYEB. 



Previous to Actual Delivery. 



Upholding the right of plaintiff to re- 

 cover damages for defendants* failure 

 to furnish seed potatoes of a kind bar- 

 gained for, the North Carolina Supreme 

 court lays down the following principles 

 of sales law applying to the selling of 

 flowers, nursery stock, seeds and other 

 commodities: 



It is not essential to a passing of title 

 to goods sold that physical possession be 

 given the buyer. For example, title 

 commonly passes to a buyer to whom 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Gnmnds 



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. 



\ SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSI 



4011-15 MUwankee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



