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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 11. 1020 



Seed Trade News 



AVHBIOAN 8BEI) THADB ASSOCIATION. 



President, B. C. Dungan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 •ecretary-treaaurer, C. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Leonard Vaughan was 40 March 8. 



The acreage for peas and beans in 

 1920 has cost more than ever before. 



What became of all the castor beans 

 from those 100,000 government acres? 



Lo"W prices for seeds unquestionably 

 mean a reduction in acreage and then a 

 small crop year means aviating values. 



Heavy rains have fallen in southern 

 California. In the vicinity of Los 

 Angeles damage was done to many crops. 



News of the death of F. W. Brugger- 

 hof, head of J. M. Thorburn & Co., New 

 York, appears in this week's obituary 

 column. 



J. Keur, of C. Keur & Sons, Hillegom, 

 Holland, is making his twenty-first busi- 

 ness tour to the United States, but it is 

 his first trip here since 1914. 



The J. W. Jung Seed Co., at Eandolph, 

 Wis., has purchased a S-story building, 

 50x100 feet, with basement, and will com- 



Eletely remodel it, installing all the latest 

 ibor-saving devices. It is expected to 

 be ready for occupancy about May 1. 



It is proving no small task to fill the 

 mail orders this season. The class of help 

 ordinarily employed for this work, in the 

 cities at least, is more scarce than at any 

 previous time and neither punctuality nor 

 industry is so general as the demand for 

 high wages. 



The wave of wintry weather which 

 passed across the country from west to 

 east in the first week of March cut down 

 the flow of mail orders, which was begin- 

 ning to assume flood proportions. It gave 

 everyone a generally needed chance to 

 catch up. 



France has available for export 881,840 

 pounds of sugar beet seed, according to a 

 French Chambre Syndicale, composed of 

 sugar beet seed growers and formed for 

 the purpose of increasing the production 

 of selected seed. The seal of the associa- 

 tion is placed on every bag of seed re- 

 garded as selected. 



MEREDITH DOWNS FREE SEEDS. 



The new secretary of agriculture has 

 won the approval of the seed trade by 

 opposing the congressional distribution 

 of free seeds. On Secretary Meredith's 

 recommendation, the Senate agricultural 

 committee voted March 2 to eliminate 

 from the annual agricultural appropria- 

 tion the $240,000 voted by the House 

 to continue the time-hallowed custom 

 of distributing free seeds to congress- 

 men's constituents. 



LASOB AFFECTS SEED SALES. 



Beplies that have been received from 

 inquiries sent by the Bureau of Mar- 

 kets of the Department of Agriculture 

 to a number of representative retail 

 vegetable seed dealers indicate that the 

 quantity of vegetable seed sold to mar- 

 ket gardeners so far this season is equal 

 to or greater than last year. Exceptions 

 are shown in the case of reports from a 

 few industrial centers, principally in 

 the east, where the quantity sold to 

 market gardeners is estimated to be ten 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Oar 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 SEEP G**OWERS AND IMPORTERSi 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



