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The Florists^ Review 



Mahch 18, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMSBIOAN 8HBD TRADB ASSOCIATION. 

 Praldent, B. O. Dnngan, Philadelphia. Pa.; 

 ■ecretary-treaaurer, O. H. Kendel, OleTeland, O. 



CohD weather has retarded calls for 

 seeds. 



Paper for the fall catalogues is going 

 to cost more than did that for the spring 

 editions. 



The oflBcial roster of the H. G. Hast- 

 ings Co., Atlanta, Ga., is: President, 

 H. G. Hastings; vice-president, H. W. 

 Brown ^secretary, B. F. Lyon; treasiurer, 

 W. F. Woottan. 



Chaeles N. Page, formerly president 

 of the Iowa Seed Co., ex-president of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, has 

 sold out his greenhouse interests at Den- 

 ver and retired for a second time. 



Some of the factors that have tended 

 to keep the price of timothy seed from 

 soaring during the last two years to the 

 same extent as that of red and alsike 

 clover and alfalfa are the accumulation 

 of stocks of timothy seed since the large 

 crop of 1916, the increased demand for 

 food crops and decreased demand for 

 grass seeds and the failure of the export 

 demand to meet the expectations of many 

 concerns in the seed trade. 



Those who are well posted on the bean 

 growing industry say that a situation now 

 exists in relation to the 1919 crop which 

 has no counterpart in the history of the 

 Turlock, Cal., district. Never before 

 since they began growing the product 

 there have the stocks in storage been re- 

 duced so low. A careful survey discloses 

 that of the 1919 crop of the Lady Wash- 

 ingtons, the standard variety grown, there 

 are only 1,000 sacks in the warehouses 

 of the district — one large carload. Five 

 thousand sacks of Blackeyes are being 

 held by a San Francisco firm, but aside 

 from this one lot there are only about 600 

 sacks — one small carload. Of the Mex- 

 ican Keds there are only 600 sacks — one 

 small carload — and of Teparies, 300 

 sacks. There are still some small hold- 

 ings of 1918 and 1917 crops, but these 

 are considered practically worthless. 



CABBAGE SEED CROP DAMAGED. 



The commercial cabbage seed crop in 

 the Puget sound district has been se- 

 verely damaged this winter by freezing 

 before the plants had been covered. 

 The total acreage reported harvested in 

 this section in 1919 was 1,524 acres, and 

 preparations were made for a similar 

 acreage for harvest in 1920. Although 

 some growers are reluctant to make 

 definite statements as to the extent of 

 the damage or possible number of acres 

 they will be able to put out this season 

 from the surviving plants, the indica- 

 tions are that about eighty-three per 

 cent of the plants were destroyed and 

 that only about 260 acres will be plant- 

 ed from the remaining seventeen per 

 cent. 



The cabbage plants for seed produc- 

 tion on Long Island were buried in 

 trenches and well prepared for the win- 

 ter before hard freezing occurred and, 

 although the winter has been a severe 

 one, the plants are believed to be in 

 good condition. The month of March 

 is the most critical time in this section, 

 however, and it is obviously impossible 

 for growers to estimate the final dam- 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Oar Trial Ground* 



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-lS Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



