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The Florists^ Review 



MabCb 25, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



PresldeDt, B. C. DuDgao, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Mcretary-treaiurer, C. .B. Kendel, CleTeland. O. 



A FEW days of warm weather started 

 the rush in the retail stores last week. 



A DKiVE for 1920 thrift gardens, the 

 successors to war gardens, has been begun 

 by the Department of Agriculture, which 

 may somewhat increase home planting. 



Vegetable growers are not such heavy 

 buyers of seed this year as formerly, 

 since most of them have been forced to 

 reduce their plantings because of inability 

 to secure help. 



C. W. Scott, of the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co., returned to New York March 18, 

 accompanied by H. Suzuki, of the Yoko- 

 hama headquarters of the concern, whom 

 he had met in Seattle. 



Benjamin F. Brovpn, president of the 

 Brown Bag Filling Machine Co., Fitch- 

 burg, Mass., fell upon the ice on the side- 

 walk recently and sustained a fracture of 

 the right hip. He is getting along well 

 and expects to be on his feet soon. 



JAPAHUSE LILY BULBS. 



The 1919 Crop Imports. 



In view of the high prices at which 



giganteum and other Japanese lily bulbs 



sold last fall, and of the present high 



prices of pot plants and cut lilies, the 



figures as to the number of lily bulbs 



exported from Japan to America in 



1919, here published for the first time, 



mil be of much interest: 



Month of Bulbs exported 



July. 1810 481.040 



August, 1919 455,in0 



September, 1919 4,448,190 



October, 1919 3,879,062 



November. 1919 708,952 



December. 1919 105,875 



Total for season 10.078,689 



These are the ofiicial figures of the 

 bulbs inspected by the Japanese govern- 

 ment and certificated for export to 

 America from Yokohama and Kobe. 

 The figures include formosum and ru- 

 brum as well as giganteum, but the 

 bulbs, of course, were in great part of 

 the latter variety. 



A commercial report gives the ex- 

 port from Japan in 1919 at 11,475,689 

 bulbs. 



A crop of 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 ex- 

 portable bulbs would represent almost 

 half a pre-war year's crop, but 10,000,- 

 000 for America would represent a prac- 

 tically full supply, America never hav- 

 ing taken much over half of the crop 

 prior to 1914. That the American sup- 

 ply should have been so great in face 

 of the short crop and the competition of 

 English buyers, who appear, however, 

 to have been unwilling to meet Ameri- 

 can bids, will be a great surprise to 

 many. 



The 1920 Crop. 



It is reported that the 1920 crop of 

 cultivated lily bulbs in Japan, meaning 

 principally giganteums, may be expected 

 to approximate 15,000,000 exportable 

 bulbs, principally of the grade 7 to 10. 

 This will compare with pre-war crops 

 of 20,000,000 to 22,000,000 bulbs. 



The Japanese feel that they can not 

 afford to grow lilies at less than last 

 year's prices and, indeed, they are ask- | 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Onr 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 Gf^OWERS AND IMPORTERS 



4011'1S MUwemkee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



