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The Florists' Review 



May 27, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



▲mBio^ir assD traob absooiation. 



PrMldrat, ■. O. DoBfUL PhlUdcIphU, Pa.; 

 McraUry-treaanrar, 0. a. Kendel, Oleraland, O. 



So serious have been the depredations 

 of the aphis that the present acreage of 

 sweet peas for seeds in California is the 

 smallest in many years. 



Two well known Chicago seedsmen 

 celebrate birthday anniversaries this 

 week. Peter HoUenbach was born May 

 26, 1850, and Charles Dickinson May 28, 

 1858. 



Report of the death Tuesday, May 25, 

 of Patrick O'Mara, widely known as 

 the general manager of Peter Hender- 

 son & Co., New York, appears in the 

 obituary column of this issue. 



A. C. ZvoLANEK, sweet pea seed grower 

 of Lompoc, Cal., lias sailed to spend six 

 niontlis in Europe. He is a Bavarian by 

 birth, l)ut an American citizen for over 

 a quarter of a century. 



A. L. Aabling, president of the Aab- 

 ling Seed Farms, Inc., Seattle, Wash., 

 is receiving the condolences of the trade 

 over the death by asphyxiation last week 

 of Mrs. Aabling'. She had been prepar- 

 ing their dinner on the maid 's day off and 

 was evidently overcome by the escaping 

 fumes before she realized the danger. 

 Mrs. Aabling was 55 years of age and 

 is survived by lier husband and a son, 

 "William, at present a student at Reed 

 College, Oregon. 



Seedsmen in New York are bitter in 

 their complaint against traffic conditions. 

 With the close of the planting season 

 practically here, all orders now received 

 are naturally rush orders, and the dis- 

 tributers find it exceedingly difficult to 

 get seeds out. A. C. Deleot, shipping 

 clerk for J. M. Thorl)urn & Co., 53 Bar- 

 clay street, said that he was not taking 

 any chances on freight at all, but was 

 sending everv'thing, even to carload lots, 

 by exi)ress. The express service, also, he 

 said, was exceedingly unsatisfactory, had 

 been ever since the consolidation, and 

 would be until there was competition. 



NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



Program at Milwaukee. 



The American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion will hold its thirty-eighth annual 

 convention at Milwaukee, Wis., June 

 22 to 24, with headquarters at the Hotel 

 Pfister. The program as announced has 

 been made brief in order to give time 

 for the transaction of important busi- 

 ness. The opening session begins at 10 

 a. m., Tuesday, June 22. 



In the announcements of the conven- 

 tion notice is given of three proposed 

 amendments to the by-laws, as follows: 

 That the dues and initiation fee be in- 

 creased; that appropriations be referred 

 to the executive committee, and that 

 provision be made to admit seed trade 

 associations to membership. 



The Program. 



The program is as follows: 

 ADDRESSES. 



"Seed Tostiiic ExiXTlPiioes," ))y A. Ij. Stonp. 

 of tlio State Department of .\Kricultiire, Madi- 

 son. Wis. 



"Nonundatiire," by J. Horace McFarland. 

 Ilnrrisburir, Pa. 



"Tlip Fine Turf Grasses, with Special Refer- 

 ence to the Seed Supply," l)y R. A. Oakley, of 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Ovr Trial Groands 



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. 



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Everette R. Peacock Co 



I SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSI 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO. ILL. 



