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The Florists^ Review 



Jdnb 3, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AmBIOAIf BKSD TRADB ASSOCIATION. 

 PiMldaiit, a. O. DnnKan, PUUdelphU, Pa.; 

 McnUrj-trMtanr, 0. B. Kendel, 01«T«Und, 0. 



Indications point to a live convention 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 at Milwaukee June 22 to 24. 



A French decree of May 21 removed 

 the embargo on the exportation of clover 

 seed in force since March 23, 1920. 



Shipments of cyclamen seed are on 

 their way from Germany, reports A. 

 Miller, president of the American Bulb 

 Co., Chicago. 



Transportation facilities have im- 

 proved in the last week and seedsmen are 

 now cutting down the accumulation of 

 orders on their hands. 



The Iowa Seed Dealers' Association 

 held its annual meeting at Des Moines 

 June 1 and 2. A good-sized gathering 

 found the sessions of a great deal of in- 

 terest. 



Next week the Southern Seedsmen's 

 Association convenes at Jacksonville, Fla., 

 June 7 to 9. The program and plans for 

 the meeting were given in The Review for 

 May 13. 



Stronger call is being felt at retail 

 stores for seeds for home gardens. The 

 warm weather and newspapers' accounts 

 of the serious food situation have stirred 

 home owners to action. 



A. Henderson, of A. Henderson & Co., 

 Chicago, says that the crops of French 

 and Dutch bulbs are reported to be good, 

 but that it is not yet certain whether they 

 will be adequate in amount. 



The Storrs & Harrison Co., Paines- 

 ville, O., is having a grand rush for 

 garden seeds, according to Carl Barto. 

 Buyers are just beginning to wake up, 

 after the cold, backward season. 



This is pruning time — for mailing lists. 

 The average mail-order seed house can 

 recover part of the greatly increased cost 

 of catalogues by cutting the dead and 

 duplicate names from its mailing lists. 



When you have just moved into your 

 new store and your telephone is not yet 

 installed and the weather is such that no 

 work is being done in the fields, so that 

 no seeds are called for and no one comes 

 in, then it is hard to tell what is happen- 

 ing. At least, that was the way N. Sluis, 

 of N. Sluis & Son, Chicago, found it last 

 week. But his telephone is in now and 

 the weather has improved. 



J. V. Odil, who was formerly with the 

 Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, and later with 

 the United States Seed Co., St. Louis, 

 Mo., is now manager of the wholesale de- 

 partment of the Evorette R. Peacock Co., 

 Chicago. Mr. Odil is at present in the 

 south, where he is especially well known 

 in the trade, and will attend the conven- 

 tion of the Southern Seedsmen's Associa- 

 ciation at Jacksonville, Fla., June 7 to 9. 



The retail seed season has not fulfilled 

 the most sanguine hopes. Weather con- 

 ditions have not been favorable; garden- 

 ing is not a lazy man 's job, .and indolence 

 is said to have become a national char- 

 acteristic since the armistice; people do 

 not garden most industriously when they 

 have money, and money never was so 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Grotmds 



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 IMPORTERS! 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



