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T^ Florists^ Review 



JcNi 10, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



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There appear to be plenty of cold- 

 storage giganteums still in dealers ' hands. 



It develops that many of the com- 

 mission boxes are not so nearly empty as 

 they were expected to be at this date. 



The death of Charles F. Crosman, 

 president of Crosman Bros. Co., Bochester, 

 N. Y., is recorded in this week's obituary 

 column. 



Caufoknia seed growers, who built up 

 a big export business during the war, 

 find the present rates of exchange a prac- 

 tically insurmountable barrier. 



It is reported that the Hotel Pfister, 

 convention headquarters of the A. S. T. 

 A., at Milwaukee, is booked up for the 

 convention dates, June 22 to 24. 



After an illness that has kept him from 

 his office for seven weeks, James Mc- 

 Hutchison, head of McHutchison & Co., 

 New York, is recovering and expects to 

 be back at his desk soon. 



An injunction has been obtained by 

 D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, preventing 

 Oklahoma state officials from interfering 

 with the sale of the company's seeds in 

 packets marked with a germination of ten 

 per cent. 



At the annual meeting of the Iowa 

 Seed Dealers' ABSOciation at Des Moines 

 last week the following were elected of-, 

 ficers for the ensuing year: President, 

 C. G. Ouren, Council Bluffs; vice- 

 president, H. W. Talbott, Osceola; secre- 

 tary, A. M. Eldridge, Shenandoah; treas- 

 urer, John T. Hamilton, Cedar Rapids. 



At its annual meeting at Galveston, 

 May 29 and 30, the Texas Seed Dealers' 

 Association changed its name to the Texas 

 Seedsmen's Association and decided to 

 meet at Waco next year. As officers the 

 following were elected: President, Mel. 

 L. Webster, Waco; vice-president, F. E. 

 Furry, Beaumont; secretary and treas- 

 urer, O. N. Templeton, Waco. 



Seedsmen who have tried to buy paper 

 for 1921 books have found "food for 

 thought." Few sources of supply will 

 accept orders from other than old cus- 

 tomers and none has until recently been 

 willing to quote prices for future de- 

 liveries. Recently, however, prices have 

 become so high tiiere is a feeling in the 

 paper trade that they will not advance 

 much farther. 



A RECENT addition to the staff of the 

 Seattle Seed Co., Seattle, Wash., is Alex 

 Galbraith, who has resigned his position 

 as head of the seed division of the Wash- 

 ington state department of agriculture. 

 He entered the state's service in May, 

 1918, and is thoroughly familiar with the 

 growing districts of the state. He vnll 

 be succeeded in the department by J. E. 

 Currey, graduate of the Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College, who was in charge of grain 

 inspection for the federal government 

 during the war. 



STABEs GO nrro seeds. 



A seed department is to be established 

 by Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., 

 Louisiana, Mo., and the company is now 

 preparing a catalogue to be issued. The 

 business in seeds will be retail catalogue 

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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-lS Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



