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The Florists^ Review 



JUN» 17, 1920. 



Seed Trade News 



▲mBiOAir uua> tradm absooiatiom. 



PiMldnt. a. a Dnanau PhllatelphU, Pa.; 

 Mcivtarj-trManrMr, O. & Kendal, OlaTaUnd, O. 



The British seed trade i8 facing an 

 increase in postage rates that nearly 

 doubles the cost of sending packages 

 weighing between four and sixteen 

 ounces. Some of the larger firms reckon 

 the extra expense on catalogues and small 

 seed orders at $10,000 a year. 



In numbers and in interest the con- 

 vention of the American Seed Trade 

 Association at Milwaukee next week bids 

 fair to set a high mark. The Hotel 

 Pfister, which is headquarters, has been 

 booked up on the convention dates for 

 two weeks and other hotels are rapidly 

 being filled. 



ONION SEED IN CANABIES. 



The United States consul at Teneriffe 

 reports that, according to growing and 

 exporting interests, the production of 

 onion seed this year will be small. 

 Plantings last October for the crop to be 

 harvested this summer were fifty per 

 cent smaller than a year previous, ow- 

 ing to lack of contracts and the high 

 prices of seed onions. Exports to tlie 

 United States and Porto Kico in 1919 

 amounted to 72,000 pounds. The 

 weather has so far been favorable and 

 should it continue so the yield should 

 be proportionally though not actually 

 larger than last vear. 



BULBS AT SANTA CRUZ. 



The harvesting of the freesia bulb 

 crop in the Santa Cruz bulb-growing dis- 

 trict of California has begun some three 

 weeks later than last season, which 

 means later deliveries. Many patches 

 of bulbs will not be ready to dig until 

 July, all due to the late spring rains. 

 The crop will run about one-third of 

 normal, or about one-half of last season. 

 The bulbs are small, but of excellent 

 quality. Paper Whites and daffodils 

 prove to be a fine crop this season, with 

 early delivery. Bulbs of Calla sethiopica 

 are practically unobtainable at any 

 price. Growers are offering a limited 

 quantity of baby gladiolus bulbs. 



SEED CROPS IN CALIFORNIA. 



The unusually low precipitation in 

 California last winter is given .is the 

 principal cause for the backward con- 

 dition of vevfetable seed crops in that 

 state. In the north-central section of 

 the state the seed planted in many fields 

 did not germinate until March, when 

 there was a fair rainfall. As a result 

 the cr(>])S are about one to two months 

 late, and the plants are quite small for 

 this time of the season. 



The root crop seeds arc reported to 

 have been damaged most, especially 

 beet, radish and onion. Lettuce also is 

 in poor condition and because of the 

 lateness of Lhe crop normal yields can- 

 not be expected. Growers in the San 

 Juan valley and the Delta section re- 

 port that crops generally are in only 

 fair condition because of the deficiency 

 of moisture and, as practically no rain 

 can be expected during the rest of the 

 growing season, the growers are antici- 

 pating light yields with possible failures 

 on some crops. 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Otir Trial Groonds 



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 SEEP GROWERS AND IMPORTERS! 



4011'1S Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL, 



