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The Florists^ Review 



Jdlt 8, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



I'resUU'iit, II. U. Hustings, Atlanta, Ga.; 

 si'(refarj--troasiiri'r, C, E. Kendol, Cleveland, O. 



W. W. Barnard, the Chicago seedsman, 

 celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday an- 

 niversary July 4. 



Keports from California are to the 

 effect that some of the fields of freesias 

 have been abandoned — not worth the labor 

 of digging. 



EozELL J, BowEN, of J. Bolgiano & 

 Son, Baltimore, Md., and C. Alfred Bol- 

 giano, eldest son of Charles J. Bolgiano, 

 are traveling in Europe, inspecting the 

 growing crops in England, France, Ger- 

 many, Holland and Belgium. Their stay 

 will cover a period of several months. 



It was the late Patrick O'Mara who 

 ventured the opinion, at the close of the 

 lf!17 seed season, tiiat tlie seed business 

 of that year would stand as a record un- 

 til either a material increase in immi- 

 gration or a period of hard times made 

 large numbers of people in the United 

 States willing to work at gardening. 



A("roRDixG to a recent rej;ort from a 

 Dutch seed growers' association, the trade 

 in field and vegetable seeds was dull this 

 season. The repeal of the governmental 

 and food controlling measures, the high 

 rate of exchange of Dutch currency as 

 compared with that of other countries and 

 a smaller home demand were some of the 

 factors that contributed to the dullness of 

 the seed trade. 



With S. & S. C. ]>aper nominally at 

 17 to IS cents per pound, but actually 

 difficult to engage at open price for any 

 delivery in 1920, and with coated stock 

 22 to 24 cents and still harder to con- 

 nect with, the seedsman can spend the 

 summer profitably pruning his mailing 

 list. The average catalogue can bo cut 

 ten j)er cent in number of pages and 

 twenty-five to fifty per cent in number 

 of copies printed without loss of busi- 

 .less. 



DiscouRAGiNO reports are being re- 

 ceived concerning the mustard crop, which 

 was expected to be unusually large in the 

 Lompoc district of California this season. 

 Because of the great quantity of 

 small beans held unsold in the ware- 

 houses in the northern ]»art of the 

 county, the usual acreage planted to mus- 

 tard was increased tliis snring, witli a 

 great acreage of bean land turned over 

 to the mustard crop. Light rainfalls for 

 two successive years arc given as the 

 reason for the poor showing now being 

 made by the mustard. The mustard is now 

 at the seed development stage and most 

 of it is past the blossom. Its growth has 

 been cut short by insufficient moisture, 

 and cool and favorable weather is needed 

 in order for any of the seed to develop. 



DICKINSON ABSORBS EIVAL. 



Merger of the Albert Dickinson 

 Co. and the Continental Seed Co. was 

 announced in Chicago last week and 

 will be completed, it was reported, as 

 soon as possible. It is to include all 

 of the interests and properties of the 

 affiliated companies in Chicago, Minne- 

 apolis, Buffalo and New York. Details 

 of the consolidation will not be com- 

 pleted for some time. 



The Albert Dickinson Co. was 

 started in 1855 by A. F. Dickinson, who 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our 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 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSi 



4011-lS Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



