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FRENCH BULBS. 



The cables have been occupied, dur- 

 ing the last week, with numerous mes- 

 sages from and to Ollioules. The first 

 shipment of French bulbs is afloat and 

 the indications are that, while the crop 



Seed Trade News 



AXEEICAK SEED TEASE ASSOCIAXION. 

 President, H. G. Hastings, Atlanta, Oa.; 

 secretary-treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Wartime profits in the seed trade now 

 seem likely to disappear in the shrinking 

 value of stock on hand. 



Holland bulb travelers in England 

 have found business considerably more 

 difi&cult than usual this season. 



If other lines of production had filled 

 up with merchandise as rapidly as the 

 seed trade has since the' armistice the 

 average seedsman would find himself in 

 an easier position. 



Reports from California state that it 

 is impossible to fill orders for Purity 

 f reesia bulbs in full, since there is a big 

 shortage of sizable bulbs and stock in gen- 

 eral is of low grade. 



The impression seems to prevail that 

 Uncle Sam will get his 1921 seed supply, 

 or at least- a considerable part of it, at 

 bargain counter prices. The bids are to 

 be opened at Washington July 23. 



It was stated July 9 that the Everette 

 R. Peacock Co., Chicago, already had sold 

 110,000 bushels for delivery from the 

 1920 crop of onion sets. An unusual per- 

 centage of the orders are for fall ship- 

 ment. 



How short the supply of freesia bulbs 

 will prove to be is a question. Un- 

 doubtedly the crop is small, but jobbers 

 are receiving offers of small lots of * * sur- 

 plus ' ' from sources with which no orders 

 had been placed. Of course, the prices 

 are high. 



Hail destroyed part of the seed crops 

 in the vicinity of Rocky Ford, Colo., last 

 week. Early reports placed the damage 

 high, but later advices were that some 

 crops had escaped serious damage. It is 

 too late to replant melon, pumpkin and 

 squash, though cucumber will mature if 

 planted at once. 



The official roster of the Jefferson 

 Seed Co. is: President, D. L. Howard; 

 vice-president, Austin Elvin ; treasurer, 

 G. M. Mackey; secretary, J. M. Bell; 

 manager, G. W. Mackey. This is the com- 

 pany which acquired the business of the 

 Ratekin Seed House, of Shenandoah, and 

 removed it to Jefferson. The concern's 

 slogan is : " Good Seeds, the Key to the 

 Harvest." 



Holland bulb men state that the 

 earliest crops, so far as they have al- 

 ready been lifted, are rather disappoint- 

 ing. A spell of hot, dry weather just at 

 the end of the growing season caused pre- 

 mature dying off among many of the 

 tulips, and to a certain extent probably 

 the same will apply to other bulbs. It 

 is too early yet, however, to form an 

 accurate estimate of what the bulb harvest 

 is to be, for the earliesrt liftings are gen- 

 erally the weakest, as even a week 's delay 

 in ripening off spells considerable im- 

 provement in what are naturally left for 

 later lifting. 



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Tlie Horists' Review 



Jolt 15, 1920 



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