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The Florists' Review 



JcLT 22. 192« 



Seed Trade News 



AMEEICAK SEED TBASE ASSOCIATION. 

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

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



Hamburg boats are bringing consider- 

 able shipments of grass seeds. 



Eeports from pea districts in Wiscon- 

 sin are discouraging again this year. 



John A. Bruce, head of John A. Bruce 

 & Co., Hamilton, Ont., died recently at his 

 home at Hamilton at the age of 91. 



Reduction in acreage of vegetable 

 seeds is contemplated by many growers. 

 The large carry-over this year represents 

 in most cases a shrinkage in value to be- 

 low normal figures. 



Effects of the financial tightening 

 have made themselves apparent in th^ 

 horticultural trades first among seeds- 

 men. The last year has not been so pros- 

 perous a one for them as for nurserymen 

 and florists. 



Resignation of Axel Setterberg from 

 the position of general manager of the 

 Everette R. Peacock Co., Chicago, took 

 effect last week. He withdrew at the 

 same time from the Oshkosh Seed Co., 

 Oshkosh, Wis., an allied holding. 



The oflScial roster of the L. L. Olds 

 Seed Co. is: President and manager, 

 L. L. Olds; vice-president, W. D. Curtis; 

 secretary, S. A. Wilson; assistant man- 

 agerf Peter P. Carr; treasurer, E. F. 

 Riley; directors, Charles N. Brown, W. A. 

 Tracy and Vroman Mason. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission announces an open competitive 

 examination for superintendent of field 

 seed distribution to fiU a vacancy in the 

 bureau of plant industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, at a 

 salary of $2,160 a year. Other positions 

 requiring similar qualifications will be 

 filled from this examination. Applicants 

 should apply for form 2118, stating the 

 title of the examination desired, to the 

 Civil Service Commission, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The damage to seed crops in the vicin- 

 ity of Rocky Ford, Colo., by hail, reported 

 in The Review last week, is not so ex- 

 tensive as at first believed. About ten 

 per cent of the crops at Rocky Ford were 

 lost. About seventy-five per cent of the 

 crops at Ordway were lost or badly dam- 

 aged; cucumber and melon crops were 

 practically total losses, but cucumber will 

 be replanted. The loss at Swink is re- 

 ported as heavy. Summer squash and 

 pumpkin are beginning to grow from the 

 stubs of the plants and will make from 

 fifty to sixty-five per cent of a crop if the 

 remainder of the season is favorable. 



FISHEB LOSES STOCK. 



Rudolph Fischer, of San Gabriel, 

 Calif., has lost all his salable stock of 

 freesia bulbs by fire. Details are lacking, 

 the bare announcement being made by 

 Mr. Fischer in a telegram to The Re- 

 view the purpose of which was to head 

 off further orders for stock advertised 

 and which has been lost in the fire. 



Mr. Fischer is well known throughout 

 the trade as the originator of Freesia 

 Purity and several new colored varie- 

 ties, Fischerii and Splendens having 

 been put on the market. 



The following came by wire from 



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Peacock's Grows 



Because 



Peacock's Seeds Grow 



Write for Wholesale List 



or Special Quotations on 



your needs 



Everette R. Peacock Co 



I SEgP GROWERS AND IMPORTERS 



4011-15 Milwaukee Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILL, 



