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The Florists^ Review 



J0LT 29, 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AXEKZOAN SEED TRADE ASSOOZATION. 

 PreBldent, H. O. Haatingi, Atlanta, Oa.; 

 aecretary'treaaonr, 0. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



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The official roster of the Stumpp & 

 Walter Co., New York, is: President, 

 George G. Stumpp; treasurer, Julian H. 

 Walter; secretary, William A. Sperling. 



The seed trade has its own special 

 problem of deflation in the fact that it 

 is not possible to increase quickly the 

 consumption of seeds by reducing the 

 price. 



Thb first French bulbs arrived on the 

 gteamer Britannia July 27, having left 

 MarseUles July 10. A larger shipment 

 will come on the Patria, which left three 

 days later. 



"It is our policy to print only those 

 things which are encouraging," s^s the 

 editor of a trade paper. But, Holy Moses 1 

 How misleading such a publication must 

 be until its readers size it up! And after 

 that it won 't have any readers. 



Thb McVay Seed & Floral Co., Bir- 

 mingham, Ala., which has been operated 

 since 1915 by B. Vernon Harris and Leon 

 E. Harris, will be known in the future as 

 the Harris Seed A Flozal Co. The t^agi 

 will not affeet the perBonaal of the eon- 

 oem, which will operate a» soeeeMOfa to 

 the McVay Seed & Floral Co. 



GAASS SEED IMPORTS. 



The following table, prepared in the 

 seed laboratory of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, shows the amount of the 

 various kinds of forage-plant seeds, sub- 

 ject to the seed importation act, per- 

 mitted entry into the United States be- 

 tween July 1 and July 15, 1920, inclu- 

 sive: 



Kind of aeed Po»°^ 



Alfalfa "•'^*~ 



Olover: --^ 2oa 



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Millet: Broom corn 1,100 



Rye grass: ^, „„ 



English "'^ 



Italian 44.000 



Vetch : Hairy w,s>w 



SEED BIDS OPENED. 



At Washington July 23. 



Friday, July 23, bids were opened at 

 the Department of Agriculture, in 

 Washington, D. C, for the supply of 

 seeds to be purchased by the govern- 

 ment for its annual congressional dis- 

 tribution. The same kinds of vegetable 

 and flower seeds were supplied as in 

 former years. The number of firms pre- 

 senting bids was somewhat larger thau 

 formerly, the various houses in the trade 

 seeking this means of unloading some 

 of the surplus which rests so heavily on 

 their hands this season. 



For this same reason, needless to say, 

 the prices quoted on many items were 

 much below the figures of previous 

 years. A good many firms are carrying 

 larger stocks of surplus seeds at this 

 time than they would like to admit. 

 The demand this year was not at all 

 sufficient to clear even a good proportion 

 of the stocks on hand. As a result, this 

 trade finds itself in the quite anomalous 

 position, under present general commer- 

 cial conditions, of having on its hands 

 larg« stocks of a commodity that can- 



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