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The Florists' Review 



AuousT 19, 192C 



Seed Trade News 



AHEBICAN B£ED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 

 President, H. G. Hastingi, Atlanta, Qa.: 

 •ecretary-treasurer, 0. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Ed. Goldenstein has been elected sec- 

 ond vice-president of Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, Chicago and New York. 



Joe Coleman, the well known gladio- 

 lian, has the California fever. He plans 

 to sell out at Ravenna, O., and spend the 

 next year on the coast. 



Ant seedsman who did not write his 

 inventory down to current values when 

 closing his books for the 1919-20 season 

 was only kidding himself at the expense 

 of needless income taxes. 



At the annual election of oflScers of 

 the Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago, Charles 

 D. Boyles was chosen to succeed Charles 

 Dickinson, who, it is reported, has retired 

 from the business. The other officers 

 elected are: Vice-president, Gilbert M. 

 Davis; secretary. Homer R. Blodgett: 

 treasurer, W. K. Palmer. 



The excessively dry season has had a 

 bad influence on sweet pea crops in Cali- 

 fornia, H. E. Hallawell, of the Hallawell 

 Seed Co., San Francisco, states that it is 

 understood that only thirty per cent of a 

 seed crop will be harvested. Peas are 

 being threshed, but it will be a week or 

 two before the actual yield of seed peas 

 per acre is positively known. 



MORE FRENCH BULBS. 



August 10 the season's third cargo of 

 French bulbs arrived, a total of 3,713 

 cases reaching New York from Mar- 

 seilles on the steamer Canada. The con- 

 signments were as follows: 



Consignee nHspa 



Vautrhan's Seed Store Ib? 



Equitable Trust Co "^ 



Downing & Co 5J7 



Wakem & McLaughlin loq 



Maltus & Ware i?n 



Lang, R. F .' ." ] "ig 



International ForwardiiiK To 4n 



Rynveld, F., & Sons 1 10^ 



Van Waveren & Sons '047 



Meyer, C iV, 



Van Zonneveld oaf 



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Total 3 71- 



PreTiously reported '■'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.7',524 



Total to date ^ 237 



FARMERS ORGANIZE COMPANY. 



A number of farmers of Henry county, 

 Illinois, halted their work Saturday 

 afternoon, July 31, to organize a com- 

 pany to take care of the seed business 

 of the county. It was originally in- 

 tended to establish a $50,000 corpora- 

 tion, but at the meeting it was voted to 

 increase the capital stock to $75,000, 

 divided into 750 shares of $100 each. 

 The object of the company will be to 

 deal in both a wholesale and retail wav 

 in the purchase, sale and production of 

 all kinds of seed, fertilizers and feeds. 



From $30,000 to $40,000 of the capital 

 will be expended in building at Cam- 

 bridge, 111., a modern seed house. The 

 plans as they are now being considered 

 will call for a 3-story building and base- 

 ment 50x80 feet, and the installation 

 of cleaning, grading and treating ma- 

 chinery and seed testing and inspect- 

 ing laboratories. 



The board of directors for the com- 

 pany comprises C. D. Ford, Geneseo; 

 Edward Hulling, Geneseo; Perry West- 



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Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERS 

 4011'IS Milwaukee Avenue CHICAGO, ILL. 



erlund, Orion; Frank Martin, Kewanee; 

 Thomas McConnell, Woodhull; A. E. 

 Quaife, Anawan; D. O. Hinman, Cam- 

 bridge, and J. T. Montgomery. 



FORECAST OF SEED CROPS. 



Govemment Expects Reduction. 



Shorter vegetable seed crops are fore- 

 cast by the report of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, published August 

 14, in the Weekly Market Reporter. 

 Numerous tables give the acreage and 

 average condition as of July 1. 



"The total acreage of commercial veg- 

 etable seed crops planted for harvest 

 in 1920, together with the average 

 grovdng condition July 1," says the 

 Bureau of Markets, "indicates that the 

 commercial production of small vege- 

 table seeds will be considerably less 

 this year than in 1919 or 1918. This 

 is doubtless the result of reaction from 

 the inflated production and accumulated 

 stocks during the war period. Unfavor- 

 able growing conditions on the Pacific 

 coast throughout the planting and grow- 

 ing season are also largely responsible 

 for the present prospective low produc- 

 tion. 



"The heaviest reductions from last 

 year's acreage are as follows: Spinach, 

 88 per cent; garden beet and carrot, 85 

 per cent; mangel beet, 80 per cent; Eng- 

 lish turnip, 72 per cent, and onion seed 

 and radish, 65 per cent; followed by 

 cabbage, 45 per cent; Swede turnip, 36 

 per cent; tomato and winter squash, 25 

 per cent; lettuce, 12 per cent, and sum- 

 mer squash, 10 per cent. While the 

 acreage of dwarf snap beans is about 38 

 per cent less than last year and 57 per 



cent less than in 1918, the production, 

 based on present growing conditions of 

 this crop, promises to be about 80 per 

 cent of that of 1919. 



Pole Beans an Exception. 



"The acreage of garden pole beans 

 (not including limaa) is the largest on 

 record, marked increases being reported 

 in Idaho and California. Among the vine 

 crops pumpkin shows the largest in- 

 crease, 90 per cent, followed by a 33 per 

 cent and 11 per cent increase in the 

 acreage of muskmelon and watermelon, 

 respectively. The cucumber acreage is 

 reported about the same as last year. 

 Growing conditions of all vine crops are 

 favorable for a normal yield per acre. 



"The production of onion sets in Illi- 

 nois promises to exceed the large 1918 

 production, because of the increased 

 acreage. The total garden pea acreage 

 is slightly larger than for the past two 

 years, Idaho and California reporting 

 appreciable increases, while a few other 

 states show small reductions. Most 

 growers report that their individual acre- 

 ages are in good condition and the in- 

 dications are that the yield per acre 

 will be larger than last vear and equal 

 to that of 1918." 



BERMUDA LILY BULBS. 



The steamer Fort Hamilton brought a 

 small shipment of Harrisii lily bulbs 

 August 10 to New York from Hamilton, 

 Bermuda. Lilium Harrisii, a variety of 

 L. longiflorum, was formerly grown in 

 large quantities in Bermuda and much 

 in demand for Easter use, but it has 

 gradually been superseded by the Japan- 

 grown L. giganteum, which has been for 



