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The Florists' Review 



SBrTBMMlU M. 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AMKBZOAH BEZD TRADE ABSOOIATIOH. 

 Prwident, H. O. BatUnn. AtUnU. Oa.; 

 Mcretary-trMiuTCr. O. ■. K«iid«I. OtovaUBd. O. 



The "Wholesale Seedsmen's League 

 held a meeting at the Hotel Sherman, 

 Chicago, Thursday morning, Septem- 

 ber 30. 



The fall catalogues coming to hand 

 have not their former bulk. The high 

 cost of paper has compelled radical re- 

 ductions. 



Candidum bulbs have arrived from the 

 north of France. The crop was short 

 and the bulbs run small. Orders were 

 cut one-third. 



Chicago onion set growers lunched to- 

 gether at the Hotel Sherman September 

 23 and congratulated themselves on the 

 contract price of $1.25 per bushel. 



The Department of Agriculture wishes 

 to bring to the attention of American 

 dealers in vegetable and flower seeds 

 the ever-increasing market for their prod- 

 uct in Brazil. Catalogues are desired. 



Seedsmen have lived through a num- 

 ber of months of such conditions as only 

 recently have developed in numerous 

 other trades. They have a fellow feeling 

 for the automobile men and others who 

 have found the market fading with 

 high-priced stocks on hand. 



The onion set crop did not keep up to 

 its early promises, according to Albert H. 

 Smith, treasurer of the Leonard Seed 

 Co., Chicago. While the first part of the 

 crop was of exceptionally &ae quality 

 and in amount gave rise to expectations 

 of seven and eight bushels to the pound 

 planted, final developments indicated 

 about five bushels to the pound. 



A. S. T. A. APPOINTMENTS. 



President H. G. Hastings has an- 

 nounced the following appointments on 

 committees of the American Seed Trade 

 Association for the coming year: 



LeglslatlTe committee: Charles D. B«7les, 

 chairman; George S. Green, A. E. Reynolda, 

 M. H. Duryea, W. S. Woodruff, "Wilbur Brother- 

 ton. 



Postal laws committee: G. F. Bradley, chair- 

 man; David Burpee, E. H. Dungan, W. D. 

 AVe.Hly, Charles H. MacKubbin, M. Kurzweil. 



Experiment stations committee: L. L. Olds, 

 chairman; E. L. Martin, A. E. McKenzle. 



Garden bureau: L. H. Vaughan, chairman; 

 A. M. Eldridge, David Burpee, M. L. Germain, 

 Louis B. Reuter. 



Nomenclature committee: Francis C. Stokes, 

 chairman; Josiah Livingston, R. D. Edwards, 

 V. G. Cuthbertson, C. N. Keeney. 



Resolutions committee (necrology) : W. H. 

 Barrett, chairman; C. D. Coe, Chas. P. Guelph. 



Tariff and customs committee: J. C. Vaughan, 

 chairman; I>em Bowen, 8. F. Willard, J. M. 

 Lupton, F. B. King, 8. F. Leonard, Robert Nich- 

 olson, G. G. Stumpp, A. B. Clark. 



8e«'d testing apparatus and publicity commit- 

 tee: C. C. Massie. chairman; KIrby B. White, 

 .T. L. Hunt, Hugo Tevyeles, George S. Green, 

 W. 8. Hill. 



SWEET PEA ACBEAGE LABGEB. 



The total acreage planted to sweet 

 peas for the production of seed this 

 year is estimated by growers and deal- 

 ers to be about 2,000 acres, compared 

 with 1,500 acres in 1919, about 550 

 acres of which were Spencers and 950 

 acres grandifloras, both including mix- 

 tures. Because of a decreasing demand 

 for grandifloras, most of the acreage 

 this year is of the Spencer type. Part 

 of the crop in California was a failure, 

 because of lack of moisture during the 

 winter and spring months and the 

 prevalence of aphis during the summer. 



Our Special Price List 



offering 



for AuhmmPlanttog is now ready 



We will gladly mail you a copy on request 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERS 

 4011-lS Milwaukee Avenue CHICAGO, ILL. 



SEED SPECIALS 



AS PROMISED LAST WEEK WE OFFER SOME 

 SPECIALS AT VERY INTERESTING PRICES 



RADISH SEED 



Early Scarlet White Top. 86c per lb. 

 LonsScarlet 85c " " 



PEAS 



Alaska 10c per lb. 



Champion of England 12c " " 



LittleOem 14c " " 



BEANS 



Giant Stringless 12c per lb. 



Black Valentine 12c '" " 



RedValentine 12c " " 



FULL LIST OF BULBS 

 Write for It 



CYCLAMEN SEED 



(New Crop— Gcmuui Gro%vn.) 



Glowing light Red....ll4.00per leoo 

 Dark Rnd.... 14.00 " " 

 liichtRosr... 14.00 " " 

 Dark Rnfc... 14.00 " 



Oifiranteum Roseum Su- 



gsrbum (white with Ked 

 ye) $14.00 per 1000 



Oi'anteum Cim nata 



(Lilac flowers fringed - 



with Light Rose) $12.00 per 1000 



SALMON VARIETIES 



Light Salm n 1 17.00 per lOOt 



Dark Salmon 1700 " " 



Rococo Ererta 



Cattleya 17.00 "• " 



ONION SETS 



BERMUDA - White Pearl $2 60 Bu., :ifi lbs. 



Yellow- Straw-colored . . 2.25 Bu. . .3() lbs. 

 F. O. B. Chicago Subject Unsold Bags EXTRA 



WRITE FOR PRICES on Red -Yellow -White Oaioa Sett 



Many other oflferings of High Germination Tested 

 Seeds in our Fall Price List. Writm for it. 



American Seed Agency 



12 & 14 W. Washington St., CHICAGO 



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