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The Florists^ Review 



BB 21. 1920 



Seed Trade News 



AXXUOAH 8XZD TKAOE A8800XATZ0V. 

 PrMldent, H. O. HuUnca, AtUnta. Oa.; 

 MCMtary-tiMsuMr, 0. ■. Kandal, OlvrcUad. O. 



Though some seedsmen maintain that 

 quality is not the most effective or most 

 desirable point in sales talk, those houses 

 whose reputation for good seed stands 

 highest are the most enduring and suc- 

 cessful. 



Failure of the growers to harvest their 

 onion sets at the proper time and the oc- 

 currence of rainy weather subsequently 

 resulted in a large preponderance of 

 sprouted and over-srize sets in the Chi- 

 cago district. Consequently sets of the 

 best grades will not be in proportion to 

 the large acreage planted this season and 

 a diminution of area devoted to this crop 

 is likely another year. 



Additional greenhouse space has been 

 allotted to the seed laboratory at the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho, and this in the future 

 will be devoted to germination tests. 

 Sunlight germination tests will hereafter 

 be run on all grass seeds possible, since 

 workers at the Moscow station have found 

 this far more satisfactory than the old 

 germinator methods. New equipment 

 added to the laboratory this year includes 

 one Kny-Schecrer vertical air blast 

 blower for cleaning grass seed. 



The movement of medium and mam- 

 moth red clover, alsike and sweet clover, 

 and alfalfa seed has been considerably 

 below normal. Belated harvesting and 

 hulling have been somewhat responsible 

 for the slowness with which the seed is 

 leaving growers' hands, but the principal 

 reason for their unwillingness to dispose 

 of their crop is th6 low price being of- 

 fered, as compared with last year. Even 

 at present prices, seedsmen are reluctant 

 to buy, apparently thinking that prices 

 may either continue to drop or rise but 

 little between now and next spring. The 

 quality of these seeds is, generally speak- 

 ing, better than normal and last year, 

 although, in the case of sweet clover and 

 alfalfa seed particularly, some important 

 sections will have little high-quality seed. 



SMALL VEQETABLE SEEDS. 



Acrea^^e Reduced. 



The production of small vegetable 

 seeds this year, with the exception of 

 lettuce and parsley-, will be the smallest 

 since prewar years, according to reports 

 submitted to the bureau of markets of 

 the Department of Agriculture by grow- 

 ers controlling acrcfi^os in California, 

 the Pacific northw^cst and Michigan. 

 This general falling ofif in production is 

 the result of the decreased acreage 

 planted and not of abnormally low yield. 

 Harvest has been completed, but many 

 lots of seed have not been cleaned and 

 only approximations of yield and total 

 production arc possible at this time. 



Garden beet.— About seventy per cent of the 

 acreage of garden beet seed in tlie I'liRet sound 

 district was abandoned, but yields of 1,000 to 

 1,500 pounds were obtained on the remainder. 

 Forty-tliree acres in Connecticut yielded 400 

 pounds per acre. The acrenfte in California is 

 only 14B, compared with 2,272 in 1919, on which 

 nn average yield of 560 pounds is reported. The 

 total production of this crop will be the smallest 

 since 1916, when It was only 200,000 pounds. 



Mangel beet. — A production of mangel l)eet 

 seed about one-eighth that of last year is indi- 

 cated by the small acreage and lower average 

 yield per acre reported. A large percentage of 

 the acreage in Washington was a failure. 



Carrot. — The average yield per acre of carrot 

 seed this year is estimated to be niightly taagflr 

 than 1919 or 1918, but because of the abnormally 



Our Special Price List 



offering 



for Autumn Planting is now ready 



We will gladly mail you a copy on request 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERS 

 4011-15 Milwaukee Avenue CHICAGO, ILL. 



SEED SPECIALS 



AS PROMISED. WE OFFER SOME 

 SPECIALS AT VERY INTERESTING PRICES 



RADISH SEED 



Early Scarlet White Top. 86c per lb. 

 LongScarlet 86c " " 



PEAS 



Alaska 10c per lb. 



Champion of England 12c " " 



LittleOem 14c " " 



BEANS 



Giant Stringless I2c per lb. 



Black Valentine 12c " " 



Red Valentine 12c " " 



FULL LIST OF BULBS 

 Write for It 



CYCLAMEN SEED 



(New Crop— Gcmum Grown.) 



Glowing Light Red. . . .$14,00 per 1000 

 Dark Red.... 14.00 *• " 

 Light Rose... 14.00 " " 

 Dark Rose... 14.00 " " 



Oiganteum Roseum Su- 



perbum (white with Red 



Eve) $14.00 per 1000 



Gisanteum Cimbriata 



(Lilac flowers fringed 



with Light Rose) $12.00 per 1000 



SALMON VARIETIES 



Light Salmon |17.00 per 1000 



DarkSalmon 17,00 " " 



Rococo Erect a 



Cattleya 17.00 *• " 



ONION SETS 



BERMUDA-White Pearl $2.50 Bu., 36 lbs. 



Yellow-Straw-colored. . 2.25 Bu., 36 lbs. 

 F. O. B. Chicago Subject Unsold Bags EXTRA 



WRITE FOR PRICES on Red-YeUow-White Onion Sets 



Many other offerings of H igh Germination Tested 

 Seeds in our Fall Price List. Writ* tor it. 



American Seed Agency 



12 & 14 W. Washington St., CHICAGO 



