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The Florists^ Review 



KOVBHBER 13, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AUEZOAV 8ZED TBASE AB800IATX0H. 



PiMldrat, 1. O. Dnngan, PbiUdelphU, Pa.; 

 — CTCtoiy-twrowr. 0. H. Kcndel, CIcTeland, O. 



Shortage of this year's crop of Spen- 

 cer sweet peas is being felt now. 



Lester L. Morse celebrated his forty- 

 ninth birthday anniversary November 9. 



The Nishna Valley Seed Co., Shenan- 

 doah, la., specializes on seed corns, field, 

 flint, sugar and pop. The oflacers are: 

 President, P. C. Ambler; treasurer, F. P. 

 Nye; secretary, L. V. Hyde. 



The Western Seed & Irrigation Co., 

 Fremont, Neb., has established a seed 

 growing, receiving and shipping station 

 at Kocky Ford, Colo., in order to place a 

 sufficient acreage to handle its trade. 



J. J. BuDLONG, onion set grower, pickle 

 packer and bank president, has announced 

 that forty-five of the employees of the 

 Lakeview Trust & Savings Bank will re- 

 ceive a bonus equal to ten per cent of 

 their annual salaries, payable in Decem- 

 ber, in lieu of a raise in wages. 



Kenneth Earl, son of Howard M. 

 Earl, of the Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., 

 Cambridge, N. Y., received the highest 

 rating in a competitive examination be- 

 fore the Civil Service Commission in 

 Philadelphia recently and has been ap- 

 pointed to the Naval Academy at An- 

 napolis. 



In view of what is heard from Japan 

 regarding the price ideas of the lily bulb 

 growers, this year 's prices for giganteums 

 will look cheap twelve months from now. 

 But there is a prospect that several im- 

 porters have had enough trouble this sea- 

 son so they may let the other fellows play 

 the game alone next season. 



BULB DEALERS' PREDICAMENT. 



Bulb jobbers are not unfamiliar with 

 the problems arising from the late ar- 

 rival of stock, because it was December 

 last year before they received their 

 shipments. Nevertheless, the protracted 

 delays at the docks in New York this 

 year are causing much concern. The 

 situation is described by C. C. Pollworth, 

 of Milwaukee, who said November 7: 



"We are in the same fix as most of 

 the other dealers around here. Instead 

 of being able to fill orders, we are receiv- 

 ing cancellations due to the largest part 

 of our shipments being tietl up at the 

 docks in New York. A large proportion 

 of our imports are distributed through 

 the northwest, where our customers al- 

 ready have had zero weather and lots of 

 snow. There is hardly any possibility 

 of planting any more bulbs outside. 

 When we receive our shipments, which 

 are a month or six weeks overdue be- 

 cause of the stevedores' strike in New 

 York, we may have a large surplus to 

 offer and we shall have to look to south- 

 ern trade to dispose of them." 



SEED GROWERS' TROUBLES. 



Members of the seed trade have not 

 trod a path of roses during the last few 

 seasons, or, if their way was strewn 

 with flowers, not all the growths had 

 been dethorned. It is characteristic of 

 the seedsman, however, that he takes 

 his trouble good-naturedly. Even the 

 seed growers do, and surely they have 

 bad more than their share of perplexi- 



Larger Yields of 

 Better Quality 



Are the Results of Plantins^ 



PEACOCK 



Tested Proven Seeds 



Early View of Our Trial Grounds 



When We Grow Theniy We Know Them 



Each season we grow thousands of acres of 

 High Quality Seeds on our own seed farms 

 to supply 75,000 critical planters in America 

 and Europe. 



$1S»000 Worth of Seed Starting on Its Way to Europe 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND iMPORTERSl 



4011'15 Milwaukee Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



