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The Florists^ Review 



DECBHBEB 4, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AMXaiOAM 8XKD ZSASS ASStOXATION. 

 Ptwident. H. O. Dnnnn, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Mcretary-treaaarar. C. u. Kendel. Gleyeland. O. 



Many seed houses find the Dutch bulb 

 season tailing over into the month devoted 

 to Christmas greens. 



The giganteums are cleaning up rap- 

 idly. There will be few for cold storage, 

 or for forcing on a partnership basis. 



Pending the establishment of a wages 

 board, British seedsmen may formulate 

 standards of pay, in order to anticipate 

 government action. 



It looks like a clean-up for the Dutch 

 bulbs in spite of the delay on the dock. 

 Those who have advertised their surpluses 

 to the trade have found prompt takers. 



"Whenever you come across a man 

 everybody likes, you will usually find a 

 glass cover over Lis face and floral 

 wreaths in the room, ' ' says Robert Nichol- 

 son. 



The Missouri Seed Dealers ' Association 

 held a meeting at Jefferson City Novem- 

 ber 24. President D. I. Bushnell, of St. 

 Louis, presided over the meeting, during 

 which many important matters were dis- 

 posed of. 



It was the seed season of 1917 

 that Patrick O 'Mara, general manager of 

 Peter Henderson & Co., offered the opin- 

 ion that it had set a record which wUl 

 stand until there has been a material in- 

 crease in the population. 



If wages are so high that they have 

 increased absenteeism to a point never 

 known in the history of American indus- 

 try, why should it be expected that men 

 who will not work for money will bend 

 their backs over beets and beans? 



The fall in the price of most kinds of 

 seeds has not solved the problems of the 

 commission box people. After having de- 

 cided to go back to the 5-cent packet they 

 find the rising cost of doing business, 

 particularly of labor, is upsetting their 

 calculations. 



From the British seed firm, Hurst & 

 Son, London, comes the report of a season 

 favorable, on the whole, to harvesting 

 operations. "Most descriptions of seeds 

 have been well saved and are in good 

 condition, although in some cases defi- 

 cient in quantity." 



The firm of Segers Bros., Lisse, Hol- 

 land, one of the most widely known bulb 

 growers, is being turned, January 1, 1920, 

 into a limited liability stock company 

 under the name of Segers Bros., Ltd. A. 

 Schravendeel will represent the concern 

 in America, arriving this month. 



The end of the printing trades' strike 

 in New York did not come a day too soon 

 for the seedsmen who look to that center. 

 Not a few of the books usually produced 

 there have been placed in open shops in 

 other cities, but making a catalogue in 

 a print shop that doesn 't know the trade 's 

 language is not wholly a joy. 



In a front-page announcement in the 

 London Times the British Horticultural 

 Trades Association warned the public 

 against purchasing cheap bulbs and seeds 

 from unknown Dutch or British adver- 

 tisers. "For its own protection against 

 fraud," read the notice, "the public is 

 earnestly advised to deal with reputable 



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