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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcbmbbk 11, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AXEKIOAV 8XED TSASE AS800ZATZ0N. 

 PTMldent, ■. 0. Donfan, PhiUd«lpbU, Pa^; 

 McnUry-treaannr. 



Dongan, FhUaaaipnu, tru.; 

 C. B. Kendel, OleTcland, O. 



The builders of uncompleted seed cata- 

 logues are burning the midnight oil. 



Belated arrivals indicate that there 

 will be some surplus of giganteums to go 

 into cold storage. 



If the Yoten Maru had remained afloat, 

 what would have been the condition of 

 the giganteum bulb market? 



The fall bulb catalogue of the J. M. 

 McCullough'B Sons Co., Cincinnati, 

 reached The Review December 9. 



Fred Howlyn Hunter, of the Hunter 

 Seed Co., San Francisco, welcomed the 

 arrival of Fred Hathaway Hunter at his 

 home November 12. 



Southern seedsmen report an unusually 

 early awakening of the demand, proba- 

 bly due to the desire to get early vege- 

 table crops onto the high northern mar- 

 kets. 



Several of the seed trade from New 

 York city were in attendance at the con- 

 vention of the New York State Canners' 

 Association at Rochester December 10 

 and 11. 



W. F. Therkildson, now associated 

 with N. W, Ayer & Son, after years as 

 advertising manager for W. Atlee Burpee 

 Co., Philadelphia, called on Chicago seed 

 trade acquaintances this week. 



Consignments of seed on the Maas- 

 dyk from Rotterdam, which reached New 

 York December 3, were 152 bags for 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., twenty-two for 

 Peter Henderson & Co. and seven for H. 

 F. Darrow. Nine cases of bulbs were also 

 on the boat. 



On the steamer Jacques Cartier, which 

 reached New York from Havre Decem- 

 ber 3, were 4,150 bags of seed, of which 

 200 bags were consigned to the Crabb, 

 Reynold, Taylor Co., 150 to the Equitable 

 Trust Co., 200 to Lunham & Moore, 3,000 

 to the American Express Co. and 600 on 

 order. 



The Papendrecht brothers, formerly 

 connected with the bulb-growing firm of 

 Van Zonneveld Bros. & Philippo, of Sas- 

 senheim, Holland, have gone into the 

 bulb business on their own account, under 

 the name of Papendrecht Bros. G. Pap- 

 endrecht will be the firm 's American rep- 

 resentative, with his headquarters at 59 

 Adsit street, Hornell, N. Y. 



FIBST VAIiLEY PIPS ARRIVE. 



The first lily of the valley pips to 

 reach the United States this year was a 

 shipment of eighty cases from Rotter- 

 dam, Holland, on the steamer Maasdyk, 

 which arrived at the port of New York 

 December 3, consigned to McHutchison 

 ft Co., New York. 



Arrival of pips from Germany will 

 follow shortly, for the steamer Abraham 

 Lincoln, which left Hamburg November 

 18 for New York, carried a consignment 

 of eighty-eight cases for H. N. Bruns, 

 Chicago, and 200 more for the same 

 consignee followed on a vessel which 

 sailed November 28. 



Predictions are that the supply of 

 valley pips will soon be back at the pre- 

 war level. The supply from Germany, 



Larger Yields of 

 Better Quality 



Are the Results of Plantin^r 



PEACOCK 



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. 



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$15,000 Worth of Seed Starting on lU Way to Europe 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSI 

 4011'1S MUwaukee Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. 



