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The Florists' Review 



DiCBMBBB 25. 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AXERZOAV SEED TBASS AB800XATI0V. 

 PrMtdaat, ■. 0. Dans&n, Phlladalphla, Pa.; 

 ■•cnUiT-trMaimr, 0. 1. Ktndel, OleTcIand, O. 



The Holland bulb salesmen in consid- 

 erable nximber are spending the holidays 

 in the United States. 



The early bird of the 1920 Holland 

 bulb catalogues is that of Gt. Van Wav- 

 eren & Kruyff, of Sassenheim, Holland. 



If the Japanese do not get more money 

 for their lilies in 1920 it will be because 

 American and English buyers stand pat 

 on whatever offer they make. 



The official roster of the Louisville 

 Seed Co., Louisville, Ky., is: President, 

 George E. Hays; vice-president, Harvey 

 D. Hays; secretary, Owen T. Watts; treas- 

 urer, Joe D. MarshalL ^'^^_ \ 



The Holland bulb exporters are dis- 

 tributing their 1920 catalogues. They 

 show little reduction in the number of 

 varieties listed, but prices are quite a lit- 

 tle above those at which 1919 shipments 

 were invoiced. 



The seedsmen whose catalogues are 

 not "on the fire" are burning the mid- 

 night oil. Late-comers are finding print- 

 ing facilities well employed and estimates 

 of cost run from twenty-five to fifty per 

 cent above those of last year. 



As regularly was the case while he was 

 publicity manager for the Livingston 

 Seed Co., Adolph Kruhm, now secretary 

 for Beckert's Seed Store, Pittsburgh, is 

 the early bird in the matter of the 1920 

 general seed catalogue. His book 

 reached The Review December 19. It is a 

 McFarland job. 



Officers of the recently formed North- 

 west Pacific Seedsmen's Association are 

 as follows: President, Frank Leckenby, 

 of the Chas. H. Lilly Co., Seattle, Wash. ; 

 secretary-treasurer, L. C. Barrett, of the 

 Spokane Seed Co., Spokane, Wash. ; direc- 

 tors, John Anderson, of the Inland Seed 

 Co., Spokane; F. E. Barkemeyer, of the 

 Barkemeyer Grain & Seed Co., Great 

 Falls, Mont.; C. H. Leslie, of Darrow 

 Bros. Seed & Supply Co., Twin Falls, 

 Idaho, and Greo. S. Reed, of the Portland 

 Seed Co., Portland, Ore. 



CoNSULAE advices report an increasing 

 demand for seeds in the Sao Paulo dis- 

 trict, Brazil. The United States is get- 

 ting a larger share of the business, al- 

 though Italy, Portugal and Uruguay are 

 admittedly the chief suppliers. In 1918, 

 1,048,115 pounds of seeds, bulbs, and 

 roots were imported through the port of 

 Santos. The Brazilian customs tariff 

 provides that vegetable, flower and field 

 seeds for agriculture in general shall be 

 admitted duty free. American seeds are 

 considered of excellent quality, since 

 plants grown from them do well in the 

 Sao Paulo district, where the climate is 

 similar to that of the southern United 

 States. 



GERMAN VALLEY ARRIVES. 



Two weeks after the receipt of ship- 

 ments from Rotterdam, the first German 

 valley reached New York December 16, 

 when the steamer Abraham Lincoln, 

 from Hamburg, arrived. On board were 

 228 cases for Loechner & Co. and eighty- 

 eight for the International Forwarding 

 Co. 



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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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