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The Florists' Review 



JUMB 23, 1921 



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NEWS OF THE SEED TRADE 



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Report of the voluntary bankruptcy of 

 the Stokes Seed Farms Co., Moorestown, 

 N. J., appears under the head, * * Business 

 Embarrassments," on another page of 

 this issue. 



Wilson's Seed Store, 116 South High 

 street, Columbus, O., has recently been 

 incorporated under the name of the 

 Wilson Seed & Floral Co., and from now 

 on the business will be carried on under 

 that name. 



In addition to E. B. Howe, the presi- 

 dent, and H. A. Bertoldi, the southern 

 salesman, who attended both the Memphis 

 and St. Louis conventions, the W. W. 

 Barnard Co., Chicago, was represented at 

 the St. Louis convention by C. S. 

 Coventry, the secretary, who left Chi- 

 cago Tuesday night, June 21. 



COMSTOCK, Ferre & Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn., are busy planting out tomatoes, 

 of which they grow many varieties for 

 seed. S. F. Williard, secretary, says all 

 crops in this vicinity are suffering for 

 lack of moisture, due to want of rain 

 for the past month. This firm never 

 experienced such a demand for Evergreen 

 and Golden Bantam seed corn. They 

 have a large acreage planted for seed. 



Edward S. Leonard, of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., Chicago, attended both the 

 Memphis and St. Louis conventions. 

 S. F. Leonard was present during the 

 program at St. Louis. John Leonard is 

 busy with a program of his own in Chi- 

 cago, where he is superintending the 

 pushing around of desks, chairs, stock 

 bins, etc., in the rearrangement of the 

 oflSces and workrooms. He hopes to 

 have everything in first-class shape in 

 about two weeks. 



Segeks Bros., Ltd., Lisse, Holland, 

 liave advised their New York representa- 

 tive, J. H. Ran, that June 5 a severe 

 hailstorm caused considerable damage in 

 the tulip district around Beverwyk, a vil- 

 lage situated some fifteen miles north of 

 Haarlem. That the storm was of extra 

 large proportions can be easily under- 

 stood when one considers that all the 

 foliage of the tulips was destroyed, only 

 the bare stems remaining. This incident, 

 together with the already sp.-irse crop of 

 tulips, will undoubtedly have its influence 

 on the quality. 



AT MEMPHIS. 



ConTention of Southern Seedsmen. 



Monday morning, June 20, President 

 R. B. Buchanan opened the third an- 

 nual convention of the Southern Seeds- 

 men 's Association, at Memphis. J. R. 

 Paine, the mayor of Memphis, greeted 

 the assembled seedsmen and welcomed 

 them to his town. Louis B. Reuter 

 thanked the mayor for his warm wel- 

 come and made it plain that the towns- 

 people would be as sorry to see the 

 members leave the town as they had 

 been glad to see them come. 



President Buchanan then addressed 

 the members in a short talk, in which 

 he summarized the year 's work and told 



what the last year's happenings can be 

 understood to mean for the future. F. 

 S. Love then presented the facts and 

 figures of the association's activities 

 which he superintended as secretary and 

 treasurer. J. C. Holton, of the Missis- 

 sippi Agricultural College, then told 

 about the growth in popularity and the 

 means of culture of the sweet potato. 

 After luncheon, the meeting was 

 again convened at 2 o'clock, when 

 members listened to an address on 

 "Seed Legislation," by Herbert Bebb, 

 an attorney of Chicago. Herbert J. 

 Webber, of Hartsville, S. C, discussed 

 the merits of using pedigreed seeds and 

 making extensive experiments in seed 

 culture. Mr. Lacky, of the Department 

 of Agriculture, Oklahoma City, Okla., 

 gave the seedsmen a few worth-while 

 suggestions in his talk on ' ' Seed Ana- 

 lyzing. " 



Second Day's Sessions. 



When again assembled Tuesday morn- 

 ing, it was for an executive session, 

 at which committee reports were read 

 and important association business was 

 discussed. Officers were then elected. 



The officers elected were: President, 

 Joseph Steckler, of the J. Steckler Seed 

 Co., New Orleans, La.; first vice-presi- 

 dent, D. R. Mayo, Knoxville, Tenn.; 

 second vice-president, Dick O'Bannon, 

 of Pittman & Harrison Co., Sherman, 

 Tex.; secretary-treasurer, F. S. Love, 

 Montgomery, Ala. The meeting next 

 year will be held at New Orleans. 



Tuesday afternoon the home and • 

 grounds of John Ross, on the outskirts 

 of town, was the scene of the barbecue 

 which is the famous entertainment fea- 

 ture of the association's conventions. 

 This one was not behind those of for- 

 mer years, and everyone was able to en- 

 joy himself to the utmost, without 

 going to any trouble to do it. Many of 

 the seedsmen boarded the 10:10 train 

 Tuesday night for St. Louis to attend 

 the A. S. T. A. convention. 



Seventy-nine seedsmen were in at- 

 tendance, about half of whom took the 

 train Tuesday night to St. Louis. Four 

 new voting members were added, and 

 five associate. 



THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. 



A. S. T. A. in Annual Session. 



The mercury in the St. Louis ther- 

 mometers doesn't seem a bit particular 

 how the weather man shoves it around. 

 This week he has it pushed up to the 

 top of the tube, and it may be said, 

 both literally and figuratively, that the 

 thirty-ninth annual convention of the 

 American Seed Trade Association 

 opened with a hot session. 



The first annual 18-hole blind bogey 

 golf tournament of the seedsmen was 

 played Tuesday, June 21, the day be- 

 fore the convention was oflicially 

 opened. The date was thus set in order 

 to try to prove the superiority of the 

 flower and vegetable seedsmen over the 

 grass seed dealers, who were holding 

 their convention at the same city, June 



20 and 21. The tournament was a cl s- 

 tinct success, thanks to Clifford Comi li 

 chairman of the entertainment comm t- 

 tee. 



Two prizes wore awarded, a cup co- 

 nated by the St. Louis seedsmen and a 

 dozen golf balls donated by the Am. r- 

 ican Seedsman. The winners w( e 

 picked by Mrs. Hastings drawing U o 

 numbers out of a hat. Those who h. d 

 scores to correspond won the priz. s. 

 Mr. Faust, of the Albert Dickinson C ., 

 Chicago, took the cup; his score w is 

 110. Herbert Corteen, of the Cortd n 

 Seed Co., Milwaukee, got the balls; his 

 score was 101. 



Opening Session. 



The first session of the conventiim 

 was opened Wednesday morning at 10 

 o'clock, when the president, H. G. Hast- 

 ings, called the assembled seedsmen to 

 order. He introduced Roger A. Annan, 

 of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange, 

 who told how good St. Louis is, and 

 welcomed the convened seedsmen to the 

 city. His duty was to tell the visitors 

 that they were welcome, and he did his 

 job well. He was followed by Fred 

 Mangelsdorf, who did just as good a 

 job of telling Mr. Annan who the seeds- 

 men were, why St. Louis should lie 

 proud to have them around, and why 

 the seedsmen were glad to be there, even 

 though the atmospheric conditions were 

 a trifle tropical. 



President Hastings then came forth 

 and delivered his address, printed on 

 another page, which formally opened 

 the real business meeting. He touched 

 upon the past and future of the seed 

 business, and reviewed the trade's ac- 

 tivities during the last year. 



C. E. Kendel, in the secretary's re- 

 port, told that there were at the begin- 

 ning of this fiscal year 242 members on 

 the list, two of whom were honorary. 

 Fifteen names were added to the roll 

 and eight were lost during the last 

 year. The present membership is 247 

 active members and two honorary mem 

 bers. The actual gain during the year 

 was seven active members. 



As treasurer Mr. Kendel outlined the 

 year's activities as follows: 



Kalanoe $1,151. S7 



Receipts 5,924. ii3 



Total $7,076.N> 



Digbursements 6,747.73 



Balance $ 329.1- 



Of the total expenditure of $6,747.7;., 

 it was shown that $3,932.96 went t ) 

 counsel, $2,900 for retainer fee an 1 

 $1,032.96 for counsel's expenses. Th • 

 reports were referred to an auditin,' 

 committee. 



Three amendments were propose('. 

 One was an addition to the constitu 

 tion, permitting other seed organize - 

 tions to obtain membership in the asso 

 elation. Previously membership wa 

 confined to individuals and firms. Thi 

 amendment was carried when vote! 

 upon. Another was an amendment t > 

 the by-laws calling for the selection o 

 a standing arbitration committee. Th. 

 third was a change in the section re 



