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The Florists^ Review 



Jdly 21, 1921 



ing exporters have bought all the bulbs 

 offered at steadily rising prices and 

 that instead of a reduced price, as was 

 expected this year, American dealers 

 and forcers must expect to pay niore 

 than ever before. 



WEBSTER CREDITORS MEET. 



On account of the severe loss shown 

 by the July 1 inventory of the Mel L. 

 Weltster Co., Independence, la., a meet- 

 ing of directors and local creditors was 

 held July. 2, at the People's National 

 bank. It was decided by the directors 

 of the company that R. F. Clarke, O. 

 M. Uillett and R. B. Raines be ap- 

 ])ointed a committee to take charge of 

 and cause to be made an audit of the 

 ])Ooks of the company for the benefit of 

 the creditors, and report to the board 

 at the earliest possible moment. It was 

 also ordered that all tlie creditors of 

 the Mel Jj. Webster Co., be notified by 

 )nail of tlie appointment of the audit 

 committee and assured that they will 

 receive the same consideration as the 

 local creditors. At a meeting of the di- 

 rectors and auditing committee at the 

 company's office July 5 the directors 

 ileeided that no more money is to be 

 ])aitl out except as passed upon by the 

 directors and auditing committee; thus, 

 l)ending a report of the audit of the 

 affairs of the company, no creditor can 

 be given a preference to the disad- 

 vantage of others. 



PEA PACK HALF LAST YEAR'S. 



Discussing prospects for the pea pack, 

 John A. TljCc, in the Canning Trade, says 

 that judging from rejjorts on the Alaska 

 or early pea ]ia<'k and the jirospects for 

 drouglit of the late or sweet pea pack, 

 the total output of Wisconsin for 1921 

 will not quite equal fifty per cent of its 

 outi)ut in 1920. 



"The Alaska pea crop is all gathered 

 and in cans," says Mr. I^ce, "and the 

 general result in Wisconsin has been a 

 fifty per cent yield on about a sixty per 

 cent acicage as com))ared with last year. 



"The weather in Chicago and vicinity, 

 and, in fact, throughout the central west, 

 has l)een fiercely dry and fiercely hot for 

 ten days. It is good canning corn and 

 canning tomato weather, however; that 

 is to say, good growing weather for those 

 crops. It is, liowever, bad, very bad, 

 weather for the late crop of peas in 

 Wisconsin and northern Illinois. 



"My informants, direct from the fac- 

 tories and the fields, tell me that the late 

 or sweet peas need rain badly in Wiscon- 

 sin and must have it." 



CALIFORNIA FLOWER SEEDS. 



Rapid Growth of Industry. 



We know that vegetable seed was 

 being successfully produced in Califor- 

 nia as far back as 1851. History has 

 failed to record when the production 

 of flower seed began, but in 1885 

 the first sweet peas, consisting of not 

 over a dozen varieties, were grown in 

 a moderate way. Their merit was 

 (luickly recognized. (Iradually other 

 flower seeds were added to the list, ami 

 the outside world l)egan to realize that 

 our climatic conditions gave a vital- 

 ity to our seeds that made them desir- 

 able. The industry grew until the ad- 

 vent of the world war. By that time 



From the paper, "The Flower Seed Industry of 

 California," read l)y I<. 1). Wiiller. nf liiiuda- 

 loupe, Cal., bi'furo tlio Amerirrin Seed Trade As- 

 sociation, at St. Louis, June 23. 



JDo You Grow Pansies? 



The Hampton, The Hampton Way 



The Hampton Exhibition Pansies are Granduated and all Hampton Seed Growers 

 know this because all the expense of labor on frames and covering durinsj the 

 winter is forgotten. 



Hampton Granduated Pansies wiH stand 80 below zero, and don't forget it is 

 important to sow seed not later than August 10. The price is reduced to 

 $S.OO per ounce for this season only. 



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