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The Florists^ Review 



Januaey 12. 1922 



old concern twenty-five years, and secre- 

 tary, Albert F. Seim, who had been asso- 

 ciated Avitli the old concern seventeen 

 years. 



The trials of the seed houses are not 

 yet over. So severe have they been that 

 some of the stanchest concerns have 

 found their positions precarious, despite 

 able management. It will be a matter 

 of much credit to have passed through 

 these two trying years with unshaken 

 reputation. 



The annual meeting of the Southern 

 Seedsmen's Association will be held at 

 New Orleans May 29 to 31. A commit- 

 tee, composed of Dick O'Bannon, Sher- 

 man, Tex., and L. E. Harris, Birming- 

 ham, Ala., has been appointed to assist 

 the president and secretary in preparing 

 the program for the meeting. 



The heavy rains in southern California 

 have done a tremendous amount of good, 

 according to John C. Bodger. He states 

 that the soil at the El Monte seed farms 

 of the John Bodger & Sons Co. has been 

 gradually drying out and the 10-inch rain- 

 fall restored normal conditions, prac- 

 tically no run-off having occurred. 



The National Canners ' Association will 

 hold its annual meeting at Louisville, Ky., 

 during the week beginning January 16. 

 More than 4,000 members are expected 

 to attend and the Armory will, it is antici- 

 pated, house exhibits of more than $250,- 

 000 in value. The number of seedsmen 

 who attend will probably be larger than 

 last year. 



CuKTAiLiXG further the service seeds- 

 men are receiving from the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, the weekly 

 publication of the bureau of markets and 

 crop estimates, called the Market Re- 

 porter, was merged at the beginning of 

 1922 with the Monthly Crop Reporter and 

 the National Weather and Crop Bulletin, 

 all to be issued as a single publication, 

 entitled, ' * Weather, Crops and Markets. ' ' 



Red clover seed prices last mouth con- 

 tinued to advance in practically all sec- 

 tions and averaged about 40 cents per 

 hundred pounds higher to growers Decem- 

 ber 20 than December 6. Alsike clover 

 seed prices also advanced in most sec- 

 tions during these two weeks, but they 

 were a little lower in a few important 

 sections. Wholesale seedsmen advanced 

 their selling prices on red clover 50 cents 

 to $1, but were quoting alsike clover at 

 unchanged prices to 25 cents per hundred 

 pounds higher. Although country mer- 

 chants have not been buying freely from 

 seedsmen, there has been little or no dis- 

 position on the part of the latter to shade 

 prices, inasmuch as stocks have not been 

 burdensome. The inactivity of many 

 seedsmen in purchasing their requirements 

 from country shippers and growers has 

 been due mostly to curtailed finances 

 under which seedsmen and others have 

 found it necessary to operate. 



AS OTHERS SEE US. 



Arthur L. Deal, a director of the seed 

 firm of W. W. Johnson & Son, Ltd., Bos- 

 ton, Lincolnshire, England, recently fin- 

 ished a trip of three and a half months' 

 duration, his ninth in the interests of his 

 firm, and visited most of its customers 

 in all parts of the United States, also 

 inspecting many of the growing crops in 

 this country. Upon his return he con- 

 veyed his impressions of seed trade con- 

 ditions in the United States to the editor 

 of the Horticultural Trade Journal, 

 thus: 



"As on this side of the water, the 



Windmill Talks 

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You cannot live and stay sturdy, on beefsteak 

 alone. Neither can parent bulbs be grown on 

 one kind of soil year after year and continue 

 to produce sturdy children. 



Not only do we rotate our bulbs, but the soil 



they are grown in as well. 



One year, for example, tulips are grown on a 



light loamy soil, and the next on a heavy black 



one. 



We shift, or rotate, the crops every^year. 

 We shift, or rotate, the soil every year. 

 Every three years, we completely turn over the 

 soil to a depth of 4 feet. 



How little a thing is a bulb, yet how tremen- 

 dous the labor of growing them, the way we 

 grow them on our own grounds over in Holland! 

 Order early. It's the surest way of surely get- 

 ting Tegelaar satisfaction-filled bulbs. 



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