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The Florists' Review 



August 25, 1921 



Seed Trade News 



AXEBIOAK SEED TBASE ASSOCIATION. 



President, L. L. Olds, Madison, Wis.; secre- 

 tary-treasurer, 0. B. Kendel, Oleveland, 0. 



Seventeen cases of Lilium Harrisii 

 bulbs arrived at New York on the steam- 

 er Fort Victoria, from Bermuda, August 

 17, consigned to F. B. Vandegrift & Co. 



E. J. Steele, the pansy specialist, of 

 Portland, Ore., is now busy with a force 

 of employees, harvesting seed. Mr. Steele 

 says that the weather in his section has 

 been ideal for seed production this sea- 

 son. 



The official staff of the Brown Bulb 

 Ranch, at Capitola, Cal., is composed of 

 James A. Brown, general manager; W. 

 G. Roberts, superintendent of production, 

 and Alonzo J. Brown, secretary and treas- 

 urer. * 



A. L. Aabling, who formerly resided at 

 Seattle, Wash., has now moved to Port- 

 land, Ore., in order to be near his seed- 

 growing enterprises, on Government island 

 and in the eastern part of Multnomah 

 county. Heretofore the firm has grown 

 vegetable seeds only, but it will now pro- 

 duce sweet pea seed also. 



As far as onion sets go, the new sea- 

 son promises to be wholly unlike the two 

 which preceded it. The difference is 

 largely due to weather conditions in the 

 Chicago district during June and July, 

 however. The crop is short, but no ex- 

 cessive prices are expected, as anything 

 of the kind would be out of line Avith 

 the times. 



The provincial minister of agriculture 

 of Quebec, Canada, states that the ex- 

 tended period of drought throughout the 

 province has become most alarming and 

 that agricultural conditions are worse than 

 they have been for the last twenty-eight 

 years. In his opinion the hay crop will 

 be fifty per cent less than it was last 

 year, cereals will give no straw, and there 

 will be a minimum quantity of grain. 



A PRODUCTION of timothy seed approxi- 

 mately seventy-five per cent of last year's, 

 because of a reduction in acreage and 

 yield per acre, is indicated in data ob- 

 tained by the Bureau of Markets and 

 Crop Estimates during the week ending 

 July 30. Most sections show a decrease in 

 acreage, amounting to fifteen per cent to 

 twenty-five per cent for the United States 

 as a whole. The differences between the 

 1920 and 1921 acreages range from a de- 

 crease in 1921 of about thirty-five per 

 cent in southeastern Iowa and north- 

 eastern Missouri to an increase of twelve 

 per cent in northeastern Iowa. Because 

 of drought during the last half of June 

 and the first week or two in July, many 

 fields or portions of fields intended for 

 seed were cut for hay in order to pro- 

 vide for a sufficient tonnage of hay. The 

 inactivity of the timothy seed market 

 since harvest time a year ago, accom- 

 panied by sharp declines in price, dis- 

 couraged growers to save seed this sea- 

 son. 



ACREAGE SMALL ON COAST. 



Vegetable Seed Contracts Light. 



The acreage of small vegetable seed 

 crops this year is much less than last 

 year and is below normal. Commercial 

 vegetable seed growers state that seed 



The Latest and Biggest Addition 



Our new ttvo-sfory seed and onion set warehouse 94x280 feet, 

 best and most modern construction, in course of erection. 



Careful choice of the seeds you 

 sell increases your future sales. 



Peacock Quality Seeds and Onion Sets 



Bring repeat orders. 



Prompt and careful shipment— aii^^ai/s. 



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Everette R. Peacock Co., 



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