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The Florists' Review 



September 1, 1921 



Seed Trade News 



AHEBIOAN SEED TEASE ASSOCIATION. 

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

 tary-treasurer, C. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



K. K. May. of the May Seed & Nurs- 

 ery ("o., of Slieiiinuloiih, Ta., w,ts in Glii- 

 cajjo last week. 



Sunday, September 4, S. F. Leonard, 

 Chicago, will celebrate his sixty-nintli 

 birthday anniversary. 



An early frost will cause mucli damage 

 to the Michifian bean crop, as the hot, 

 dry weather set the beans back several 

 weeks. 



TnHKE shipments of bulbs, totaling 

 s'eventy-two cases, arrived in New York, 

 August 25, on the steamer Adriatic, from 

 Southampton, England. 



A PBITITION in bankruptcy was filed last 

 week against Arthur T. Boddington & 

 Co., New York, as reported in detail on a 

 forward page of this issue. 



Cable advices from Serati Arai, Yoko- 

 hama, warn his American correspondents 

 that the sup2)ly of giganteum bulbs will 

 be less than at any time expected and 

 that prices are rising sharply. 



Alexander P. Dewar, manager of the 

 seed store of R. & J. Farquhar Co., Bos- 

 ton, returned from Kurojie August 22. 

 Some of his observations on conditions 

 abroad are given on another page of this 

 issue. 



The condition of the aster seed crop 

 this year is reported to be highly promis- 

 ing by Herbert & Fleishauer, McMinn- 

 ville, Ore., who have the hope that it will 

 make up, in a degree at least, for the loss 

 of the aster seed crop last autumn. 



F. B. Dawson, of Charles Sharpe & Co., 

 Sleaford, England, was a visitor in Chi- 

 cago last week. His American visit is 

 much longer than he first planned. He 

 said that ho would be in Chicago again, 

 probably in October, before lie sailed for 

 home. 



Practically all of the surplus of bur 

 clover seed in North and South Caro- 

 lina lias moved from growers' hands. 

 Prices paid growers ranged from $8 to 

 $10 per hundred pounds. The jiroduction 

 in these states is about the same as last 

 year and normal. 



During the two weeks ending August 

 20 over 600,000 pounds of sunflower seed 

 arrived in New York from Argentina. The 

 arrivals of other s'ecds from Germany, 

 France, Denmark, Holland, United King- 

 dom, Argentina and Chile were as fol- 

 lows: 360,000 pounds of crimson clover, 

 77,000 of red clover, 30,000 of white 

 clover, r)-)fiOO of alfalfa, 222,000 of or- 

 chard grass, 60,000 of rve grass, 146,000 

 of vetch, and S2,000 of rape. 



The movement of Kentucky bluegrass 

 seed from growers' hands in Kentucky 

 during the last three weeks was slower 

 than earlier in the season. Up to July 30 

 about seventy-five per cent of the crop 

 had been s'old by growers and tliis was in- 

 creased to eighty per cent or eighty-five 

 ]ier cent by August 20. I'ricos of '$2.1;j 

 to $2.25 per bushel being paid for rough, 

 (Hired seed during the week ending August 

 20 averaged 10 or 15 cents less per bushel 

 llian during the week ending July 30. The 

 cleaners confirmed the former reports that 



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