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The Florists' Review 



May 4, 1922 



Seed Trad e News 



AMXaiOAX SEED TKADB ASSOCIATION. 

 President, L. L. Oldi. Madlaon. Wis.; aecre- 

 tUT-treaturer, 0. B. Kendel, OleTeUnd, O. 



CONSiDEi;iN(i the many minions of bulbs 

 grown last season, it may be said gladioli 

 are well eleaiied iiji. 



Thk annual spring meeting of the 

 Western Seedsmen's Assoeiation was 

 held at Omaha. Neb., Saturday, April 

 29, at the Hotel Fontenelle. The meet- 

 ing was given o\'er entirely to a discus- 

 sion of garden seeds. 



The Michigan Cannors' Association 

 held a two days" session at Grand Rapids 

 last week, with eighty members in at- 

 tendance. Prof. (J. H. Koons, pathologist 

 jit the University of Michigan, advised 

 that experiments to determine a standard 

 tomato for the Michigan canneries be 

 based upon existing varieties rather than 

 upon an attempt to evolve a new strain. 



Mis.s KiLEEN Low, representing Stuart 

 Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Middlesex, 

 Enghmd, is visiting the seed trade on her 

 wav from Vancouver to New York. She 

 was at Chicago this week. This is Miss 

 Low's tliird trip to America since the 

 firm's old representative, the late Harry 

 Barnard, stopped coming. This time she 

 is on her way around the world, having 

 first visited 'France, Italy, Imlia and 

 .Japan. 



A GIFT of 47,0U0 bulbs, including nar- 

 cissi, jonquils, hyacinths, daffodils and 

 tulips, was recently made to the city of 

 New York bv the National Association of 

 Bulb C; rowers of Holland. The bulbs 

 were ]>lanted in Central jiark, near Fifth 

 avenue and Fifty ninth street, and any- 

 one who has enjoyed the privilege of visit- 

 ing this delightful spot in the park can 

 readily visualize the wonderful transform- 

 ing effect these 8U,000 blooms will have on 

 the territory in the immediate vicinity of 

 the Sherman statue. 



The severe winter in Holland is re- 

 ported to have affected the bulb crops 

 in some cases. J. J. Grullemans & Sons, 

 of Lisse, say that hyacinths have suffered 

 heavily and' that in some parts of the dis- 

 trict early tulips have been frozen. Dar- 

 win tulips have been lost by some growers 

 in important quantities, especially in 

 fields where planting took place after 

 November. Crocuses are said to have 

 suffered considerably in some places, while 

 Dutch and Spanish irises, especially the 

 white varieties, have been killed outright. 

 Some other sorts of bulbs have been sim- 

 ilarily damaged, it is said. As yet the 

 efifect of the severe winter is only esti- 

 mated. Later reports will give more exact 

 information. 



CANNERS FACE BAD SEASON. 



This is the one season when pea can- 

 ners hoped that weather conditions 

 would be favorable for an early pack 

 so that the present shortage of stocks 

 might be relieved, but so far the out- 

 look in all packing sections has been 

 unfavorable. In Wisconsin the cold, 

 wet weather has delayed planting. 

 There has been no seeding so far, and 

 it is now about a week later than the 

 average planting of other years. The 

 outlook is discouraging, because the 

 backward start will prove a handicap 

 all season and is in itself a sufficient 

 cause for concern on the part of the 

 packer. Canncrs have been compelled 

 to revise completely their plans for 



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