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The Florists^ Review 



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NEWS OF THE SEED TRADE 



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The wife of H. B. Paiitler, pre8i<lent 

 of the St. Louis Seed ('o., ])a88ed away at 

 Watijrioo. III., .June 24. Iler demise is 

 ii()tt'(i on tlic obituary page of this issue. 



The i)a])er of Lester L. Morse, on 

 "(Trowing Vegetable Seed in (Jalifornia," 

 one of the most instructive of tiiose pre- 

 sented at the convention of tlie American 

 Seed Trade Association last week, ap- 

 j>ears on a forward page of this issue. 



Annoi'Nckmknt has been made by Mills 

 the Florist, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., of the 

 <»j)ening of a seed department in conjunc- 

 tion with the firm's flower business. This 

 new department will be opened about Sej)- 

 tember 1. Charles W. Zaun will be in 

 charge. 



Plans are under way for the opening 

 of a seed and flower store at Columbus, 

 O., next door to the store of the "Wilson 

 Seed & Floral Co. Mr. Stephan, formerly 

 with the Livingston Seed Co. and more 

 recently with the Wilson Seed & Floral 

 Co., left the hitter's employ last week to 

 undertake the new enterprise. 



Advices from Holland indicate a good 

 crop of hyacinth bulbs, with the exception 

 of those j)laces that suffered from frost, 

 although the hot weather had ^ome adverse 

 effect. The heat damaged early tulij)s, 

 t'sf)ecially the double, Couronne d 'Or, but 

 a fairly good crop is expected. Darwin 

 tiili])s arc exi)ecte(l to be in better sha]>o. 



Onk of the purchasers of the milk goats 

 brought from California by ('harles H. 

 Stevens and auctioned off at his Lake 

 (teneva home June 24, was .1. ('. Vaughan. 

 So valuable was these goats' milk for 

 feeding babies that Mr. Stevens, after 

 ('Xi)eriinenting, ])urchased the herd for 

 resale to Chicago millionaires. 



A .STRIP of land with an SS foot front- 

 age on Main street ami a dejith of 300 

 feet, formerly owned by the Fredonia 

 Preserving Co., Fredonia, \. V.. was re- 

 cently purchased by the Fredonia Seed 

 Co., and the latter firm jdaiis to ere<-t a 

 modern building upon this site to take 

 c.'ire of its rapidly exiianding business. 

 The officers of this firm arc: President 

 !ind general manager, (Jeorge Ostrander; 

 vice-iiresident, Frank S<'hifll'tMli; siyre- 

 tary and treasurer, }I. F. Lujiean. 



PRICES ON PAPER WHITES. 



The cable this week has brought the 



new season 's prices on Paper Whites. 

 Previous coiniiiunicatioiis had indicated 

 that the figures would be high, but few, 

 if any, of the dealers here were ]ire- 

 ])ared for the announcement that .'i.">0 

 francs jier case must be ])aid for the 

 thirteen-centimeti'r size. This is an 

 almost uniform quotation, ]irices named 

 by several exporters v.-irying not more 

 than ;■) francs. Furtheriiiorc, the money 

 must ))e laid down at Ollioules before 

 any bulbs will be ship|)ed. 



The crop has been liftt-d and, for the 

 most i)art, has passe(| from the growers 

 into the hands of the dealers. The first 

 shijtment will come forward, for those 

 whose confirmations are sent jiromptly, 

 on the bo;it sailing from Marseilles 

 about July Pi. It ajipcirs tliat the crop 



has turned out at not more than half 

 last year's outturn, which, it will be 

 remembered, was itself the smallest crop 

 in many years. Last year the American 

 dealers ])aid around I'if) francs, as 

 against 3o() francs this year. For Soleil 

 d 'Or the price is 1,000 francs. High as 

 these prices are, the Frenchmen claim 

 they are not making so much money as 

 would have been the case with an aver- 

 age -crop and normal prices. 



Based on the Ollioules price, the 

 American jobbers' price can not well be 

 less than about $42 per case of 1,250 

 bulbs. This price probably will not de- 

 ter the man who uses five or ten cases 

 for forcing for his own retail trade, but 

 it surely will discourage the large forc- 

 ers who consign to wholesale cut flower 

 commission markets. They will not care 

 to risk too large an investment. 



There will be practically no large 

 bulbs; instead of thirteen, fourteen and 

 fifteen-centimeter sizes, which were 

 standard a few years ago, there will 

 be eleven, twelve and thirteen-centi- 

 meter sizes. Many Americans hereto- 

 fore have acted under the belief that 

 bulbs under thirteen centimeters are un- 

 safe, but the French assert the smaller 

 size will flower, the smaller size this 

 year being due to dry weather. 



Incidentally, a franc cost, June 27, 

 about 8.52 cents. Many importers 

 bought at least a part of their require- 

 ments of francs some little time ago, 

 while the market was higher, and have a 

 loss there. 



SEEDSMEN ENJOY CHICAGO. 



Wind Up Convention. 



Approximately 200 seedsmen, analysts 

 and those representing trades allied, 

 coming from many states in the Union, 

 Canada and even South America and 

 New Zealand, were assembled in Chicago 

 last week for the fortieth annual con- 

 vention of the American Seed Trade 

 Association. Friday, June 23, just be- 

 fore the final meeting closed, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected unani- 

 mously: President, Alexander Forbes, 

 Newark, N. J.; first vice-president, S. F. 

 Leonard, Chicago; second vice-president, 

 L.B. Renter, New Orlean8,La., reelected; 

 secretary-treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleve- 

 land, 0., reelected; assistant secretary, 

 Clifford Cornell, St. Louis, Mo., re- 

 lected. 



For the coming year the executive 

 committee is to be composed of the fol- 

 lowing: L. L. Olds, Madison, Wis.; 

 Kirby B. White, Detroit, Mich.; C. C. 



Alexander Forbes. 



iliii^l Wick Klpcfnl I'losiiU'iit i>f thf Anicrlcan .Si'cil Trailc Associiitiini. 



