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July 20, 1922 



are likely to get. Recent advices are 

 that not more tliaii ten per cent of the 

 crop will grade 13-centimeter and up. 

 A good many of the importers have sig- 

 nified a willingness to take 12-centime- 

 ter bulbs, but one advice from Ollioules 

 says that only one buyer for the Amer- 

 ican market has accepted the 11-centi- 

 meter size. 



The price paid for the bulbs is the 

 highest on record. The florists in Amer- 

 ica will have to pay at least double the 

 high price of last year. There is con- 

 siderable divergence of opinion regard- 

 ing the number of bulbs the trade will 

 accept wlien they find out just what 

 they are going to cost. Estimates of 

 accei)tances run ail the way from forty 

 per cent to sixty per cent on the orders 

 placed at open prices. But it appears 

 that the importers who have cabled or- 

 ders on such :i basis have found it im- 

 possible to secure tha^ many bulbs. 

 Consequently, it looks as though the 

 trade will absorb all the stock that 

 comes over, regardless of the price. 



SEEDSMEN'S DIFFICULTIES. 



In Securing Clean Seeds. 



In considering the difficulties of seeds- 

 men in search of clean seeds, of course, 

 one naturally thinks of the analyst, 

 who so frequently finds in our seeds 

 weeds which we did not know were 

 there. Some of us are inclined to class 

 the analyst with the pessimist who blew 

 out the light whicli tlie optimist saw 

 in the darkness, l)ut which really w;is 

 not there. We fondly hope tliat a 

 certain lot of seed is as near perfec- 

 tion as care and machinery can make it 

 — and then, along comes the killjoy ana- 

 lyst with liis laboratory test showing 

 one Canada thistle in a million seeds, 

 more or less, ;ind all our lioi)es nrv 

 blasted. 



But. seriously speaking, the most dif- 

 ficult ])roblem in the application of 

 seed analysis to the practical work of 

 the seedsman is the measure of exact- 

 ness and purity wliich is possible, con- 

 sidering the careless or even slovenly 

 liabits of Mother Nature in jiutting 

 weeds wlierc they .are not wanted. I 

 don't care to voice tlie sujiposcd ob- 

 jections of seedsmen to a strict en- 

 forcement of seed laws, for indeed, I 

 think that the average enforcement of 

 seed laws has been far too lax. Wlien 

 I think of the abuses which still exist 

 in states Avhich liave seed laws, I wiint 

 more enforcement rather than less. 



Demand Leads to Betterment. 



Metliods and jiractices of recleaners 

 of seeds have been greatly improved 

 under the stimulus of a more general 

 demand for better seeds. It is now pos- 

 sible to remove by careful cleaning 

 processes most of the weed seeds whicli 

 are liarvested with field seeds. Certain 

 ])articularly troublesome weed seeds, 

 such as buckhorn, Canada thistle and 

 dodder, which are of about the same 

 size and density as the seeds which 

 contain them, require special processes, 

 machinery and skill for their elimina- 

 tion. In many cases, the best efforts 

 of the exjierienced recleaner still leave 

 a few of the objectionable seeds. It is 

 the presence of these few seeds wliich 



Paper rpBd by (Joorge S. Oreen, president of 

 the IlUniiis Seed Co., Cliicaco. I>eforp a loint 

 meefim; of the American Seed Trade .Vssooiatioii 

 iind tin- AsK'icintion of Official Seed Analysts, at 

 Chlcajt". .Tune 22. 



MIXED LAWN GRASS SEED 



Delivery, Spring 1923 



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SPECIAL WHOLESALE PRICES TO THE FLORIST TRADE 





WINNER $10.00 LINCOLN PARK. $14.00 



MORGAN PARK.. 11.00 VELOUR 17.00 



OAK PARK 12.00 BOULEVARD 25.00 



SHADY PLACE.. $25.00 



Per 100 lbs , Delivered to Your Station in 100 lb. bags. 



Packed in 2 lb.. 3 lb , 5 lb., lO lb. and 25 lb. bags, $1.00 per lOO lbs. higher. 

 Packed in i-lb. cartons, «2.00 per lOU lbs. higher than in lOO-lb. bags. 



We also pack some brands in quart packages. 

 PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW 



J. OLIVER JOHNSON 



Wholesale Seed Merchant 

 1805-9 MIL>VAUKEE AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Mention The Review when you write. 



VALLEY PIPS 



Choice Stock from Cold Storage 



1000 $30.00 i Why not arrarge now for a weekly ship- 



QQQ jg QQ \ ment of the required numher and have a 



250 8.00 



continuous supply of Forced Valley 

 from your own greenhouses? 



H. N. BRUNS 



3032-42 W. Madison St. 



CHICAGO. ILL. 



