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NEWS OF THE SEED TRADE 



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Darwin tulips are ii< ^rood request 

 again this season and it ap])oais tli'^y wili 

 he featured in most of tho fail bullj 

 hooks published in the east. 



At the meeting of the Wholesale Grass 

 Seed Dealers' Association at Washington 

 last week the directors elected Wm. R. 

 .lossman, of Detroit, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



It may interest the trade to note that 

 the government 's latest figures show a 

 year's production of beans as 11.145,000 

 bushel.- from 784,000 acres, or fourteen 

 bushels per acre. 



p]Ric Sutton, second son of Leonard 

 Sutton, of Sutton & Sons, Reading, Eng- 

 land, and the firm's chief of the flower 

 seed department, J. Tufnail, are visiting 

 the seed growers in California. 



Collections through June have not 

 been as heavy as many expected from the 

 volume of business done. A good many 

 concerns of excellent standing have failed 

 to take advantage of the discount for 

 ca^h following the .lune 1 dating of bills. 



Following the report of powdery scab 

 on importations of potatoes from Hol- 

 land, Belgium and the Island of Born- 

 holm, Denmark, the further importation 

 of potatoes from these places is pro- 

 hibited, pending the taking of suitable 

 action by the countries concerned. 



Honors, like troubles, sometimes do 

 not come singly, and it was so last week 

 in the case of Lester L. Morse, who 

 within three days was electe<l president 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 and the American Sweet Pea Society, 

 without being present at the convention 

 of either. 



The tendency in ahnost all lines of 

 business is toward shorter credits. In 

 the seed trade the old custom of June 1 

 dating, regardless of date of sale, still 

 is almost universal with wholesalers, but 

 there is a strong undercurrent of dissatis- 

 faction with the custom which indicates 

 an approaching change. 



One of the most remarkable incidents 

 of the present bulb season, according to 

 a British authority, is the big advance 

 in prices, since wholesale catalogues were 

 published, on Darwin and all late-flower- 

 ing tulips. The advances range from 

 twenty-five to fifty per cent, the latter 

 on niew and rare varieties. The general 

 advance in prices is said not to arise 

 from any scarcity of crop, as bulbs gen- 

 erally promise well, but is on account of 

 the increasing popular demand. 



A new concern will begin business at 

 Crawfordsville, Ind., upon the completion 

 of the building of the Crawfordsville 

 Seed Co., at Washington and North 

 streets. A. Homer Flanigan, for four- 

 teen years with the Crabbe, Reynolds, 

 Taylor Co., of Crawfordsville, and Shirl 

 Herr, for ten years with the same con- 

 cern, are the promoters of the enterprise. 

 The concern will handle field seeds of all 

 kinds. The installation of machinery be- 

 gins the flTSt part of July. 



THE WA8HINOTON CONVENTION. 



(For a full account of tlic (ipeniiig da.rs of the 

 aiiiKial uieetiiiK of the .\iiM>i-icnu S«>eil Trade Asso- 

 ciation. <illlcerK' and connnlttces' reports, papers 

 ren'l. aut\ (UHCUMiions. see last week's Issue of 

 'I lie Review.]' 



Officers Elected. 



The thirty-second annual convention 

 of the A. 8. T. A. was brought to a 

 close, at Washington, D. C, June 25 by 

 the election and installation of the fol- 

 lowing oflficers: 



President — Lester L. Morse, of San 

 Francisco. 



First vice-president — J. M. Lupton, 

 of Mattituck, N. Y., reelected. 



Second vice-president — E. C. Dungan, 

 of Philadelphia. 



Lester L. Mone. 



(And bis fanions Sweet Pea Notebook.) 



Secretary-treasurer — C. E, Kendel, of 

 Cleveland, O., reelected. 



Assistant secretary — S. F. Willard, 

 Jr., of Cleveland, O., reelected. 



Counsel — Curtis Nye Smith, of Bos- 

 ton, reelected. 



Executive committee — C. C. Massie, 

 Minneapolis; Kirby B. White, Detroit; 

 Frank W. Bolgiano, Washington; Wm. 

 G. Scarlett, Baltimore; Watson S. Wood- 

 ruflf. Orange, Conn. 



Membership committee — Albert Mc- 

 Culloagh, Cincinnati; Ben P. Corneli, 

 St. Louis; H. G. Hastings, Atlanta, Ga. 



The choice of Mr. Morse, in spite of 

 the fact that he could not attend the 

 convention this year, was in further- 

 ance of the plan to hold the 1915 con- 



vention at San Francisco during the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition, with an in- 

 ternational conference of- seedsmen and 

 a tour in a body through the seed grow- 

 ing valleys south of the city as its chief 

 attractions to draw a large attendance. 

 Following the installation of the new 

 officers, the retiring president, C. C. 

 Massie, of Minneapolis, was presented 

 with a handsome clock. The presenta- 

 tion was made bv E. L. Page, of Greene, 

 N. Y. 



The Parcel Post. 



The convention adopted a resolution 

 urging the President and the Postmas- 

 ter General to secure as quickly as pos- 

 sible the reduction of our export parcel 

 post rate to 8 cents a poun<l or less, and 

 this with a system of insurance up to 

 the full value of the parcel. The fol- 

 lowing remarkable document also was 

 adopted : 



Whereas, in its life of sevent.vfoiir years, 1h'- 

 ginuing with the adoption of tlie nniform 2-cent 

 letter post of Great Britain in 1.S40, and covering 

 its extension over tlie Tnited Ktates potttal service 

 by Abraham Lincoln and the United States Con- 

 gress of 1863, and over the business of the Inter- 

 national Postal Union in 1874, tlie mo<1ern flat 

 rate postoffice has alwn.vs and in all eircitmstances 

 prove<l Itself a wonderful succeM, and. 



Whereas, by its wasteful methods, and Its arti- 

 ficial restrictions, tiie revival of the old discarded 

 loue system in the parcel iwst service of the 

 United States in 191.) has greatly diminished the 

 Iteneflts of its lower rates and caused needless 

 trouble and expense l>oth to the postoffice and to 

 the public, and. 



Whereas, transportation is the basis of our 

 modern civilizatlou, having for its end the elim- 

 ination of distance and of time, the widening of 

 our opportunities for the enjoyment of life and 

 for getting a living, and. 



Whereas, in public transportation, the cost of 

 the service rendered is regardless at once of the 

 distance traverseil by any unit of trattlc upon the 

 moving machinery, and as to parcels of mcrcbao- 

 dise or of produce is also regardless of the 

 character of their contents, now, therefore. Be it 

 resolveil : 



That the public welfare demands the earliest 

 possible consolidation of tlie entire machinery of 

 public transportation, the transportation of per- 

 sons, produce and Intetlfgence — railroads, trolley 

 lines, stearalK>at and steamship lines, — public auto 

 and air lines. — telegraph and telephone lines, — the 

 circulating and nervous system of the liody politic 

 — under the public service postofllce with all mall 

 matter in a common class, and witli low, uniform, 

 eost-of-tlH'-service rates, dour to door everywhere. 



Other Besolutions Adopted. 



Among the other resolutions adopted 

 were the following: Instructing the 

 committee on crop improvement to take 

 steps toward bringing about of the full- 

 est cooperation between the association 

 and the experiment stations, agricul- 

 tural college workers and officials and 

 workers of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture; to keep in touch with the agricul- 

 tural press in an endeavor to secure 

 more carefulj,editing and consideration 

 of articles affec^ng the trade; the ques- 

 tion of shorter tvrms of sale on garden 

 seeds to be referred to the new presi- 

 dent with the recommendation that he 

 appoint a committee to eonsider it and 

 report to the next convention; urging 

 members to make persistent use of the 

 disclaimer; continuance of state corre- 

 spondents for the coming year; urging 

 local seedsmen to establish closer rela- 

 tions with their state seed analysts. 



.Obituary resolutions were adopted in 

 inemory of Wm. Henry Maule, of Phila- 

 delphia, and Preston King, of Minne- 

 apolis. 



