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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



June 30, li)04. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., C. N. Paf e, Des Moines, la ; First Vlce- 

 Pres., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas., C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The S3rd annual meeting 

 -will l>e be d on tbe St. Lawrence, June, 1906. 



The onion set crop still suffers from 

 lack of rain. 



President Bbugebhoff was missed 

 from the meeting of Wholesale Seeds- 

 men's League. 



The government crop report shows 

 good growth in the corn belt, with tbe 

 crop practically insured. 



Reiports from the Pacific coa.st pea 

 growing sections indicate that a good 

 crop will be harvested there. 



The beans for ^ed crop of 1904 are 

 all planted and nice rains have been re- 

 -ported from the Michigan districts. 



California reports that the spinach 

 setd crop there is being liarvcsted and 

 that it will be ready to ship about July 



Visiting New York.— Lester L. 

 Morse, of C. C. Morse & Co., Santa Clara, 

 Cal., with Mrs. Morse, eu route to Eu- 

 rope. 



The early pea crops are ready for in- 

 spection and the later varieties will be 

 ! ready by the time tlie earlies have been 

 •gone over. 



J. W. Batekin is now the sole owner 

 of the seed business conducted under tho 

 name of J. K. Ratekin & Son, Shenan- 

 doah, la. 



The a. J. Brown Seed Co., Grand Rap- 

 ids, has prepared for the approaching 

 season by leasing a new warehouse with 

 nearly an acre of floor space. 



J. H. Hale has a very interesting and 

 valuable article in Country Life for July 

 on the canteloupe industry in the soutli 

 and west, now grown to huge propor- 

 tions. Tlie article is freely illustrated. 



Since Easter lilies have been so abun- 

 dant in all the principal cut flower mar- 

 kets of this country and England there 

 has been considerable waste, it being im- 

 possible to clear at any price. 



The general opinion of the members 



in attendance at the convention was 



that the papers read were the best 



in the history of the association, 



but that the lack of discussion 

 after the reading.s was a matter to be 

 deplored. 



The men best able to give out prac- 

 tical information at seedsmen's conven- 

 tions are usually the ones who are least 

 heard from on the floor. This should not 

 be; it is not necessary to be an orator 

 to be interesting. What we need is to 

 hear more from the fellows who are poor 

 talkers. 



One badge of the Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion was honored for the admission of two 

 seedsmen to the reception given by the 

 Governor of Missouri to the visiting dele- 

 gates of the republican national conven- 

 tion. Xew England inquisitiveness was 

 responsible for the desire to investigate, 

 and Chicago nerve with the Seed Trade 

 badge did the rest. 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



The St. Louis convention of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association last week 

 was one of the most successful on rec- 

 ord; it was the twenty-second and few 

 have been more largely attended. The 

 published program was followed in de- 

 tail. There was a tendency to brevity 

 in discussion but the subjects of the 

 several papers read were more than or- 

 dinarily timely, notably the one on the 

 contract system, by Mr. Vaughan, and on 

 insurance, by Mr. McCullough. Techni- 

 cal papers were read by W. W. Tracy, 

 Sr,, and George T. Moore, of the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and by G. H. Maxwell, the irriga- 

 tion expert, whose work was endorsed. 

 Other papers were by E. D. Darlington, 

 E. F. Bogardus, Mel L. Webster, F. T[. 



Charles N. Pagfe. 

 President Am. Seed Trade Association. 



i\mk and H. M. Schisler. All these 

 will be published in full in the society's 

 "Proceedings" and will there receive 

 their most careful consideration. 



Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent. C. N. Page. Des Moines, la.; first 

 vice-president, L. L. May, St, Paul; sec- 

 one vice-president, W. H. Grenell, Sag- 

 inaw, Mich.; secretary and treasurer, C. 

 E. Kendel, Cleveland; assistant secre- 

 tary, F. H. Funk, Bloomington, 111.; 

 executive committee, S. F. Willard, L. 

 L. Morse, A, H, Goodwin, G. B. McVay, 

 J. G. Peppard; membership committee, 

 Albert McCullough, W. L. Woodruff, A. 

 J. Brown. The meeting in 1905 will be 

 held on the St. Lawrence. 



New members admitted at this meet- 

 ing were: D. Landreth Seed Co., Bris- 

 tol, Pa.; W. S. Galbraith, Indianapolis; 

 W, H. Maule, Philadelphia ; Crenshaw 

 Bros., Tampa, Fla.; W. T. Phillips Co., 

 Toledo; Clucas & Boddington Co., New 

 York; Henry Fish, Carpenteria, Cal.; 

 St. Louis Seed Co., St. Louis, 



The local hospitalities included trips to 

 Shaw's Garden, the Fair, a brewery and 

 a publishing office. 



Retiring President S. F. Willard re- 

 ceived a silver pitcher as a souvenir, pre- 

 sented by J. E. Northrup in behalf of 

 the members. 



them notable, and many expressed re- 

 grets that more time could not be given 

 to their discussion. The paper by George 

 H. Maxwell was so interesting and prac- 

 tical that a special edition of 5,000 

 copies was ordered printed for the use 

 of the members. The papers by Prof. 

 Tracy, Dr. Moore and F. H. Funk are 

 worth a careful study, and Mr. 

 Vaughan 's, Mr. McCullough 's and Mr. 

 Darlington's papers contain much food 

 for thought for seedmen. Mr. Webster's 

 and the paper by Mr. Bogardus were 

 revelations to us eastern seedsmen who 

 have not yet got accustomed to looking 

 westward for seeds. 



The sessions were held during the fore- 

 noon only, to allow the members the op- 

 portunity of visiting the great World's 

 Fair, an opportunity which each em- 

 braced to the utmost. Thursday after- 

 noon the St. Louis seedsmen had three 

 trolley cars at the hotel, which the visit- 

 ing seedsmen filled to overflowing, for a 

 ride about the city, a visit to one of 

 the large breweries and refreshments at 

 the Missouri Botanic Garden, where the 

 members enjoyed the beautiful lawns 

 and flowers and the grateful shade of the 

 fine trees in this most beautiful spot. 



The consensus of opinio^ was that the 

 twenty-second convention was the best 

 ever held. The choice of the next meet- 

 ing place lay between Atlanta and some 

 point on the St. Lawrence. This is to 

 be decided by the executive committee 

 at its meeting in January. 



C. E. Kendel. 



The papers were exceptional, some of 



CHARLES N. PAGE. 



The new president of the American 

 Seed Trade Association is a sou 

 of General C. W. Page, and was 

 born at Clyde, Ohio, May '29, 

 18(50. He removed with his pa- 

 rents to Omaha, Neb., in 1868, and after 

 his father 's death removed to Des Moines 

 in 1876. He was employed during the 

 spring of 1877 in the seed store of 8. L. 

 Fuller & Co. and has remained with the 

 same firm and its successors, C. W. Door 

 &t Co., and the Iowa Seed Co., ever since. 

 In 1886 he organized the Iowa Seed Co., 

 and has since that date been its manager. 

 Although he never had the privilege of 

 attending college, he has been actively 

 identified with educational interests, both 

 as a director in the city schools and as a 

 trustee and member of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Des Moines College. His 

 experience of twenty-seven years in the 

 same seed store is certainly an unusual 

 one and his active participation in the 

 affairs of the seed trade have earned the 

 recognition accorded at St. Louis. 



THE SEED TRADE. 



F. A. Forbes, of Plymouth, Ind., 

 writes : * ' Our seed business, though late, 

 has been quite satisfactory. Have ha«l 

 a nice trade in vegetable and bedding 

 plants, which though only taken up in 

 the last two years has grown to be quite 

 an important part of our business. Not 

 having facilities for growing our own 

 stock, the buying has in sOme cases proved 

 more of a problem with us than the sell- 

 ing. The advertising columns of the 

 Review have been quite a help to us in 

 finding the stock we wanted. ' ' 



Wb esteem tbe Revikw very highly for 

 its Seed Trade news. — Binohaictom 

 Seed Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 



