Jdly 19, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



533 



C. S. Burgre. G. B. McVay. 



The Vice-Presidents of the American Seed Trade Association. 



The Cox Seed Co., San Francisco, has 

 leased a store on Market street, near 

 California, for a term of years. 



A REPORT just at hand from a Can- 

 adian pea growing station states that 

 much damage to the pea crop has been 

 caused by recent severe rains. 



The situation on onion sets remains 

 unchanged. The rains at the end of last 

 week, which fell copiously over the 

 whole of the Chicago section, came too 

 late to give any material increase in the 

 product, and it is a question whether it 

 did not do some harm. A shortage com- 

 pared with last year's crop at Louisville 

 and Indianapolis, with no increase any- 

 where else, means a whole lot to the 

 grower who has not already disposed of 

 what he will harvest. 



Eeports in general show normal con- 

 ditions all along the line. Peas are 

 doing well, Alaska and other standard 

 earlies being well advanced. Wonder 

 and other dwarf sorts give promise of 

 fair crops. Telephone and most of the 

 main crop sorts are making a good show 

 of vine and in many cases setting pods. 

 Beans look promising. The wax sorts 

 are doing better than common thus far. 

 Green-podded sorts are pushing along. 

 Valentines and stringless seem to be do- 

 ing all that is expected of them. The 

 Michigan vine crops look seasonable and 

 there are no adverse reports from the 

 plantings of other varieties of garden 

 seeds in that section. 



THE VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



G. B. McVay. 



G. B. McVay, first vice-president of 

 the American Seed Trade Association, 

 was raised on a farm in Texas, and edu- 

 cated in the public schools and university 

 of that state. He was married in 1890, 



at the age of 20 years, and removed 

 to Birmingham, Ala., where he now lives 

 with a family of five children. In 1891 

 he secured a position with Amzi Godden, 

 then a prominent retail druggist at 

 Birmingham, as prescription clerk. Five 

 years later the business was incorporated 

 as the Amzi Godden Co., and he was 

 taken in the company as secretary. In 

 the meantime the company was pushing 

 the seed business as a side line, having 

 issued its first catalogue in 1893. A 

 short time after, the company sold out 

 its retail drug stores and engaged in 

 the wholesale drug business, and opened 

 up an exclusive seed business in an- 

 other building. The company sold out 

 the wholesale drug business in 1900, 

 and since then its interests have been 

 exclusively in the seed business. August 

 1, 1905, the company was reorganized, 

 under the name of Amzi Godden Seed 

 Co., with paid-in capital of $40,000. 



Mr. McVay is president of the com- 

 pany. He is by profession a chemist and 

 pharmacist, and at one time was presi- 



dent of the Alabama Pharmaceutical 

 Association. Mr. McVay is also in- 

 terested in the manufacture of fertiliz- 

 ers, being a director in tlie Jefferson 

 Fertilizer Co. 



C. S. Burge. 



C. S. Burge, the second vice-president 

 of the association, has been identified 

 with the seed business from early youth. 

 Mr. Burge was born in Maumee, Ohio, 

 November 24, 1868. In March, 1882, he 

 removed to Toledo, and two years later, 

 when 16 years of age, he became an 

 employee of S. W. Flower, who was en- 

 gaged in the seed business. Mr. Burge 

 later, in 1892, became active manager of 

 the business, in which capacity he has 

 continued until the present. He is now 

 a partner in the firm of S. W. Flower 

 & Co., wholesale field seed merchants. 

 He has active control of the business, 

 although Mr. Flower still holds an in- 

 terest. 



Mr. Burge is first vice-president of the 

 Dollar Savings Bank & Trust Co., and 



A. F. J. BADE. 



F. S. SMITH. 



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