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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1515 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTKM. 



DrAd W. H. Grenell, Sacrlnaw W. S., Mlcli.; 

 «r»t Vlce-Pres., L. L. May, St, Paul; Sec'y and 

 53b CE Kendel. Cleveland. The 24th annual 

 meeUng will beheld at Toledo. O., June 26-28, 1906. 



li. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, had 

 a narrow escape from a disastrous fire 

 April 4. 



' ' Sprouted ' ' onion sets is the latest 

 novelty offered in the seed sections of the 

 department stores. 



The pea and bean growers report that 

 :irrangements for the coming season's 

 crop are progressing favorably. 



When he sees timothy quoted in the 

 iiapers at $2,85 a hundred the suburban- 

 ite wonders why lawn grass should be 20 

 Lonts a pound. 



The pickle men seem to be averse to 

 huving much cucumber seed; they feel 

 that a shortening up of the crop will be 

 to their advantage. 



Some enterprising seedsmen Avho have 

 Iiad alfalfa and clover tested by the 

 Department of Agriculture, are advertis- 

 ing "Purity and Germination Guaran- 

 teed by the Government," 



All the onion set growers say they 

 will cut down their acreage this year. 

 They are at liberty to change their 

 minds, however, anci may do so before 

 the sowing season is over. 



The receipts of clover seeds at the 

 ))ort of New York last week were 2,489 

 iia^y, valued in invoices at $57,083; 

 otlior grass sccils, seventeen bags, valued 

 at $113; other seeds valued at $3,799, 



Seasonable weather is reported from 

 all sections where planting is usually done 

 at this time of the year and normal con- 

 tlitions as to operation and the amount 

 of seed going into the ground is the rule. 



The seedsman has much to buck 

 .•tgainst; the Agricultural Department 

 :uul many agriculturists outside of the 

 department think lightly of his integrity 

 ;uul scotf at his efforts to excel in his 

 Hue, 



The market gardener seems to be the 

 only user of seeds who appreciates the 

 improvements that seedsmen make from 

 time to time in their stocks. lie knows 

 the value of an article and pays accord- 

 ingly. 



Counter trade is reported to be on 

 with a rush; mail orders have taken an- 

 other spurt ; "fill in " business is said to 

 be good with the jobbers and onion sets 

 are being cleaned out rapidly, Wliat more 

 do you want? 



T. G, Raynor, of the seed branch of 

 the Canadian Department of Agriculture, 

 says that the Seed Control Act of 1905 

 has resulted in a marked improvement in 

 the general quality of the seed offered 

 for sale in the Dominion. 



Seedsmen express no little surprise at 

 the confidence the rural population 

 places in the new seed departments of 

 the big general mail order houses. It 

 should not be overlooked, nor the value 

 under-estimated of the fact that these 

 houses have built their Avonderful suc- 

 cesses on the one idea of securing and 

 keeping each customer's confidence. 



Stiles D. Woodruff. 



The sign, "Tested Seed I'otatoes, " 

 may be something of a joke, but rhe 

 Chicago man who has it out in front of 

 his South Water street store says it is a 

 winner. 



C. C, Morse & Co., San Francisco, re- 

 port that on tiie whole prospects are very 

 favorable, althougli the season is back- 

 w'ard and it is impossible to say just 

 how things will develop within tiic next 

 few weeks. 



FREE SEED LETTERS. 



The Poi-t Oflice Department says that 

 the cost in handling the free seeil <lis- 

 tribution is about .'f 35,0(11) a year. This 

 season it has an offset; there is a jirotit 

 in carrying first-class matter, and tlie 

 seedsmen have worked u|i a good in- 

 crease in congressmen's mail. Here is 

 what Fretlerick W. Keisey. New York, 

 wrote to his aciiuaintauces in (imgress, 

 including me:nl)ers of tlie conunittee i;n 

 appro]niations : 



.\lthoim;li iKit ef|H'<i;iU.v iiitcrcslod in llic seed 

 liusiness, I :mi soiiiewinit e(iiiveisinit witli its 

 i^eiipnil conditions and (!esii-e tn expicss my :\ii 

 lireciation of tlie lutii ii of tlie Hniise (drnniil t<'e 

 on Agriculture in eliininatinj; fnnn tlie )reiiei:il 

 iilipfoiiriatiou liill the item for e« mnion fne seed 

 distrilintion. 



Of nil tlie nnliiin.ntod perpetmited soveni- 

 niental alisiirdities of tlie inesent dav. this 

 SI lienie of pateiiiiilized palrona;.e at national 

 expense has appaicntly readied the limit, and 

 1 helieve that Its disidntiiuiaiue will lie re- 

 jrarded as wise le;;islation liy tlie iireat majority 

 of the people all over the country. 



DEATH OF AUGUST RHOTERT. 



August Ehotort, the well known Xew 

 Y'ork wholesaler and importer of seeds 

 and plants, died suddenly on Monday, 

 April 9, at his residence, 235 West One 

 Hundred and Thirty-first street, Xe'.f 

 Y'ork City. He was 45 years of age. 



Mr. Ehotert was a man of exceptional 

 business abilitj'. He was very exact and 

 painstaking in all i)is operations and en- 

 joyed an enviable reputation for prompt- 

 ness and business integrity. He had 

 amassed a fortune as a result of his 



(iperaticiiis in tl.c trade and through 

 well cunsidered outside investments. 



Mr. K'hotert established his seed and 

 phiiit busine.ss in 189:5. in thirteen years 

 it litis become undoubtedly the largest 

 of its kind in this country. Among 

 the firms which it was his good fortune 

 to represent, antl which were equally 

 fortunate in their selection of an Ameri- 

 c;ui ttgent, were Vilmorin-Andrieux Sa 

 ('(!.. the uretit I'aris seed house; The 

 ilaniiis Co.. Somergem, Belgium; Louis 

 LcHv. Augers, Frtince; E. Ts'eubert, 

 W.iiidsiick, (Jennany; .[(ilin Palmer & 

 Sdiis. .\iiiiaii. Scothmd; II. M. Hardy- 

 /ar, I'oskdop; 1'. .1. l.ooyintiiiH 6c Sons^ 

 ( )udeMl;os( li ; The (leneral Rulb Co,» 

 \(>;;(l/.aiio : (;. II. K'iidijirds. Loudon, and 

 several otiitTs (if t!ic oldest ttnd hirgest 

 in l']ui()|ie. 



Mr. Hhotert is survived by a widow, 

 his ini.thcr and two brotliers in Germany. 

 The iiiisiiK'ss will be cniidiK-tcd by the 

 (■state. 



DEATH OF S. D. WOODRUFF. 



Stiles I). WoodnilV, senior member of 

 the (inn ol S. D. Woodruff' tSc Sons, 

 Orange, (diin.. died on the nuirning of 

 Wednesday. Ajiril 11. at the age of 68 

 ye.irs. Mr. Woodruff' had been ill for 

 IK ally .1 yc:ir with rheumatism of the 

 heart. His wife ]>!issed away March 8 

 and at that time Mr. Woodruff" was so 

 low th.it he could not be told of the 

 event, llis funeral will be held from 

 the fainiiv home a.t Orange on Friday, 

 Ajiril 13.' 



Stiles D. Woodruff" was one of the 

 pioneers in the seed growing intlustry in 

 the I'nited States. Until the beginning 

 of his fatal illness he had always been 

 an exceedingly active man, with a very 

 wide acquaintance in the trade, 



Mr, Woodruff' began seed growing in 

 1805, upon his return from the civil 

 war. The first seed crops grown were 

 turnip, beet, parsnip, cabbage and sweet 



