May 17, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J 875 



Master of the Maryland Grange, ex- 

 plained that the reason the delegates to 

 the National Grange were opposed to 

 the free seed distribution was because 

 they wanted the money expended in a 

 more useful work. 



John Fottler, Jr., took a whack at the 

 recent adulteration "exposure" of the 

 Department of Agriculture. He defend- 

 ed the seed trade agains^ the charges of 

 adulteration and submitted documents 

 proving that nature is the greatest adul- 

 terator of all, producing in fields grow- 

 ing for seed, other inferior grasses, the 

 seeds of which it is impossible for the 

 farmer or seedsman to separate. He de- 

 clared that no machinery ever has been 

 invented that will separate these seeds so 

 as to insure absolute purity. He related 

 an instance of a seed dealer in Boston 

 who was asked to supply a sample of 

 four pounds of orchard grass seed, the 

 only ordfer for that kind of seed he re- 

 ceived in the course of a year. He did 

 not have it in stock and bought it from 

 an outsider and filled the order. It de- 

 veloped later that the order was from an 

 agent of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and because the sample, the only one of 

 the kind handled during the year, con- 

 tained other seeds, he was branded as an 

 adulterator of seeds by the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



William Henry Maule told of his pur- 

 <}hase of a new variety of onion from a 

 California grower. He spent thousands 

 of dollars advertising this variety and 

 putting it on the market. The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture purchased a lot of 

 seed of ostensibly the same variety, and 

 sent it out free. Later it developed that 

 the Department had been deceived, its 

 seed not being of the true variety. Two 

 hundred and fifty thousand packages had 

 been distributed and when the seeds came 

 up developed the commonest kind of on- 

 ions. As a result Mr. Maule 's business 

 in that variety of onion seed, for which 

 he had purchased the exclusive right, was 

 ruined. All he got from the Department 

 of Agriculture was an apology. 



Henry W. Wood told the committee 

 that "some people will always ask for 

 anything they can get for nothing." He 

 related an instance of his firm, on the re- 

 quest of a New Orleans schoolgirl, send- 

 ing a celluloid bookmark, worth 2 cents. 

 As a result, they received from New Or- 

 leans alone 163 requests for that brand 

 of bookmark. By this he illustrated the 

 •difference between requests for free 

 seeds and a great demand for them. 



Patrick O'Mara made the point that 

 this government is the only one that 

 gives away anything and the only thing 

 this government gives away is seeds. He 

 thinks the government has no more right 

 to give away seeds than horses, cows or 

 farming implements. He stated further 

 that if the farmers are to be helped in 

 their business, aid should be given to 

 other trades and occupations. In Jersey 

 City, where he resides, seeds are distrib- 

 uted through the political organizations. 

 In his opinion the farmers do not want 

 the seeds. 



H. B. Hathaway told the senators how 

 three firms of seedsmen in and about 

 Eochester, N. Y., had been brought into 

 financial diflSculty by the competition of 

 the government's free seed distribution. 

 Holding the paper of these seedsmen, 

 his bank had been compelled to go into 

 the seed business. He told of a member 

 of congress, also a banker, who dumped 

 his quota of seeds on a table in the 

 bank and invited all comers to help 

 themselves. When the ' ' distribution ' ' 



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A CORNER IN PALM SEEDS. 



At the annual meeting of the Nursery- 

 men 's Association of Victoria, the presi- 

 dent announced that a singular develop- 

 ment had taken place in connection with 

 the kentia palm seed trade of Lord Howe 

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 distant from the mainland, had been 

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 Mr. Farnell, a visiting magistrate, had 

 leased the island for seven years, and 

 had contracted with Messrs. Sanders & 

 Sons for the export supply, and thus 

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 branch of trade would have to be exe- 

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Lord Howe Island, although gazetted 

 a reserve apart from its remote distance 

 from the mainland, had been leased in 

 sections by a number of persons for the 

 cultivation of palm seeds. They did not 

 make much headway until Mr. Farnell 

 improved their position by securing for 

 them double their former prices of the 

 seed. Now ^Ir. Farnell had cancelled 

 all these leases for some reason or other, 

 not yet clear to his mind, and let a con- 

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 whole of the seed raised on the island 



