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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apuil 11, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN 8BED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



res., Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; First 

 Vlce-Pres., Charles Burge, Toledo. O.; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Keodel, Cleveland. The 25th annual 

 meeting: w HI be held at New York City, June, 1907 



There is a bill regulating the sale of 

 agricultural seeds pending in the Michi- 

 gan legislature. 



It is reported that C. C. Morse & Co. 

 will shortly add to the plant at Glen 

 Echo, Cal., recently acquired from the 

 Cox Seed Co. 



T, H. Hopkins, manager of the Stur- 

 geon Bay interests of the John H. Allan 

 Seed Co., has been in the northern part 

 of Michigan for ten days. 



It looks as though this season's prices 

 on onion seed may appear quite mod- 

 erate by comparison with what will be 

 asked for onion seed next December. 



The affairs of the Hawkeye Seed Co. 

 were wound up April 2 by A. A. Berry, 

 of Clarinda, the assignee. The matter 

 has been dragging for the several years 

 since the company went out of business. 



Since English seedsmen now are pro- 

 hibited by law from paying commis- 

 sions to gardeners, Continental houses 

 are circularizing the English gardeners 

 with offers of liberal commissions on all 

 orders. 



It is reported that a corporation has 

 been formed with $300,000 capital stock 

 to establish a seed growing farm in 

 the vicinity of Terrell, Tex. The in- 

 formation is given that this is the first 

 attempt, on a large scale, to grow seeds 

 in the south, but the identity of the 

 interested parties is not stated. 



The Board of Education at Columbus, 

 O., has refused the application of the 

 Columbus Florists' Club for permis- 

 sion to sell the school children packets 

 of flower and vegetable seeds at a 

 penny each, and instead instructed the 

 clerk to communicate with the congress- 

 man as to procuring free seeds for the 

 children from the congressional dis- 

 tribution. 



CALIFORNIA CROP LOSSES. 



In reply to a request for the latest in- 

 formation as to the losses from flood sus- 

 tained by California seed growers, C. C. 

 Morse & Co. telegraphed April 10: 



* ' The onion crop is badly damaged ; 

 probably one-half of the total California 

 acreage has been lost. Other crops are 

 not seriously damaged, but were planted 

 very late." 



CALIFORNIA CONDITIONS BAD. 



A large grower of seeds in the Santa 

 Clara valley of California said, in a 

 business letter, under date of April 1 : 



* * About the condition of the crops, at 

 present there is little to write. We 

 would really prefer to wait until some 

 time when we can report something 

 good. At present there is only one word 

 to describe the whole situation, from 

 the standpoint of the California 

 grower, and that word is 'bad.* The 

 writer has been kept pretty much at 

 home, trying to take advantage of every 

 day of fair weather, but reliable reports 

 tell of the entire loss of the growing 



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CHAUNCEY P. COY & SON 



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Wholesale Growers for the Seed Trade 

 Write for 19U7 Contract Offers 



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JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



and all kinds of Garden Seeds at Wholesale Only. 



CAMBRIDGE, w.shiDgtos Co.. NEW YORK 



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crops of one firm, and of the loss of 

 about 200 acres of onions of another. 

 The smaller growers have all lost some- 

 thing, too, and the season is so bad that 

 replanting with other crops is largely 

 out of the question. 



"And with the bad season of 1906, 

 followed by the present record-breaker 

 for trouble, we still do not dare ask a 

 fair price for our seed because when 

 we do we are met with scorn by the 

 eastern dealers. 



"I note in the last issue of the 

 Review that Morse has absorbed the 

 interests of Cox. The logic of events 

 points strongly to the concentration of 

 the growing in few hands, and when 

 that happens the seedsmen will learn 

 what it costs to grow seeds, and the 

 knowledge "will be a revelation to 

 them." 



STATE OF TRADE. 



The rush has slackened. The cause 

 of the heavy pressure of the last half 



S. M. ISBELL & CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Seed Growers tor the Trade 



BEANS, CICLIVIBER, TOMATO, 

 Radish, Peas, Muskmelon 



Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



We are now bookinG: orders (or 1907 fall deliv- 

 ery. Send for contract prices; also surplus list. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Garden Peas and Beans 



Tor the Wholesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS. t < MICH. 



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C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Grow^ers 



171-173 Clay St., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

 Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and other California Specialties 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GUiBOY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettnce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 resDondence solicited. 



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of March was the unusually warm early- 

 spring weather; a return to wintry con- 

 ditions has checked demand for seeds, 

 although a fair run of orders still is 

 passing through the mail order houses. 

 The seedsmen are not especially sorry to 

 see the rush checked by cooler condi- 

 tions; it will come on, taxing all facili- 

 ties, as soon as spring comes again. All 

 that can be done in cool weather is so 

 much the better. The heavier the rush, 

 usually the shorter the duration of the 

 season; and a short season is not favor- 

 able to any seed trade interest. 



Within the week there has been snow 



