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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNB 27, 10*7. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Prea., Henry W. Wood, Klchmond, Va.; First 

 Vlce-Prea.. Charles Buiife, Toledo, O.; Sec'y and 

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

 meeting will be held at New York City, June 26 

 to 27, 1907. 



The crop of Seven-top turnip is the 

 lightest in years. 



The next fortmght will be the critical 

 period with the pea crops. 



The French Boman hyacinths will cost 

 five to eight per cent more than last year. 



The pea prospects possibly are not so 

 poor as many crop reporters have pre- 

 dicted. Each report in the last week has 

 been more optimistic than the preceding. 



Later reports as to the prospects for 

 a crop of onion seed in California, fol- 

 lowing the pessimistic reports just after 

 the spring freshet, are all of a more 

 favorable nature. 



John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, 

 Wis., is to be congratulated, not alone 

 for the increase in its 1907 business, but 

 for the "good trade of April, May and 

 June," wMeh it reports. 



Although Paper Whites in France 

 generally have been bought at a shade 

 under last year's prices, most of the 

 American dealers will reprint last year's 

 prices in their fall bulb lists. 



The Eeview published, in its Seed 

 Trade Department, February 16, 1905, 

 page 714, the original history of the onion 

 set industry at Chicago, a story that has 

 been reprinted in many of the trade 

 periodicals in Europe and which is now 

 finding its way back to the columns of 

 the American horticultural press. 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



First Day at New York. 



New York, June 25. — The American 

 Seed Trade Association is celebrating its 

 twenty-fifth anniversary here this week, 

 the opening session of the convention hav- 

 ing been held at the Hotel Astor this 

 morning. The members are enthusiastic 

 and the weather comfortable. The grass- 

 seed dealers are, proportionately to their 

 number, better represented than any other 

 department of the trade. Philadelphia 

 was not in evidence at the first day's ses- 

 sion. The firms, outside of New York 

 city, represented at the opening were: 



Adams, T. Lee, Kansas City, Mo. 



Allan, John H., Seed Co., Sheboygan, Wis. 



Allen, C. L., Floral Park, N. Y. 



Barrett, W. H., Adrian, Mich. 



Bolglano, F. W., & Co., Washington, D. C. 



Braslan, Chas. P., San Jose, Cal. 



Brlggs Bros. & Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



Brill, Francis, Hempstead, L. I. 



Chllds, John L#wl8, Floral Park, N. Y. 



Clark, A. N., Mllford, Conn. 



Clark, The B. B. Co., Mllford, Conn. 



Oooistock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfleld, Conn. 



Dickinson, O. H., Springfield, Mass. 



Ebellng, F. H., Syracuse, N. Y. 



Emerson, Frank T., Fremont, Neb. 



Godden, Amzl, Co., Birmingham, Ala. 



Grlswold. T., & Co., South Wethersfleld, Conn. 



Grenell, W. H., Plerrepont Manor, N. Y. 



Hart, Welles & Co., Wethersfleld, Conn. 



Hoermann, Frank, Terre Haute, Ind. 



Holmes Seed Co., Harrisburg, Pa. 



Hollenbecli, Peter, Chicago. 



Illinois Seed Co., Chicago. 



Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, la. 



Isbell. S. M., & Co.. Jackson, Mich. 



Keeney, N. B., & Son, LeRoy, N. Y. 



Kendel, A. C, Cleveland, O. 



Leonard Seed Co., Chicago. 



McCuUough's, J. M., Sons Co., Cincinnati, 0. 



McCullough, J. Charles, Cincinnati, 0. 



Nebraska Seed C6., Omaha, Neb. 



Olds Seed Co., L. L., Clinton, Wis. 



Page Seed Co., Greene, N. Y. 



Pbillpps, Henry, Seed & Implement Co., To- 

 ledo, 0. 



IMillipps, W. T., & Co., Toledo, O. 



Klce, J. B., & Co., Cambridge, N. Y. 



Uobinson, J. C, Seed Co., Waterloo, Neb. 



Rogers Bros., Chaumont, N. Y. 



Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co., Sioux City, la. 



Steele-Brlggs Seed Co., Toronto, Ont. 



Vaugban.'s Seed Store, Chicago. 



The address of welcome was by Acting 

 Mayor McGown. It was followed by the 

 address of President Henry W. Wood, 

 Whose paper was one of the most thought- 

 ful the association ever has listened to. 

 It was full of important suggestions for 

 the welfare of the se^d trade and the 

 association. 



By-laws Amended. 



In executive session the annual dues 

 were advanced to $10 and the by-laws 

 changed to require recommendations for 

 membership to be approved by a two- 

 thirds vote of all the members present in 

 addition to being approved by the mem- 

 bership committee. 



Albert McCullough, Cincinnatij chair- 



Agricultural Department is doing for the 

 seed trade. An interesting point in his 

 address was that the department has 

 hybridized a head lettuce adapted for the 

 south and east, and a leaf lettuce for the 

 west, which he thinks will in many ways 

 outclass any that we now have. 



F. W. Bruggerhof's paper, "Remin- 

 iscences of the Seed Trade, ^was read by 

 Secretary Kendel. Begiet was expressed 

 that Mr. Bruggerhof could not be present, 

 as his personality, added to his sixty 

 years' experience in the seed business, 

 would have been of itself a pleasure. 



S. F. Willard's paper, "The History 

 of the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion," was given much attention when 

 being read. He prefaced his paper by 

 stating that he was able to locate, among 

 those present, only five of the original 

 promoters of the association, and that in 

 talking with Mr. Meggat recently he was 

 told that the main reason for starting the 

 association was to adopt a uniform war- 



Henry W. Vood» 



(President American Seed Trade Asaociatlon.) 



man of the committee on seed adultera- 

 tion, made an exhaustive report covering 

 the work of the committee in the last 

 year. It was thought best to continue the 

 committee for another year, as the mat- 

 ter of adulteration, especially to the 

 grass-seed men, is one of the most im- 

 portant problems now up for solution. A 

 generally better feeling between the 

 grass-seed dealers and the government 

 officials was apparent, each appearing to 

 recognize the difficulties of the position 

 of the other. 



Papers Read. 

 Professor B. T. Galloway told what the 



ranty clause that would be a protection to 

 the members of the association when sell- 

 ing seeds. 



This matter of a warranty clause that 

 will propprly protect the man who sells 

 seeds against the purchaser who may 

 wish to take advantage of the failure of 

 seeds to make a good crop under adverse 

 conditions, will be given particular at- 

 tention at this convention. (In this con- 

 nection the decision in the Brinker case, 

 published in this issue, will be of 

 interest.) 



At the close of the Tuesday afternoon 

 session it appeared that the printed pro- 



