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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 4, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHBBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., George S. Green. Cblcago; First Vlce- 

 Prea., M. H. Duryea. New Yors; Stc'y and 

 Treas , C. B. KenueJ. Cleveland. 



The call for insecticides has begun; 

 it always comes with the good growing 

 weather. 



The "lily bulbs" on the boat from 

 Bermuda June 14 turn out to have been 

 freesias. 



Robert Fulton, of Henry & I^e, New 

 York, was at Chicago this week on his 

 sixth annual trip to Japan. 



The general prospect for seed crops 

 in France was reported, June 8, as not 

 being what could be called favorable. 



European seed growers report inqui- 

 ries from America for practically all 

 seeds to be heavier than usual at this 

 date. 



The sweet peas in California were late 

 in flowering this year and the rains of 

 the latter part of June did some damage 

 to the seed crop. 



The printers' copy for one of the 

 widely circulated fall bulb lists shows 

 changes in prices on almost every item, 

 and not many changes are reductions. 



The business of Bennie & Thomson, 

 Providence, B. I., has been liquidated by 

 the trustees. The partnership will be 

 dissolved, but Alex. Bennie may continue 

 the business. 



The Georgia cantaloupe growers sus- 

 tained considerable loss because of dry 

 weather during the last ten days of June. 

 More rain would have increased the yield 

 and improved the quality. 



A PECULIAR case is on trial at Balti- 

 more, growing out of the conflagration 

 of 1904. A Philadelphia manufacturer 

 installed a cleaning machine for trial by 

 J. Bolgiano & Son. It was burned, and 

 now the makers are suing for $112.50 to 

 decide at whose risk the machine was. 



The Dakota Improved Seed Co., Mitch- 

 ell, S. D., expects to get to work within 

 a short time on the excavation of the 

 ground on the corner of Bailroad and 

 Lawlcr streets for its warehouse. The 

 new company will be ready to take in the 

 1907 crop of seeds when delivery begins. 



Ant. ('. ZvoLANEK, Bound Brook, N. 

 J., has returned from a trip to Califor- 

 nia for the purpose of inspecting the 

 methods pursued in the growing of sweet 

 peas for seed, and particularly for the 

 purpose of looking over his own crops of 

 winter-flowering sweet peas, small lots of 

 which are in the hands of four growers 

 in the Santa Clara vallev. 



GEORGE S. GEEEN. 



George 8. Green, who has just been 

 elected president of the American Seed 

 Trade Association, began his business 

 career in St. Louis, in connection with 

 the seed firm of D. I. Bushnell & Co. 

 After being associated with this firm 

 for a dozen or more years, he removed 

 to Chicago, where he conducted a whole- 

 sale grass and field seed business until 

 1894, when he sold the business and 

 went west. Later he was engaged in 

 the produce commission business at Col- 

 orado Springs, for a period of four or [ 



George S. Green. 



(President American Seed Trade Association ) 



five years. In 1901 he returned to Chi- 

 cago and entered into the grass seed 

 business on an extensive scale as presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Seed Co., a firm 

 which had been in existence since 1888. 

 About the time when he assumed con- 

 trol of this business he also became a 

 member of the Chicago Board of Trade. 

 Mr. Green 's election as president of 

 the Seed Trade Association may be re- 

 garded as testimony to the widening 

 popularity of a man who has always 

 been respected and esteemed, in an un- 

 usual degree, by his fellow board mem- 

 bers and by his other business asso- 

 ciates, including his employees. His se- 

 lection for the presidency of the Seed 

 Trade Association is especially fitting 

 in view of the large interest the grass 

 seed houses now have in the work of 

 the organization, a work in which Mr. 

 Green has had a leading part for sev- 

 eral years. He is a comparatively young 

 man, being in the forties, but is a con- 

 servative in all things. He will lead 

 the association along safe paths. 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



The Closing Days. 



To our report of the seed trade conven- 

 tion, which was in session at Hotel Astor, 

 New York, for two days after our forms 

 closed for last week's issue, the follow- 

 ing may be added: 



Wednesday was better than Tuesday, as 

 to weather; the attendance was much 

 larger and there was more of that free- 

 dom which comes from better acquaint- 

 ance. Philadelphia, which on Tuesday 

 was not represented, was in strong evi- 



dence, as Messrs. Herbert Johnson, Wal- 

 ter P. Stokes and two members of the 

 well known house of Landreth were on 

 hand. 



The membership committee reported 

 the following names as applying for mem- 

 bership: Herbert Coy Seed Co., Valley, 

 Neb. ; H. E. Fiske, Boston, Mass. ; Mani- 

 towoc Seed Co., Manitowoc, Wis. ; A. J. 

 Pieters Seed Co., Hollister, Cal. ; M. J. 

 Brunjes, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Essays and Discustions. 



A good part of both morning and after- 

 noon sessions on Wednesday was taken 

 up with essays and discussions. The full 

 list of the papers read at the convention 

 is as follows: 



'•Kemlnlscenoes of the Seed Trade."' by F. W. 

 Hni^Kerliof. 



"What the DepnrtniPiit of .^Jtrlciilture Is 

 DoliiK for the .Seed Trade," by Dr. R. T. Gallo- 

 way. 



"History of the American Seed Trade .Vssocla- 

 lioii." by S. F. Wlllard. < 



"The Congressional Seed Distribution," l»y\ 

 .Mexander Forltes. j 



"The Twentieth Century .Seed CataloKue," by ' 

 .T. Horace HcP'arland. 



"Is It .Advisable to Offer Discounts from Cata- 

 logue Prices?" by Walter P. Stokes. 



The matter of revising the seed trade 

 telegraph code was given considerable at- 

 tention and a committee was appointed 

 to take up the matter and report at the 

 next convention. 



Initiative in Seed Tests. 



G. B. McVay, as chairman of the com- 

 mittee appointed to take up the sug- 

 gestions in the president's address, or- 

 fered a resolution that the seed trade 

 take the initiative in pushing the tests of 

 clover and other field seeds at the differ- 

 ent state experiment stations. After 



