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30 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 28, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



PreB., (Jeorge S. Green, Chicago; First Vlca- 

 pres.. M. H. Duryea, New York: Sec'y and 

 Treas., O. E. Kendel, Cleveland. Twenty-sixth 

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartrafn, De- 

 troit, Mich., June 23 to 25. 1908. 



The McKay Seed Company is a new 

 concern at Jackson, Miss. 



Heavy rains in the southwest have 

 made some call for seeds for replanting. 



Visited Chicago: Geo. C. Baker, ad- 

 vertising manager of the Iowa Seed Co., 

 Des Moines. 



A. H. GooDvriN, of the W. W. Bar- 

 nard Co., Chicago, started May 26 for 

 Asheville, N. C. 



Timothy seed offerings at Chicago are 

 light. September sold at $4 May 26, and 

 country lots were quoted $3 to $4,10. 



W. W. Barnaed Co., Chicago, says 

 that the season's business has been the 

 largest ever done, in practically every 

 line of its diversified interests. 



Buyers of Pacific coast products will 

 find it worth while to keep watch of the 

 Pacific Coast Department, which is a 

 regular feature of the Keview. 



Cucumber seed of the pickling vari- 

 eties is in demand, as the stock of 

 pickles on hand is said to be the lightest 

 in a long time and a large pack this year 

 is expected. 



Weather conditions make for a late 

 planting season in the corn canning dis- 

 tricts and canners are stiffening on the 

 price of the pack because of the chance 

 of a reduced yield. 



It is stated that the contract for put- 

 ting up the government seeds for 1909 

 will be awarded in a few days. It is 

 stated that the Brown Bag Filling Ma- 

 chine Co. is the lowest bidder. 



The Iowa Seed Dealers' Association, 

 which has nearly a score of members 

 and of which Charles N. Page is presi- 

 dent, will hold its second annual meeting 

 at the Hotel Chamberlin, Des Moines, 

 June 9. 



At Des Moines, la,, a few days ago 

 F. C. Graves was convicted of the fraud- 

 ulent use of the mails in the conduct of 

 his seed business and was sentenced to 

 fifteen months' imprisonment, with a fine 

 of $500. 



One of the largest jobbers of Dutch 

 bulbs and Easter lily bulbs says that in 

 the big cities the growers are cutting 

 orders to half or even one-third the 

 quantity bought last year, but that those 

 who force bulbs only for their own local 

 retail trade, or for wholesaling in the 

 smaller cities, are ordering just as many 

 bulbs as last year. 



The season of 1908 is now near an 

 end and in general everyone is satisfied 

 with results. While business has been 

 less in some lines, it has increased in 

 others and averages well with practically 

 all houses. The mail trade was good, 

 particularly with western houses. In 

 practically all lines stocks are well 

 cleaned up. The shortages have not 

 been felt as acutelf as some wholesalers, 

 upon whom the demand centered, thought 

 they would, but stocks are in such a 

 condition that it is to be hoped the 

 1908 crop will be a good one. 



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ONION SETS 



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Mlltord, Conn. 

 East Jordan, Mlcli« 

 Sister Bay, wis. 



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Largest STOwers of CONNKCTICUT ONION SKKD. Now offering both 1007 and 1008 

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Waldo Rohnert 



GUiROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oo» 

 respondence solicited. 



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Michigan has had a week of good 

 weather, 



A NUMBER of western seed houses re- 

 port that while the mail catalogue trade 

 has been larger than usual, the wholesale 

 business was less than last year. This is 

 accounted for by the fact that the finan- 

 cial excitement was at its height at the 

 time the wholesale orders are usually 

 taken from country general stores, and 

 it is suggested that the falling off in 

 one department may have been of just 

 that much assistance in the other. 



CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA. - 



C. C. Morse & Co., San Prancisco, 

 under date of May 20, speak as follows 

 of conditions in thip Santa Clara valley: 



"Notwithstanding a very dry spring, 

 lettuce and onion still promise well, but 

 sweet peas are looking poorly and it 

 seems to be an off year for them. 



"Other crops are generally fair and 

 altogether the prospects are better than 

 one would expect with a very unfavora- 

 ble season. However, there is still time 

 for onion blight and disasters generally. ' ' 



A. J. Pieters, of the Pieters Seed Co., 

 Hollister, Cal., said May 23: 

 "On the whole the yield will not be 



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Contract Seed Growers 



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 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



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 for Inunedlate Shipment 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



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C. C. MORSE « CO. 



Seed Grow^ers 



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48 to 56 Jackson St., San Fraicisco, Cil. 

 Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



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heavy. There will probably be no great 

 surpluses to bother the trade, and also 

 there will be few total failures. The 

 conditions in the early part of the sea- 

 son were favorable and all the early 

 plantings make a good stand. The late 

 planted stuff, especially lettuce, did not 



