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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 25, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBIC AN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres.. George S. Green, Chicago; First Vlca- 

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

 Treas., 0. E. Kendel. Cleveland. TwenlTHJlxth 

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartrain, De- 

 troit. Micb.. June 23 to 25. 1908. 



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Note there are more than two solid 

 pages of European advertisements in this 

 week's Review. 



Henry W. Wood will invite the Seed 

 Trade convention to come to Eichmond, 

 Va., next year. 



The crop inspectors have been afield 

 in the Michigan pea district for a week 

 or more. The usual amount of roguing 

 has been necessary, but conditions gen- 

 erally have been normal. 



It is reported that in the San Juan 

 district of California sweet pea crops 

 are not so short as in the sections further 

 north. There are some sweet peas for 

 seed at Los Angeles, but these, too, are 

 poor. 



The radish seed crops in Michigan are 

 making favorable progress. The high 

 prices of the past season stimulated the 

 planting of a good acreage and the pros- 

 pect is for a much larger production than 

 last season. 



M. H. Duryea states that the follow- 

 ing members of the New York Produce 

 Exchange have just been appointed by 

 the president to serve on the com- 

 mittee on seeds for the ensuing year: 

 •Wm. Jacot, Marshall H. Duryea, Ernest 

 Wehncke, O. W. F. Randolph, and Chas. 

 Wimmer. 



The onion-set acreage at Chicago is 

 short of last year's; one large grower 

 particularly failed to get in as much seed 

 as was contemplated, because the ground 

 was too wet to plant until the date was 

 80 late as to make the crop doubtful. The 

 weather conditions lately hare been fa- 

 vorable and good growth has been made, 

 in many cases overcoming already the 

 lateness of the start. Generally speak- 

 ing, prospects are good on the acreage 

 planted. Reports from Louisville are of 

 a normal acreage and crops doing well. 



A. C. ZvOLANEK, Bound Brook, N. J., 

 is en route home after spending a fort- 

 night in the sweet pea districts of Cali- 

 fornia. His specialty is a strain of sweet 

 peas for early flowering under glass and 

 he says that his orders for August deliv- 

 ery considerably exceed those of last 

 year, especially from Europe. Last year 

 he placed his stock seed all with one 

 grower in California and got caught by 

 the crop failure, so this year he gave sev- 

 eral growers a part of the stock seed. 

 Personal inspection has shown him that 

 sweet peas are a decided short crop on 

 the coast, but that several growers have 

 some scattered lots that are turning out 

 better than the average, and Mr. Zvola- 

 nek says he expects more seed from his 

 stock than he got last year. 



THE DETROIT CONVENTION. 



A Successful Meeting. 



The twenty-sixth annual convention of 

 • the American Seed Trade Association is 

 in session at the Hotel Pontchartrain at 

 Detroit this week. The attendance is fair 

 and close attention is being given at the 

 meetings, although the weather on the 

 opening day was uncomfortably hot. 



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visitors were given an official welcome to 

 the city, by Comptroller Frank E. Dore- 

 mus. The address of President George 

 S. Green reviewed the history of the last 

 year. He referred briefly to the general 

 conditions of the year and the work of 

 the association, with a brief account of 

 the effort to secure a modification of the 

 so-called pure seed bill introduced in 

 congress by Mr. Mann, with the details 

 of which the trade already had been ac- 

 quainted. The address showed that Mr. 

 Green had put much thought on the sit- 

 uation and its discussion was postponed 

 to an hour when it could be gone into 

 more thoroughly than was possible so 

 early in the session. 



The report of Secretary Kendel showed 

 a membership of 155. Receipts for the 

 year were $2,019.44 and expenditures 

 $1,036, balance $983.44. 



G>inmittee Reports. 



The committee on the revision of the 

 telegraph code was authorized to add to 

 its membership representative men of the 

 grass, flower and vegetable seed interests 

 and proceed with the revision of the pres- 

 ent code, or to prepare an entirely new 

 one. M. H. Duryea is chairman. 



Charles N. Page made a report on pos- 

 tal affairs and on motion of Mr, Wood 

 the committee was instructed to draw up 

 suitable resolutions setting forth the as- 

 sociation's views in regard to a reason- 

 able parcels post, Mr. Page to remain 

 chairman of this committee. 



Mr. Burpee's report as delegate to the 

 National Board of Trade was ordered 

 printed in the annual report. 



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ment stations referred to the published 

 report of the Department of Agriculture. 

 The report of the delegate to the Na- 

 tional Council of Horticulture was read 

 by Secretary Kendel and a report of 

 J. H. Burdett, the council 's press repre- 

 sentative, also was presented. On motion 

 of Mr. Kendel an appropriation of $200 

 was made for the work next year. 



