34 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 7, 1909. 



be lowered; in fact, the growers report 

 that an advance, rather than a decline, 

 is in prospect. 



BuDOLPH FiscHEB, the California 

 freesia bulb grower, is on a visit to his 

 old home in Germany. 



The prices of peas are quite high in 

 all of the seed books so far at hand. 

 Bean prices are comparatively low. 



Visited Chicago: Chas. P. Braslan, 

 of Braslan Seed Growers' Co., San Jose, 

 Cal.; Arthur Clark, of E. B. Clark Seed 

 Co., Milford, Conn. 



At present there seems to be a lull in 

 the demand for onion seed suitable for 

 set planting. Some of the growers have 

 arranged for seed and some are awaiting 

 developments. There is a fear in the 

 minds of the growers that the low priced 

 seed is not wlmt they want and their lack 

 of faith in Ihe integrity of the brokers 

 who are offering it is helping the legiti- 

 mate dealers. 



SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



The whole seed trade seems to be 

 pretty well united in the belief that it 

 would be of mutual benefit all around to 

 change the tariff schedules on all seeds 

 and bulbs from ad valorem to specific 

 duty. A more representative committee 

 of all seed interests could hardly have 

 been gathered together than was done 

 December. 2, at the- Astor House, New 

 York. There were present: Watapn S. 

 Woodruff, Orange, Conn., president of 

 the American Seed Trade Association; 

 J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, chairman of the 

 committee on customs and tariff; "Wil- 

 liam Henry Maule, Philadelphia; W. U.. 

 Grenell, Pierrepont Manor, N. Y., mem- 

 bers of the same committee; Walter P. 

 Stokes, Philadelphia; Henry Nungesser, 

 New York; Charles H. Breck, of Joseph 

 Breck & Sons, Boston; Lem. W. Bowen 

 and K. B. White, of D. M. Ferry & Co., 

 Detroit. 



We believe that if the committee's 

 work is supplemented by personal appeal 

 to our congressmen, quoting some of our 

 experiences as the result of the present 

 system, we will succeed in having the 

 change made. There is no question that 

 the change is reasonable as well as prac- 

 ticable. C. E. Kendel, Sec'y. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 of New York for the week ending De- 

 cember 26 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. PkgB. Val. 



Annatto ... 4 | 88 Hemp COO $ 2208 



Caraway 300 2672 Millet 150 399 



Cardamom... 34 899 Mustard ... 723 587.^ 



Castor 2800 9058 Poppy 260 1027 



ClOTer 190 5704 Rape 300 2016 



Coriander .. 172 1124 Other 44611 



Gtass 820 3450 Sugar beet. 1410 10477 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$18,228. 



KELWAVS SPEQALTIES. 



In an advertisement of the wholesale 

 seed department of Kelway & Son, Lang- 

 port, Somerset, England, which appeared 

 in the Keview of December 10, a trans- 

 position made one line read "Headquar- 

 ters for English Leek," when it should 

 have been "Cucumbers, headquarters for 

 English varieties; Leek, Scotch kinds." 



"We really are headquarters for cu- 

 cumber seed in this country," write Kel- 

 way & Son, "and it was that point we 



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SALVIAS 



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All of the above seeds are of my own grow- 

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