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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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MAX 20, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Watson 8. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

 First Vlce-pres., J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 

 Twenty-seventb annual convention, Niagara 

 Falls, Ont.. June 22 to 24, 1909. 



W. W, Eawson & Co., Boston, are mak- 

 ing a display of May-flowering tulips at 

 the Museum of Natural History, New 

 York, this week. 



The Ohio Seed Co., Toledo, O., has 

 made an assignment to Attorney Charles 

 K. Friedman, giving its assets at $1,000 

 in personal property. 



Percy W. Morse, killed at Salinas, 

 Cal., May 14, as reported in the Asso- 

 ciated Press dispatches, was not a rela- 

 tive of Lester L. Morse, of C. C. 

 Morse & Co. 



In a recent fire in the basement of a 

 seed and agricultural implement store, 

 the firemen found their hose playing on 

 sixteen tons of lime in bags. The lime 

 promptly slaked. 



It is reported that Conrad Appel, 

 Darmstadt, Germany, will send a repre- 

 sentative to the meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association at Niagara 

 Falls June 22 to 24, primarily to meet 

 the grass seed dealers. 



The St. Louis Seed Co., of St. Louis, 

 Mo., is continuing the plan, begun last 

 season, of offering six packages of as- 

 sorted flower seeds to every child who 

 will take the trouble to cut out the firm's 

 advertisement in a local paper and pre- 

 sent it at the store. 



It is stated that within thirty days 

 work will begin on the new seed ware- 

 house for the O. S. Jones Seed Co., which 

 is moving to Sioux Falls from Madison, 

 S. D. The warehouse is to be a rein- 

 forced concrete structure, costing be- 

 tween $30,000 and $35,000. It will be 

 44x142, three stories with basement, and 

 fireproof. The plans are now in the 

 hands of an architect, and are based on 

 ideas secured by O. S. Jones, head of 

 the company, after visits to various seed 

 warehouses in different parts of the coun- 

 try. It is planned to have the building 

 ready for occupancy next fall. 



PEAS AND BEANS. 



Alfred J. Brown, of the A. J. Brown 

 Seed Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., says 

 farmers are not taking hold of contract 

 beans as they have done in the past, 

 thereby confirming reports that have pre- 

 Adously appeared in this department of 

 the Review. "However," says Mr. 

 Brown, "we expect to get our acreage 

 out all right, but are obliged to pay 

 higher prices. Quite a few of our peas 

 are in the ground (May 15), but it will 

 be two weeks or more before we begin 

 planting beans. There seems to be a 

 fair acreage of peas, but even if we 

 harvest a good crop they will all be 

 wanted, as stocks in hand are lower today 

 than in many years past. The acreage 

 ©f beans will not be as large and we need 

 a good crop in order to supply the de- 

 mand for the season of 1910." 



E. M. Parmelee, president of the 

 John H. Allan Seed Co., Sheboygan, 

 Wis., thinks the acreage will be con- 

 siderably increased, although the season 

 is unusually backward and seeding will 



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be much later than usual, with no very 

 good indications apparent at present. 

 "However," he said May 15, "we think 

 there is no reason why we might not get 

 good crops, providing a favorable change 

 should come soon and continue through- 

 out the season. But it must come soon, 

 or else we will no doubt have very slight 

 expectations for a good crop. We must 

 wait further developments before we will 

 be able to make any statement that will 

 be of interest to the trade." 



Rogers Bros., Alpena, Mich., writing 

 May 17, say: "The season is very late 

 with us and only a small portion of our 

 peas had been planted Saturday, when a 

 heavy rain fell, which will delay the seed- 

 ing. We are planting about our usual 

 acreage. ' ' 



NEV ENGLAND SEED CROPS. 



Arthur B. Clark, president of the Ever- 

 ett B. Clark Seed Co., says root crops 

 planted for seed in New England are in 

 good shape, while the Michigan and Wis- 

 consin acreage of peas, though late, still 

 has time to make the crops. Bean acreage 

 is not easy to get out at prices the trade 

 is accustomed to pay. Writing from Mil- 

 ford, Conn., May 17, Mr, Clark said: 



"Regarding the seed situation in the 

 New England growing districts, it is a 

 little early to give anything of vital in- 

 terest. All of our seed crops are in the 

 ground and it is now up to nature. The 

 roots of such crops as turnips, beets, car- 

 rots, etc., wintered well and, as we have 

 had a wet spring, these have started to 

 grow quickly and have gotten a pretty 



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fair start. Onions were not any too 

 sound to set out this spring but, never- 

 theless, the stand which we have secured 

 is no cause for complaint. The fields of 

 onions growing for seed have a good, 

 dark, healthy appearance and we should 

 say that the start for a crop was a fair 



