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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 1, 1909. 



The American Seed Trade Associati 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TBADR ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., J. C. RoDlnson, Waterloo, Neb.; First 

 Vlce-pres., M. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas., 0. E. Kendel. Cleveland, O. 



GRASS SEED ASSOCIATION. 



The "Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' 

 Association was organized at Niagara 

 Falls last week. 



The following were elected as its first 

 board of directors: Charles D. Boyles, 

 of the Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago, 

 111. ; Henry W. Wood, of T. W. Wood & 

 Sons, Richmond, Va.; M. H. Duryea, of 

 Henry Nungesser & Co., New York city; 

 Robert Pommer, of D. I. Bushnell & Co., 

 St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Dickinson, of the 

 Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago, 111.; C. 

 F. Wood, of Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louis- 

 ville, Ky. ; Jos. L. Peppard, of J. G. 

 Peppard, Kansas City, Mo., and Albert 

 McCullough, of J. M. McCuUough Sons 

 Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The board organized by electing Al- 

 bert McCullough president, C. F. Wood 

 secretary-treasurer and M. H. Duryea 

 vice-president. 



PRESIDENT ROBINSON. 



J. C. Robinson, who was last week 

 elected president of the American Seed 

 Trade Association, like so many good 

 men in the seed business, is a native of 

 Washington county. New York. He re- 

 moved to Waterloo, Neb., about twenty- 

 three years ago and taught school for a 

 time. In 1888 he made his start as a 

 grower of vine seeds, sweet corn and field 

 corns for the wholesale trade, and two 

 years later he became a member of the 

 Seed Trade Association. From the day 

 of the beginning of his business career, 

 the Robinson interests have steadily ex- 

 panded. Incorporation followed in 1904, 

 L. S. Gould being associated with Mr. 

 Robinson and being vice-president of the 

 company, of which Mr. Robinson is presi- 

 dent. At the present time the business 

 of the company is probably the largest 

 of its kind in this country, and that is 

 equivalent to saying the largest of its 

 kind in the seed trade of the world. 



J. C. Robinson. 



(President of the American Seed Trade Association.) 



When Mr. Robinson began, the cleaning 

 apparatus employed was the old-fash- 

 ioned fanning mill, operated by hand 

 power. Now the plant consists of five 

 large warehouses, in which is installed 

 the most modern conveying and cleaning 

 machinery. 



Personally, Mr. Robinson is a most 



engaging gentleman. His personal ac- 

 quaintance includes practically every 

 seedsman in the country, and there are 

 few more popular men in the trade. At 

 home he is known as a man of public 

 spirit, being associated with every cause 

 that tends to the welfare and advance- 

 ment of his community. Mr. Robinson 



