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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



.I( XK 21), 11)11. 



Seed Trade News. 



- AMBBICAN SEED THADB A8S0CIATIUN. 



Pres.. Iiconai'd H. VauKhun, Chicsfrn; First Vloe- 

 Pres., M. H. I)ury<^a. New York City; Set-'y and 

 Treas.. C. E. Kendol, Cleveland, O. 



The crop inspectors are afield in force. 



Sweet corn and the vine seed crops 

 will be the next thing the anxious will 

 want reports on. 



Brans have gone into the ground in 

 good shape and as a general thing good 

 stands are reported. 



The northern Michigan farmers are 

 reported to .be still busy planting late 

 potatoes. The recent high prices of that 

 commodity evidently make them feel that 

 it will pay to take chances. 



Turnip seed and beans are in good de- 

 mand at present. It is said that ' ' living 

 prices ' ' are- beiijg paid for these articles 

 also, which is a help to those living at a 

 distance from Marblehead, Mass. 



The. onion crops in the marsh districts 

 of Ohio and Indiana are reported to be 

 suffering; it is insect pests now which 

 seem to be cleaning up what plants the 

 wind storms earlier in the season left 

 standing. 



J. E. HooPES & Co., on Muscatine 

 Island, out in Iowa, have had a hard 

 time to get their pepper fields started 

 this season. It turned so hot the plants 

 scalded and dropped. They replanted 

 three times before they could- get a good 

 stand. Drought has been a severe handi- 

 cap to all crops in their region. 



The Michigan radish crops are re- 

 j)orted to be doing well. The acreage is 

 short of last year, and the weather at the 

 start was not as favorable as it might 

 liave been, but the soil in the sections 

 where the best growers operate is well 

 adapted to this crop and it responds 

 quickly when conditions become season- 

 able. 



The Treasury Department has issued 

 its annual instructions to collectors of 

 customs to forward two-ounce samples of 

 all importations of 100 pounds or more 

 of grass, clover and forage plant seeds 

 to the Department of Agriculture for ex- 

 amination. This order is to hold good 

 throughout the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1912. 



It seems to be too early to get any- 

 thing definite as to the pea crops. Re- 

 ports are varied, the different sections 

 showing different conditions and all hold- 

 ing off for the inevitable something that 

 reaches sooner or later to cut the crop. 

 The chances seem to be even that things 

 will be no worse than last year, and it is 

 hoped that they will prove to be some- 

 what tetter. 



The Chicago onion set crop has been 

 hurt considerably by the maggot during 

 the last week. Quite a few acres have 

 l)een plowed up and there are more to 

 follow if conditions do not change. The 

 weeds have been a source of annoyance, 

 jilso, and the outlook is not as encourag- 

 ing as it was several weeks ago. The 

 acreage to start with was much less than 

 it was last year and, although the stand 

 at the beginning was better, the present 

 condition of the crop is much below nor- 

 mal. . A two-thirds crop is about all that 

 the growers count on now, and to get this 

 inueh the crop will need to keep right on 

 doing its best. 



Walter Mott has joined the road force 

 of Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York. 



The English seed growers have had a 

 dry season to last maU, sweet peas having 

 suffered as much as anything. 



The Leonard Seed Co. has enlarged 

 its Chicago plant 15,000 square feet by 

 taking in number 226 West Kinzie street. 



Sweet peas in California and garden 

 peas in Michigan and other sections are 

 about all in the same class — no full crops 

 anywhere. 



It is reported that L. B. Eansom, of 

 Columbus, O., is organizing a seed com- 

 pany and has decided to establish his 

 headquarters at Champaign, 111. 



F. W. KosEK, until recently with the 

 Farmers ' Seed & Nursery Co., Faribault, 

 Minn., has become manager for the min- 

 nesota Seed Co., New Ulm, Minn. 



If France has another poor crop of 

 radish this year, prices are likely to ad- 

 vance sharply. Reports from California 

 indicate no unusually heavy supplies 

 fromi that section, and known acreage in 

 Michigan is lighter than last year. 



Leofuii|i H. Vaughan. 



(President AmerlMn Seed Tnule Association.) 



The optimistic Chicagoan notes that 

 the central west continues to advance 

 steadily as a seed growing section. He 

 thinks that in diie time the mellow prai- 

 ries of the states tributary to the "great 

 central market'' will be the seed garden 

 of the world. 



The insecticide act of 1910 makes it 

 the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to exclude from this country importations 

 of insecticides or fungicides that do not 

 come up to the requirements of the law, 

 and the Secretary of the Treasury has 

 just issued order's making the regulations 

 for gathering samples, etc., under the 

 pure food law apply also to importations 

 of insecticides and fungicides. 



The United States Seed Co., of Fre- 

 doma.- N. Y., and H?rn Antonio, Tex., has 

 established a branch also at Memphis, 

 Tenn., with offices at the corner of Front 

 street and (iayoso avenue. The com- 

 pany 'sTT^eneral manager, F, M. Eoesch, 

 of Fredonia, has recently been in Mem- 

 phis, taking temporary charge of affairs. 

 Charles Jacknian, also of Fredonia, has 

 been'lippointed manager of the Menyihis 

 branch. 



W. Atlee Burpee, president of the 

 National Sweet Pea Society of America, 

 will not be able to preside at this week 's 

 convention at Philadelphia. Aftw -the 

 date had been set as originally, June 23 

 and 24, he arranged a trip to Europe and 

 sailed from New York June 28, accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Burpee and their sons. 



No longer satisfied with selling both 

 tiie seed trade and the florists in the 

 United States, some of the Holland bulb 

 houses are this season going after the 

 orders from the general public. The Gar- 

 den Magazine for July contains the ad- 

 vertisements of four such bulb exporters 

 and one Overveen firm offers "bulbs 

 direct by parcels post, from the Holland 

 grower, orders of ^ 1- and above carriage 

 free." 



THE MABBIJ^EAD MEETINO. 



[The reiwrts of offletfr^ and committees, eflsayx, 

 (•t«-., wore covered In tbe account of the conven- 

 tion ixibllshed on thlsi^{t^gc last week.1 



Office^ ' Elected. 



President — Leonard H. Vaughan, Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



Jirst vice-president — Marshall H. 

 Duryea, New York city. 



Second vice-president — Edgar Greg- 

 ory, Marblehead, Mass. 



Secretary-treasurer — C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O. 



Assistant secretary — J. il. Ford, Ra- 

 venna, O. 



Executive committee — E. L. Page, 

 (Jreene, N. Y.;*^irby B. White, Detroit, 

 Mich.; C. C. Massie, Minneapolis, Minn.; 

 Henry Nungesser, New York; C, F. 

 Wood, Louisville, Ky. 



Membership committee — Albert Mc- 

 Cullough, Cincinnati; Charles N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la.; J. W. May, Alexandria, 

 Va. 



Position of Disclaimer. 



In The Review for July 28, 1910, 



there appeared the following item: 



An attorney whose spcplalty Is commercial law 

 states that no part of what may be printed on h 

 letter-bead Is a part of a contract unleea it b<> 

 between the date lino and the Bignature, except 

 a reference appears between those parts to prac- 

 tically bring the outside words within the l>ody 

 of the letter itself. This would apply to the non- 

 warranty clau84> as printed on most scedsmen'x 

 stHti'ji'ery. 



This was the subject of considerable 

 discussion among the trade and many 

 letters reached The Review, from seeds- 

 men who wanted further information. 

 These were advised that the opinion 

 was based, among other things, on a 

 decision of the Supreme Court of Illi- 

 nois in which it was held that "printed 

 matter in a letter-head forms no part 

 of the letter written on the sheet, and 

 will not qualify an absolute contract 

 which Jesuits from an acceptance of an 

 offer b/such letter." See 153 HI., 102. 

 As a result some of the trade printed 

 stationery on which the disclaimer ap- 

 pears just below where the typewriter 

 putii'tbe words "Dear Sirs." 



Ptesident Page, in his annual ad 

 dress, referred to the importance of 

 this point and later in the week there 

 was a general discussion of it, with the 

 result that a committee consisting of 

 Curtis Nye Smith, attorney for the as- 

 sociation; Kirby B. White, of D. M. 

 Ferry & Co., and S. F. Leonard, of 

 Leonard Seed Co., was appointed to 

 consider and report on the need for 

 the general adoption of the new posi- 

 tion for the disclaimer. 



Dodging the Duties. 



Tlie hearing on pure seed bills held at 

 Washington, Fel>ruary 2, 1911, had an 



