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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Fbbbuabt 16, 1012. 



Seed Trade News. 



AJOaiOAH 8XXD TBADS AUOOUXSOV. 



Pres., Leonard H. Yaagrhan, Chicago; First Vice- 

 Pres., M. H. Duryea, New York City; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. £. Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Chicago. June 26 to 

 27, 1012. 



The agricultural appropriation bill now 

 before Congress provides $285,680 for the 

 congressional distribution of free seeds 

 in 1913. 



A CORRESPONDENT says that 12,000 acres 

 of peas have been contracted for this 

 season in Fremont county, Idaho. Devel- 

 opments will be watched with interest. 



The Clinton Seed Co., Clinton, Okla., 

 has been incorporated, with $4,000 capital 

 stock. The incorporators are H. B. Lips- 

 comb, E. A. Humphrey, C. E. Gamaway 

 and H. W. Smith. 



Wm. C. Atherton has bought out Eo- 

 thenbush & Co., Hamilton, O., whose line 

 was seeds and fruits. Mr. Atherton al- 

 ready had a store on Court street and 

 will specialize in seeds at the Bothenbush 

 stand. 



D. M. Campsey, Washington, Pa., who 

 deals in wool and seeds, says the short- 

 age of the hay crop caused an extra de- 

 mand for timothy seed in that vicinity, 

 his sales approximating 1,000 bushels at 

 $7.50 per bushel. 



At the approaching election J. C. 

 Vaughan will make another attempt to 

 unseat James B. Mann, minority leader in 

 Congress and the author of several bills 

 to regulate the sale of seeds. Neither 

 candidate will have opposition at the 

 primaries. 



Since the Department of Agriculture 

 began scouring the world for grasses, 

 plants and other products which might 

 prove of value in this country, more than 

 32,000 shipments of seeds and plants 

 have been received here, according to Dr. 

 David Pairchild, in charge of this work. 



Some of the large seed houses that are 

 located to do a country trade as well as 

 a catalogue business have found it more 

 profitable to distribute the catalogues 

 thickly within the community radius 

 rather than scatter them the length and 

 breadth of the country through advertis- 

 ing in the magazines of national circula- 

 tion. In certain suburbs a house to house 

 distribution is made just about planting 

 time. 



I>UBiNO the sessions of organized agri- 

 culture in Lincoln the last week in Janu- 

 ary, the Nebraska Pure Grain and Seed 

 Growers' Association was formed. From 

 time to time the department of experi- 

 mental agronomy of the experiment sta- 

 tion has developed superior strains of the 

 different cereals and has turned them 

 over to the farmers of the state. Bnt 

 there has never been any way of keeping 

 in close touch with the growers and the 

 seed could not be kept pure for any 

 length of time. All such improved seed 

 will now be turned over to this associa- 

 tion as soon as it has been fully proved 

 to be superior and the members agree to 

 keep it pure. A skilled inspector will 

 visit and inspect the fields of the mem- 

 bers each year and report on the purity 

 of their grain. Representative samples of 

 each man's grain will also be sent to the 

 secretary's office for inspection. Purity, 

 soundness and germination tests will be 

 made of all such grains. 



SURE-BLOOMING Tl IRPD ACLPCL 

 DOUBLE PEARL ■ UOI-KV^^I-^S 



The briffhteat and most aeleet stock offered to the trade 



4-6 inches, large bulbs, per 100, $1.00; per 1000, $8.50 



High-grade stocks of Peonies, Gladioli, Dahlias, (Tycas 

 Stems, Fern Balls, Bei^nias, Gloxinias, Caladiums, 

 Madeira and Cinnamon Vine Roots. Write for descrip- 

 tive list and prices. See our Flower Seed Offer in last issue. 



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JOHNSON SEED CO., 



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217 Market St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



BILBS 



Far Below Cost 



Ask for prices. 



James VIck's Sons 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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The Farmer Seed & Nursery Co., Tari- 

 bault, Minn., issues a seed catalogue 

 printed in German. 



PEAS AT ST. ANTHONY. 



A. J. Nimmo, of the Everett B. Clark 

 Seed Co., was at St. Anthony, Idaho, 

 the first part of February, booking 

 acreage for garden peas for seed. 



The Fremont County News for Jan- 

 uary 31 said: "T. H. Hopkins, repre- 

 senting the John H. Allan Seed Co., 

 of Sheboygan, Wis., is here making con- 

 tracts for seed peas. Mr. Hopkins hails 

 from Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He has con- 

 tracted for a large acreage in the short 

 time he has been here and is looking 

 for more." 



John T. Wilcox, formerly with the 

 W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, has 

 started in seed growing here and has 

 returned from an eastern trip. 



It is said that to date of February 1 

 over 12,000 acres have been contracted 

 to peas to be delivered at St. Anthony 

 in the autumn. 



ASSOCIATED PRESS HEABS NEWS. 



The scarcity of seeds has become a 

 matter of general news — the Asso- 

 ciated Press sent out. the following 

 February 9 under a Kansas City date 

 une: 



"Drought during the summer of 

 1911 caused a shortage in seed and 

 this year dealers predict that the ma- 

 jority of varieties will be higher than 

 usual. Carrot, beet, turnip, radish, 

 blue grass and clover seed are scarce 

 and all are higher by about twenty- 

 five per cent. The ordinary garden 

 seeds, such as lettuce, onion, tomatoes, 

 melons, beans, cucumbers and sweet 



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corn, are about normal in both supply 

 and price." 



PEAS AT BOZEMAN. 



The following is from a newspaper 

 published at Butte, Mont.: 



"Bozeman will have two new indus- 

 tries this year of 1912, according to 

 O. E. Meyer, of Bozeman, who is in 

 Butte on a business trip. The Gallatin, 

 valley city will send out all over the 

 country garden pea seeds and sweet 

 pea seeds. Inquiries from all parts of 

 the country have convinced the resi- 

 dents that in those lines is a new outlet 

 for the energy of the Gallatin valley 

 boosters. The valley, famous as the 

 second largest naturally irrigated valley 

 in the world, the valley of the Nile be- 

 ing the greatest, has passed througk 

 the best January in its history. Mr. 

 Meyer says that they have had raia 



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