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The Florists' Review 



Apuil 23, 1914. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEKIOAN SEED THJU)E ASSOCIATION. 



President, 0. 0. Maatie, Uinneapolii; Seore- 

 tarr-Treaturer. 0. E. Xenael, OleveUnd, O. 



Tnirty-Moond annual oonrentlon, Waininvton, 

 O. C, June 28 to S6, 1914. 



TnK livacintlus are said to be at tbeir 

 liest ill Ifollaiid tliis week. (Jrowers are 

 looking for a good eroji. 



(iAKDENixft in tlie Chicago section be 

 gan last week, with three days of uii 

 s-easonably warm weather. 



Mail orders are holding up unusually 

 ■well this month, due to the late season 

 ill many im|)ortant seed buying sections. 



Hkax.s are the scarce item, beyond a 

 <loubt, but there seems to be no great 

 hardship entailed — the land doesn't go 

 unplanted. 



The pea growers have encountered less 

 •litHculty in getting acreage contracts tiiis 

 >^eason. Last year's better yield has en 

 <()uraged the farmers. 



CJeohue \V. Kekr says that the winter 

 flowering sweet pea, Yarrawa, fir^t intro 

 diu-ed by Burpee & Co., is without excep 

 tion the greatest advance in forcing 

 suet't peas yet offered. 



Tup. Interstate Commerce Commissi(ui 

 has directed the Southern Pacific rail- 

 road to refund $5.87 to C. C. Morse & 

 <'o.. on account of unreasonable rates on 

 a shipment of garden seeds from San 

 Francisco to Oklahoma. 



The jobbers of Michigan dried beans 

 lielieve conditions justify jjrices. The 

 president of their association is (pioted 

 as saying that 1913 saw the largest acre- 

 age and smallest yield in five years. The 

 crop is figured at 4,932.fi21 bushels, or 

 Approximately eleven bushels per acre. 



"A TIME TO REJOICE." 



As illustrating the anxiety with 

 which the trade has been following the 

 progress of the bill restoring the old 

 rate of postage on small parcels of 

 seeds, three of those who were watch- 

 ing every move in the play telegraphed 

 The Review Monday night, April 20, 

 that the House had that day passed the 

 Senate bill. The matter now is up to 

 the President for signature. 



There was a note of great satisfac- 

 tion in each telegram. * ' A time to 

 rejoice," telegraphs one large shipper 

 ■of small parcels. 



As the matter now stands, lacking 

 only the President 's signature, which is 

 likely to be affixed at any moment, the 

 seed trade gets what The Review 

 months ago suggested as probably the 

 best all-around solution of the prob- 

 lem resulting from the public demand 

 that the trade commodities be carried 

 at the zone rates. Under the new law 

 -seeds and plants will be mailable on 

 ■exactly the same terms that catalogues 

 are. That is: The rate will be 1 cent 

 for each two ounces up to eight ounces, 

 regardless of distance, the zone pound 

 rates applying on anything over eight 

 ■ounces. Experience may demonstrate 

 that in individual cases these rates are 

 not 80 favorable as the old flat rate, 

 but so good an authority as the Inter- 

 istate Commerce Commission has decided 

 that the general good will be well 

 served under the new rate. Those seeds- 

 men who have moderately heavy par- 

 cels for delivery within the local zones 



f^^V 21 A I 21 W^ '-*W wholesale ■rowers ofBinflN. CFtIUCE. CARROT. RADISH. PARSNIP. 

 M^K CL^KCLkK parsley. CEURT. endive, leek, SAUIFY aa4 sweet KAS. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE. CALIFORNIA ^^ tf^ ITl 1^ A 1^ "V 



Write for 1914 Contracting Prices. 



Mention The RoTlew when yon write. 



YOU will be satisfied with the^products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for new Complete Catalogue., 



BEANS, PEAS, RADiSH 



AND ALL QARDEN SEEDS 



ueoNA,?B-st»*' 



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T^HICAOO 



GROWERS FOR THE TRADr 



ONION SETS Writ, for Pric. 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, Conn 



Orowlna Station* at East Jordan, Mlch^ Qroon Bay, Wis.. SIstsr Bay, Wis. 



Beans, Peas. Sweet Corn, Onion, Beet, Turnip, Tomato, Etc, Etc 



^^ lyi I ^^ 1^ ^% ^m ^m m^ Write us for prices on new crop of high- 

 \^ M% I \# m% ^^ Ih Bi %^ grade globe. and flat yarieties. 

 SCHILDER BROTHERS, (Seed and Sets) Chilllcothep Ohio 



— THK— 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO, NEB. 



ROCKT FORD. COLO. 



Gontrsct rrowert of Cucumber, Cantaloapa^ 

 Watermelon. .Squash and Pumpkin Seed: Sogar, 

 Flint and Field Seed Com. 



Waido Rolinert 



OILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion. Sweet Peas, Aster. 

 Cosmos, Mignonette. Verbena, in variety. 



Correspondence solicited. 



Mention Ilia Revtow wfaaa yon writ*. 



CONTRACT 



SEED GROWERS 



Stiietir MIcthlran Grown Beana, Onciunber, 

 Tomato, Mnakmelon. Sqoaah, Watermelon, Radish. 

 Sweet Oom. Correapondence solicited. 



S. FL ISBELL & CO., Jackson, Nich. 



Mention Tba tUritm when yon wrtta. 



THE KDDERLIll SEED CO. 



Sec4 6rtwtra SARTA CLARA, CAL 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE, RADISH, •!• 



Correspondence Solicited. 

 Mentlen Tbn Hnrlew wlwn yon wtlta . 



Routzahn Seed Co. 



AKBOTO GRANDE. GAL. 



SWEET PEA and NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIAUSTS 



wholesale growers of fnll lists of IIX)WKB and 



OABDEN SEEDS 



Mention Tbe ScTtew when yon writ*. 



Pieters-Wheder Seed Company 



Ollroy, i: :: Callfo»Al« 

 Growers of High Grade Seeds 



fl'Ht/' Onion, Radish, Lettuce. 

 Sweet Peas, etc. 



Co^rospondonoo BoUcttad. 

 Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



TOMATO SEED 



BEST STOCKS ALL VARICTUEt 



The Haven Seed Co. 



Mentfas Tlf Brlew when yon write. 

 BROWKRS or 



ONION SEED 



nattl.r... WholMsan 



6loB*...WholeMae and BetaU 



LAUQHLINSEEDCO. 



NAPPANFR. IND. 



tf U 4 i 



Henry fish Seed Co. 



BBAN GROWERS 



^r4ba Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTBRIA, -:- CAL. 



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SWEET PEA SEED 



^ Wi'ite for our Price List. 



8, BRYSON AY RES CO. 



Swaat Paa Farm, 

 Samiy Slopa. INDCPCNDCNCK. MA 



