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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



SbptbmiBEr 7, 1911. 



A Field of Lettuce on the Farm of the Kimbertin Seed G>., Santa Clata, CaL 



Seed Trade News. 



AMIBICiJI SIBD TBADS ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Leonard H. Yaughan, Chicago; First Vlce- 

 Pre«., M. H. Duryea, New York Olty; Sec'j and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 0. 



LoECHNER & Co., New York, received 

 sixteen cases of bulbs on the steamer 

 from Bremen that docked August 29. 



On the steamer from Copenhagen that 

 reached New York August 29 there were 

 1,318 bags of seeds consigned to order. 



Flower seed crops in England are re- 

 ported as being specially good quality 

 this year, the warm, bright weather ripen- 

 ing the seeds perfectly. 



Darwin tulips are expected to be ni 

 specially good demand this season, and 

 many of the autumn catalogues give 

 them greater prominence than heretofore. 



Arthur L. Deal, representing W. W. 

 Johnson & Son, Ltd., Boston, England, 

 and son of E. J. Deal, general manager 

 of that concern, was at Chicago this 

 week. 



The French bulbs thaj were shipped 

 via Genoa have at len^h aU goti in. The 

 Duca d 'Aosta, which docked at New York 

 August 30, brought only two cases, con- 

 signed to order. 



The Roswell Seed Co., Albuquerque, N. 

 M., has started work on a new packing 

 shed with side-track facilities. The com- 

 pany is a heavy buyer of fruit on the 

 trees and does its own packing. 



Onion sets are considerably better in 

 quality than last year, according to Knud 

 Gundestrup, of the Kirkeby & Gundes- 

 'feup Seed Co., Chicago. The yield being 

 smaller than last year, the demand is 

 good. i"^ ■ ^fi- 



C. E. Kendel, secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association, has issued 

 the stenographic record of the twenty- 

 ninth annual convention, held at Mar- 

 blehead, Mass., last June. 



The McMillan Seed Co, Atlanta, Ga., 

 lias removed to larger quarters at 27 

 South Broad street. J. C. McMillan, Jr., 

 has recently returned from a visit to 

 California seed growers. The business 

 was established by his father in 1877. 



The 1911 crop of Harrisii is about all 

 in. The boat from Bermuda that reached 

 New York August 28 brought only nine- 

 teen cases of bulbs: eight consigned to 

 L. D. Crossmond & Co., four for Henry & 

 Lee and seven for Ralph M. Ward & Co. 



There has been great heat in all the 

 European seed growing districts, but 

 particularly in Germany, France and 

 England, for many weeks of the summer, 

 but this has recently been succeeded by 

 reasonable temperatures, according to 

 cable reports. 



The leading paper at Macon, Ga., re- 

 cently printed a half-page illustrated 

 write-up of the Georgia Seed Store, owned 

 by Joe Flournoy, grocer, and managed by 

 H. W. Cameron. The first catalogue will 

 be issued January 1 and a bid made for 

 mjul-order business. 



The customs officials are not satisfied 

 with certain recent decisions of the 

 Board of General Appraisers as to the 

 duty on celery seed, and the Treasury 

 Department has instructed the Assistant 

 Attorney General to appeal the case of 

 the classification of celery seed under the 

 tariff act to the Customs Court. Duty 

 upon celery seed has been assessed at the 

 rate of 10 cents per pound under para- 

 graph 266. The Board of General Ap- 

 praisers decided that celery seed should 

 be permitted to come in free of duty 

 under paragraph 559 as a crude drug. 



The seed growers in Europe, after 

 several cold, wet seasons, have had one 

 of the hottest and driest on record. Dis- 

 astrous as were the former, the reverse 

 has proved worse. 



California, in spite of the poor crop 

 of sweet pea seed this year, is supplying 

 a constantly increasing part of the 

 world's requirements. The exports run 

 far into the tons. 



Bulb growing in Holland is increasing 

 steadily. There were in 1904 about 8,067 

 acres devoted to bulb growing. This 

 area reached to over 11,375 acres in 1910, 

 while the total export amounted to over 

 16,966 tons weight, according to statis- 

 tics of the Holland Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



A combination of a number of the 

 largest growers of potatoes in Aroostook 

 county, Maine, has been formed under 

 the title of Aroostook Potato Growers' 

 Association. The object is to pool the 

 product for economy in handling and 

 marketing, as well as buying fertilizers 

 and supplies. The association is in the 

 form of a stock company, capitalized at 

 $100,000, of which L. E. Tuttle, of 

 Bridgewater, is president and Guy C. 

 Porter secretary. 



SEED CKOPS IN CALIFORNIA. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 the onion and lettuce crops of the pres- 

 ent season on the. Milpitas farm of the 

 Kimberlin Seed Co., Santa Clara, Cal. 

 The mountains in the background be- 

 long to that part of the Coast range 

 that borders the Santa Clara valley on 

 the east. As will be noted, the foot- 

 hills of the mountains are cultivated 

 to a considerable elevation, but only 

 the valley lands are used for seed 

 crops. 



The men seen in the onion field are 



