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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 6, 1911. 



Mr. "White. That is quite true. 



Mr. Mann. Do you think there is any 

 garden-beet seed imported into the coun- 

 try as sugar-beet seed! 



Mr. White. Not to my knowledge. 



Mr. Mann. Do you think there is 

 any? 



Mr. "White. I do not. 



Mr. Mann. Do you think there is 

 any way of determining whether there 

 is or not, so far as the custom-house is 

 concerned? 



Mr. "White. If the seeds are not dis- 

 tinguishable by the appearance, I do 

 not see how there is any way. 



Mr. Mann. You know there is a 

 tariff of 8 cents a pound on kale seed, 



and no tariff on seed; can the 



trade distinguish the difference by the 

 appearance of the seeds? 



Mr. "White. Not so far as I know. 



Mr. Mann. There is a tariff of 4 

 cents a pound on turnip seed, but no 

 tariff on mustard seed; can they be dis- 

 tinguished by the appearance? 



Mr. "White. Not so far as I know.- 



Mr. Kennedy. They can by taste, 

 can they not? 



Mr. "White. They might distinguish 

 mustard, but the other seeds are so 

 nearly alike that I do not believe they 

 could distinguish them. 



IMPOETS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 of New York for the week ending 

 March 25 were as follows: 



Kind. PkgB. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Annatto . . 70 $ 660 Grass 828 $7,301 



Canary ... 810 1,146 Hemp 600 1.091 



Caraway.. 300 1,534 Lycopodlum 20 2,025 



Cardamom 29 1,718 Millet 2,536 7,813 



Castor ...2,897 13,578 Mustard ... 323 4 646 



Cloyer ... 350 9,915 Poppy 604 2,110 



Cummin . . 61 709 Rape 100 639 



Fennel ... 15 258 Other 2,642 



In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 $63,922. 



COMMERCE IN SEEDS. 



During the month of January in 1911 

 imports and exports of seeds compared 

 with the same month in 1910 as fol- 

 lows: 



IHPOBTS. 



January, 1910 c 914,740 



January, 1911 ^^,. . .1,767,705 



EXFOBTS. 



January, 1910 $841,035 



January, 1911 .^6i402 



PROPOSED ENGLISH SEED LAW. 



A bill has been introduced in the 

 English House of Commons to amend 

 the existing seed law along the lines 

 of the seed legislation American seeds- 

 men have been fighting so strenuously 

 the last few years. It is evidently 

 the intention to make purity and ger- 

 mination the principal if not the only 

 object of the proposed tests, and to set 

 up an artificial standard of purity and 

 germination, with penalties, by expo- 

 sure and .otherwise, upon the seller in 

 cases where this standard is not 

 reached. 



"No one who knows anything what- 

 ever of the seed trade," says the Hor 

 ticultural Advertiser (British), in com 

 menting on the bill, "needs to be told 

 that germinating power is largely a 

 matter of climatic conditions beyond 

 human control, and what is much more 

 important, that the percentage of ger- 

 mination is, in many cases, far less 

 important to the buyer than that the 

 seed should be true to type. Many 

 highly bred strains of seed do not show 

 a high percentage of germination, but 

 the buyer would vastly prefer to have 



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them and a crop which will answer his 

 purpose, than take an inferior strain 

 with a higher germinating power." 



In discussing the matter, Pennell & 

 Sons, the well-known growers at Lin- 

 coln, say: 



"Lincolnshire is a large seed-produc- 

 ing county, exporting great quantities 

 of certain seeds to several parts of 

 the globe, and in consequence is vi- 

 tally interested in this question. We 

 do not think the promoters of this bill 



fully realize that they may do con- 

 siderable damage to the farmer and 

 seed grower without benefiting anyone 

 in a corresponding degree. Agricul- 

 tural seed is not a manufactured ar- 

 ticle; the seedsman cleans it and deals 

 in it, but he does not make it. He has 

 to receive it from the grower, and 

 Lincolnshire seed is frequently of lower 

 germination than seed grown in the 

 south and seed grown abroad, yet it 

 has a genuine character and a vigor 



