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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



May 16. 1912. 



ployees, who are largely women, unable 

 to work more than fifty-four hours per 

 week the company has been unable to 

 cope with its orders." 



J. Keur, of C. Keur & Sons, Hillegom, 

 Holland, was in Chicago last week on his 

 eighteenth annual trip to America. He 

 originally was booked for passage on the 

 Titanic, but a change in his plans caused 

 him to take another boat. Mr. Keur is 

 responsible for the present duty on hya- 

 cinth bulbs of 50 cents per thousand, 

 having inspired the test case that resulted 

 in the reduction from $2.50 per thousand. 

 He says that the result has been a notice- 

 able increase in the quantity of hyacinth 

 bulbs exported to America. 



E. L. Page, of the Greene Seed Co., 

 Greene, N. Y., and ex-president of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, passed 

 through Chicago May Jo on his way to 

 the Pacific coast. Mr. Page was accom- 

 panied by his wife. They expect to spend 

 about six weeks inspecting crops in Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana and other states, returning via Chi- 

 cago in time to attend the annual, meeting 

 of the Seed Trade Association, June 25 

 to 27. Mr. Page reports a most satis- 

 factory business this season, with still a 

 good demand for some varieties of seeds. 

 He says there has been a strong demand 

 for high grade seed corn and it has been 

 impossible to obtain a sufficient quantity 

 to fill all orders. 



THE SEED SEASON TO DATE. 



Everybody Satisfied. 



In spite of many forebodings, the 

 seed season of 1912 has turned out one 

 of the best on record, if letters now 

 coming to hand are to be considered as 

 voicing the general opinion — and there 

 is no reason to suppose that the trade 

 in general has had a less favorable sea- 

 son than the houses writing the letters 

 that have come into The Eeview office 

 during the last few days. The report is 

 that the total sales have made a new 

 high record. March was a slow month, 

 compared with last year, with some of 

 the large houses, due to weather condi- 

 tions, but the earlier months were ahead 

 of last year, probably because of the 

 cry of shortage in supply, and the rush 

 has been even heavier than usual since 

 the delayed spring actually has opened, 

 so on the whole the volume of business 

 is entirely satisfactory. The shortages 

 of which so much was heard before the 

 opening of the selling season did not 

 cut nearly so much figure as was ex- 

 pected. There were seeds enough. If 

 the supply of one item was short, there 

 was something ''just as good" to take 

 its place, and the total sales of the 

 average house do not seem to have suf- 

 fered because of inability to sujiply the 

 seeds called for. The letters make in- 

 teresting reading. Extracts from them 

 follow: 



Wm. Henry Maule, Philadelphia. 



The mail order seed season has been 

 most satisfactory, notwithstanding a 

 backward season. I account for this 

 from the fact that last fall so many 

 seedsmen were shouting "seed fam- 

 ine." While as a matter of fact some 

 items were crop failures, there was 

 really plenty of seed to go around. For 

 instance, we filled all our potato orders, 

 with the single exception of Freeman, 

 up to May 1, whereas many seedsmen 

 have been returning money on their 



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Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster* 

 Cosmos. Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



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Contract growers of Cucumber, Cantaloupe, 

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