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The Florists' Review 



Jntr 4, 1912. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TKASE ASSOCIATION. 

 President, Charles N. Page, Dea Moines, la.; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, C, E. Kendel, Cieveland, O. 



The German pansy seeds have reached 

 New York. 



Howard M. Earl is celebrating the 

 Fourth at Quedlinburg, Germany. 



David Landrith was the rearguard of 

 the seed trade departure from Chicago. 

 He stayed the week through at the Hotel 

 Sherman. 



Watson S. Woodruff, of S. D. Wood- 

 ruflf & Sons, Orange, Conn., accompanied 

 by Mrs. WoodruflE and the Misses Wood- 

 ruflf, went to California at the close of 

 the Chicago convention. 



At the convention last week it was 

 the consensus of opinion that the seed 

 selling season of 1912 was one oi the 

 most profitable the trade ever has enjoyed. 

 The dissent was on the part of growers, 

 and others who had sold too soon. 



W. Atlee Burpee is said to have 

 hastened home from California without 

 stopping at the seed trade convention so 

 that he might compare certain cherished 

 sweet pea novelties in bloom at Ford- 

 hook that he had just inspected in bloom 

 at Floradale. 



The French growers' combination is 

 holding Romans steady, although doubts 

 are expressed in New York as to their 

 ability to market the crop at the price. 

 Many of those who formerly forced 

 Romans in quantity for the wholesale 

 cut flower markets have dropped them or 

 cut down their orders, leaving the prin- 

 cipal market for bulbs among florists who 

 grow in pans for their local trade. Con- 

 sequently importers are cutting down 

 their orders. 



H. L. MussER, of the Aggeler & 

 Musser Seed Co., Los Angeles, Cal., left 

 June 21 for a six weeks' trip to the 

 Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu is to be his 

 first objective. He is on business as 

 well as pleasure bent. He intends to 

 take the trip in company with an old 

 friend, S. T. Starrett, now with the 

 Department of Agriculture at Honolulu, 

 formerly of the Coachella valley, and 

 will try to introduce his firm's special- 

 ties in the islands. 



J. LoEwiTH, of Loewith, Larsen & Co., 

 New York, after having attended the 

 seed trade convention in Chicago, visited 

 the trade in Cleveland, Washington and 

 Baltimore. 



Advices from OUioules are to the effect 

 that no more orders are wanted at present 

 for the large Paper Whites, fourteen cen- 

 timeters and up, and that the 13-centi- 

 meter size is steady in price. 



The State of Illinois has licensed the 

 formation of a new corporation, the 

 Dickinson Seed Co., at Chicago, capital 

 $2,500. The incorporators are Charles 

 Dickinson, Eugene H. Garnett and 

 Frances Dickinson. The purposes are 

 "general grain seed warehouse and 

 manufacturing business. ' ' 



THE SWEET PEA CBOP. 



"As is now becoming quite generally 

 known," writes Edwin Lonsdale, man- 



Charles N. Page. 



(President American Seed Trade Association.) 



ager of the Burpee ranch at Lompoc, 

 Cal., "the sweet pea seed crop will be 

 decidedly short in California in 1912. 

 At this writing, June 22, the blooms are 

 rapidly falling off and the harvest will 

 be early. With cool weather and foggy 



nights, what pods are forming will, it is 

 to be hoped, fill satisfactorily, but a few 

 hot days and heavy winds will still fur- 

 ther shorten the crop. We hope to be 

 spared the latter." 



SEED TBADE CONVENTION. 



Officers Elected. 



President — Charles N. Page, of the 

 Ipwa Seed Co., Des Moines, la. 



First Vice-president — Harry L. 

 Holmes, of the Holmes Seed Co., Harris- 

 burg, Pa. 



Second Vice-president — Arthur B. 

 Clark, of the Everett B. Clark Seed Co., 

 Milf ord, Mass. 



Secretary-treasurer — C. E. Kendel, of 

 A. C. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Assistant Secretary — J. H. Ford, of 

 the Ford Seed Co., Ravenna, O. 



Executive Committee — Leonard H. 

 Vaughan, of Vaughan's Seed Store, 

 Chicago; Kirby B. White, of D. M. 

 Ferry & Co., Detroit; Charles D. Boyles, 

 of the Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago; 

 C. N. Keeney, of N. B. Keeney & Son, 

 Le Roy, N. Y.; Walter D. Ross, of Ross 

 Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass. 



Membership Committee — Albert Mc- 

 CuUough, of J. M. McCullough's Sons 

 Co., Cincinnati; Arthur B. Clark, of 

 Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, 

 Mass.; J. C. Robinson, of the Robinson 

 Seed Co., Waterloo, Neb. 



Besolutions Adopted. 



At the closing session the association 

 went on record in strong language as 

 opposed to such injustice as is done the 

 seedsmen by the prison penalty pro- 

 vided for in the Senate amendment to 

 H. R. 22,340, which is as follows: 



Sec. 4. Tbat any person or persons who shall 

 violate the provisions of this Act, shall be 

 deemed guilty ot a misdemeanor and shall pay a 

 fine of not exceeding $500 and not less than 

 $200, or shall be Imprisoned for a term of not 

 more than one year and not less than thirty 

 days, or shall suffer a penalty of both such fine 

 and imprisonment: Provided, That any person 

 or persons who shall knowingly sell for seeding 

 purposes seeds or grain which were Imported 

 under the provisions of this Act for the purpose 

 of manufacture shall be deemed guilty of a vio- 

 lation of this Act. 



A resolution also was adopted declar- 

 ing for a real parcels post, but opposing 

 the plan now before Congress. On the 

 advice of the older heads, the resolution 

 did not strongly attack the proposed 

 change in classes of mail matter and 

 the adoption of a system which will 

 considerably increase the postage to be 

 paid on catalogues, simply declaring 



The American Seed Trade Association at the South She re Country Club, Chicago, June 26, 1912. 



