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THE ASSOCIATION SEED SERVICE 



Mr. Howell: Do you know in what section of the coun- 

 try the American seed is grown? 



Mr. Greffrath : One man says, ''I have seen that grov/n 

 in California;" another says, "I saw it in New Jersey;" an- 

 other, ''Long Island." So I do not know. 



A Member: I tried some of that seed last year, and it 

 seemed to give me better satisfaction than the other. 



Mr Hunter (Cayuga County) : Did it grow as solid as 

 the French seed? 



Mr. Greffrath : Very finely. There was not a pithy 

 stalk in twenty-five acres. 



Question: All true to kind? 



Mr. Greffrath : Yes, very true. I want to say that 1 

 don't think there were over one-half dozen green ones to the 

 acre. 



Question : How does the yield compare, all things con- 

 sidered? 



Mr. Greffrath : The yield before the freeze was fine, one 

 of the best prospects we ever had. On the fourteenth of 

 September we thought we had a bonanza, and the fifteenth 

 we had nothing. Whatever we got from the fifteenth of 

 September had to come up from the ground. 



Mr. Work : W^e have all had the idea that it wasn't celery 

 seed unless it came from France. I have had a little corres- 

 pondence, and it looks very much as if over there they have 

 taken good care of their seed and here we have not. When 

 we do breed it well, it is just as good as the other. Good 

 roguing has an important bearing on pithiness, though there 

 is little doubt that cultural conditions, such as frosts and 

 cold, have something to do with it. Altogether I think we 

 ought to be able to get about as good seed here as anywhere. 

 Don't you think so, Mr. Greffrath? 



Mr. Greffrath : This is good enough so that I want it, and 

 three of my neighbors who knew about the seed have given 

 me orders for three pounds. I think I can get a price on it 

 from this party for the Association. The house quotes the 



