. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 114 The Florists^ Review Febbuabz 12, 1920 Seed Trade News :aur noED zkade abboozatzoh. TiMMrat, a. 0. DoBfan, PklUdalphla, Pa.; 4MntW7-tnamn«r, O. 1. Kandal, OlcTelud, O. There is no sign of weakness in the onion set market. Enough narcissus and tulip bulbs trere grown by the Department of Agriculture to supply the congressional distribution this year. The seed selling season is making an excellent start. The mail order houses are unusually busy, provided their cata- logues are out. The Department of Agriculture in- cluded in its appropriation bil
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 114 The Florists^ Review Febbuabz 12, 1920 Seed Trade News :aur noED zkade abboozatzoh. TiMMrat, a. 0. DoBfan, PklUdalphla, Pa.; 4MntW7-tnamn«r, O. 1. Kandal, OlcTelud, O. There is no sign of weakness in the onion set market. Enough narcissus and tulip bulbs trere grown by the Department of Agriculture to supply the congressional distribution this year. The seed selling season is making an excellent start. The mail order houses are unusually busy, provided their cata- logues are out. The Department of Agriculture in- cluded in its appropriation bill for next year $5,000 for the work of producing American bulbs. The C. S. Osborn Co., Newark, O., is well settled in its new store, where it is selling plants besides conducting its reg- ular seed business. Seed catalogues cost real money this season, and were slow of manufacture, but they will cost still more next autmnn unless all signs fail. A GOOD many seedsmen would gain by going over their mailing lists for dupli- cate names, judging by the fact that The Eeview has received from two to half a dozen copies of numerous 1920 editions. Free seeds for congressmen's constit- uents prevailed in the House of Bepre- sentatives, when a motion to eliminate an appropriation of $239,000 for seed dis- tribution was defeated February 9 by a vote of 130 to 71. NEW IJ^W IN HOLLAND. The representatives of Holland houses now traveling in this country, in many cases have received word of a new lav^r affecting horticultural interests in their country. It appears that at the instiga- tion of the nurserymen's organization the Dutch Chamber has enacted a law prohibiting the shipment of any nursery stock which has not been sold. In other words, it prevents the 'consignment of surplus stock to auction houses. The law is of principal interest in England, because America was closed last Juno to practically everything in the way of nursery stock from HoUand. The new law, as reported to bulb salesme
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