. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 60 The Florists^ Review AoousT 16, 1917. of the exchange as against the Ameri- can dollar. This means that the grower must increase his prices this season in American currency by from fifteen to twenty per cent to collect in pesetas amounts equivalent to similar quota- tions in previous years. '' The quantities and values of the onion seed exported by the islands to American buyers during the last five years are: 1912, 59,797 pounds valued at $74,686; 1913, 93,378, $84,345; 1914, J9,490, $43,293; 1915, 39,654, $40,828; 1916, 74,987, $84,387. "
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 60 The Florists^ Review AoousT 16, 1917. of the exchange as against the Ameri- can dollar. This means that the grower must increase his prices this season in American currency by from fifteen to twenty per cent to collect in pesetas amounts equivalent to similar quota- tions in previous years. '' The quantities and values of the onion seed exported by the islands to American buyers during the last five years are: 1912, 59,797 pounds valued at $74,686; 1913, 93,378, $84,345; 1914, J9,490, $43,293; 1915, 39,654, $40,828; 1916, 74,987, $84,387. "Shipping facilities via the south- ern route, transshipping at San Juan, Porto Eico, or Havana, Cuba, have im- proved during tlie last two months, and it does not appear that deliveries will be more difficult than was the case last year. "Deliveries will also be much earlier than usual, the first seed probably ar- riving from three weeks to a month earlier than during the last five sea- sons. '' U. S. JULY SEED IMPORTS. The seed laboratory of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agri- culture, has prepared a table showing tie quantities of the various kinds of forage seeds subject to the seed import act that were imported in July, 1917, as compared with the same month in 1916. The table follows: July, July. 1916. 1917. Kind of seed. Pounds. Pounds. Alfalfa " . f!r: 100 Canada blue grass , IXA Awnless broom grass 1,400 ...^ Alsike clover .^'l^ ^rq^ Crimson clover ^iH?^ ^o2'n^ Red clover 52o,900 White clover •••••• Kr'•'.«f"!^::::;::::::::::: 111466 3!^ Hedtop 1-30O Timothy ion 800 Italian rye grass t^'Snn English rye grass anonn White and alsike du.^uu "PACIFIC COAST SEED NOTES. A. Forbes, president of the J. F. Noll Seed Co., Newark, N. J., has been visit- ing the San Francisco trade. Hariy E. Hallawell, of the Hallawell Seed Co., San Francisco, has returned from a vacation at Los Angeles and is making a few impr
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