. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 100 The Florists^ Review OcxoBBB 23, 1919. Seel Trade News AKEXXOAV SEED TXADE ASSOOIATXOM. Pnaldrat, B. 0. Dangan, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mcretarj-treaanrer, 0. H. Kendel, CleTeland, O. From the southern trade comes the re- port that the buying of fall seeds is heavier than last year. Although the French crop of Paper ?Whites was so short that some people •called it a crop failure, there still are some unsold bulbs in jobbers' hands in America. L. Feank Post, who recently resigned from the vice-presidency of the I. W. Scott Seed Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.,
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 100 The Florists^ Review OcxoBBB 23, 1919. Seel Trade News AKEXXOAV SEED TXADE ASSOOIATXOM. Pnaldrat, B. 0. Dangan, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mcretarj-treaanrer, 0. H. Kendel, CleTeland, O. From the southern trade comes the re- port that the buying of fall seeds is heavier than last year. Although the French crop of Paper ?Whites was so short that some people •called it a crop failure, there still are some unsold bulbs in jobbers' hands in America. L. Feank Post, who recently resigned from the vice-presidency of the I. W. Scott Seed Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Post, have left Pittsburgh to make their home at Conneaut Lake, Pa. John T. Oxley, formerly with the Al- bert Dickinson Seed Co., Chicago; Noble Bros., Gibson City, 111., and also in a wholesale business of his own for four years, is now with the Nebraska Seed Co., at Omaha. Taking it by and large, seed crops are turning out about an average. There are spots, like the vine seed district in Colo- rado, peas in Montana and the tomato seed districts in the east, where the acre- age abandoned is larger than usual, but on the whole the failures are not more numerous than usual. A LATE importation of narcissus bulbs, which arrived from Marseilles on the steamship Canada, consisted of sixty-four cases. Of these, thirty-seven cases were consigned to the Equitable Trust Co., and twenty-seven to the American Express Co. This small shipment, together with the three previous shipments, which aggre- gated 14,813, brings the season's total imports of French bulbs up to 14,877 cases. FRENCH SEEDS AND THE WAB. The influence of the war on this coun- try's seed importations from France is shown in figures given in a recent sup- plement to the government commerce reports. For seeds, the statistics of the invoiced values declared at the Paris consulate general show that America's seed imports of 1917 were valued at $602,773, whereas the 1918 imports sank to $425,413, a twenty-eight per
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