. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 724 The American Florist. Dtc. 5, The gEEE) TRaE)B. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. S. F. VVillard, Prea.; J. Charles MoCuIlough, First Vice-Pres.; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O., Seo'y and Treas. Twenty-second annual convention St. Louis, Mo., June, 1904. Visited Boston: S. F. Willard, of Com- stock, Ferre & Company.; F. W. Barteldes celebrated his fifty- first birthday last month. Ex-President Stokes, in his commu- nication on this page, is on the right Nasturtiums will be among the short items this season. Co


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 724 The American Florist. Dtc. 5, The gEEE) TRaE)B. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. S. F. VVillard, Prea.; J. Charles MoCuIlough, First Vice-Pres.; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O., Seo'y and Treas. Twenty-second annual convention St. Louis, Mo., June, 1904. Visited Boston: S. F. Willard, of Com- stock, Ferre & Company.; F. W. Barteldes celebrated his fifty- first birthday last month. Ex-President Stokes, in his commu- nication on this page, is on the right Nasturtiums will be among the short items this season. Contract orders for mixed will not be filled over forty per cent. Visited Chicago: C. R. Root, Denver, Col.; P. Miller, with the Steele, Briggs Company, Toronto, Ont.; D. L. Sloan, Palo Alto, Cal.; J. B. Agnew, of Agnew, Cal. Appraisers' Decision 24,800.—G. A. 5,486, November 20,1903, sustains pro- test of importer and fixes natural millet seed unhulled and not cleaned as grass seed and free of duty. Toronto, Ont.—E. Crossland, of the Winnepeg branch of the Steele, Briggs Company, will return here and P. Miller take his place. The trade will be sorry to know that Mr. Briggs is still ill. Seed growers at Waterloo, Neb., are much exercised over the fact that outside houses have come into their market and bid up prices among contract growers. The farmers are declining to make deliver- ies on their contracts, and seed growers' see trouble ahead in possible lawsuits necessary to get the crops bargained for. There is a brisk demand for sweet peas, as Calilornia has developed practi- callv no surpluses, and with the short crops of many of the staple sorts the present is the most promising season for this article we have known for years. There is quite a lively demand from Europe for the Cupid sorts in particular. This is probably the hardest year the vine seed growers ever experienced. They not only had a bad season, but now comes the hardest struggle when they have to ship and bill


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