. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 240 The American Florist. Mar. 14, The gEEE) TRatJE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Walter P. Stokes, Pres.; C. N. Pase, First Tioe-Prea.; S. F. Willakd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Seo'y and Treas. Twenty-first annual convention, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, June 23-85, 1903. There were good rains at Los Angeles, Cal., March 5. The Harper Seed and Commission Company, Nevada, Mo., was burned out February 27. Late advices ftom Southern California report another good rain in the early days of March. It is stated that
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 240 The American Florist. Mar. 14, The gEEE) TRatJE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Walter P. Stokes, Pres.; C. N. Pase, First Tioe-Prea.; S. F. Willakd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Seo'y and Treas. Twenty-first annual convention, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, June 23-85, 1903. There were good rains at Los Angeles, Cal., March 5. The Harper Seed and Commission Company, Nevada, Mo., was burned out February 27. Late advices ftom Southern California report another good rain in the early days of March. It is stated that more northern seeds than ever before have been shipped to Dallas, Texas. We understand that a Mr. Haines has introduced in the New Jersey legislature a bUl (No. 220) to prevent deception in the sale of red clover seed with which yellow trefoil has been mixed. The William Larsen Canning Com- pany, of Green Bay, Wis., will use 12,000 bushels of seed peas this year. A total of 2,700 acres have been contracted for ttis season, several hundred more than last year. The D. M. Ferry Seed Company, of Detroit, last year shipped 38,000 bushels of peas from their Charlevoix warehouse. Mr. Coulter has already contracted for 5,000 acres of peas, and expects to get 1,000 acres more, besides a good acreage of beans. niiford. Conn. It is rumored that one of the prominent seedsmen of the town will clear $50,000 this year as his part of the proceeds for the rapid advance in the price of sweet corn. The above encouragement is so great that it has caused another enter- prising firm to be established, who will go into the seed business on a large scale. Catalogues will soon be issued contain- ing a full line of all kinds of seeds.—New Haven Register, March 2. With the Trade In Denmark. The past year was very trying for hor- ticulture in Denmark, the effects of the cool and wet summer being especially felt here in a latitude equal to that of Labrador. The florists seem to have been the luckiest in
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