. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 102 The Rorists^ Review Januabt 8, 1920. Seed Trade News AMZaXOAM 8ZKD TKAOB ABSOOZATION. PiMlduit, B. O. Dangan, PIilUd*lpIila, Pa.; MenUry-trMaonr, C. B. Kendel, OleyeUnd. O. Seed selling in the south is opening well., David Burpee spent New Year's in the south. During 1920 seed stocks will be nearer normal than in the last five years. Taking the situation as a whole, the price of seeds is falling. Can you think of anything else that isn't going up? The death of William C. Heller, founder of the miceproof seed case busi- ness, occurred December 1
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 102 The Rorists^ Review Januabt 8, 1920. Seed Trade News AMZaXOAM 8ZKD TKAOB ABSOOZATION. PiMlduit, B. O. Dangan, PIilUd*lpIila, Pa.; MenUry-trMaonr, C. B. Kendel, OleyeUnd. O. Seed selling in the south is opening well., David Burpee spent New Year's in the south. During 1920 seed stocks will be nearer normal than in the last five years. Taking the situation as a whole, the price of seeds is falling. Can you think of anything else that isn't going up? The death of William C. Heller, founder of the miceproof seed case busi- ness, occurred December 19. He was 47 years of age. Boot & Co., bulb growers at Voor- hout, Holland, are preparing to open a permanent American office, in New York. P. Boot is here with his salesman. With so many Holland bulb houses booking orders for French bulbs they must buy, how can it be otherwise than that their bidding will put prices up? The high cost of living furnishes seeds- men persuasive arguments in behalf of home gardens. How much prosperous householders Avill heed them is another story. Commission-box people Avho figured on a return to 5-cent packets have found that, while the price of seeds has fallen, the cost of labor and supplies has in- creased in even greater measure. Thomas C. Fagan, of Fagan's Seed Store, Indianapolis, one of the veterans of the trade, and his son, Thomas M. Fagan, traveler for the Madson Seed Co., Manitowoc, Wis., spent New Year's in Chicago. William Satter, who for fifteen years has made an American tour for Ebbinger & Van Groos, of Boskoop, has been com- pelled to relinquish that connection be- cause of the plant quarantine and has come over with the bulb line of Rotteveel Bros., of Sassenheim. The official roster of Wm. Henry Maule, Inc., Philadelphia, which was established in 1877 and incorporated in 1913 with $150,000 capital, comprises the following: President, M. H. Maule; vice-president, Chas. P. Maule; treasurer and general manager, Edward C. D
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