. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 506 The American Florist. April 2S, The gEEB TRaiiE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Walteb p. Stokes, Pres.; C. N. Pase, First Tioe-Pre3.; S. F. Willakd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Sec'y and Treas. „, ., ^ , ^. Twenty-flrst annual convention, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, June 23-35, 1903. Dahlia roots are one of the scarce items in good demand. Visited Chicago: S. Y. Haines, of Thompkinsville, Mich.; Albert McCul- lough, Cincinnati. The death of fames Wightman Hogg, late of the Steel, Briggs Seed Company, Toronto,


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 506 The American Florist. April 2S, The gEEB TRaiiE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Walteb p. Stokes, Pres.; C. N. Pase, First Tioe-Pre3.; S. F. Willakd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Sec'y and Treas. „, ., ^ , ^. Twenty-flrst annual convention, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, June 23-35, 1903. Dahlia roots are one of the scarce items in good demand. Visited Chicago: S. Y. Haines, of Thompkinsville, Mich.; Albert McCul- lough, Cincinnati. The death of fames Wightman Hogg, late of the Steel, Briggs Seed Company, Toronto, Ont., occurred at Hamilton April 16. He was 46 years of age. Cleveland, O.—C. P. Guelph, of the Jerome B. Rice Seed Company, Cam- bridge, N. Y., was in Cleveland April 17. He says the corn and bean, particularly Ward well was, situationis a trifle easier. The planting season, which was two weeks early at Chicago on April 10, has been retarded by much cold and rainy weather until it may at this date be called a late one. Dull and irregular retail trade has resulted. Miss Laura Frances Leonard, the daughter of S. F. Leonard, of Chicago, was married April 23 to Farhn H. Ball, son of Judge Farlin Q. Ball, one of Chi- cago's best known jurists. Mr. and Mrs. Ball will reside at Oak Park, 111. Sweet corn contract prices with grow- ers in Connecticut are advancing and are now at about high water mark, in the neighborhood of $ to $ per bushel for Stowell's Evergreen. Many farmers' contract on the basis of market prices in the fall. The American Seed Company filed arti- cles of association at Detroit, April 15. The capital stock is $25,000, with $15,000 paid in, and the incorporators are: Joseph L. Gillespie, 1,312 shares. Chas. W. Latham, 187; John Bingen, 1; Joseph J. Gillespie, trustee, 1,000. The company will import, grow, buy and sell garden, flower and field seeds, bulbs, roots, etc. The State of Trade. Henry F. Michell, Philadelphia, Pa.— Mail trade twenty per cent a


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