. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. James Joseph Breck, S. F. Willard, Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersneld, Conn. Wilson, with L. L. Olds Co., Clir*- ton. Wis. Henry G. Windheim, Nebraska Seed Co., Omaha, Neb. C. F. Wood, Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louis- ville, Ky. W. S. Woodruff, S. D. WoodrulT & Sons, Orange, Conn. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Ethel, Mrs. bridge, Mrs. Mrs. Y. LADIES. O. W. Clark, Buffalo, N. Geo. B. Green, Chicago. Peter Hollenbach, Chicago. J. Chas. McCullough and daughter Cincinnati, O. J. B. Rice and daughter, Cam- N. Y. Leo
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. James Joseph Breck, S. F. Willard, Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersneld, Conn. Wilson, with L. L. Olds Co., Clir*- ton. Wis. Henry G. Windheim, Nebraska Seed Co., Omaha, Neb. C. F. Wood, Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louis- ville, Ky. W. S. Woodruff, S. D. WoodrulT & Sons, Orange, Conn. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Ethel, Mrs. bridge, Mrs. Mrs. Y. LADIES. O. W. Clark, Buffalo, N. Geo. B. Green, Chicago. Peter Hollenbach, Chicago. J. Chas. McCullough and daughter Cincinnati, O. J. B. Rice and daughter, Cam- N. Y. Leonard H. Vaughan, Chicago. S. F. Willard. Wethersneld, Conn. Some Pioneers of the Seed Trade. Portraits shown herewith are tliose of the founders of a few of the long established seed houses of this country. Wm. Elliott, on the opposite page, will be at once recognized as the founder of the house of Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York, and the commanding face of Peter Henderson will likewise be known as th': founder of the New York house of the same name. In 1802 Grant Thorburn founded the firm of I. M. Thorburn & Co., and in 1818 Henry A. Dreer estab- lished the Philadelphia house of that name. James Vick and Joseph Breck, respectively, founded the firms of James Vick's Sons, of Rochester. N. Y., and of Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation, of Boston, Mass, The Seed Trade of the Past 25 Years. BY DR. WM. W. \CV. The commercial transactions which could properly be included in a consid- eration of the American seed trade are curiously different in character and magnitude, varying from the offer to sell for 30 minutes on bargain day 12 packets of seed for a nickel, to a contract to deliver an average of two carloads of clover seed a day for a month. The development of these con- ditions commenced, some 50 to 75 years ago. with the practice of selling seeds on commission, but has gone on with con- stantly accelerated rapidity ever since, especially during the past 25 years, unt
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