. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 496 The American Florist. Dec. 22, JRe ^eecj ^Tac^e. AM. SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, president; A. L. Don, New York, secretary and treasurer. The eleventh annual meeting at Chicago, June, 1803. Appli- cations for membership should be addressed to Wm. Meggatt, chairman membership committee, Wethersfield, Conn. Was "The Seedsman's Prayer Answered?" "A seedsman's prayer answered" is a good story and well told. Had you seen that select seed party in session and heard the many we
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 496 The American Florist. Dec. 22, JRe ^eecj ^Tac^e. AM. SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, president; A. L. Don, New York, secretary and treasurer. The eleventh annual meeting at Chicago, June, 1803. Appli- cations for membership should be addressed to Wm. Meggatt, chairman membership committee, Wethersfield, Conn. Was "The Seedsman's Prayer Answered?" "A seedsman's prayer answered" is a good story and well told. Had you seen that select seed party in session and heard the many weighty arguments advanced in that seed deal you never would have forgotten it. There was nodifficultyin the way about money matters; we were offered long credit, all we wanted, and more. Had the Californian stuck to business and not gone to praying, the result might have been different. During the praying recess of the session the two S S., began to compare notes, and came to the con- clusion that they had undertaken a con- tract that they could not complete, i. e. "to clean him out," as some other lot would turn up in different shape than had been previously talked; we got afraid there was more dead weight in this coun- try and in Europe then we could carry or wanted to try to carry, and thatthe^fn/ trade might necessitate a second. At the second meeting each freely agreed to call the trade off, each feeling that that prayer, or the time it occupied, had saved us. If you could publish the papers con- cerning onion seed in the local telegraph office between that date and Dec. 1st, some of us would be amused, if not pro- fited. The S. S. were delivered out of the hands of the Philistines. Orient. J. M. KiMisERLiN AND SoN., Herbert V., passed through Chicago west bound Dec. 20. The latter has been quite ill with diphtheria but is improving. Mr. K., goes west with "only 100 pounds of Red Wethersfield onion seed left"—mostly for seed stock. Says however that mo
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