. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 12-42 The American Florist. Mar. JO, The ^EEti Ti^aDB. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Albert McCcllough, Pres. i F. W. Bolqiano, Vice-Pres.; S. P. Willaed, Wethersfleld, Conn. Seo'y and Treaa. Nineteenth annual conTention, Rochester, N. June 11-13. 1901. The seed trade has been good the past week, both wholesale and retail. C. MBRTzhas been appointed to succeed Hagemann & Meyer as agent for Ls. Bremond Fils, OUioules, France, grower and dealer in French forcing bulbs. Fhom a recent notice we learn that J
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 12-42 The American Florist. Mar. JO, The ^EEti Ti^aDB. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. Albert McCcllough, Pres. i F. W. Bolqiano, Vice-Pres.; S. P. Willaed, Wethersfleld, Conn. Seo'y and Treaa. Nineteenth annual conTention, Rochester, N. June 11-13. 1901. The seed trade has been good the past week, both wholesale and retail. C. MBRTzhas been appointed to succeed Hagemann & Meyer as agent for Ls. Bremond Fils, OUioules, France, grower and dealer in French forcing bulbs. Fhom a recent notice we learn that J. Blaauw, representing J. Blaauw & Co., of Boskoop, Holland, intended sailing from Rotterdam for New YorkMarch21. Wood, Stcbbs & Co., Louisville, Ky., have begun suit for $10,000 damage against John Sehaefer's Sons, alleging that the defendants sold them onion seeds as homegrown when such vras not the case. In England an eflfort is being made to establish a government seed-testing station. Most practical men there appear to be opposed to the scheme, urging that such an institution could accomplish little beyond testing the vitality of seeds, which every grower can do for himself at small expense, and that no seed test can determine the merit or strain of varieties. The French Seed Crops. It would be interesting to know what has been the effect of the winter and of the hard February frosts on the plants from which seed is to be saved next fall. But it is too early to predict how the roots have kept in the silos in the north- i western part of France, and we shall have to wait until April or May before we can secure definite information. As regards the plants grown in the south, some of the growers have, as usual, been taken unawares by the cold, and not havins afforded their plants the required protection, lost them. The extent of the damage cannot yet be ascertained, but as at the end of the season no stocks of beets, cabbages, carrots, celeries, onions and radishes wil
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