. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The peas are approaching the critical period with excellent prospects. The Holland bulb salesmen have nearly all completed their canvas and sailed away. Not one of them would admit having booked less business than in 1913. The Eudy-Patrick Seed Co., at Kan- sas City, Mo., has leased the building at Ninth and Santa Fe streets, containing 80,000 square feet, from the Western Grocer Co., for seven years, at $6,000 a year. Summing up the talk in the trade, it appears that 1914 was the banner season to date on vegetable and flower seeds, but that on fie
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The peas are approaching the critical period with excellent prospects. The Holland bulb salesmen have nearly all completed their canvas and sailed away. Not one of them would admit having booked less business than in 1913. The Eudy-Patrick Seed Co., at Kan- sas City, Mo., has leased the building at Ninth and Santa Fe streets, containing 80,000 square feet, from the Western Grocer Co., for seven years, at $6,000 a year. Summing up the talk in the trade, it appears that 1914 was the banner season to date on vegetable and flower seeds, but that on field and grass seeds the showing was not so good as in several recent years. The president of the New York Pro- duce Exchange has just appointed the following members as a committee on seeds, for the ensuing year: William Jacot, chairman; Marshall H. Duryea, Ernst Wehncke, 0, W. F. Randolph and Chas. Wimmer. The demand for pansy seed increases steadily. Not only are greater and greater quantities imported, principally from Germany, but American pansy spe- cialists who have worked up first-class strains steadily are adding to their pro- duction, while, the number of growers also is increasing. It looks as if it may be up to the growers of sweet pea seed to migrate, just as did the growers of culinary peas. The reports on the California crop keep getting more and more pessimistic until now there are the moat direful forebod- ings as the result of failure to control the aphis. Probably, however, things are not so black as they are printed; they seldom are. Kelway & Son, Langport, England, have this year received from the United States government an order for flower and vegetable seeds totaling in weight ^nearly forty-four tons. This is one of the largest orders for flower and vegeta- ble seeds ever received by one firm from one customer, as it is not composed even in part of agricultural seeds or of large seeds, such as peas and beans. Of the four other European firms which, in
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