. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 98 The Florists^ Review Jdlt 8, 1920 Seed Trade News AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. I'resUU'iit, II. U. Hustings, Atlanta, Ga.; si'(refarj--troasiiri'r, C, E. Kendol, Cleveland, O. W. W. Barnard, the Chicago seedsman, celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday an- niversary July 4. Keports from California are to the effect that some of the fields of freesias have been abandoned—not worth the labor of digging. EozELL J, BowEN, of J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md., and C. Alfred Bol- giano, eldest son of Charles J. Bolgiano, are traveling in Europe,
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 98 The Florists^ Review Jdlt 8, 1920 Seed Trade News AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. I'resUU'iit, II. U. Hustings, Atlanta, Ga.; si'(refarj--troasiiri'r, C, E. Kendol, Cleveland, O. W. W. Barnard, the Chicago seedsman, celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday an- niversary July 4. Keports from California are to the effect that some of the fields of freesias have been abandoned—not worth the labor of digging. EozELL J, BowEN, of J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md., and C. Alfred Bol- giano, eldest son of Charles J. Bolgiano, are traveling in Europe, inspecting the growing crops in England, France, Ger- many, Holland and Belgium. Their stay will cover a period of several months. It was the late Patrick O'Mara who ventured the opinion, at the close of the lf!17 seed season, tiiat tlie seed business of that year would stand as a record un- til either a material increase in immi- gration or a period of hard times made large numbers of people in the United States willing to work at gardening. A("roRDixG to a recent rej;ort from a Dutch seed growers' association, the trade in field and vegetable seeds was dull this season. The repeal of the governmental and food controlling measures, the high rate of exchange of Dutch currency as compared with that of other countries and a smaller home demand were some of the factors that contributed to the dullness of the seed trade. With S. & S. C. ]>aper nominally at 17 to IS cents per pound, but actually difficult to engage at open price for any delivery in 1920, and with coated stock 22 to 24 cents and still harder to con- nect with, the seedsman can spend the summer profitably pruning his mailing list. The average catalogue can bo cut ten j)er cent in number of pages and twenty-five to fifty per cent in number of copies printed without loss of busi- .less. DiscouRAGiNO reports are being re- ceived concerning the mustard crop, which was expected to be unusually large in the Lo
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