. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . er, 1916, imports. However, thesenitrate imports are not listed under fer-tilizers and doubtless muoh of this ni-trate of soda was used for other pur-poses. Seed exports for September, 1917,were valued at $,138; for September, 1916, $91,693. The grass seed exportsfor September, 1917, included 1,064, of Clover, value $213,375, and 617,-541 lbs. of Timothy, worth $53, figures show a remarkable in-crease over those for September, 1916,the latter being: Clove
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . er, 1916, imports. However, thesenitrate imports are not listed under fer-tilizers and doubtless muoh of this ni-trate of soda was used for other pur-poses. Seed exports for September, 1917,were valued at $,138; for September, 1916, $91,693. The grass seed exportsfor September, 1917, included 1,064, of Clover, value $213,375, and 617,-541 lbs. of Timothy, worth $53, figures show a remarkable in-crease over those for September, 1916,the latter being: Clover, 155,158 lbs.,worth $23,880 and Timothy 401,506 lbs.,value $23,820. Cut flower exports for September, 1917, amounted to $10,912 compared with$4,372 for the same month in 1916. We exported, during September, 1917,21,090 tons of fertilizers, value $473,646somewhat more than in September, 1916,for which month the figures are 34,163tons worth $353,448. The September,1917, total is made up principally ofvarious forms of phosphate rock andsuperphosphates the figures for theformer being $75,205; for the latter$297, When ordering, please mention The Exchange The foregoing statistics are takenfrom the Monthly Summary of ForeignCommerce of the United States for Sep-tember, 1917, published by the Dept. ofCommerce, Washington, D. C. Spinach Seed Production An article in Commerce Reports ofDec. 17, No. 294, p. 1048, published bythe Dept. of Commerce, Washington,i). C, gives notes on the growing ofSpinach seed in the Netherlands, Italy,Portugal and Switzerland. A Word to Chefs Id few restaurants is it possible to geta satisfactory meal composed entirely ofvegetables. This is a lack which hereto-fore only a limited number of people,vegetarians mostly, have felt. But nowthe war threatens to make vegetarians ofmany more of us. A cable from Man-chester, England, where the VegetarianSociety of Great Britain was recently insession, suggested that the experience ofthe present war should resu
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