. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 58 The Florists' Review SiFTBHBU 16, 1920 Seed Trade News AMXBIOAX BEZD TSASZ ABSOCIATIOH. PrMldent, H. O. HMtlaia, AUanU. On.; MCTcUrjr-trMiarer, 0. B. Kandel, OtoTtlaad. 0. I ? ^ ^ ^^—^^——^-^--j There is a feeling that the general run of seed prices have touched battom and that a gradual recovery is to be expected. Last spring's poor seed demand was directljr connected with labor shortage and^ high wages. Possibly next season a different set of conditions may prevail. Garden-MAKING never appealed to . a lazy man and seldom to a worker with a well
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 58 The Florists' Review SiFTBHBU 16, 1920 Seed Trade News AMXBIOAX BEZD TSASZ ABSOCIATIOH. PrMldent, H. O. HMtlaia, AUanU. On.; MCTcUrjr-trMiarer, 0. B. Kandel, OtoTtlaad. 0. I ? ^ ^ ^^—^^——^-^--j There is a feeling that the general run of seed prices have touched battom and that a gradual recovery is to be expected. Last spring's poor seed demand was directljr connected with labor shortage and^ high wages. Possibly next season a different set of conditions may prevail. Garden-MAKING never appealed to . a lazy man and seldom to a worker with a well-filled pocketbook. The seed trade's beat seasons have been those of rather more than average unemployment. In considering the question of a 5- cent or a 10-cent packet for next season, it is well to remember that the home gardener seldom has room to plant all the seeds in a packet. He will be satis- fied with less. The annual picnic of the employees of the Chas. H. Lilly Co., of Seattle, Wash., was held recently at Wildwood park, across Lake Washington. Sports were enjoyed during the day and followed by a huge dinner, a minstrel show and dancing imtil a late hour. Every em- ployee of the company was there. The annual house party at the Grass Lake seed farms of the Jerome B. Eice Seed Co. has been called off this year. The excessive rains during the summer months and the cold weather following have about ruined the otherwise interest- ing melon and vine seed trials. This and the disastrous fire at the farms recently caused the postponement of the gather- ing till another autumn. NEWS FBOM JAPAN. A Chicago importer of giganteum bulbs has shown The Review the trans- lation of a cipher cable received Sep- tember 10 from one of the largest ex- porters of bulbs at Yokohama. The statement is made in the cable that the present estimate there of the gigan- teum crop is three million bulbs. It will be remembered that last year's crop was estimated at seven million bulbs. The cable
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