. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The American Florist. Aug. lo. The Seed Trade. =^ American Seed Trade Association. Goo. S. Gr^en, Chicago. Prfs.; M. H. Dtiryea. New York, First \'ice-Pres.; €. E. Keiidel, Cleveland, O., Sec'y and Treas. Twenty-sixth annual convention, June, I90H. Jf RocKFORD, III.—John T. Buckbee re- ports advance sales good. Onion Btjlbs at Grecly, Cal., growing for California seed growers, are report- ed looking well. Michigan growers of garden beans as well as of the eating or navy class, are fearful of frosts. Los .\ngeles,


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. The American Florist. Aug. lo. The Seed Trade. =^ American Seed Trade Association. Goo. S. Gr^en, Chicago. Prfs.; M. H. Dtiryea. New York, First \'ice-Pres.; €. E. Keiidel, Cleveland, O., Sec'y and Treas. Twenty-sixth annual convention, June, I90H. Jf RocKFORD, III.—John T. Buckbee re- ports advance sales good. Onion Btjlbs at Grecly, Cal., growing for California seed growers, are report- ed looking well. Michigan growers of garden beans as well as of the eating or navy class, are fearful of frosts. Los .\ngeles, Cal.—O. E. Morris, of Morris & Snow, is spending his vaca- tion at Catalina Island.—E. K. New York.—R. J. Irwin, of Vaughan's Seed Store, is at North Belgrade lake, Maine, and reports "bass biting ; Onion Seed crops growing by the L. A, Budlong near Chicago, are look- ing well. The heads are now in bloom. The Keokuk (Iowa') Canning Com- pany is reported to have 170 acres of to- matoes in one piece; 350,000 plants were required. Bean prospects are excellent, average small. Eastern Michigan has been quite dry while other sections have had almost too much water. California onicn seed growers are ?putting a price of $2 to $ per pound on white onion seed and 75 cents to $1 on flat yellows. L. H. Vaughan reports, after a two weeks visit in Michigan and Wisconsin, Braslan Seed Growers' Go. Growers for the Wholesale Trade Only. SAN JOSE, CAL. that peas are looking altogether not quite as promising as last year. Long Island growers are reporting failures on Cabbage Stone Mason, Lux- emburg and All the Year Around, with short deliveries on several leading kinds. At a meeting of the Laredo (Texas) Onion Growers' Association it was de- cided to send a representative to Tene- riffe island, to purchase seed to insure true stock. This doesn't speak very well for seedsmen who have supplied that trade. A commission broker in New only 50 per cent of a crop.


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