. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 804 The American Florist. Jan. 4, The ^eeE) TnaDE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. J. E. NoKTHEUP, Pres.; S. F. Leonard, Vioe- Pres.; S. P. Willabd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Seo'y and Treas. Twentieth annual convention. Twin Cities, Minn., June, 1902. Visited St. Louis: W. J. Fosgate, Santa Clara, Cal. Lester L. Morse, of Santa Clara, Cal., is at Atlantic City. Seedsmen are now expecting "dummy" requests for quotations. Carrot, radish, parsley and parsnip are all scarce items this year. The Brown bag-fillin


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 804 The American Florist. Jan. 4, The ^eeE) TnaDE. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. J. E. NoKTHEUP, Pres.; S. F. Leonard, Vioe- Pres.; S. P. Willabd, Wethersfleld, Conn., Seo'y and Treas. Twentieth annual convention. Twin Cities, Minn., June, 1902. Visited St. Louis: W. J. Fosgate, Santa Clara, Cal. Lester L. Morse, of Santa Clara, Cal., is at Atlantic City. Seedsmen are now expecting "dummy" requests for quotations. Carrot, radish, parsley and parsnip are all scarce items this year. The Brown bag-filling machines are being used on the government seed order. S. Y. Haines is now very busy on the catalogue of Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis. Two mail order houses will introduce sweet pea novelties this season; another will color-plate them. There has been but little rain as yet in the Santa Clara valley, California, and the planting season is reported unfavor- able so far. Seed growers vsrho have recently vis- ited leading houses in the trade, both east and west, report business in pood shape and prospects bright. Floods in New York state are said to have destroyed thirty to forty thoasand bushels of seed peas stored in the ware- houses of canning companies. Mat. Hbrmes, for several years a well known seedsman at Niles Center and Rose Hill, died December 17, after having been in poor health for some months. Visited Chicago: John R. Watts, Louisville, Ky.; A. T. Ferrell, Saginaw, Mich.; A. J. Van der Voort, representing Speelman & Sons, Sassenheim, Holland; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Braslan, San lose, Cal. ?? ' New Barclay, of Vaughan's Seed Store, was run down by a cab in dodging a cable car on Broadway Christ- mas eve. There were no bones broken, however, and Mr. Barclay, we are pleased to say, is out again nearly as well as ever. Sturgeon Bay, Wis.—A disastrous fire started here January 2, in the warehouse of the John H. Allan Seed Co., spreading to tha


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