. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. President Charles N. Page. (.Vmcrican Seed Trade Association ) Nicholson, Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dal- las, Tex.; M. B. Templin, The Templin Co., Calla, O. president-elect chas. n. page. Chas. N. Page, who was elected presi- dent of the American Seed Trade Associa- tion, at the St. Louis convention last week, is the son of Gen. C. W. Page, of Clyde, 0., where he was born on May 29, 1860. In 1868 the family removed to Omaha, Neb., and after Gen. Page's death settled in Des Moines, la., in 1876. The following s
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. President Charles N. Page. (.Vmcrican Seed Trade Association ) Nicholson, Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dal- las, Tex.; M. B. Templin, The Templin Co., Calla, O. president-elect chas. n. page. Chas. N. Page, who was elected presi- dent of the American Seed Trade Associa- tion, at the St. Louis convention last week, is the son of Gen. C. W. Page, of Clyde, 0., where he was born on May 29, 1860. In 1868 the family removed to Omaha, Neb., and after Gen. Page's death settled in Des Moines, la., in 1876. The following spring (1877) Mr. Page entered the employ of S. L. Fuller & Co., the seed dealers of Des Moines, and he remained with the same firm and their successers, C. W. Dorr & Co., until their business was sold in 1886 to the Iowa Seed Co., a new concern organized and managed by him. He has also been actively identified with educational in- terests both as a director in the city schools and as trustee and member of the executive committee of the Des Moines College. During his twenty- seven years experience in the seed trade in Des Moines he has seen the business grow from such small proportion that less than 500 orders were received per annum to a mail order seed trade which frequently receives 2,000 orders or more per day. Mr. Page has been actively identified with the best work of the asso- ciation for a number of years. The Spring Trade. We have received a number of reports on the business of the past spring as follows: Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia.—Com- paring our business of the season just closed with that of 1903, we find there was a slight decrease of sales in January, February and March, but with April came a volume of business far in excess of any previous record, and this con- tinued well up to the end of May, making the total nicely in excess of the previous year. Many record prices were made. For onion sets we paid $12 per bushel and sold out readily at 50 ce
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