. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. distant date the inevitable result will be either a shortage of good seed or, what is worse, a supply of dead seed. The increasing imports (Table 1), to- gether with the low prices at which im- ported seed has been oflfered (Table 2) during recent mouths and the reluctance with which dealers place growing con- tracts, have caused some of the growers to become more or less concerned re- garding the future of vegetable seed production in this country. It will be noted from the figures in Table 2 that import prices declined steadily and rap- idly duri
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. distant date the inevitable result will be either a shortage of good seed or, what is worse, a supply of dead seed. The increasing imports (Table 1), to- gether with the low prices at which im- ported seed has been oflfered (Table 2) during recent mouths and the reluctance with which dealers place growing con- tracts, have caused some of the growers to become more or less concerned re- garding the future of vegetable seed production in this country. It will be noted from the figures in Table 2 that import prices declined steadily and rap- idly during 1919 and the first nine months of 1920, a few items approaching prewar levels. Some marked advances occurred, however, during the last quar- ter of 1920, principally on those seeds of which the domestic production was low. BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. New York, N. Y.—A petition in bank- ruptcy was filed last week against H. W. Doughtcn, Inc., 59 Pearl street, by the Agros Corp., a creditor on a claim of over $7,000. Judge Mautou appointed Thomas H. Matters, Jr., receiver in $2,000 bond. Liabilities are said to be about $700,000 and free assets are re- ported as about $5,000. WHERE MIXTURE MATTERS NOT. Weekblad voor Bloemenbollenculture, the newspaper for flower bulb growers published at Haarlem, Holland, contained in a recent issue an interesting decision in the matter of one bulb grower who haled another before the board of arbi- tration. It is the case of D. Nieuwenhuis & Sons, Lisse, against Jacob Van der Deure, of Enkhuizen. (Decision No. 664.) According to the newspaper, it appears that Nieuwenhuis sold and delivered to Van der Deure, in 1919, a quantity of about thirty bushels of planting stock of Prosperity tulip. In 1920 this stock showed not all true to name, being mixed with Flamingo. The matter was up be- fore the arbitration board, which (De- cision No. 630) ordered that Nieuwen- huis take back all the stock which came out of the growing and deliver to Van der
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