. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 24 The American Florist. July 27, [ The Seed Trade. =\ Amerlcao Seed Trade Association. Geo. S. Green, Chicago. Pres.; M. H. Duryea, New York, First Viee-Pres,; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O., Sec'y and Treas. Twenty-sixth annual convention, June, 1908. ^ Pea crop inspections are now being made in Michigan and Wisconsin. Catalogue paper of good grade has been advanced about half a cent per pound. Onion Sets at Chicago are looking like a good crop. Dry weather is need- ed just now. The United States Department of ^g-
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 24 The American Florist. July 27, [ The Seed Trade. =\ Amerlcao Seed Trade Association. Geo. S. Green, Chicago. Pres.; M. H. Duryea, New York, First Viee-Pres,; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O., Sec'y and Treas. Twenty-sixth annual convention, June, 1908. ^ Pea crop inspections are now being made in Michigan and Wisconsin. Catalogue paper of good grade has been advanced about half a cent per pound. Onion Sets at Chicago are looking like a good crop. Dry weather is need- ed just now. The United States Department of ^g- riculture is investigatting the onion seed industry this suinmer. The acreage of potatoes, excluding sweet potatoes, is more than that of last year by about 54,000 acres, or per cent. F. W. Maas is now located at 417 The Bourse, Philadelphia, Pa., repre- senting the Springfield Seed Co., of Springfield, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa.—Robt. Buist, daughter and grandaughter sailed July 20 for Europe on the S. S. Philadelphia from New York for several weeks' stay. Louisville, Ky.—Wood, Stubbs & Co.'s seed establishment, 215-217 E. Jef- ferson street, was totally destroyed by fire in the early morning of July 18. The fire originated in a building in the same block used for ripening bananas. Wm. Stubbs placed the damage as around $20,000. Fortunately the money loss is covered by insurance. Des Moines, Ia.—C. N. Page, of the Iowa Seed Co., has returned from his eastern trip and is optimistic as to the prospects for business in the ensuing year. Crop and quality indications are good, he says, yet the market is stiflf and the demand large compared with former years. Owing to the low scale of wages in European countries he con- siders the foreign seedsmen our most active competitors. Evansville, Ind.—Standing in the front room of his residence at gi8 Washington avenue, July 9, Henry T. Graf, vice president of the Ohio Valley Seed Co., sutifered an electric shock from lightning wh
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