The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-11
THE MANY.PH CITY.
Not an Agricultural Community, but Rigser
Seed Stores Here Than Ei>wh-re.

i saw the other day, in a busy downtown
street" said the town trav' Her. n show win
dow filed with a display Of pumpkins end
sduashes-just pumpkins and squashes and
nothing else; but these in all sorts Of sizes
and colors and shapes. and strikincly and
numerically arranged. Well. now. I've been
about the city more or less. and I'm not in
clinei to be surprised at anything ! see. but
that window fun of all sorts of pumpkins and
squashes in a busy city dow town business
street certainly did for a moment seem a little
odd. Bat, of course. II was extremely simple
this was the window Of n seedsman's estab-
liShment. and the pumpkins and squashes
simply showed just how the matIred products
Of certain kinds of seeds would look.
One not accustomed - Passing through
those streets in tho city In which tho dealers
might not look for seed stores in the CITY
who rlants seeds here: But the biggest seed
stores In the country are right here, big con-
Germs dealing only in seeds and bulbs. and that
sort Of thing. These are not sold to be PLANTED
In Broadway, nor vet IN Fifth avenue. nor even
In Fftv-nlnth street. but they are sold, some
~ blvers all over the country. for the seeds
man here has customers everywhere.
As It -, for example in Dir goods, which,
rs everybody knows, are hero TO be found In far
greater stocks and in far greater variety than
%anywher" else, so that In New York. there is 10
be found ANYTHING that is wanted. precisely SO
l. II with seeds In small places there would
be found for sale seeds such a tie community
demanded: here there nro seeds for
the supply Of every demand. including not ONLY
those 81 the kinds. bur ihose, too. OF
the rarer and c%oStller plants for which in many
localities tho demand would be small. or irrep-
u!ar. or for which indeed there might bc M de-
mand. so that il would not pay 20 keep them
there AZ all.
but these scattering demands. from what
ever quarter and for whatever seeds, can, az
everybody knows. all be supplied here. and
brought together thus. 10 flow through one
channel. such demands amount 10 enough 20
add materially 70 the volume Of the New York
sCedsman's trade.
And from hero seeds and bulbs Of one kind
and another. gathered from various parts Of
the country. are exported 10 various foreign
lands. and hero there is received from al quar-
ters Of the world whatever there may be that il
new in them, 10 be Distributed hence through
oIt this country. SO that this city becomes not
only a great home market. but n place Of OK
change as we'll, and altogether the centre Of
the trade In this counrv.
So. when you come 20 think II over for n
minute. and though this Is not an Agricultural
community, there is renllv nothing IN be sur
prsed al In a show window fun NJ pumpkins
and s1uashes. all dinerclt. IN a busy down
town street, any more than there would bo In
q w~tndowful. say. OF harness and sadd!erv, or
one In which there might he nothing but pho
toeTaphs OF pumps big enough TO pump rivers
dry. buch, for example, a. might he seen In
the sarne part Of the city. for New York IL head
quarters for seeds. - II 10 for everything elss.' I