Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-03
NEW YORK MANY SIDED.
1t Has Bigger Seed Stores Than Else
where.

where.
IL saw the other day, in busy
downtown street" said the town
traveller, "A show-window filed with "A
display of pumpkins and sQuashes--
lust pumpkins and squashCs and moth
ing else, but these in all sorts Of sizes
and Colors and shapes, and strikingly
and symmctrically arranged. Wen,
now, I've been about the city more or
less, and I'm not inclined to be sur
prised at anything l see, but that win
dow full of all sorts of pumpkins aud
squashcs in busy city downtown
business street certainly did for a
moment seem a little odd. But, of
course, it was extremely simple-this
was the window of a scedman's es-
tablshment. and the pumpkins and
squashcs simply showed just how the
matured products Of certain kinds of
seeds would look.
zone not accustomed to passing
through those streets in the city iG
which the dealers in seeds and plants
are principally located might not
look for seed stores in the city-who
plants seeds here? why the biggest
seed stores in the country are right
here, big concerns dealing only in
seeds and bulbs, and that sort of
thing These are not sold to be
planted in Broadway, nor get in Fifth
avenue, nor even in Fifty-ninth street,
but they are sold, some to be planted
in the suburbs, and many more to
buyers all over the country, for the
scotsman here has customers every
where.
AS it is, for example in dry goods,
which. as everybody knows, are here
to be found in far greater variety
than anywhere else, so that in New
York there is to be found anything
that is wanted, precisely so is ii with
seeds. In small places there would be
found for sale seeds such as the com
munity dcmandod here there are as
sembled seed for the supply of every
| demand, including not only those Of
the commoncr kinds but those. too, OF
! the raror and cOstlier plants for which
in many localities the demand would
be small, or irregular, or for which,
/ indeed, there might be no demand SO
that it would not pay to keep them
there at all.
But these scattering demands.
! from whatever quarter and for what
ever seeds, can, as everybody knows,
all be supplied here, and brought to-
gether thus, to flow through one chan,
mel, such demands amount to enough
to add materially to the volume Of
the New York seedsman's trade.
And from here seeds and bulbs OF
one kind and another gathered from
various parts Of the country, are ex-
ported to various foreign lands; and
here there Is received from all quar-
ters OF the world whatever there may
be that is new in them, to be dis
tributed hence throughout this coun-
try; so that this city becomes not only
great home market but a place Of
exchange as well, and altogether the
trade in this country
so, when you come to think II over
for a minute, and though this is not
an agricultural community, there Is
really nothing to be surprised at in a
show window full Of pumpkins and
squashes, all different. In busy down
town street, any more than there
would be in a windowfull, say. Of har-
ness and saddlery, or one in which
there might be nothing but photo
graphs Of pumps big enough to pump
rivers dry. Such, for example, as
might be seen in the same part Of the
city, for New York is headquarters
for seeds, as 1T IS for everything else.
New York Sun.