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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FEEKnARY 4, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



Pres., S. P. Willard, Wethersfleld. Conn.; First 

 Vlce-Pres., J. Chas. McCwllouph, Cinelnnall. O.; 

 Sec'y and Treas.. C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 

 The 22d annual meeting will be held at St. Louis, 

 Mo., June. 19M. 



This promises to be a banner year 

 for the wholesaler who can deliver the 

 goods. 



The seed business of Levings Bros., 

 Paris, 111., has been sold to Joseph L. 

 Warder, of Terre Haute, Ind. ; and the 

 stock has been removed to that city. 



It is reported that continued dry 

 weather and sharp morning frosts are 

 not helping the bulb growers and there 

 may be a shortage in freesias and other 

 small bulbs from southern California. 



The onion set warehouse of A. L. 

 Jones & Son. Chicago, took fire on the 

 morning of January 31, 6,000 bushels of 

 red and 2,500 bushels of white onion 

 sets being destroyed. 



In view of the present high price of 

 eating potatoes it should not be hard 

 to get up club orders for Michigan seed 

 potatoes at catalogue rates. They could 

 come forward in a refrigerator car. 



H. W. Bdckbee, Eoekford, 111., is in 

 his new seed warehouse and has one of 

 the most completely equipped plants in 

 the trade. The main building is 65x184 

 and four stories high. There is also 

 an engine room 39x65. 



Market garden trade is likely to tax 

 the best effort of those houses which 

 cater to it this spring. Besides the short- 

 age in many of the items that are neces- 

 sary to their needs, the samples available 

 are not quite up to the market garden- 

 ers' standard. 



Thikgs are stiU booming in beans; or- 

 ders are much easier to get than stock 

 to fill them with. All along the line 

 there is a swift movement in all lines 

 and by the end of the season the general 

 depletion of stocks will make the coming 

 season a good one for the growers. 



It is stated that the present price of 

 canned tomatoes, Maryland standard 

 3s being 62J to 70 cents per dozen at the 

 packing houses, is from 7i to 10 cents 

 below the cost of packing and that it, is 

 resulting in greatly increased consump- 

 tion, so that the "l902 and 1903 pack, 

 said to be 20,000,000 eases, will be large- 

 ly disposed of. 



ADV^CES from Baltimore say that cab- 

 bage is selling at $50 a ton there and 

 can scarcely be obtained even at that 

 figure. Good quality cabbage appears 

 to be worth $50 almost anywhere in the 

 country and fancy stock is even higher. 

 Imported stock is held firmly at $50, 

 with an upward tendency which prom- 

 ises to carry it still higher. 



Private mail advices from packers at 

 Aberdeen, Md., state that offerings of 

 future corn out of first hands continue 

 to be made with caution, largely owing 

 to the continued unsettled position of 

 seed corn. High prices of the latter, to- 

 gether with the higher demands on the 

 part of the grower, makes it necessary 



for the packer to figure on new business 

 on a considerably higher basis than pre- 

 vious years' business. 



ARROYO GRANDE GROWERS. 



An Arroyo Grande, Cal., correspondent 

 sends the following to a Los Angelea 

 paper about success achieved in the seed 

 industry in that vicinity: 



Less than ten years ago L. C. Khout- 

 zahn, a clergyman in failing health, and 

 with almost no capital, came to Arroyo 

 Grande from Three Rivers, Mich., and in 

 company with his father-in-law, J. C. 

 McClure, started a small seed farm of 

 two or three acres on land about two 

 miles from town. Today a beautiful 

 modern home stands on those acres, to 

 which hundreds more have been added. 

 The McClure Seed Company is an in- 

 corporated body, with $100,000 capital 

 and over 600 acres, all planted to seeds 

 each year. Sweet peas, in forty-acre 

 patches, are a specialty. The crop of 

 seeds sold for $35,000 one year and 

 $50,000 last year. 



Victor Johanson came from Denmark, 

 and after struggling for years at gen- 

 eral farming concluded to try seed rais- 

 ing near Arroyo Grande. He began with 

 a few acres of rented land. Last year, 

 as a result, he was able to purchase 

 twenty or thirty acres of the old Tallyho 

 ranch, which had been used for grain 

 and grazing, together with the ranch 

 house, which he remodeled into a pretty 

 home. He also rents about 150 acres. 

 He started with little or no capital. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Last week a change in the flower mar- 

 ket took place; the unfavorable weather, 

 with storms and no sun, shortened up the 

 supply considerably, but no noticeable 

 change in prices occurred. Roses are 

 slightly off crop, especially Brides, the 

 very choicest Maids and Brides selling 

 at IS cents. Good Beauties are decidedly 

 off crop; plenty of short ones are in evi- 

 dence, which really have no market 

 value. 



Carnations are now in much better de- 

 mand but prices are still exceptionally 

 low. The fancy bring $3 per 100 and a 

 few sell at $4. Novelties, such as En- 

 chantress and Prosperity, are bringing 

 $6. The general average stock is being 

 offered as low as $15 per 1,000. Tulips 

 of good quality are plentiful but the de- 

 mand is limited. The call for sweet peas 

 is falling off more each week; many are 

 left on our hands unsold. Lilies are 

 scarce. Mignonette, freesia and daffodils 

 are meeting with fair demand. Sufficient 

 stock is being received to meet all re- 

 quirements. 



Variotis Notes. 



John Murchie, of Sharon, Pa., has a 

 new carnation which he has named Fred 

 Burki. In color it is a glistening white, 

 with a faint streak of pink that cannot 

 be noticed two feet away. It is a tine, 

 healthy, upright grower and every shoot 

 makes a flower; it produces continuously. 

 The weakest stems will hold the flowers 

 erect. The blooms average three to three 

 and three-quarter inches, stems from 

 twenty to thirty inches. It is a cross 

 between Mrs. Lawson and a seedling. 

 Mr. Murchie claims that it will produce 

 more good flowers than any other white 

 carnation he has grown or seen grown, 

 and that it will give a steady cut from 

 November to July. Mr. Murchie further 

 says that he could afford to give a dol- 

 lar for every bursted flower. Mr. Murchie 

 contemplates staging it at the Detroit 

 convention. 



David Geddis, who has been confined 

 to his home the last week, is about again. 



Theodore Beckert is consigning the 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. some fine free- 

 sia and white tulips. 



The Pittsburg Rose & Carnation Co. 

 is shipping in quantities of extra fine 

 Maids and Brides. 



Brother Langhans, you are a good 

 worker in securing new members for the 

 Florists ' Club. Philip has the following 

 names for proposal at the next meeting: 

 E. J. Perry, Greensburg; Wm. Cromack, 

 Irwin; Karl Klinke, George Marshall, 

 Edward McConnell and Wm. Q. Potter, 

 of Pittsburg. 



The German count's song, dedicated 

 by T. P. Langhans to the Florists' Club 

 smoker and sung by him, was a creditable 

 production, it was full of wit and mirth 

 and good fellowship, and was appreciated 

 by man}'. 



Visitor: Martin Reukauf, represent- 

 ing H. B. Bayersdorfer & Co.. Philadel- 

 pliia. Hoo-Hoo. 



niAMMOTH EVERGREEN 



III Sweet Corn 



' At $5.00 per bushel 



C. E. HIBBARD, TOPEKA, KAN. 



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VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS. 



Mignonette— New York Market pkt., 50c 



Cauliflower— First and Best 5Uc 



Tomato— Sterling- Castle •■ 25c 



Radish— Carniioe Forcing: ■■ 05c 



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