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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 31, 1904. 



ASPARAGUS 



Plumosus Nanus, IB 

 Sprengeri, 



Per 100 seeds, Sl.OO 



~ 1000 •' 7.50 



6000 " 36.00 



Per 100 seeds. 

 Per 1000 " 

 Per 5000 " 



.40 

 2.00 

 9.00 



STUMPP & WALTER CO., 50 Barclay St., NEW YORK. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Vlce-Pres., J. Chas. McCullough. Cincinnati, O.; 

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

 The 2M annual meeting will be held at St. Louis. 

 Mo., June. 1904. 



The accumulated orders for seed po- 

 tatoes will be hustled forward now if 

 weather permits. 



R. H. Shumway, Kookford, 111., re- 

 ports a very satisfactory trade, not quite 

 up to tlie business of two years ago, but 

 well in advance of last year to same date. 



Foe those who complain of the indeli- 



nate nature of onion seed reports, here 



is something, comprehensive: 



"The Bullfrog raised its tail on high 



And madly rushed across the plain; 

 The I.ishtniug Bug went thundering by 

 And then we had a fearful rain." 



A COMMON carrier cannot limit its lia- 

 bility for goods lost in shipment, through 

 its negligence, by any regulation or any 

 provision printed on the back or stamped 

 across the face of the bill of lading, un- 

 less the same is agreed upon with the 

 shipper or distinctly brought to his at- 

 tention.— Doyle V. B. & a E. Co. Cir- 

 cuit Court Western District of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



San Francisco. — Half the asparagus 

 crop of the state was destroyed by the 

 recent floods in the Sacramento valley. 

 The growers have seen their asparagus 

 beds utterly destroyed and now face 

 ruin. The price of asparagus will be 

 high this year. The canneries of the 

 state will have no crop with which to 

 work and as a result many people will 

 be denied employment by the closing of 

 the industry. 



Tests of eight lots of seed corn re- 

 cently were made by the Ohio Experiment 

 Station. The corn had been carried 

 through the winter in different ways: 

 In a large crib six feet wide; overhead 

 in crib spread out in a thin layer on the 

 floor; and in a room where the tempera- 

 ture was from 60 to 72 degrees. Of the 

 crib corn (selected ears) only sixty ker- 

 nels out of 100 germinated;" of similar 

 corn kept overhead in crib eighty-one 

 kernels germinated; of that subjected to 

 artificial heat ninety-five out of 100 ger- 

 minated. 



Reports in general indicate that the 

 business of the month has been quite sat- 

 isfactory. The jobbers arc not complain- 

 ing; popular staples while they la.sted 

 went out at very good prices, and when 

 sold out made a fair market for less 

 popular sorts. Onion sets are well 

 cleaned up and no fall in price is looked 

 for. Mail trade, owing to weather con- 

 ditions, is below the average in most 

 cases. Counter trade, where the principal 

 customer is the market gardener, shows 

 up in good shape, but at the counters 

 where the amateur is mostly looked for 

 the showing has been poor. 



A Paying Crop 



Can be secured by sowing our ASPARAGUS SEED now. It is remarkable seed, 

 80 full of life that nearly every seed germinates under ordinary conditions. We have made a 

 number of tests and we know that this is true. 



ASFABAGUS FIiTTMOSnS NAITUS seed, greenhouse grown, will germinate nearly 



100 per cent. New seeds. $1.00 per 100: $7.60 per 1.000. 



ASFABAQUS SFBEHaSBI, new crop seed, 15c per 100; $1.00 per 1.000. Special 

 prices on large lots. Send for Cataloerne. 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO., IOI8 Market street PHILADELPHIA. 



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The following clipping may partly ex- 

 plain why retail and small mail trade 

 is so unsatisfactory. It is from the 

 Chicago Examiner, March 26: 



The map showed freezing weather as far south 

 as OUlahoma — 28 at Oklahoma and through Kan- 

 sas from 18 to 24 abovt.'. No moisture in Kan- 

 sas or Oklahoma; excessive rains in Missouri. 

 Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and Texas. There is a 

 rainfall of 4.7i> at Indianapolis and of over 2 

 inches at Cincinnati and Fort Worth and St. 

 Louis, Freezing all over Nebraska, Iowa, Mis- 

 souri. Kansas and Oklahoma this morning. 



THE ONION SET DISEASE. 



John W. Lloyd, professor of olericul- 

 ture at the University of Illinois, Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, writes as follows 

 to a Chicago onion set grower: 



Eeferring to the diseased white onion 

 sets which you sent me October 3, 1903, 

 and concerning which you wrote me a 

 few days later. One of the botanists 

 here has identified the organism which 

 is evidently responsible for the disease, 

 and finds it to be the onion anthracnose 

 (Vermicularia circinans. Berk.). The 

 fungus is present on the onions when 

 they are harvested, but it is likely to 

 do most of its damage by later develop- 

 ment during storage. This damage is 

 most severe when the atmosphere of the 

 storage house is too warm and moist. 

 If the sets are perfectly dry when 

 stored, and are kept at a low tempera- 

 ture in a house that can be ventilated in 

 dry weather and kept closed when the 

 outside atmosphere is moist, the disease 

 is less likely to develop badly than if 

 the opposite conditions exist. Also crates 

 or bins which have previously contained 

 diseased sets, should be thoroughly 

 cleaned and sprinkled with lime, or lime 

 and sulphur, before they are used again. 

 Diseased sets should not be stored with 

 sound sets, because the disease can be 

 transmitted by contact, or by the spores 

 being carried by draughts of air. 



It has been suggested that sprinkling 

 the bulbs with air-slaked lime at the 

 time of storing would probably prevent 

 the further development of the disease, 

 though I can find no record of this 

 treatment having been tried, and do not 

 know as it would be practicable com- 

 mercially. 



It is also probable that rotation of 

 the crop would be a good thing, since 

 it is likely that the organism may live 

 over winter in the soil or on refuse of 

 the crop. 



Rees & Compere 



Growers and Wholesale Dealers in 



Hi^h-Class Flowering Bulbs. 



p. 0. Address : Long Beach, Cal., R. F. D. No. 1 



Ranch at Burnett, Smiles north of 

 Loii^ Beach. Cal. 



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 Prices to the Wholesale Trade only on application. 

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LILY of the VALLEY 



Finest Pips from Cold Storage. 



Per 100 , $1.60 



Per 1000 13.00 



Per case of 2.500 30.00 



H.N.BRUNS.M^rNlI CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Our bulbs are not better Chan 

 tbe best, but better than the rest. 

 TRY THEM. 



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