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HORTICULTURE 



June 16, 1906 



SEED TRADE TOPICS. 



Much needed rains have gladdened 

 the hearts of farmers and seed growers 

 throughout the east, and in Michigan 

 ajid Wisconsin. The pea crop, which 

 was very near the point where de- 

 terioration commenced, has been es- 

 pecially benefitted. As temperatures 

 have been moderately high beans and 

 corn have been greatly helped. The 

 crop of peas for canning will be light. 

 Delaware and Maryland have been 

 estimated at 25 to 40 per cent., and In- 

 diana not above 50 per cent. New 

 York, Michigan and Wisconsin can- 

 not be accurately estimated, but it is 

 confidently predicted that they will 

 not meet early expectations. 



Retail seedsmen generally agree that 

 business was unusually good during 

 May. 



Bloomsdale spinach is in very short 

 supply this season, and as the crop of 

 1906 will hardly be available for this 

 year's requirements prices are likely 

 to soar. Dealers should beware of 

 Bloomsdale spinach at low prices. It 

 is said that some very reputable firms 

 have already been victimized. 



That justly popular seedsman. 

 Jerome B. Rice, has recently purchased 

 a large and powerful Pope-Toledo car. 

 Mr. Rice is said to be opposed to 

 scorching, and maintains that a speed 

 of 25 to 30 miles an hour ought to 

 satisfy any person of modest ambi- 

 tions. 



A Santa Clara county grower sent 

 this week to HORTICULTURE'S San 

 Francisco correspondent the following 

 clipping from a San Jose newspaper: 

 "More than three-fifths of all the 

 vegetable and flower seeds grown in 

 the world are produced in Santa Clara 

 valley, California. The average annual 

 crop of onion seed is 400 tons, or 

 800,000 pounds. Nearly 10.000 acres of 

 land are under cultivation in that 

 county for the growing of flower and 

 garden seeds. The total crop amounts 

 to something like 3,000,000 pounds an- 

 nually. There are grown regularly for 

 commercial trade in California 411 

 varieties of sweet peas, 72 of lettuce, 

 33 of onion, 32 of radish, 25 of beans, 

 30 of asters and 53 of nasturtiums, 

 not to mention hundreds of other 

 seeds less widely known. Of the many 

 hundred varieties of flower seeds, 

 asters pay the best. Next to sweet 

 peas, they are the most extensively 

 grown in Santa Clara valley, the 

 average annual crop being about 50.000 

 pounds. The California climate is not 

 unlike that of southern France and 

 Germany, where the old world seed- 

 growers have their grounds. In spite 

 of the similarity, however, California 

 seed growers succeed in harvesting 

 their crops from four to Ave months 

 earlier than do their foreign com- 

 petitors." 



James Vick's Sons 



SEEDSMEN 



Rochester, N. Y. 



Seasonable Seeds 



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Compacta .60 1.00 



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