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HORTICULTURE, 



May 8, 1909 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 

 Wstaon S. Woodruff, Orange, Codd., 

 Pr««. ; J. C. RobingoD, Waterloo, Neb., 

 Ii™t VIcePres.; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 

 ©., Bec'y and Treas. Twenty-seventh an- 

 ■aal conventlm June 22-Zi, lOUO, at Clifton 

 ■onae, Niagara Falls, Out. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 

 LEAGUE. 

 F. W. Bruggerhof, Prea.; Burnet Land- 

 ntli. Bec'y. 



Bush LImas Short. 

 The fierce character of th:; weather 

 the past week largely paralyzed coun- 

 ter trade, but with the prospects of 

 clear and warmer weather business 

 should hum the coming week. A few 

 bushels of Burpee's Bush Limas came 

 to light last week, and were snapped 

 up at $10.00 per bu., so report says. 

 Beyond all question these beans will 

 be short again, as confidential inform- 

 ation clearly shows that there is very 

 slight chance of growers raising 

 enough to fill orders. Whenever the 

 embargo is lifted further information 

 will be given. 



Damage in the Norfolk District. 



Last week's storm has done immense 

 damage to garden truck In the Nor- 

 folk district and in the South and 

 West generally, and it is now so late 

 that replanting is impracticable. It 

 can be done, of course, but the 

 crops would come into market in 

 the north at the same time as the 

 Northern crops, which would mean 

 sick and demoralized markets and no 

 profit, if not heavy loss, especially to 

 the southern truckers. Seedsmen do- 

 ing business with truckers in the Nor- 

 folk district are liable to find col- 

 lections slow this season, as the loss 

 has not been on crops entirely, but 

 has extended to building and other 

 property which the trucker will want 

 to make good before he pays out 

 money for anything else. It isn't a 

 pleasing prospect. 



Ely Seed Co. 

 It is said that the Ely Seed Co. 

 are going to move and take a store, 

 though the location has not been giv- 

 en. This concern has been rapidly 

 forging to the front and though they 

 have had an uphill fight, grit and 

 perseverance have carried them along 

 to where success now seems assured. 

 They surely have fought a good fight 

 and kept the faith, in that they have 

 done business on the square and their 

 integrity is universally recognized. 

 More success to 'em. 



Pea Prospects. 

 Planting of peas in Michigan is pro- 

 gressing, but what shall the harvest 

 be? The canneries are praying tor a 

 short crop, the seedsmen, or at least 

 seed gi-owers, for a large one. Here 

 is a conflict of interests. Can both 

 be accommodated? "The prayers of 

 the righteous avail much." Take your 

 choice. 



I^i^ejslx t^etlm. Sondes 



Just Received 



Per 100 1000 5000 



KBNTIA BBLMOREAN.\ ^0.50 $4.00 $18.00 



KENTIA KORSTEHIANA 50 4.50 20.00 



COCOS WBDDELLIANA 1.00 7.50 35.00 



PHOENIX BECLINATA 50 3.00 13.00 



PHOENIX CANARIE.NSIS 60 3.00 13.00 



8EAF0RTHIA ELEGANS 75 6.00 25.00 



LATANIA BORBONICA 30 2.50 lO.UO 



AUECA LUTESCENS lOU 7.50 35.00 



ARTHUR T. B0DDIN6T0N, z^^^^.'V^tH s.., New York 



NEW YORK PURE SEED BILL. 



The amended pure seed bill intro- 

 duced in the N. Y. State Assembly by 

 Mr. Calla.n has passed both the Assem- 

 bly and Senate and is now before the 

 Governor for his signature. If th3 

 Governor signs it, as he probably will, 

 the bill will go into effect July 1. 190!i. 

 Following is the text of the bill: 



ARTICLE XVI. 

 Inspection and Sale of Seeds. 

 Section 360. Inspection and sale of 

 seeds. — No person shall sell, offer, expose 

 or have in liis possession for sale for the 

 purpose of seeding, auy seeds or cereals, 

 grasses, clovers or forage plants in quan- 

 tities exceeding one pound, unless every 

 receptacle, pacl;age, sack or bag contaiu- 

 ing such seeds, or a label securel.v at- 

 tached thereto, is marked in a plain indeli- 

 ble manner as follows; and said mariis 

 shall be on the receptacle, package, sack 

 or bag itself if there is more than ten per 

 centum of injurious foreign seed; 



a. With the full name and address of the 

 seller. 



b. With the name of the kind or kinds 

 of seeds, except in the case of mixtures 

 prepared for special purposes, when so 

 labeled, and the name of any foreign in- 

 jurious seeds present to the extent of five 

 per centum or over by count and the 

 name and per centum of the following 

 adulterants, if present, which adulterairts 

 shall not be taken into consideration when 

 estimating the five per centum herein 

 above referred to; 



Yellow trefoil in red clover. 



Yellow trefoil, burr clover, sweet clover 

 or dodder, in alfalfa. . 



Canadian blue grass in Kentucky blue 

 grass. 



Meadow fescue or rye grass In orchard 

 grass. 



Yellow trefoil in alsike clover. 



c. With the claimed per centum of 

 purity of the sample by count which shall 

 be not more than five above the per 

 centum determined by official examination. 



Section 361. Samples, publication of re- 

 sults of examinations. — Samples of seed 

 shall be taken in duplicate, both samples 

 to be sealed promptly and one to be ten- 

 dered and, if accepted, to be delivered at 

 the time of taking to the person apparentlv 

 in charge and a receipt taken therefor, un- 

 less refused. No action shall be main- 

 tained tor violation of this statute if the 

 seeil was not sold or exposed for sale. 

 The commissioner of agriculture is hereby 

 authorized to publish from time to time 

 the results of seed examination, together 

 with the names and addresses of dealers 

 from whom the samples examined were 

 taken. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect 

 July one, nineteen hundred and nine. 



Notes. 

 Vaughan's Seed Store has removed 

 from number 14 to 25 Barclay street. 

 New York. 



Norrlstown, Pa. — A three-story seed 

 and flower store is being built bv W. 

 H. Catanese. 323 De Kalb St. 



Hjalmar Hartmann & Co., the lead- 

 ing cauliflower and cabbage seed 

 dealers of Denmark, have moved their 

 stores and offices to the new building, 

 Logangsstraede 20, Copenhagen. Am- 



erican buyers of cauliflower and cab- 

 bage seed at wholesale will please 

 make note. 



Chicago, III. — Henry H. Poole who 

 died recently at Kewanee, 111., of 

 pneumonia, was oflSce manager of the 

 Albert Dickinson Seed Co. for twenty 

 years. 



European sources of information in- 

 dicate that there is a very considerable 

 shortage in the ciop of Kentia seed 

 this season, more especially in Forste- 

 riana. The consequence is a smart rise 

 in price, the later prices showing an 

 advance of nearly one-third over pre- 

 vious quotations. 



Denver, Colo. — The Barteldes Seed 

 Co. has recently acquired the land at 

 1525 Fifteenth St. on which their 

 poultry department is located, and will 

 now erect a new and spacious building 

 at a cost of $50,000. .Manager C. R. 

 Root of this company was recently 

 elected president of the Colorado 

 National Apple Exposition. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Mosbaek Greenhouse Co., Onarga, 111. 

 —Trade List of Hardy Perennials. 



Frantz De Laet, Contich, Belgium.— 

 General catalogue of Cacti and other 

 succulents. 



R. n. Hunt, Chicago, is making a 

 specialty of the Defiance Fumigating 

 Lamp, which burns kerosene and is 

 an excellent de\ace for fumigating 

 greenhouses with To-Bak-Ine or other 

 insecticides of similar character. 



PRIMULA SEED 



PRIMULA CNINENSIS FIMBRIATA 



K Tr. rkt. Tr. Pkt. 



Alba Magnifica S«.GO $1.00 



Chiswick Red fiO 1.00 



Holborn Blue 60 1.00 



Kermeslna Splendens CO 1.00 



Rosy Morn 60 1.00 



ftrichell's Prize Mixture, 



l>cautifully fringed varieties. . . 60 1.00 



PRIMULA OBGONIGA GRANDIFLORA 



Tr. Pkl. 



Cnmpacta «i0.S0 



Fimbriata(i.i6oz , $i.j5) 60 



Gigantea (Arendsi) 50 



Kermeslna (i i6 oz. $1.50) 40 



Rosea (i-i6oi.,$i.oo) 30 



White (i-i6oz.,$t.35) 30 



Mixed (i-8oz.,$r.oo) .30 



Write for our Wholesale Catalogue. 



HENRY F. MIGHELL GO. 



1018 Market St., PHILA. 



