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HORTl CULTURE 



August 3, 1907. 



Seed Trade 



Crop prospects have greatly improv- 

 ed during the past two weelvs partic- 

 ularly corn, and it looks as if the ear- 

 liest varieties might mature for seed. 

 As to late sorts such as Stowell's Ever- 

 green, Late Mammoth, Old Colony, 

 Country Gentleman, Hickox, and Egyp- 

 tian, their chances of making any seed 

 this year are very doubtful, still, if 

 frost holds off well into October it will 

 not be a hopeless case, but corn Is cer- 

 tainly very late, at least a month, and 

 it will -^e remarkable if it makes up 

 lost time. 



Pea growers are having their 

 troubles, and it can be stated as a fact 

 that the general crop will be short, ful- 

 ly as short as last season's. In fact 

 it is said that deliveries will not aver- 

 age better than fifty per cent. Should 

 this prove cori-ect, there will be much 

 complaining, especially from canners, 

 who most persistently refuse to recog- 

 nize the necessity for any shortage in 

 seed crops. More will be said along 

 this line in an early issue of Horticul- 

 ture. 



Notwithstanding the lateness of the 

 sugar corn crop in general, green corn 

 has been on the "market for some time, 

 much of it coming from the south, and 

 mainly of the Adams varieties, but 

 genuine sugar corn locally grown has 

 been in evidence for about ten' days 

 and has brought as high as $2.25 per 

 100 ears. It ought soon to be abun- 

 dant and much lower in price. 



Green peas have brought most ex- 

 cellent prices, large shipments from 

 90c, to $1.15 per bushel. 



Beans have also been selling at very 

 good prices, but there is some prospect 

 of the market being glutted with a 

 consequent drop in prices. As a mat- 

 ter of fact most all green garden "sass" 

 has sold at exceptionally good pnces, 

 and if crops have been somewhat dis- 

 appointing in yield and a little later 

 than usual truck farmers will no doubt 

 make quite as much if not more mon- 

 ey than they generally do from the 

 sam'e acreage and larger crops. 



These are happy auguries for the 

 seedsmen, as they mean a good active 

 demand for seeds next winter and 

 spring. 



Vice-Consul Ernest VoUmer writing 

 from Tsingtau says that a large Ameri- 

 can seed business could be worked up 

 in this district. Owing to the system 

 of fertilization, Chinese vegetables are 

 very unhealthy and are not eaten by 

 foreigners. The result is that every 

 family has a vegetable garden. Small 

 packages of seeds, the same size as in 

 America, sell for 10 cents Mexican (5 

 cents gold). All of these goods come 

 from Europe; but if the Americans 

 would introduce their seeds, allowing 

 the unsold packages to be returned at 

 the end of the season, as is the prac- 

 tice in America, there is no reason why 

 the trade could not be diverted. Na- 

 tives would probably buy what seeds 

 were left over at a reduced price, and 

 thus do away with the expense of re- 

 shipping to the United States. This 

 business could be worked up all over 

 the Orient, as the conditions are simi- 

 lar, and would seem to be worth seek- 

 ing. 



The special car from Boston on Sat- 

 urday, July 20, carried a happy com- 

 pany of fifty to the sweet pea trial 

 grounds of W. W. Rawson & Co., at 

 Marblehead, Mass., and trains, automo- 

 biles, carriages, etc., swelled the num- 

 ber to over a hundred during the after- 

 noon. Much interest was manifested 

 in the ninety-six varieties displayed, 

 which included fifty distinct novelties. 

 A voting slip was given to each guest 

 on arrival on which they were re- 

 quested to register the 12 best varieties 

 in thoir opinion. The result showed the 

 favorites to be Apple Blossom, Frank 

 Dolby, Florence Norton, <3eorge Her- 

 bert, Htlen Pierce, Miss Wilmott, Mrs. 

 Alfred Watkins, Nora Unwin, Queen 

 Alexandra, Shasta. White Wonder, 

 Zoe. Base ball was . indulged in by 

 some of the visitors, refreshments 

 were s'erved, and at six o'clock the 

 special car for Boston started on its 

 trip. 



E. C. Dungau, manager of the Wm. 

 Henry Maule establishment, leaves 

 Aug. .3rd for a trip along the Canadian 

 border via Cape Vincent. He will be 

 accompanied by Mr. King of Maude- 

 ville & King, Rochester. We under- 

 stand this is to be a fishing and pleas- 

 ure trip but it will be well not to over- 

 look its steadying influence on the pea 

 and bean market. These two hard- 

 heads irc not easily 'stampeded by the 

 cry of "wolf, wolf," or fire alarms. 



It is reported that the crop of 

 Kentucky Blue Grass will be con- 

 trolled this year, as it was last year, 

 by a syndicate composed of a tew Blue 

 Grass cleaners. 



As reported in these columns some 

 weeks ago, C. B. Coe has returned to 

 the employ of D. M. Ferry & Co., and 

 is now on the road again. 



A GOOD MOWER. 



The clipper lawn mover, manufac- 

 tured by the Clipper Lawn Mower 

 Company, Dixon, III., continues to win 

 its way to permanent popularity, judg- 

 ing from appioving reports of parties 

 who have purchased this type of mower 

 on the strength of the advertisement 

 in Horticulture and the strong recom- 

 mendation given by Mr. Orpet in a 

 communication in Horticulture last 

 season as to the efficacy of the clip- 

 per in exterminating "crab grass" 

 when used persistently. The hand ma- 

 chines and horse machines have both 

 given good results. 



Our note two weeks ago concerning 

 the magnitude of the strawberry crops 

 in New England is confirmed by later 

 reports from many localities the crop 

 being in some cases nearly double that 

 of last year. The retarded spring pos- 

 sibly had something to do with this 

 gratifying result. As a rule the grow- 

 ers express satisfaction with the re- 

 turns. Occasionally there is a com- 

 plaint from those who had been antici- 

 pating big prices because the season 

 was late. Many Portugese and Italian 

 farmers are going into strawberry 

 raising. 



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Our Advance Price List of Bulbs is Ready. 



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 PHILADELPHIA - - PA. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 

 Summer School of Agriculture. 

 Tliere will be a summer school at 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College in 

 1908. This will follow somewhat 'the 

 same lines as the school which has 

 proved so popular and sucessful this 

 yefir. This announcement came of- 

 fictelly from the Dean, Professor F. A. 

 Waugh on Thursday. It was stated fur- 

 ther that although the courses would be 

 somewhat changed in 1908 the main 

 idea of this year's school would be ad- 

 hered to and improved as far as possi- 

 ble. Probably one or two strictly 

 technical courses in certain lines of 

 horticulture will be offered and If possi- 

 ble there will be additional profession- 

 al courses for teachers. The expenses 

 of the course in 1908 will be considera- 

 bly greater than they have been this 

 >ear. but will not exceed a total of $5- 

 $6 a week. It is expected furthermore 

 that some definite limitations will be 

 put on the number of courses which 

 students may elect and also upon th^e 

 number of students admitted to each 

 class. If this year's experience is an 

 indication of what may be expected 

 next year it will be necessary also to 

 put some limitation upon the total 

 number admitted to the school. 



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