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HORTICULTURE 



November 9, 1907 



ESTABLISHED I802 



ROMAN HYACINTHS 



at reduced price 

 to close out. 



PER lOOO SEEDS 



Asparagus plumosus nanus seeds $2-25 



Asparagus plumosus robustus seeds 2.50 



BERMUDA EASTER LILIES ' 

 Bulbs of all kinds, native and foreign. 

 Send for our Trade Bulb List 



J.M.THORBURN & CO. 



33 Barclay St., through to 38 Park Place 



NEW YORK 



Everything of tlie HiKbest Qrade 



We have a surplus of 



Narcissus VON SION ^I^e 



Write for Prices 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE 



RICKARDS BROS., Props. 



37 East 19th St„ NEW YORK 



riSKB 



^ BOSTON ^ 



for immediate plant- 

 iug or forcing. 



Let us quote on what- 

 ever you need. 



H. E. FISKE SEED CO. 



12 A 13 Faneuil Hall Square. 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



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S Cut spikes in any quantity from S 



S Selected White and Light Shades; 5 



S Selected Mixed Colors and Named S 



S Varieties of Exceptional Beauty. S 



a Wriie for Prices S 



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S aiadiolus Specialist S 



I Meadowvale Farm, BERLIN, N.Y = 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 B. W. Stone & Co., Thomas\<iIle, Ga. 

 —Fruit Guide and Catalogue tor 1908. 

 Paper-shell pecans a specialty. 



Samuel C. Moon, Monisville, Pa. 

 Folder of seedlings and cuttings of de- 

 ciduous and evergreen .shrubs and 

 trees for lining out. 



Peter Lambert, Trier A. Mosel. List 

 of nursery stock, principally roses, 

 1907-1908. Of the latter the list is very 

 comprehensive; we did not count them 

 but there must be fully one thousand 

 loses described. As a reference book, 

 this catalogue will be found very con- 

 venient by the rose fancier. 



Seed Trade 



The meeting of the Wholesale Seeds- 

 men's League seems to have resulted 

 in framing a list of prices that will be 

 a genuine surprise to those who still 

 cling to the illusion that there are 

 bountiful crops of everything in the 

 seed line. But even these prices are 

 not really as high as conditions would 

 warrant, albeit as high as the concen- 

 trated wisdom of the leading whole- 

 salers think advisable at this time. 

 The regular January lists will more 

 nearly reflect the real situation. 



Slowly the truth about the shortage 

 in sugar corn is penetrating through 

 the craniums of the seedsmen and can- 

 ners, particularly the latter, and prices 

 that would have aroused their ridicule 

 four weeks ago, are now paid with 

 surprising alacrity. Even yet the real 

 condition of the 1907 crop is only dim- 

 ly realized. But enough has been said 

 and the sequel must be awaited, as the 

 doubting Thomases must be shown. 



What a transformation in only one 

 year — yes, in six months! Only as far 

 back as last April both seed corn and 

 canned corn were scorned by all. Both 

 were selling below cost of production. 

 Stowell's Evergreen could be bought at 

 considerable under a dollar per bushel, 

 and the canned corn at about 50c. per 

 dozen. Now the latter sells readily at 

 90 and 95c,, and the seed — well, it may 

 not be judicious to say just at what 

 prices it is selling, but the advance is 

 even greater than on the canned ar- 

 ticle, and the end is not yet, and the 

 advance will continue as the demand 

 develops. This demand is certainly 

 growing, but will not reach high water 

 mark for some weeks yet. It will ma- 

 terialize more slowly than the demand 

 for seed peas. Conditions regarding 

 peas are now fairly well known, and 

 there is a lively scramble to cover 

 shortages which is slowly gathering 

 momentum, and will soon be at its 

 height. The mills of the seedsmen are 

 beginning to grind and in a few weeks 

 will be humming merrily. 



Bulbs now hold the center of the 

 stage; but a few weeks more and they 

 will be displaced and the regular seed 

 trade hold sway. 



Clark Nitbeck of Schenectady has 

 sold out his seed business to his broth- 

 er, who will continue and push the 

 business. With intelligent, energetic 

 effort he should build up a fine trade, 

 as he is practically the only seedsman 

 in that town of 75,000 people. 



It is reported that one or two of 

 the California seed growers are grow- 

 ing or buying oninns at Greeley, Colo., 

 which they are shipping to California. 

 As the soil and climate of this sec- 

 tion of Colorado seems well suited to 

 the crop it may be the means of saving 

 the situation when the supply of bulbs 

 in California proves insufficient. It is 

 certainly a long way in advance of 

 resorting to "picklers" which are sim- 

 ply the largest bulbs screened from 

 onion sets. 



Investigation during the past week 

 of the condition of the sugar corn crop 

 of Connecticut, confirms the most pes- 

 simistic views expressed in these col- 

 umns at any time, and a condition 



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 Japan. 



equally as serious as that of 1903 con- 

 fronts all interested parties. Very lit- 

 tle of the 1907 crop of th^ large grow- 

 ing late varieties will make seed, a 

 large proportion of it still being in the 

 milk, and much of it in fairly good 

 condition for the table. It of course 

 goes without saying that such corn can 

 never make seed, while even the most 

 matured is yet soft and will require 

 artificial heat to cure it Very few of 

 the seed corn growers have any way 

 of applying artificial heat and as a 

 consequence verj^ little seed will be 

 made from this year's crops. A pre- 

 diction of $10 per bushel for Stowell's 

 Evergreen of good vitality seems with- 

 in measurable distance of realization. 



Reports of heavy rains in the bean 

 growing districts of California and of 

 consequent damage to the crop have 

 been fioating in for the past week, but 

 definite information has not been re- 

 ceived, and all are warned against ac- 



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ST. DAVIDS 



Late-Dug Harrisii 



Guaranteed pure bulbs. Nolong- 

 iflorum adulteration 



SIZE 5 to 7, 40O in a Case. $15 00 Case 



Wm. Elliott <Si Sons 



201 Fulton street 

 NE>^ YORK 



