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HORTICULTURE 



Decembei; 21, 1907 



Seed Trade 



For the benefit of those who expect 

 to attend the canners' convention at 

 Cincinnati, February next, it may be 

 stated that no samples or exhibits of 

 any kind will be permitted at the 

 Hotel Sinton; the precedent that was 

 established at Buffalo last year will 

 be followed at the forthcoming con- 

 vention. Ample space will be afforded 

 all members of the Machinery and 

 Supplies Association at Machinery 

 Hall, where they can erect booths or 

 do anything else that seems good to 

 them. 



Several times attention has been 

 called to the reproach put upon the 

 seedsmen by certain persons in the 

 trade who are always present at these 

 conventions but who persistently re- 

 fuse to join the association and pay 

 the price of membership. The only 

 discoverable cause is penuriousness, 

 and one would think a man's self re- 

 spect and the good opinion of his com- 

 petitors and prospective customers 

 would be worth more than the cost of 

 membership. However, some persons' 

 self-respect seems to be a pretty cheap 

 commodity, judging by the value they 

 put upon it, and they would rather be 

 camp followers than join the ranks. 

 If the canners, who are the chief com- 

 plainants, would refuse to deal at the 

 convention with any one not a mem- 

 ber of the association, the problem of 

 how to get rid of such persons would 

 be solved. Either they would be com- 

 pelled to join the association or re- 

 main away. 



The following is a list of the prin- 

 cipal Cincinnati hotels and their 

 prices: The Grand, European, $1.50 

 per day and up; American plan, $3.00 

 per day and up; St. Nicholas, Euro., 

 $2.00 per day and up; Burnett. Am. 

 plan, $3.00 per day and up; Hotel 

 Sinton, Euro., $2.00 per day and up; 

 Gibson, Euro., $1.50 per day and up; 

 Palace, Am. plan, $2.00 and $2.50 per 

 day; Haviland, Euro., $1.50 per day 

 and up; Hotel Emery, Euro., $1.50 per 

 day and up; Am. plan, $3.00 per day 

 and up; The Munro, Turkish baths 

 and connection, Euro., $1.00. $1.50 and 

 $2.00 per day. 



An interesting development of the 

 past week was a quotation by a West- 

 ern seed house, of Stowell's Evergreen 

 and Country Gentleman seed corn at 

 $10.00 per bushel. While this price 

 seems a little high just at present this 

 quotation is a large-sized straw show- 

 ing plainly the trend of prices, and 

 the predictions made in these columns 

 that corn would sell at $10.00 a 

 bushel seems within reasonable dis- 

 tance of realization. The writer 

 knows where choice eastern grown 

 seed has sold at $7.00 within the past 

 ten days. 



Reports received during the past 

 week indicate that the leading grow- 

 ers of peas and beans fully realize the 

 scarcity of seed stocks of peas, par- 

 ticularly of canning varieties, and or- 

 ders for future peas have been writ- 

 ten at advances of from 50 to 75c. per 

 bushel above last year's figures. Con- 

 sidering the value of seed stocks, low- 

 yields which are the rule, and ad- 

 vances over last year's figures which 

 must be paid the farmers, $2.75 and 



K. VELTHUYS 



HILLEGOM, 

 9 HOLLAND 



HYACINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSUS, 



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Roman Hyacinths and the true 

 Paper White GrandifJora 



Ask for Our Wholesale Trade List at Hillegom 



Ana FELIX BASCH 



260 Clarendon St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Representative 



$3.00 do not seem at all unreasonable 

 on the standard canning sorts. Of 

 course there will be some grumbling, 

 and considering the fact that most of 

 the canners charge the farmers not 

 above $2.50 per bushel for the seed, 

 they can scarcely be blamed for not 

 wishing to pocket a loss at the very 

 outset. Many growers have been 

 tempted by the unusually high prices 

 to sell more or less of their seed 

 stocks, and most of them admit these 

 are short and very liable to be over- 

 sold. With this handicap to start 

 with, if the crop proves as short as 

 last season, deliveries are likely to 

 be even shorter of the 1908 crop. At 

 any rate, it does not look "from the 

 fence" as if there is much chance of 

 any large surplus, however generous 

 the crop may be. The seeds of the 

 more fancy vai'ieties of peas such as 

 are grown by market gardeners and 

 private trade are more abundant, and 

 prices on these are not likely to show 

 the same advance, excepting on Tele- 

 phones, Duke of Albany, Alderman, 

 Sutton's Excelsior, Dwarf Telephone, 

 and Improved Stratagems, which are 

 very much on the short side and gen- 

 erally are. 



At the request of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture the Treasury has directed 

 that until July 1, 1908, two-ounce sam- 

 ples of all importations of one hun- 

 dred pounds or more of grass, clover 

 and forage plant seeds be prepared at 

 the earliest practicable date after en- 

 try and forwarded to the Seed Lab- 

 oratory, Department of Agriculture, 

 labeled with names and addresses of 

 consignors and consignees, name of 

 seed and quantity of the consignment. 



The following Japan news is just re- 

 ceived, dated at Yokohama, Novem- 

 ber 28th: 



"Longiflorum and multiflorum lily 

 bulbs were left in some surplus this 

 year. For the past few years there 

 were always surpluses so far as the 

 Japan market was concerned, and the 

 prices were higher toward the end. 

 Some of the largest growers conse- 

 quently held back their bulbs expect- 

 ing extraordinary prices later but this 

 year they have not been sold and it 

 has taught them a lesson. They have 

 to carry over their bulbs now, which 

 makes everyone afraid and others will 

 not invest in seed bulbs, so that the 

 crop next year will be short in these 

 varieties should the demand be the 

 same as heretofore. Furthermore a 



great quantity of seed bulbs were 

 damaged this year by floods and the 

 weather and this will also tend to the 

 expected shortage. Giganteums are 

 not so weak but, owing to the fact 

 that all growers wish to grow these 

 bulbs, the price of seed Ijulbs is so 

 high that prices must be advanced 

 accordingly. 



"Large size auratums were short 

 this year and will also advance in 

 price next season. They have been 

 too low in the past and growers have 

 not been able to realize a profit on 

 them. The demand is very strong in 

 Europe and they are used there in 

 very large quantities for cold storage. 

 Lilium album will be very short. 

 Seed bulbs are very high priced and 

 hard to get. We have to buy quanti- 

 ties of rubrum to get the necessary 

 nunilier of albums to fill our orders." 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



California Carnation Company, 

 Loomis. Cal. — Wholesale Price List for 

 1907. 



Otto Katzenstein & Co., Atlanta, 

 Ga. Spocialties in American tree seeds 

 and plants. 



Roustan Servan & Cie., St. Remy de 

 Provence, France. — Wholesale cata- 

 logue and price list of flower and vege- 

 table seeds for 1907-1908. 



K. Velthuys, Hillegom. Holland. — 

 Wholesale Trade List of Dutch and 

 French bulbs and tubers, lilies, etc. 

 This is a very neat and attractive pro- 

 duction, with a vignette of a field of 

 tulips in colors inserted in the cover 

 page. 



R. Wiboltt, Nakskov, Denmark. Cata- 



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