May •2^. I'.IIIS. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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has been especially good and the de- 

 mand for hardy perennial plants seems 

 to be increasing. We are this year add- 

 ing fourteen greenhouses to our range 

 and have 48 acres of land around our 

 greenhouses devoted quite largely to 

 flower plants, bulbs and growing small 

 items in the seed line." 



Denver, Colo. — J. L. Ihvalon, manager 

 of the Haines Seed Co., reports: "Spring 

 very backward. JIany of the seeds plant- 

 ed have rotted; many others came up. 

 and were frosted. Wo had snow on April 

 12 and a freeze on April 13, which froKe 

 the rhubarb and asparagus to the 

 ground, and snow again the last of April. 

 The cabbage pests have already made 

 their appearance, even in the hotbeds 

 and cold frames, in some instances de- 

 stroying the entire planting. The ground 

 is in better condition for work than it 

 has been before for years." 



SEED CROP REPORT. 



Following is a rc])ort from England 

 received May 18: 



' As reports of the state of growing 

 crops are beginning to be current, we 

 think it well to give you a preliminary 

 report, as under: Beet doing badly 

 generally; about one-half of the acre- 

 age destroyed ; but we hope to be able 

 to report more fully in about a month. 

 We still expect to be able to make good 

 deliveries on some varieties. Sugar beet 

 and Swiss chard we cannot report on 

 at the moment. Borecole, Extra Dwarf 

 and German greens failed entirely; 

 tall and dwarf will possibly yield a full 

 crop. Broccoli and Brussels sprouts, 

 ditto. Cabbage doing badly generally 

 and several lots not running. These we 

 also hope to report on more fully in 

 about a month, and may still be able to 

 make good deliveries on some varieties. 

 Carrots doing badly and we fear de- 

 liveries on most varieties will be short. 

 Kohl-Ralii, leek, majigel, parsley, rad- 

 ish, savoy and spinach looking well. 

 Swede and turnip are looking very well 

 generally, but two weeks ago might have 

 been damaged by sharp frosts the latter 

 part of April. White Milan turnip has 

 entirely failed. Golden Ball is doing 

 badly, one-half crop. Red Strap Leaf 

 and Early Hed Globe we fear will be 

 short. 



CORN PHENOMENA. 



Sweet corn has deported itself in a 

 very unsatisfactory way this season. Lots 

 of the same variety, which went into 

 the dry house side by side under con- 

 ditions so nearly alike that in average 

 seasons they would have come out with 

 the same per cent of vitality, showed on 

 test a difference in, this respect of nearly 

 50 per cent. The explanation lies in the 

 fact that we had an English summer, 

 and the great wonder is that the germs 

 of any variety matured. 



Tlie low average temperature pro- 

 duced other singular results in the sweet 

 corn crop. The smut fungus did not 

 thrive. In overhauling with my men, 

 ear by ear, about 2,000 bushels of ears 

 it was very seldom indeed that we found 

 any smut, certainly not a tenth as often 

 as usual, and where found it was insig- 

 nifieaint in quantity. The inference would 

 naturally be that it is a hot weather 

 plant. ]3ut, on the other hand, the Cory 

 corn (one of my own introductions, but 

 I must tell the truth about this sort of 

 my adoption), which, being exceptionally 

 hardy, thrives in cooler weather than 



most sorts, is peculiarly liable to this 

 disease. 



Another peculiarity of tlie sweet corn 

 of last season was the remarkable degree 

 of freedom from flinty kernels. The 

 Early Crosby was the varietj' which 

 came moire especially under my observa- 

 tion. In this the flinty kernels were as 

 rare when compared with average sea- 

 sons as the smiit fungus. It might be 

 an interesting study for some of our 

 intelligent agricultiu-al college graduates 

 to determine the cause of these flinty 

 kernels in a variety of corn which has 

 been most carefully selected as to seed 

 stock for a long series of years. A test 

 from planting them developed the fact 

 that they rarely produced their like. 



Another phenomenon of our English 

 summer was the many ears having 

 mainly small, withered kernels that had 

 no chit. It is a fact worth noticing 

 that tlie kernels of such ears that grew 

 around the butt end were usually plump 

 and all right for a row or two, and 

 more rarely a few of the kernels at the 

 small end. Wlould the inference be a 

 safe one that such kernels as a rule 

 would give a more vigorous progeny? 



I see by a catalogue received re- 

 cently that our English cousins are in- 

 troducing one early variety of sweet 

 corn having indorsement from their 

 Canadian fellow countrymen. I trust 

 that the firm may be more successful 

 thau was I when several years ago I 

 attempted something along the same 

 line with about a couple of responses 

 as the outcome of my effort. 



Veiy likely some of my fellow seeds- 

 men have had their laugh over one 

 unique statement in the English adver- 

 tisement where it is stated that "Tlie 

 cobs are a great favorite among the pa- 

 trons of Covent Garden Market." I 

 thereupon wrote Messrs. C. & Co. that 

 I was greatly pleased to learn so intei-- 

 esting a fact, for I had experienced con- 

 siderable difficulty in disposing of mine 

 and would be pleased to ship him sev- 

 eral cords f. o. b. at $20 per cord. No 

 answer returned as yet. 



J. J. H. GREGOEr. 



Marblehead, Mass. 



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