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HORTICULTURE 



January 25, 1913 



Seed Trade 



A Surplus of Peas. 



What was bound to come sometime 

 is an accomplished fact — a surplus of 

 peas. Repeated short crops culminat- 

 ing in the practical crop failure of a 

 year ago have almost unconsciously 

 spurred seedsmen to order in excess 

 of their requirements, and this has 

 crept up little by little until many had 

 unwittingly doubled their orders, 

 therefore, when they received full de- 

 liveries on a large number of items, 

 and anywhere from tiO to 75 per cent 

 on most of the others, there was near- 

 ly as much woe and complaining as 

 in short, very short delivery years. It 

 is surprising how conditions can be 

 reversed in one year in this always 

 perplexing but more or less fascinat- 

 ing seed business, and this applies to 

 other things than peas. It really 

 would seem, if we may be permitted to 

 venture the opinion, that the seed 

 trade failed to rightly gauge the crop 

 situation the past season. If latest 

 crop figures of 1912 are correct, yields 

 were generally underestimated, but 

 this may have been due to a habit of 

 looking for low yields, as we all ac- 

 quire habits very readily and often un- 

 consciously if nothing more than hab- 

 its of thought. Following a long pe- 

 riod of superabundant crops and low 

 prices, buyers do not readily adjust 

 themselves to an advance justified by 

 imexpected shortages, and in reverse 

 order, producers after a succession of 

 bad crops and gradually advancing 

 prices, find it hard to make practical 

 concessions to meet improved condi- 

 tions and fairly liberal stocks. How- 

 ever, it is an old saying that one swal- 

 low does not make a summer, and 

 one good crop must not be allowed to 

 obliterate too quickly the long succes- 

 sion of bad ones. This seems to be 

 about the present situation, and if 

 dealers who are overstocked will order 

 according to actual requirements, add- 

 ing their possible carry over, and 

 growers will make reasonable conces- 

 sions in prices from those justified by 

 genuine conditions, they ought readily 

 get together. "Lest we forget" is re- 

 spectfully referred to both sides. 



Notes. 

 Albert Dickinson and Mrs. Dickin- 

 son of Chicago are spending the win- 

 ter in Florida. 



S. F. Willard, Jr., recently in a Chi- 

 cago house, has taken a position with 

 Kendel's seed store, Cleveland, Ohio, 



South Jacksonville, Fla,— G. E. Ev- 

 ans is preparing to open a wholesale 

 and retail seed business at 201 E. Bay 

 street. 



Philadelphia, Pa.— Thomas J. Merry 

 has taken charge of the poultry sup- 

 ply department of the Johnson Seed 

 Company. 



Prices of lancifolium album and 

 magnificum lily bulbs have advanced 

 abroad 30 to 45 per cent according to 

 size of bulbs. 



George E. Evans has opened a 

 wholesale seed store in Jacksonville, 

 Fla. The business which he formerly 

 conducted in Gainesville has been sold 

 to H. J. Baebers. 



New Crop Florists' Flower Seeds 



ASPARAGUS 



Flumosus Nanus (Greenhouse Grown), 



100 seeds, 50c.; $3.75 per 1000 seeds; 

 5000 seeds, $18.00; $34.00 per 10,000 

 seeds. 



ASTER— Queen of the Market 



Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



White $.20 $.60 



Rose Pink 20 .60 



Blush Pinii 20 .60 



Light Blue 20 .60 



Dark Blue 20 .60 



Crimson 20 .60 



Slixed 20 .60 



CENTAUR EA 



Gyninncarpa 1000 seeds, .15 .40 



Candirtissima 1000 seeds, .30 .75 



COBAEA SCANDENS 



,10 



.40 



.75 



I'uritle 



White 



DRACAENA 



Indivlsii 10 .30 



.\ustralis 20 .50 



GREVILLEA ROBUSTA 15 .50 



LOBELIA Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



Crystal Palace Compacta. . .$.30 $1.25 



Barnard's Perpetual. 25 1.00 



Crystal Palace Speciosa 15 .50 



PETUNIA ^Tr. Tr. 



Mil-hell's Monstrosus $.60 $1.00 



California Giants 30 .50 



Ruflled Giants 30 .50 



GrandiBora Fringed 30 .50 



Dwarf Inimitable 30 .50 



Snowball .30 



PHLOX Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



Dwarf Crimson with Eye... $.40 $1.75 



Fireball 40 1.75 



" Pink 40 1.75 



Snowball 40 1.75 



Mixed 40 1.25 



VERBENA 



Mammoth Fancy Blue 30 1.25 



Pink 30 1.25 



" " Scarlet . . .30 1.25 



" " Striped .. .30 1.25 



" " White ... .30 1.25 



Mixed ... .30 1.00 



Our New Wholesale Price List for 1913 is Ready. 

 It Is Free Upon Application, 



HENRY F. MICHELL COMPANY 



518 Market Street ... Philadelphia, Pa. 



O. H. Dickinson, of Springfield, 

 Mass,, has removed from Lyman to 

 Worthington street, and in connection 

 with his seed business has added a 

 high-class stock of fruits and delica- 

 tessen requisites. Now if you should 

 want peas and limburger, beans and 

 fromage de brie, Dick can supply 

 them. It's a strange combination, but 

 if anyone is equipped to make it go 

 it's Dick. 



H. E. Brotherton, now in charge of 

 the growing department of the Penin- 

 sular Seed Co.. Port, Huron, Mich., 

 reports a fairly satisfactory busi- 

 ness the past year, and is very 

 hopeful of the future. It may be 

 remarked that Mr. Brotherton was for 

 a number of years connected with 

 Peter Henderson & Co., then he was 

 for several years agriculturist for the 

 Michigan Beet Sugar Companies, but 

 this latter occupation was not con- 

 genial, and last year he found a con 

 nection with the Peninsular Seed Co.. 

 acquiring, we are informed, a substan- 

 tial interest in the business. Already 

 this almost moribund concern has de- 

 veloped an activity and vitality that 

 has surprised many, and Mr. Brother- 

 ton says he has only just commenced. 

 Give him a few years more, and he 

 will show us something. Here's suc- 

 cess to him. 



Mr. Brotherton is a brother of Wil- 

 bur Brotherton, the expert, who has 

 for the past fifteen years presided 

 over the growing department of the 

 Jerome B. Rice Seed Co,, and to him 

 is mainly due the credit for the very 

 high quality of the peas and beans 

 produced by this company, who, as is 

 well known, are by far the largest 

 growers of peas and beans tor seed 

 purposes in the world. 



alogue contains some unique and use- 

 ful features not usually found in such 

 publications, 



H, F. Mlchell Co., Phlla., Pa.— 

 Wholesale Price List of Seeds, etc., for 

 Spring, 1913. for Florists and Market 

 Gardeners. A very interesting, useful 

 and complete catalogue of fine special- 

 ties. Also General Catalogue, 196 

 pages, unique and handsome. The first 

 cover page is devoted to a picture of 

 Buddleia variabilis magniflca, hitherto 

 known as the Summer Lilac, but in 

 this instance given the new name of 

 Butterfly Flower. ' Buddleia by any 

 other name would smell as sweet. By 

 the way, this catalogue is "full of 

 meat." 



LILY CANES 



7 to 8 feet long, for Lilies, etc. 



$7.00 PER 1000 



Wm. Elliolt & Sons 



42 Vesey St., New York 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 Theodosia B. Shepherd Co,, Ven- 

 tura, Cai.— Wholesale Price List of 

 Giant Petunia and other Flower Seed 

 and Plant Specialties, Illustrated. 



Samuel Fraser, Geneseo, N. Y. — List 

 of High Grade Fruit Trees. This cat- 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



WHOLESALE FIELD AKD GARDEN SEEDS 



Established 1818 



H'ritf For- Our L.'iu P> i. a 



LIGHT, PRATT and ELLICOTT STS. 

 BALTIMORE, MD. 



Burpee's Seeds 



PHILADELPHIA 



BH'E LI.ST OF WIIOLE.-^.XI.K PRICES 



MAILED ONLY TO THOSE WHO PL.VNT 



FOR PUOFIT. 



