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HORTICULTU HL 



October IT. 1908 



Seed Trade 



As stated in hist week's HORTICUL- 

 Ti RE, the first preliminary estimates 

 of deliveries of the 1908 seed pea crop 

 have appeared, and they fully bear 

 out estimates made in HORTICUL- 

 TVJRE weeks ago, and particularly on 

 canners' peas, which are even lower 

 than the most pessimistic predictions. 

 Many an uncomfortable quarter hour 

 awaits those growers who deal largely 

 with canners, and especially those who 

 have to call on them. Such unfortu- 

 nates should make their wills and in- 

 crease their life and accident insjr- 

 ore starting on their next 

 campaign. 



With the exception of a compara- 

 liveh few varieties, deliveries of beans 

 will be fairly good, and not much com- 

 plain.1 cted from that source. 



Of Limas. the pole varieties promise a 

 fair emp, and barring damage by rain 

 there should be but little shortage ex- 

 cepting possibly the Dreer or Chal- 

 lenger variety, but there will be con- 

 siderable of a shortage in the Dwarf 

 and Bush sorts, though nothing in the 

 way of figures is yet available. Of the 

 two new Dwarfs, it is believed the in- 

 troducers will be able to offer "Ford- 

 hook" to the trade, but the Bui pees 

 Improved will probably not be offered 

 this year owing to the great shortage 

 of the crop. 



A few seedsmen who managed to se- 

 cure a little seed of these two varie- 

 ties last year will have small quanti- 

 ties from' their plantings, but ninety 

 per cent, of all the seed in existence is 

 controlled by the introducers. Those 

 seedsmen who contemplate listing 

 these varieties should know the 

 source of their supplies. "A word to 

 the wise is sufficient." 



The open warm autumn has been a 

 boon to tomato growers, whether for 

 seed or cauning, and the crop will not 

 he nearly so short as seemed probable 

 six weeks ago. 



\n attack on the seed trade which 

 appeared in the "Rural New Yorker," 

 of recent date, has called forth some 

 indignant protests from seedsmen, for 

 although not an editorial, nor written 

 by a member of its staff, a footnote 



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CLIFTON, N.J. 



by the editor seems to give endorse- 

 ment to the ignorant and exaggerated 

 trash of its correspondent, and the fact 

 that it is printed prominently on the 

 front page of the paper gives addi- 

 tional weight to this suspicion. 



That the spoutings of this cheap 

 sensationalist will be properly an- 

 swered may be taken for granted, as 

 the seedsmen cannot lightly allow such 

 an attack to pass unchallenged, for, 

 regardless of the insignificance of the 

 writer, the fact that it was published 

 in a paper of the standing of the "Ru- 

 ral New Yorker" with all too evident 

 approval, makes a reply practically 

 imperative. Those seedsmen who have 

 not' read the article in question should 

 do so. 



Mr. W. Atlee Burpee has jus! paid 

 a long piomised visit to Mr. Jerome 

 B. Rice at the latter's beautiful home 

 at Cambridge, X. Y. Incidentally Mr. 

 Burpee made all too brief social calls 

 on the seedsmen of Albany and Troy. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. 

 Y— Trade Price List, Fall 1908. 

 Wholesale only. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn. 

 -Folder of Wholesale Prices on 

 Palms and Ferns for 1908. 



■\Yild Bros. Nursery Co., Sarcoxie, 

 Mo.— Trade Price List of Ornamental 

 Trees, Peonies, Irises, etc. 



Littlefield & Wyman, North Abing- 

 ton, Mass.— Fall Folder of Prices of 

 Hardy Garden Plants and Shrubs. 



B. G. Pratt Company, New York. 

 N. Y. — Price List and Instructions for 

 Use of Scalecide, the "Tree Saver." 



Old Colony Nursery, T. R. Watson, 

 Plymouth, Mass.— Wholesale Trade 

 List of Trees and Shrubs and Herba- 

 ceous Perennials. 



The Connon Floral Co., Hamilton, 

 Ont— Fall Wholesale Price List of 

 Bedding and House Plants, Shrubs, 

 Vines and Perennials. 



Fraser Nursery Company, Hunts- 

 ville, Ala.— Whilesale Price List for 

 Fall, 190S, for Nurserymen and Deal- 

 ers Only. — A neat little catalogue. 



H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co. 

 Nursery, Mo. — Descriptive Catalogue 

 and Price List of Trees and Hardy 

 and Tender Plants, for Fall 190S— 

 Spring 1909. 



Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Glen 

 Saint Mary, Fla.— 1909 catalogue of 

 fruit and shade trees. The cover 

 shows oranges and peaches hand 

 ;,omely reproduced in colors. 



Morris Nursery Company, West 

 Chester, Pa.— General Catalogue of 

 Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrub- 

 bery, Vines. Roses, etc. — A hand 



vgue and a veritable gem in its 

 illustrations. 



The George Wittbold Company, Chi- 

 cago, 111. — General Catalogue. A very 

 ornate production, printed on heavy 

 paper, in two colors and with a daintily 



Gold Frame Mats 



MADE OF BURLAPS THICKLY 

 QUILTED WITH JUTE, WILL 

 COVER TWO SASH, 



$1.25, $14.00 doz. 



MADE OF STRAW, WILL COVER 

 TWO FRAMES, 



$1.75, $20.00 doz. 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS 



42 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK. 



Mignonette 



FARQUHAR'S 

 GIANT 



Oz., 75c; 1-4 oz., 25c 



R, & J, Farquhar & Go, 



6 & 7 South Market Street 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Spanish Iris r & ( 



A surplus of extra fine stock in following splendid 

 varieties : 



COUNT NAS3\U, CAJANUS, 



BLANCHE FLEUR, BRITISH 



QUEEN, btc, 



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HYACINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSUS, 



and all seasonable stock, ^end for Catalogue. 



FrestiTobacco siems. in Bales 01 300iiis.. $1.50 



W, C. BCCkert, No. SidirPiuTburg, Pa. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 

 Cabbage 



$1.00 per loco. 



1 CiHllftG Boston Market, 

 LiCIIUwC Tennis Ball and Grani 

 Rapids, 25c. per ioo, $1.00 per 1000. 



Davelaif strong i lants, at $1.25 

 ■ alSICy per IOOO. 



R. Vincent Jr. & Sons Co. 



WHITE MARSH, MD. 



Wakefle d and Sue- 



cess on, 25c. per 100, 



