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HORTICULTURE, 



February 29. ISOjJ 



Seed Trade 



It was supposed thiit the place for 

 the next Canners' Convention had 

 been decided upon at Cincinnati, but 

 information which conjes to hand 

 during the past week indicates that 

 this matter is still unsettled, and that 

 some other place may be chosen. In- 

 terviews with prominent canners 

 show that they are of the opinion 

 that Chicago is to be the place, but it 

 seems that the Machinery & Supply 

 Men's Association have something to 

 say in the matter, and according to re- 

 ports, the Chicago proposition is not 

 wholly acceptable to them. Just 

 when this matter will be definitely 

 settled cannot be stated now, but 

 something will have to be done in the 

 near future. 



Ignorance of seeds and plants even 

 by many of our most intelligent men 

 is proverbial. A case in point is from 

 an item in Harper's Magazine, by 

 ■Wm. Dean Howells. It is best to 

 quote his own words, which are as 

 follows:- — 



'■■V\''e know of a case, no longer ago 

 than last summer, in which the gar- 

 dener bought a seedman's last dozen 

 of eggplants, which he duly set out 

 in his plot, and which flourished with 

 uncommon promise up to the blos- 

 soming moment, all looking alike and 

 unmistakably eggplants. But at this 

 point they differentiated themselves; 

 five continued eggplants, and seven 

 turned aside and became petunias. 

 They came, indeed, very beautiful 

 petunias, delicious in fragrance, rare 

 in form, and most delicate and novel 

 in color; but. after all. they were not 

 eggplants. The seedsman of whom 

 they were all bought, being appositely 

 reproached, justly remarked that the 

 gardener who supplied them must 

 have got them mixed. Sometimes. 

 this sort of mixture begins further 

 back, with the very seeds them- 

 selves." Comment in such a case as 

 this seems to be quite unnecessary. 



There is very little activity just at 

 the present time in seed corn or seed 

 peas, most of the large buyers gen- 

 erally having secured their stocks tor 

 the coming season's planting. There 

 is. however, quite a probability that 

 the slender reserves of seed corn will 

 be heavily drawn upon for replanting 

 purposes. Much of the seed that will 

 be planted this year will be of such 

 poor germination that unless the 

 weather, the soil and all conditions 

 are most favorable, replanting on an 

 extensive scale will be necessary and, 

 before the 1st of July, it is probable 

 that seed corn of good vitality will be 

 again at a premium. 



C. W. Witbeck has opened a seed 

 store at Schenectady, N. Y. Whether 

 he is to succeed his brother. Clark 

 Witbeck, or whether the latter will 

 still continue is not positively known, 

 but the information to hand indicates 

 that Mr. Clark Witbeck has retired 

 from the seed business, to devote his 

 time to hardware affairs. Mr. C. W. 

 Witbeck has had many years' experi- 

 ence, and he will, no doubt, have the 

 best wishes of his many friends in his 

 new venture. 



very prominent seed firms of the 



country, which threatened serious 

 results in the early part of the sea- 

 son, it is learned, have been amicably 

 adjusted. The gentlemen interested 

 deserve the thanks of the trade for 

 reaching the agreement they have, 

 and it is to be hoped that any future 

 misunderstandings between members 

 of the seed trade will be as peacefully 

 adjusted. 



Most of the growers of peas and 

 beans are said to be now booked to 

 their limit of safety on most varieties 

 of peas, at least, particularly of the 

 canning varieties, and now. if Mother 

 Nature will give us a favorable sea- 

 son for the raising of our crops, the 

 canners will be made happy by full or 

 nearly full deliveries of their orders. 



President Green and Secretary Ken- 

 del of the American Seed Trade Asso- 

 ciation met on Saturday in Detroit and 

 and made final airangements with the 

 Hotel Pontchartrain lor headquarters 

 for the twenty-sixth annual convention 

 of the Association next June. The use 

 of a suite of roms on the parlor floor 

 was secured for the meetings and ac- 

 commodations for all were assured at 

 reasonable rates. 



A. T. Boddington has taken the en- 

 tire floor over his present quarters ia 

 West 14th street. New York. The of- 

 fices will be located on the new floor 

 and much-needed expansion securai;. 

 The new cosmos Lady Lenox, which 

 Mr. Boddington is introducing this sea- 

 son, is enjoying a large sale. 



Visitors in New York: Chas. P. 

 Braslan. of Braslan Seed Growers' Co., 

 and L. W. Wheeler, formerly manager 

 of Vaughan's Seed Store in New York, 

 of San Jose. Cal. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



William Pfitzer. Stuttgart.— Cata- 

 logue of seeds and plants w'ith novel- 

 ty list for 190S. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa. — Prize supplement to catalogue for 

 190S. This gives full particulars of the 

 distribution of cash prizes among 

 planters of Burpee's seeds during the 

 past season. 



A catalogue of plants, seeds, bulbs 

 and horticultural requisites, in the 

 English and Japanese languages, the 

 fit St of its kind ever printed, is being 

 sent out by the Yokohama Nursery 

 Company: 20.000 copies have been 

 circulated in Japan and China for 

 local trade, the English language 

 being much more generally under- 

 stood in China than is the Japanese. 

 The book is well filled with half-tone 

 illustrations. We notice in the lists 

 quite a number of American plants, 

 including a comprehensive list of the 

 best Anieiican iieaches and the pump- 

 ing and spraying apparatus of the 

 Deeming Company, Salem, Ohio, whose 

 manufacturers are well thought of in 

 that distant land. 



The troubles between two of the 



$250,000 FOR GYPSY MOTH FIGHT. 



The House Committee on Agricul- 

 ture has voted to increase the appro- 

 priation to fight gypsy and browntail 

 moths in New England from $150,000 

 to $250,000. 



Quality the First 

 Requisite 



FOR OVBR SIXTY YEARS WE HAVE 



SUPPLIED THE PRIVATE AND 



COnnERCIAL GROWERS 



Giant Cyclamen, best strain and colors, loo 



Seeds $i.oo, ICO seeds $y.oo 

 Asparagus Plumotus Nanus, loo seeds 75c, 



iocj ^eeds $5.00. 



Asparagus Sprengeri, 1000 seeds 75c. 

 Cosmos, early White and Pink, 20c trade pkt., 



$1.00 oz. 

 Tuberoses Excelsior Pearl, $i.o'> per 100, 



$8.50 per 1000. 

 Begonia, single tuberous rooted, in colors, $3.00 



per 100 

 Gloxinia, Red, White, Blue and Spotted. $4.50 



per 100. 

 Scotch "oot. Bamboo Canes, etc.. etc. Send 



for catalogue. Wholesale list to trade only. 



SCHLIGEL&FOTTLERCO. 



26-27 So. Market St., Boston, Mass. 



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HYACINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSI 



AND OTHER BULBS 



ROMAN HYACINTHS and the true 

 PAPER WHITE GRANDIFLORA 



Ask for our Wholesa.le Trade List at Hillegom 



K. VELTHUYS, Hillegom, Holland 



Rep. by FELiX EOSCH, 260 ClatencJcn St., Eostcn. 



The latter item is now included in 

 the agricultural appropriation bill. 

 The result was largely due to the ef- 

 forts of Representative Weeks, who 

 has worked earnestly to secure a 

 larger appropriation. 



A combination was formed with 

 Southern nieml.eis who are interested 

 in exterminating the Texas cattle tick. 

 The appropriation for the tick was 

 also increased from $150,000 to 

 $250,000. 



