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H OKTI CULTURE 



May 23, 1908 



Seed Trade 



Coiinlpr tnult' oontiimes active in 

 most of the seed centers north ot -Ma- 

 son and Dixon's line, and the weather 

 has generally been wet and cold, it is 

 a good season to test the hardiness 

 and viuility of most seeds, and no 

 doubt there will be many complaints 

 on the latter point. 



The season for planting peas for 

 market is practically past and the 

 acreage is much smaller than last 

 year. Should green peas bring good 

 prices, as now seems probable, there 

 will be the usual rush to plant peas 

 next year, as always follows a season 

 of high prices on any commodity. . Of 

 course this is not good business, but 

 it is the fanner's way. and he never 

 learns though he lives to be a hundred 

 years old. On the contrary, he repeats 

 the mistake with monotonous regu- 

 larity as long as he lives. Because 

 beans and potatoes brought high prices 

 last year, the soil has been loaded with 

 these two commodities, and if the gen- 

 eral crop is good, prices are bound to 

 rule very low. 



That the season has been one of the 

 best in the history of the seed trade, 

 is verj' generally admitted, and ex- 

 cepting on a few varieties reserves are 

 the lowest in many years. If there is 

 any severe shortage or, staple varie- 

 ties this season prices are liliely to 

 rule much higher than last year, ex- 

 cepting possibly on yellow varieties ot 

 onion seed. Should there be a general 

 failure of these it would prove a bless- 

 ing. 



The usual crop of rumors regarding" 

 damage to California seed crops are 

 beginning to float in, but this is such 

 an overworked issue that seedsmen 

 take but a languid interest in it and 

 for this reason are quite liable to be 

 caught napping some time, for .short 

 crops are liable to occjr in California' 

 as elsewhere. 



The present cool, wet weather is ex- 

 cellent for grass, and a good hay crop 

 seems to be assured in addition to 

 clover and timothy seed. At any rate, 

 prices on these two items are likely to 

 suffer a severe sinking spell, particu- 

 larly on clover, which has been selling 

 at abnormally high figures the past 

 winter. 



Howard M. Earl of W. Atlee Burpee 

 & Co., and AV. C. Langbridge ot .Jerome 

 B. Rice Seed Co., have started for the 

 Pacific coast, bui expect to get back 

 to Detroit in time for the seedsmen's 

 convention. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons are well pleased 

 with their new store at 42 Vesey 

 street. New York. They occupy the 

 entire building, which is much more 

 commodious than the one on Fulton 

 which they formerly occupied and in 

 every way better suited to their uses, 

 and as a retail stand it is certainly 

 much more desirable than Fulton 

 street has heretofore been. 



The Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 

 0., has purchased 150 acres ot land 

 at Kirkerville. w-hich will be devoted 

 to onion raising, seed, sets, etc. A. 

 Wilmer Livingston will be in charge. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Some of the Best Hardy Climbing 

 Roses, by Wm. C. Barry. Reprint 

 from the Country Gentleman. 



Rpl)ort of the Park Commissioners 

 of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1907: 

 Henry Frost is superintendent of this 

 park system. 



Bulletin li:!. comprising notes on 

 the Habits of Mice, Moles and Shrews, 

 and Bulletin IIC on Starting Young 

 Orchards are received from the West 

 Virginia Agriculiural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Morgantown, W. Va. 



Bulletin No. 123 of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Experiment Station 

 gives formulae tor the preparation of 

 fungicides and insecticides with direc- 

 tions for preventing and controlling 

 fungus diseases and insects, both 

 outdoors and in the greenhouse. Dr. 

 George E. Stone and Dr. H. T. Fer- 

 nald are the authors. 



The Care of Trees is the title of a 

 neat little illustrated pocket pamphlet 

 issued by H. L. Frost & Co., ot Arling- 

 ton, Mass., and White Plains, N. Y. 

 The care and preservation of orna- 

 mental trees is daily becoming a more' 

 and more essential study for the home 

 owner and the horticulturist. Messrs. 

 Frost & Co. employ about 250 men in 

 this work. 



Proceedings of the Seventeenth An- 

 nual Meeting of the American Carna- 

 tion Society, Washington, D. C, Jan. 

 28, 29. 30, 1908. This volume Is a 

 worthy addition to the line ot inter- 

 esting annual reports furnished by 

 Secretary Herr. The discussions, re- 

 ports and papers presented at the 

 convention are given in full. Lists of 

 carnations registered during the year 

 and of members for 1908 are append- 

 ed. Portraits ot President F. H. 

 Lemon and Chas. W. Ward are in- 

 cluded, also five pages of illustrations 

 explaining the text of Mr. Ward's 

 paper on Carnation Breeding in Amer- 

 ica. The book comprises 144 pages. 



Two books recently published by 

 the Bohbs-Merrill Company. Indianap- 

 olis, Ind., deserve more than a pass- 

 ing notice, representing as they do 

 the best popular literature on outdoor 

 and indoor gardening respectively. 

 This class of literature, while not in- 

 tended to instruct florists, is, never- 

 theless, entitled to the respect of the 

 florist trade for the effect of the dis- 

 semination of truthful, practical in- 

 formation on garden and floral mat- 

 ters among the people is directly to 

 the interest and benefit of the plant 

 and flower trade. Florists should 

 keep these books on sale so that when 

 customers ask tor information on cul- 

 tural topics their desires may be 

 gratified. Yard and Garden is the 

 title of the first book referred to. 

 The author, Tarkington Baker, pre- 

 sents in a masterly manner the pos- 

 sibilities and pleasures in the plant- 

 ing of even the most restricted spaces 

 and well defines the difference be- 

 tw-een "a house and lot" and "a 



CARPET HEDDING, PLANTS, BAY 

 TREES, PALMS, AND BULBS 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS 



42 Vesey Near Church 

 NEW YORK, N. Y. 



home." The basic principles of ar- 

 rangement, the element of garden 

 planning, the selection and planting, 

 together with all the operations con- 

 nected with successful gardening are 

 presented in a truthful and lucid 

 manner. There are several special 

 chapters on roses, peonies, phloxes, 

 etc. There are 135 illustrations. 



The second book we would mention 

 is "Window Gardening", by Herman 

 B, Dorner. Here we have the plain, 

 practical advice of a man brought up 

 in contact with the things of which 

 he writes, and the book should be on 

 the table of every man. woman or 

 child who seeks to brighten the home 

 with growing plants and flowers. It 

 is dedicated to the author's father, 

 Mr. Fred Dorner, of Lafayette. Ind. 

 If the directions given in this useful 

 little book were more widely known 

 and followed many more florists' 

 plants, many more seeds and bulbs 

 would be sold. All the operations of 

 potting and repotting, propagating, 

 watering, fertilizing and ventilation, 

 are described and full information as 

 to soils, light, heat and all diseases 

 and pests that house plants are sub- 

 ject to are fully treated on. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



C. A. Benson has leased the Davis 

 Greenhouses, Denver, Colo. 



Joseph Carlton has purchased the 

 greenhouses of A. W. Tweedie at Cadil- 

 lac, Mich. 



Joel Thomas, of Fitzgerald, Ga., re- 

 ports splendid prospects for fruit of 

 all kinds. The first and second crops 

 of strawberries just gone. The crop 

 ot blackberries is large and is now 

 ripe. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



nARRARF Wakefield, L.I.SecondEarlv.Early Flat 

 UnUUHUt Dutch. Early Summer. Wimingstadt, 

 and other late var. at $i.oo per looo, $8.50 per 10,000, 

 RCCT Eclipse, Crosby's, Egyptian, at 350 per 100, 

 "^^ ■ $1.25 per 1000. 



LETTU CE ?^s*^° Market, Tennis Ball, Big Boston 

 Lk I UUt Grand Rapids, 20c per 100, $1 per 1000. 



PCI CpY White Plume, G. S. Blanching at :iOc per 

 *'^^^'' ' 100, $1.00 per 1000. 



Cash with Order. 



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