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HORTICULTURE. 



March 30, 1907 



Seed Trade 



Referen(;e was made in last week's 

 notes to tears expressed of a shortage 

 in the onion seed crop of 1907 by the 

 California seed growers, and it seemed 

 pretty early in the season to begin to 

 cry short crops. Within the past few 

 days certain more or less authentic 

 information has come to hand which 

 seems to justify to some extent these 

 fears. It seems that owing to heavy 

 and almost continuous rains last tall 

 a large part of the onion bulbs were 

 not planted out, but were left piled up 

 in sacks all winter with the result 

 that they have rotted badly or have 

 sprouted to such an extent as to be 

 practically useless. In addition, much 

 of the land in the Santa Clara valley 

 has been under water a great part of 

 the time, to a depth of from six 

 inches to two feet, causing many of 

 the onions that were set out to rot. 

 No reliable estimate of the percentage 

 of onions thus lost has been given, 

 but with the small quantity of seed 

 that will be carried over, and the 

 short acreage in California, there 

 seems no doubt that the next crop of 

 seed will be pretty well up in price. 



Reports are that the Ohio crop of 

 onions has sold at fairly good prices, 

 notwithstanding the large crop, choice 

 reds and yellow globes bringing from 

 seventy-five cents to one dollar per 

 bushel. These exceptional prices show 

 what choice types will bring even 

 when ordinary stock can be bought 

 lor half the prices named. Many 

 farmers will hesitate over a difference 

 of fifty cents per lb. in the price of 

 seed, for choice selected types, 

 amounting to possibly two dollars per 

 acre, and lose fifty to one hundred 

 dollars on the crop. This is poor 

 business judgment, but it is quite 

 useless to argue with them, as the first 

 cost is all they are capable of ap- 

 preciating. Onions are by no means 

 the only crop to which these remarks 

 apply, and with all defference the seed 

 trade is not without fault along these 

 same lines. 



Much criticism is heard because 

 types have deteriorated, but when a 

 practical grower at the cost of several 

 years of intelligent persistent labor 

 restores types that have deteriorated, 

 or improves existing ones, how many 

 seedsmen are willing to pay him a 

 reasonable premium for superior 

 quality? A few there are who freely 

 recognize superior merit, and encour- 

 age all efforts at improvement, and to 

 these few the seed trade is largely 

 indebted for the continued improve- 

 ments in the types of our vegetables. 



Summer Bulbs 



CVdei today, while the 

 stock is large and fine 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y. — "Bargains in Surplus Stock." 



J. A. McDowell, City of Mexico.— 

 Trade list of Cacti, Orchids, Bulbs. 



Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, 

 J'hila., Pa. — Spring price list of speci- 

 men trees, shrubs, roses, etc. 



Josiah Young, Troy Seed House, 

 Troy, N. Y. — 1907 spring catalogue of 

 flower and vegetable seeds, tender and 

 hardy plants, implements, etc. 



The Grangers' Nurseries, Ellsworth 

 Brown & Co., proprietors, Seabrook, 

 N. H. — Catalogue of fruit and orna- 

 mental trees. Colored cover illus- 

 trations. 



Bay State Nurseries, Windsor H. 



Single 



Doz. 



Crimson 40c. 



Orange 40c. 



Scarlet 40c. 



Pink 40c. 



Wliite 40c. 



Yellow 40c. 



Mixed 35c. 



GLADIOLUS 



Fine Urge size blooming 



Doz. 



Augusta. Pure white. . 45c. 



Brenchleyensis. Scarlet 25c. 



May. White a d crimson 30c. 



Pink and Variegated 25c. 



Scarlet and Crimson .... 20c. 



Striped 30c. 



White and Liglit 25c. 



Yellow 35c. 



BEGONIAS Double 



100 1000 Doz. 



$a.75 $23.50 Crimson 65c. 



^•75 23 50 Orange 65c. 



275 2J'5o Scariet 65c. 



2-75 23.50 Pink 65". 



2.75 23.50 White 65c. 



275 23.50 Yellow 65c. 



2.50 22. 00 Mixed 50c. 



HARDY LILIES 



bulbs, (Sound bulbs.) 



ICO 1000 Doz, 



$3.00 $28.00 Auratum. 8 to 9 in 75c. 



1.25 11.00 Album. 8 to 9 in. $1.00 



^•75 15.00 Rubrum. 810910 85c. 



1.25 12.00 Melpomene. Crimson, 8 



1.00 9.00 to g in 1. 00 



2.00 19 CO Magnificum. Purewhite, 



1.75 1500 8t gin i.co 



2,50 24. to Tignnum. Large bulbs- 80c. 



- [ SEND FOR OUR GENERAL CATALOGUE, ALSO FLORISTS WHOLESALE LIST \ 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO., IOI8 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA. 



Wyman, proprietor, North Abington, 

 Mass. — Price list of trees, shrubs and 

 herbaceous perennials, "for gardeners 

 and owners of estates only." 



Reading Nurseries, J. Woodward. 

 Manning, proprietor, Reading, Mass.— 

 Fifty-third annual price-list of hardy 

 trees, shrubs, vines and border plants. 

 Concise and precise. A handy hand-' 

 book for the home garden planter.. 



Cottage Gardens Company, Queens, 

 N. Y. — "The Cottage Gardens Nursery 

 Book." This is a very handsome cata- 

 logue, profusely embellished with il-' 

 lustrations of fine specimens of the 

 ornamental nursery stock which con- 

 stitutes their specialty. There are 

 chapters on what to plant, how to 

 plant, and where to plant, and the des- 

 criptions of varieties are complete yet 

 concise. 



Central Seed and Bulb Co., Chicago, 

 111. — Illustrated catalogue of summer 

 flowering bulbs and tubers, flower 

 and vegetable seed, etc. Contains 

 a planting calendar, formulas for 

 spraying mixtures and other use- 

 ful information. Also trade list 

 for 1907 received. In this cata- 

 logue it is stated that E. S. 

 Thompson at the South Haven, Mich., 

 gardens has over 2000 seedlings of the 

 new popony-flowered dahlias and an- 

 other season will see some of them 

 on the market. 



STATEMENT OF PLANT IMPORTS. 



There were entered at the port of 

 New York from March 12 to March 25, 

 1907, the following plants', etc.: 



FYora Holland: C. C. Abel & Co., 

 44 cs. plants; H. F. Darrow, 61 cs. 

 plants, 10 cs. flower roots; Bllwanger 

 & Barry, 19 cs. trees; W. Elliott & 

 Sons, 57 cs. plants; C. A. Haynes & 

 Co., 25 cs. plants, 2 cs. flower roots; 

 McHutchison & Co., 276 cs. plants, 9 

 bales plants, 6 cs. trees; P. Ouwerkerk, 

 162 cs. plants, S4 cs. trees; C. B. Rich- 

 ards & Co., 27 cs. plants and roots, 40 

 cs. plants; August Rolker & Sons, 24 

 cs. plants; Stumpp & Walter Co., 14 

 cs. plants; Vaughan's Seed Store, 6 cs. 

 trees: Sundry forwarders, 605 cs. 

 plants, 328 cs. plants, 5 cs. bulbs, 7 cs. 

 flower roots. 



From Belgium: Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, 1 cs. bulbs; Sundry forwarders. 



4 cs. plants, 1 cs. bulbs, 142 tubs laurel 

 trees. 



From France: H. F. Darrow, 64 cs. 

 plants. 19 pkgs. seed; McHutchison & 

 Co., 71 cs. plants. 16 pgs. plants; Au- 

 gust Rolker & Sons, 15 cs. plants; 

 Sundry forwarders to order 51 pgs. 

 plants, 18 pgs. trees, 22 pgs. trees. 



From Germany: McHiitchison Sc 

 Co., 6 cs. plants: Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, 1 cs. plants; Sundry forwarders, 

 21S cs. lily of the valley pips, 17 cs-. 

 plants. 



Via Southampton: McHutchison & 

 Co., 95 cs. trees; August Rolker & 

 Sons, 27 cs. trees, 13 bundles trees; 

 Sundry forwarders, 122 cs. trees, 14 cSv 

 plants. 1 cs. rose trees. 



Via Liverpool: EUwanger & Barry, 

 1 cs. trees; H. T. Jones, 5 cs. trees; 

 Sundry forwarders, 7 cs. plants, 2 cs^ 

 trees. 



A''ia Glasgow: H. F. Darrow, 3 cs. 

 trees, 



VALLEY CLUMPS 



$15.00 100 



GladiolusFineMXD 



$3.00 100 



Tuberoses XLGR 



$8.00 1000 



W.Elliott&Sons 



201 Fulton St. 

 N.y. 



I Have a Few Pounds of Seeds of 



DELPHINIUM 

 CARDINALE 



Which I Offer at $5.00 per Pound' 



Herbert E. George 



928 Morton Ave., Pasadena, Cal. 

 NEW STOCKS ' 



FLOWER SEEDS for FLORISTS 



Wholesale/Catalo^ue Ready. Send for it today. 

 But first read our advertisement on page 105 in the Hor- 

 ticulture for January 26th, 1907. It is worth reading. 



James Vick's Sons, 



Seedsmen. Rochester, N. Y. 



