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HORTICULTURE 



September 4, 1909 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



President, J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, 

 Neb.; First Vice-President. M. H. Duryea, 

 New Yorls: Second Vice-President, F. W. 

 Bolglano, Washington. D. C; Secretary- 

 Treasurer. C. K. Kendel, Cleveland. Ohio: 

 Assistant Secretary, Leonard H. Vaughan, 

 Chicago. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 

 LEAGUE. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, Pres. ; Burnet Land- 

 reth, Sec'y. 



The Corn Outlook. 



Reports of ilrost in Iowa and some 

 of the northwestern states is a warn- 

 ing of what is to follow. No serious 

 damage has yet resulted, but when 

 even light frosts come thus early there 

 is ample reason to tear that the kill- 

 ing kind is lurking in the near back- 

 ground. The fact that corn is gen- 

 erally two to three weeks late is an 

 added cause for alarm. It begins to 

 look as if the three billion bushel crop 

 predicted by the Department of Agri- 

 culture will prove an iridescent dream, 

 and many good judges say that a 

 crop eaualing last year's in quantity, 

 but not in ijuality is about what the 

 harvest will be. These observations 

 are with reference to com as a whole, 

 but it may be accepted as a fact, that 

 if field corn does not fully mature 

 sugar corn will not. However more of 

 this anon. 



News of an unsatisfactoi y character 

 has recently come to hand as to the 

 vine seed crops. Up to the middle of 

 July conditions were generally prom- 

 ising, but since then there has been 

 marked deterioration, particularly in 

 Nebraska, due mainly to the protracted 

 drought. 



Pea Delivery Below 50 Per Cent. 



Pea seed hai-vesting is generally 

 about completed, and the crop will 

 prove one of the shortest ever har- 

 vested in proportion to acreage. Pre- 

 liminary estimates will be issued by 

 the principal growers in a few weeks, 

 and we shall (hen have a means of 

 definitely estimating the crop. Enough 

 is known to warrant the prediction 

 that the average deliveries will be be- 

 low fifty per cent, and as the European 

 crops are also very short, the export- 

 able siH-plus will be very small if any 

 at all It looks as if prices, especially 

 on the large podded varieties, would 

 reach new high levels the coming sea- 

 son. 



Beans Improving. 



The latest information on beans in- 

 dicates an improvement in that crop, 

 and if it can be harvested without 

 damage by rain, there will be beans 

 enough of most varieties to go around, 

 at a price. Black Valentines will be 

 short again, as the seed stocks were 

 insufficient to meet demands, and 

 growers were very generally oversold. 

 The same may be said in a lesser de- 

 gree of the BuiTjees and Giant String- 

 less Green Pods. 



returning reinvigorated to their desks 

 for the next ten months' grind. The 

 outlook, however, for the trade is 

 distinctly favorable, and a feeling of 

 optimism is general. While the short- 

 ages in many lines will prove a real 

 hardship, the situation as a whole is 

 vastly more encouraging than would 

 be the case with a general surplus, 

 even of very moderate proportions, 

 and the more one studies the history 

 of the seed business, the more certain 

 does this conviction become. The 

 growers and farmers are the princi- 

 pal sufferers, but even to them it is 

 not an unmixed evil, and particularly 

 the former. 



Newark Enterprise. 



It was hinted some weeks ago in 

 HORTICULTURE that the house of J. 

 F. Noll & Co. (Inc.) would probably 

 be the center of interesting develop- 

 ments, but the writer was at that time 

 not free to disclose certain plans 

 which were then on foot. These plans 

 have now materialized in part at least 

 and it can now be announced that Mr. 

 E. C, Dungan, for more than twenty 

 years connected with Mr. Henry Maule 

 has acquired a stibstantial interest 

 in the firm of J. F. Noll & Co. (Inc.), 

 and will be its active head. There is 

 a possibility of another well known 

 representative of one of the large seed 

 houses associating himself with Mr. 

 Dungan. Mrs. Noll will retain a con- 

 trolling interest in the firm but will 

 retire from its active management. 

 For over fifteen years Mr. Dungan has 

 been the able and efficient manager 

 for \Vm. Henry Maule, and his many 

 friends will wish him the fullest meas- 

 ure of success in his new venture. 

 Mrs. Noll is also to be congratulated 

 in securing the services of so able and 

 faithful an associate. "Now watch us 

 grow." 



A Great Fair. 



"The Great Cambiidge Fair" is on 

 this week, and with promise of fine 

 weather, its able president, our genial 

 friend, .Jerome B. Rice, is happy. Due 

 to his able management, assisted by a 

 staff of live lieutenants, this Fair, af- 

 ter the State Fair at Syracuse, has be- 

 come the largest in the Empire State. 

 It is wonderful what brains and energy 

 will accomplish. 



Optimistic Feelings. 

 Vacation time is now generally over 

 and the heads of the big houses are 



The Bulb Season in Holland. Notes 

 on Nursery Stock. 



We take the liberty of publishing the 

 following interesting extract from a 

 letter writt.3n by Mr. J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, dated at Haarlem, Holland, 

 August 20. 



"Formerly this city was the centre 

 of the bulb-growing district; now the 

 centre is Hillegom 6 or 7 kilometers to 

 the south. Bulbs have been later in 

 ripening this year owing to a wet and 

 cold s'eason — they have ripened splen- 

 didly, however, and as the long grow- 

 ing-season favored the development of 

 size, all bulbs are of unusual excel- 

 lence. Several kinds of tulips have 

 grown so as to burst their outer skins. 

 This renders the bulbs less attractive 

 but will not affect their flowering 

 quality in the least. The beautiful 

 single crimson Dussart has burst more 

 than any other sort. 



Hyacinth disease which was greatly 

 feared several years ago is now being 



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controlled. The hyacinth crop this 

 season is one of the best ever harvest- 

 ed. Tulips are in good supply except 

 the red varieties, which are in great 

 demand at high prices. There is also 

 a shortage of yellow crocuses; the 

 other colors are plentiful. 



There is plenty of nursery stock ex- 

 cept roses and these are decidedly 

 short throughout northern Europe; 

 even in the north of France they were 

 veiy badly winter-killed, and the Hol- 

 land agents who have taken orders in 

 the United States at the prices of for- 

 mer years are having trouble to get 

 stock to fill their orders. 



Azalea indiea is also in short supply; 

 many of the plants have as yet no 

 Honer buds. 



There is great enthusiasm bete over 

 the coming Bulb Exhibition to be held 

 in Haarlem next April. It will un- 

 doubtedly eclipse any previous exhibi- 

 tion of the kind." 



Notes. 



Henry Eicke, formerly with Stumpp 

 & Walter Co., New York, is now with 

 O. V. Zangen, Hoboken, N. J. 



Chinese sacred lily bulbs have ar- 

 I ived. Roman hyacinths are still very 

 scarce: many iuquirie.s are being re- 

 ceived. Cold stoiage giganteums are 

 likewise scarce and much in demand. 



Mr. .Ad. Goldenberg of R. M. Ward 

 & Co., New York, sailed August 31st 

 cm the Kaiser Wilhelm II for an ex- 

 tended tour among the lily of the val- 

 ley glowers in Germany, as well as 

 visits to Holland. Belgium and France 

 — on business matters. 



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