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HORTICULTURE 



September 11, 1909 



Winter Flowering Sweet Pea Seed 



Mrs. E. Wild, carmine. 

 Christmas Pink. 

 Florence Denzer, pure white. 

 Mrs. Alex. Wallace, lavender. 

 Mrs. Wm. Sim, salmon. 

 Enchantress, light pink. 

 Wm. J. Stewart, blue. 

 Le Marquis, violet. 



These are the peers for Commercial 

 Florists. 



No one can afford to be without them. 



1908 Novelties 



Mrs. Qeo. Lewis, purest white, wavy. 



Miss Helen M. Gould, white, stan- 

 dard lilac, marbled. 



Mrs. J. F. Hannan, deep pink self, 

 very pleasing color. 



Price, 1 oz. SOc.; 2oz. 75c; 1 lb. $5.00 



Price, 1 oz. 30c. ; 2 oz. SOc. ; 4 oz. 

 75c. ; 1 lb. $2.00. 



This Trade Mark roust be on each 

 Packet ; if not send it back and 

 order directly from OriKiaator. 



Novelties for 1909 



Wallacea, lavender. 



All other novelties sold out. 

 Price, 1 oz. $1.00; 1 lb. $10.00 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 



Originator of all Winter Sweet Peas 



BOUND BROOK, 



N.J. 



Seed Trade 



The Pea Seed Crop. 



The first preliminary estimates of de- 

 liveries of the 1909 pea seed crop are 

 out. Four of the principal growers are 

 on record, aud their estimates average 

 considerably under 50 per cent. One 

 gi-ower's average is but little above 25 

 per cent, and on a number of varieties 

 he is down to 5 and 10 per cent, while 

 the highest thus far on record strikes 

 an average not above 50 per cent. Of 

 course, it must be borne in mind that 

 these preliminary estimates are really 

 little better than guesses, and are not 

 final, but it is seldom that actual de- 

 liveries are materially above first esti- 

 mates, while not infrequently they drop 

 much below. This may or may not be 

 suggestive. There have been no new 

 developments affecting other crops 

 since last reports, ouly it is well to 

 remind the trade again that Europe 

 caunot relieve the situation on peas as 

 their exportable surplus will be very 

 small, and in fact, they are inclined to 

 make importations themselves. 



Shortages Difficult to Cover. 



The bulb trade now occupies the cen- 

 ter of the stage, and will tor the next 

 two months or more, and many seeds- 

 men are liable to forget seeds to a 

 considerable extent, or at least their 

 interest will be of the academic kind. 

 Those who wish to cover shortages tnis 



year in peas, should lose no time in 

 getting busy, as they will find it not 

 easy of accomplishment. In fact, short- 

 ages are so general and so large, that 

 they can not be covered, and the re- 

 cent prediction that prices would reach 

 new high levels this year on peas, will 

 assuredly be realized. Here is where 

 the shortage is so great as to consti- 

 tute a real hardship. 



A Nebraska Report. 

 •Just as this is being written a letter 

 from Nebraska states that there is no 

 room for doubt that the sugar corn 

 crop has suffered heavily, and esti- 

 mates the shortage at nearly or quite 

 50 per cent. This is given for vi'hat 

 it is worth. 



Trans-Atlantic Items of Interest. 



The annual meeting of the British 

 Pteridological Society has been held at 

 Kendal; Mr. Alexander Cowan, of 

 Penicuik, was elected President, and a 

 publication committee has been ap- 

 liointed. — At a recent meeting of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society a number 

 of new dwarf French beans from the 

 Society's trials at Wisley were shown. 

 Awards of merit were granted to the 

 following: Cholet, a long green-pod- 

 ded variety from Messrs. Vilmorin, 

 Paris; Evergreen, a smooth-podded 

 green variety from Messrs. Sutton & 

 Sons, Reading: Excelsior, long green 

 pods, from Messrs. Barr & Sons, King 

 street, Covent Garden, London; and 

 The Belfast, a dark green variety from 

 Messrs. Dickson & Sons, Belfast. A 

 new tomato. Young's Mercury, was 

 shown; it is the result of a cross be- 

 tween Hillside Comet and Carter's Sun- 



rise. — Experts from France and Bel- 

 gium have lately visited the seed 

 farms of Messrs. J. K. King & Sons, 

 of Coggleshall, Essex. Winter bloom- 

 ing sweet peas are being offered by an 

 enthusiast who has secured a great 

 success with them in on the Riviera. 

 They will flower in the open in April, 

 or in a sunny greenhouse in the dull 

 month of December. — The Yokohama 

 Nursery Co. are arranging to lay out 

 some of the gi'ounds in the Japan- 

 British exhibition, where various 

 phases of Japanese gardening will be 

 displayed. This is likely to prove a 

 very attractive feature, and instructive 

 to western visitors unacquainted with 

 the methods of the "Land of the Chry- 

 santhemum." W. H. ADSETT. 



Sluis & Groot, ^nkhuizen. Holland, 

 have sent out a crop report indicating 

 satisfactory prospects for cauliflower, 

 late carrot, summer radish, onion, peas, 

 English beans, antirrhinum, candytuft, 

 lobelia, nasturtium, pansy, petunia, 

 ten-week stock and other miscellane- 

 ous ve.setable and flower seeds. Many 

 Other important crops have suffered to 

 a greater or less extent from severe 

 winter and other climatic reverses. 

 Among these are cabbages, turnips, 

 sugar beets, parsley, spinach, cucum- 

 bers, campanulas, centaurea, myosotis 

 and verbenas. 



CABBAGE. Succession, Flat Dutch and Savoy 

 $i.co per looo. $S 50 per 0.000. 



CEtEKr. White Plume and Golden Self Blanching. 

 $1.00 per 1000. $8.50 per $10,000. 



PARSI.EY. 35 cts. per 100. $1.25 per 1000. 

 Cash with Order 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White Marsh, Md. 



