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HORTICULTURE 



October 23. 1909 



Seed Trade 



Big Turnip Crop of Prince Edward 

 Island. 



Consul Frank Deedmeyer writes 

 from Charlottetown that the 1909 crop 

 of turnips and other roots in Prince 

 Edward Island is estimated at 4,500,000 

 bushels, or about 20 per cent, of the 

 production of all Canada. The home 

 consumption of turnips is about one- 

 half, the surplus being shipped to New 

 Brunswick and Newfoundland, and if 

 prices are high there in the spring, to 

 Boston. Prices last year were 14 cents 

 per bushel t. o. b. Charlottetown and 

 Summerside. As hay and other feed 

 stuffs are abundant this year, 12 cents 

 is the expected price this fall. 



Notes. 

 The partnership between Alfred Wat- 

 kins and Chas. David McKay, carrying 

 on business as Watkins & Simpson, at 



12 Tavistock street, Covent Garden; 



13 Exeter street; Mercer avenue, Long 

 Acre, London; and at Evesham, in the 

 County of Worcester, was dissolved on 

 May 10, 1909. Mr. Alfred Watkins will 

 continue the business alone as Watkins 

 & Simpson in the same manner as 

 heretofore. 



Mr. C. D. McKay has entered the 

 service of Messrs. Cooper, Taber & Co., 

 Ltd., seed merchants, 90 and 92 South- 

 wark street, London, S. E., in which 

 firm he has obtained shares. — Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 



Field Notes on Sweet Peas, with 

 Appendix.— Published by C. C. Morse 

 & Co., San FVancisco, Cal. Edited by 

 Lester L. Morse. The last issue of 

 Field Notes was in 1907. The present 

 edition is identical, but with the ad- 

 dition of eight pages in which are de- 

 scribed the new varieties tried and 

 personally examined, of Sweet Peas in- 

 troduced during the seasons of 1908 

 and 1909. There are no less than one 

 hundred and fifty of these so-called 

 new varieties, the greater part of 

 which are classed by Mr. Morse as 

 similar to or inferior to sorts already 

 in commerce. The author pi-omises an 

 entirely new book possibly by next 

 year and expresses the hope that the 

 Sweet Pea Society will in the mean- 

 time undertake to decide upon and act 

 as sponsor for an authorized list of 

 names v.-hich shall be acceptable to 

 the entire American seed trade. 



The price of "Field Notes" is 50 

 cents. Copies can be supplied from 

 the office of HORTICULTURE. 



In the auction rooms of William El- 

 liott & Sous, 42 Vesey street. New 

 York, they are moving large stocks of 

 foliage and bulbous stock twice week- 

 ly. This medium of disposing of sur- 

 plusses seems to increase yearly. 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



Public Accountant and Auditor 



Siiiiplt' methods nl' (Mii-rect nr'roniithiL;- 

 jsijeciiilly adaptcfl fm- ilm-isls' use 



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NOTICE 



I have purchased all the assets of the 

 A. J. Pieters Seed Company and will fill 

 all contracts for 1909 crop. Deliveries 

 are now being made and I shall have a 

 surplus list ready in October. Pletse 

 write n e about what you want and let me 

 quote you on 1910 crop. 



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 HOLLISTER, ■ • CAL. 



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