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HORTICULTURE, 



November 6, 1909 



Seed Trade 



About Wholesale Prices. 



The VVlioIesale Seedsmen's LeagU'; 

 prices which have been issued, confirm 

 fully the forecasts in last week's Sefd 

 Trade Notes. The advances predicted 

 ou the general line of garden peas 

 have materialized in full, and it is 

 (|Uite generally recognized by leading 

 leaguers that prices must go higher 

 on many lines, for as one remarked 

 about the prrjsenl prices, "It is the 

 first step, and we don't want to make 

 it too long. Wait until we lix prices 

 lor the January lists." It is doubtful 

 if peas will go much higher, but beans 

 a)e likely to, and many items in mel- 

 ons, squashes and pumpkins, and pos- 

 sibly cucumbers, but from all infor- 

 mation obtainable, there seems little 

 justification for any marked advances 

 in cucuniijer seed. It is thought by 

 many that onion 3eed is priced too 

 high. However this may be, there is 

 time to correct any errois either way, 

 before prices aie finally fixed for the 

 annual wholesale lists. It should be 

 remenibtred that wholesale dealers are 

 really only feeling their way a.t this 

 season of the year or earlier, and are 

 without sufficient data to be sure of 

 their giound. j3y Decembei' they will 

 know pretty nearly where they are at. 



Offerings of peas are drying up. One 

 large jobbing house has withdrawn of- 

 fers on a number of important vaiie- 

 ties. and asserts it will soon be sold 

 out of every bushel of available sur- 

 plus of all varieties. Those seedsmen, 

 mainly ictaileis, who are always trail- 

 ing the market, and ever from 50c. to 

 $1.00 per bu. on peas under cuneni 

 prices, are likely to meet with a dis- 

 agreeable surprise when they really 

 decide to buy. Such people almost in- 

 variably have lo pay more, but this 

 lime it will not be so much a matter 

 of price, as of getting relialile high- 

 grade stocks. It i.s the system of "sav- 

 ing at the tap and losing at the bung." 

 But it was ever thus, and will long 

 continue the same. 



For the Good of the Trade. 



The warning to the seed and can- 

 ning trades in last week's issue against 

 buying any of the so-called "Farmers' 

 Alaskas," a wild and degenerate type 

 of ])eas grown by the farmers of Wis- 

 consin, seems to have ai-oused certain 

 i)arties to a defense of this stock, and 

 angry criticism of the writer. It is 

 pleasing to note that not a firm of 

 high reputation has thus far expressed 

 any but sentiments of warm approval 

 of what we said, and as we are not 

 making any strenuous efforts to please 

 the former class, we shall go our own 

 way, repeating the warning as often 

 as may seem advisable. We may add 

 In passing that it is the wounded bird 

 that always flutters. There is no de- 

 sire lo break down the disclaimer, but 

 it nuist not serve as a coVeil behind 

 which to hide from the results of dis- 

 leputable practices, and it would be a 

 line stroke of policy for the American 

 Seed Trade Association or the Whole- 

 sale Seedsmen's League to go on rec- 

 ord in this matter. Let it be known 

 of all men that the disclaimer is to 

 protect the honest seedsman against 

 unfounded claims, "strikes" and black- 

 mail and not to give the fakir and 

 humbug immunity. If our law-makers 

 understood this better, there would be 



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less disposition to enact hostile legis- 

 lation. Against such laws as that 

 enacted bv the State of Noith Carolina 

 last year, the disclaimer is useless, un- 

 less each and every purchaser of seed 

 can be induced to sign a waiver of the 

 lights conferred by this act. This is 

 a weighty and vital problem for the 

 Seed Trade — the disclaimer, and its ef- 

 fect and relation lo such enactments 

 as those of North Carolina. The trade 

 surely cannot afford to countenance its 

 employment to defend flagrant viola- 

 lions of the law of common business 

 hcnest\'. But more hereafter. 



ESTABLISHED I802 



Notes. 



L. C. .Matthews has opened a new 

 grass seed house at Kinmund. 111. 



Hamilton, C— The Gray Flower & 

 Seed Store has opened for business at 

 1.51 N. 3rd street. 



Omaha, Neb.— The Nebraska Seed 

 Co. will build a two-story addition to 

 its warehouse at 120S Jones St., cost- 

 ing $8,000. 



Large-sized Longiflorum Giganteum 

 lilies are very scarce, and there is con- 

 siderable scrambling among the deal- 

 ei s to fill orders. 



Yankton, S. Dak.— The Gurney 

 Seed Co. has purchased the Yankton 

 .Xursery, which for years has been 

 conducted by C. W. Gurney. 



Hjalmar Hartmaun. seed growers 

 and exporters, of Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark, have sent out a handsome wall 

 hanger, giving a life-size colored rep- 

 resentation of Extra Earliest Dwarf 

 Snowball Cauliflower. 



jersey City, N. J. — A two story seed 

 house at Fifteenth and Provost 

 streets, owned by Jacot & Mullen of 

 1 Water street. New York City, was 

 damaged by fire on October 28 and 

 $50,000 worth of grass and other seeds 

 destroyed. The firemen poured water 

 on the burning seed bags for nearly 

 four hours. The loss wil! aggi-egate 

 $70,000; insured. 



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