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HORT I CULTURE 



June 18, 1910 



Seed Trade 



Crop Notes on Corn, Peas and Beans. 



Reports concerning crops, while not 

 alarming, are not altogether satisfac- 

 tory. The corn crop in the West is 

 said to be in an unsatisfactory con- 

 dition and a large percentage of re- 

 planting will be necessary. Anyone 

 can appreciate that corn planted at 

 this late date will have a hard struggle 

 to mature before frost overtakes it. 

 This applies to sugar corn equally with 

 field corn. Conditions are somewhat 

 better in the East, but not wholly sat- 

 isfactory. Doubtless within the next 

 two weeks the situation will develop 

 to a point where we can get something 

 of a line on the probable crop. Peas 

 at this time are looking fairly well, ex- 

 cepting on low ground, where they 

 are turning yellow, due to the exces- 

 sive rain. No very serious damage 

 has yet been done, however, and should 

 conditions be favorable from now un- 

 til harvest, there is no reason why we 

 should not have a good pea crop. 

 Beans are being planted rather late 

 as it was impracticable to get on the 

 ground earlier, on account of the rain. 

 Those which were planted early have 

 not fared well, excepting where the 

 ground was high and graVelly. It has 

 been rather cold and germination has 

 not been of the best. However, little 

 or nothing can be said as to the prob- 

 able bean crop. This will develop 

 later. 



Market Prices of Canners' Peas. 



In last week's issue, it was stated 

 that peas were selling at a rather low 

 figure in Baltimore and Washington, 

 but we learn that this information was 

 not altogether correct, and that within 

 the past ten days there has been a de- 

 cided improvement in prices as many 

 of the Maryland-grown peas have been 

 shipped to Chicago and Pittsburgh be- 

 cause of the scarcity in sections tribu- 

 tary to these markets. It is reported 

 that the canning of peas in Baltimore 

 is proceeding under difficulties due to 

 the high price of the materials, and 

 that the pack there will be light. It 

 Is generally believed that the total 

 pack in both Maryland and Delaware 

 this year will be rather below normal. 

 This will be appreciated by our can- 

 ning friends, as it will help to make 

 the price more satisfactory to them 

 than it has been for the last two or 

 three years. According to reports, 

 which are generally believed to be re- 

 liable, some twenty pea packing con- 

 cerns throughout the country will not 

 operate this year, which will doubtless 

 have a material effect on the volume 

 of goods packed. 



European Seed Crops. 

 Such information affecting European 

 seed crops as has come to hand, does 

 not show any improvement over con- 

 ditions previously reported, and it now 

 looks as if a number of varieties of 

 cabbage will be very short, particu- 

 larly the Danish Ballhead and Hol- 

 lander. A considerable crop of these 

 varieties was expected from Long Is- 

 land this year, but reports from that 

 district indicate that the crop of these 

 varieties will be almost a failure, and 

 as it was known that the European 

 crops would be very short, this simply 

 aggravates a bad condition. It looks 



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very much as if the high prices of last 

 year would be duplicated, if indeed 

 they are not higher. Taken altogether, 

 the present crop situation is not very 

 satisfactory from the seedsmen's point 

 of view, but as indicated, there is time 

 for a very material improvement in 

 annuals; as to biennials, however, 

 there is not much chance for any great 

 improvement over present conditions. 



The Convention. 



Before the next issue of HORTICUL- 

 TURE, the Seedsmen's Convention of 

 1910 will be a thing of the past, and 

 we hope that we shall be able to 

 chronicle good things about it. If the 

 weather is favorable and the attend- 

 ance what it is hoped it will be, there 

 seems no reason why this convention 

 should not be one of the best, if not 

 the best, ever held. Certainly there 

 can be few more attractive spots for 

 the seedsmen after a strenuous season 

 than Atlantic City, and it is generally 

 believed that they will turn out in lib- 

 eral numbers. Doubtless there will be 

 a number of applications for member- 

 ship in the Association this year, and 

 it is hoped that the committees on 

 membership will decide each case 

 strictly on its merits. Personal preju- 

 dice should not be permitted to have 

 any influence here. 



Grass Seed Prospects in Europe. 



Messrs. Barenburg, Burgers & Co. re- 

 port under date of .June 7, that weather 

 s=o far has been nearly perfect for 

 all the varieties of fancy grasses, and 

 that everything is looking splendid. If 

 this condition continues until harvest- 

 ing time there will be bumper crops^ 

 and the high prices of the last three 

 seasons will disappear. This will be 

 welcomed by the seedsmen who make 

 a siiecialty of lawn and pasture mix- 

 tures — allowing their profits to get 

 back to normal level. 



Notes. 



Brady, Tex. — The large seed house 

 of the Brady Cotton Oil Co. was blown 

 down on the night of June 5th by the 

 heavy wind storm which affected tele- 

 graph and telephone wires all through 

 this section. 



Mr. and Mrs, Watson S. Woodruff 

 have sailed for Europe, as has also S. 

 F. Willard and Walter P. Stokes. 



These three gentlemen will be missed 

 at the convention, but their many 

 friends will wish them a pleasant, and, 

 we may add, profitable trip. 



Edward Chas. Dungan, formerly with 

 Wm. Henry Maule, and now president 

 of J. F. Noll & Co., Inc., of Newark, 

 N. J., was married on the 15th to Misa 

 Jennie M. Perry at Philadelphia, and 

 the pair are now on their honeymoon. 

 We welcome Mr. Dungan to the an- 

 cient and more or less honorable order 

 of benedicts and believe that a gentle- 

 man of his quiet domestic tastes will 

 find married life very much to his lik- 

 ing. Mr. Dungan has given this mat- 

 ter several years of careful thought, 

 and it therefore cannot be said that 

 it was a marriage in haste. Let us 

 wish him well, as well as his charming 

 bride, with many years of happiness, 

 and as a recent saying is, "May their 

 troubles be mainly little ones." 



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