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HORTICULTURE 



December 10, 1910 



Seed Trade 



A New Seed House. 



The latest addition to the seed trade 

 of this country is that of A. Currie & 

 Co., of Milwaukee. This concern con- 

 sists of Mr. Adam Currie and his son. 

 Something over a year ago, the younger 

 Mr. Currie left the old house of Currie 

 Bros. Co. and started in business for 

 himself. Some few months ago his 

 father decided that it would be better 

 for all concerned to sell out his in- 

 terest in the Currie Bros. Co. and join 

 forces with liis son. This was done to 

 the geneial satisfaction of all and ap- 

 parently the best of feeling exists be- 

 tween the old and the new firm. By 

 the way, our old friend, Alex. Mathers, 

 is back in his place wiih Currie Bros. 

 Co., which he occupied for many years. 

 Mr. Mathers is a very capable seeds- 

 man and seems to be heartily appre- 

 ciated by his old employers. 



Prices on Future Peas. 

 Prices on future peas, that is o( the 

 crop of 1911, are beginning to make 

 their appearance, and they certainly 

 are pitched on a pretty high scale. 

 If the trade will accept them the grow- 

 ers will certainly have occasion to con- 

 gratulate themselves. While it was 

 generally expected that there would be 

 a decided advance, a few of the prices 

 quoted are almost sensational. How- 

 ever, it must be remembered that the 

 seed growers have endured several 

 years of famine, and if they have taken 

 advantage of the present scarcity of 

 seed stocks and the ruling high prices, 

 they cannot be blamed as it is taking 

 advantage of conditions the same as 

 the dealers do when they advance 

 prices in the face of short crops. We 

 do not like to criticise the prices re- 

 ferred to, and it may be that they will 

 be entirely acceptable to the trade. 

 It is hoped such will be the case, but 

 ■we venture the prediction that there 

 will be some wry faces made before the 

 dose is swallowed. Probably we will 

 have occasion to refer to this matter 

 again in the near future. 



Canners' Peas. 



Prices on what are known as strictly 

 canners' peas, do not seem to be very 

 much out of line. There seems to be 

 considerable variation in the price of 

 Alaskas. So tar as the Sweet Wrinkled 

 varieties are concerned, the prices of 

 the different growers are very uni- 

 form, the main difference being on the 

 Alaskas. How it is that some of the 

 growers are asking fifty cents less per 

 bushel for Alaskas than for the Sweet 

 Wrinkled sorts, we would be glad to 

 have explained, for, if we are reliably 

 informed, the actual cost is practically 

 the same on all of the canners' varie- 

 ties; at least the price paid the farmer 

 is virtually the same. It may possibly 



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Messrs. J. Bolgiano & Son have 

 sent us some interesting information 

 about their new water-front proper- 

 ties in Baltimore and the splendid 

 new dock warehouse here illustrated. 

 This new property is located near their 

 main office and salesroom and extends 

 along Montgomery street for 50J feet 

 and provides 375 feet of private dock- 

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and warehouse there are 75,000 feet 

 of floor space. Special seed cleaning 

 machinery lor grass, clover and field 

 seeds has been installed. Good seeds 

 are at the bottom of all good agri- 

 cultural Industry and the remark- 

 able progress and growth of this lead- 

 ing Baltimore house is one of the best 

 evidences that Messrs. Bolgiano's 

 claim as regards the purity and high 

 selection of their seeds stands well 

 known. 



cost slightly more to handle the Sweet 

 Wiinkled sorts, but it certainly cannot 

 amount to fifty cents per bushel, and 

 it is generally agreed that the price 

 named on the Sweet Wrinkles is in no 

 wise unreasonable. This is a matter 

 we assume that will have to be adjust- 

 ed in time and need not be discussed 

 further here. 



Retailers' Topics. 

 Just at the present time, most of the 

 retail and manj^ of the wholesale 

 houses in the trade are more interested 

 in holiday goods than in seeds, and 

 they probably will not settle down to 

 the seed end of the business until after 

 the first of the year. It will be inter- 

 esting to study the retail catalogues 

 of the leading houses this year and 

 noie prices in same. From some in- 

 formation which has reached us, it 

 looks as if prices on peas will not be 

 placed quite as high as a number of 



the retailers talked of doing two 

 months ago. This information may 

 not be absolutely correct and we had 

 bettor wait and see what the catalogues 

 have to say before commenting fur- 

 ther. 



The Huntington Seed Co., of Indian- 

 apolis, has succeeded the firm of Hunt- 



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