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HORTICULTURE 



December 17, 1910 



Seed Trade 



Pea Seed Growers' Difficulties. 



The pea seed growers are experienc- 

 ing their usual difficulty in securing 

 acreage with a little extra emphasis 

 on the difficulty. We have not yet 

 learned that the seedsmen have hailed 

 the new growing prices of the seed 

 growers with any great enthusiasm 

 but this was to be expected. An ad- 

 vance over last year's figures was In- 

 evitable, the only question being 

 whether some items have not .been 

 pushed up just a little too high. If 

 there is anything of this kind and the 

 prices are not uniform or harmonious, 

 matters will adjust themselves before 

 the season advances very far, and when 

 they finally settle down, will probably 

 be about right, and will justify the 

 seedsmen in whatever boost they may 

 have found necessary. 



Canners Well Supplied. 

 Despite the great shortage in peas, 

 the past season, we are informed that 

 so far as the canning trade is con- 

 cerned, that they are able to secure 

 all they want at prices ranging very 

 little if any higher than last season. 

 The seedsmen, however have not been 

 so fortunate, and will have to content 



■ themselves with less than one-fourth 

 of their usual supply of the large- 

 podded, fancy varieties. Prices which 

 they have found necessary to make 

 are so high that that they will very 

 greatly restrict the demand, but this is 

 fortunate, as it would be impossible 

 to supply the usual quantities no mat- 

 ter what the prices might be. We hope 

 to get information about the ruling 

 contracting prices for another year, 

 but from what we learn the greatest 

 advances have been made in the Dwarf 

 Wrinkled sorts and the Large Podded 

 varieties. 



We have been informed, and we be- 

 lieve reliably, that Mr. Theodore Cobb 

 has severed his connection with J. F. 



' Noll & Co. (Inc.) of Newark, N. J., and 

 has returned to the fold of D. M. Fer- 

 ry & Co. It is a year we believe last 

 September since Mr. Cobb left the old 

 house with which he has been associat- 

 ed so many years, and identified him- 

 self with J. F, Noll & Co., and it was 

 supposed that with his able associate 

 Mr. E. C. Dungan, the business of J. 

 F. Noll & Co. would rapidly develop in 

 magnitude and prestige, and it there- 

 fore is a matter of very great surprise 

 to learn that he has as stated, severed 

 his connection with this concern and 

 gone back to his old love. All his 

 many friends will wish him success in 

 returning to the old field of labor and 

 extend the glad hand as in days of 

 yore. 



Notes. 



E. C. Dungan, after a sojourn of a 

 year and three months in Newark, N. 

 J., has returned to his former scenes 

 at 1711 Filbert Street, Philadelphia 

 and old friends are glad to see him 

 back again. 



The tentt annual meeting of the Cana- 

 dian Soclet.v was held last nisht at the 

 French Club, Locust street above Broad, 

 when the following officers were elected: 

 President, W. Atlee Burpee; vice-presi- 

 dent. Arthur E. Jackson; secretary, C. 

 W. Kimpton; treasurer, Peter Mullen. 



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The society has now a membership of one 

 hundred. Mr. Burpee was presented with 

 a silver loving cup on his re-election. 



From the above clipping from the 

 Engravers Bulletin it will be noted 

 that our distinguished fellow citizen, 

 W. Atlee Burpee, has been re-elected 

 to a high honor. 



and these mistakes were not noticed' 

 until seen in print. M. J. POPE. 



Naugatuck, Conn. 



A CORRECTION. 



I am sorry to say that an error crept 

 into my last notes on orchids, namely, 

 the sentence "Once an orchid is potted, 

 except epiphital orchids" should read 

 "except terestrial orchids." Further 

 down the same mistake was made and 

 it should read "Peristeria elata is a 

 terestrial orchid" — not "epiphital." 



The notes were jotted down in haste 



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