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HOETICULTUEE 



October 31, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President. Lester L. Morse. 

 San Francisco. Calif.; First Vice-Presi- 

 ilcnt. 3. M. Liipton. Mattituck. I^. I.; 

 Se<on<I Vice-President. E. C. Dnngan, 

 Pliiladelpliia. Pa.; Secretar.v and Treas- 

 urer, C. E. Kendel, CleTeland, O.: As- 

 sistant Secretary, S. F. Willard, Jr., 

 Cleveland, O. 



Onion Sets. 

 We learn from Schilder Bros, of 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, the following facts 

 concerning the onion set crop: 



About 98 per cent, of all the large 

 onions sold after the 1st of September 

 are grown from seed, and practically 

 all onions grown from seed are not 

 ripe until late August and up to Sept. 

 15th. Onion sets are ripe and har- 

 vested in Chillicothe the first week in 

 July, and are usually harvested in 

 Louisville July 15th and in Chicago 

 Aug. 1st. All vegetable crops this past 

 summer maturing up to Aug. 1st were 

 a short crop in nearly every section. 

 It was late July and all through Au- 

 gust that the weather was favorable 

 for the growing crop of large onions 

 produced from seed. Right in Louis- 

 ville, where 300 to 500 cars of large 

 onions are grown each season from 

 sets and are ready for market the 1st 

 of July, they sold as high as $7 per 

 bbl. this past summer, because the 

 crop was short. Therefore, it does 

 not obtain tliat because there is a large 

 onion crop there will also be a corre- 

 spondingly large crop of sets, simply 

 for the reason that sets are ready for 

 harvest a long time before large 

 onions; and as before stated, August 

 was a very favorable month for the 

 growing crop of large onions and other 

 vegetables as well. 



June is the month for the set crop 

 to make in Chillicothe and Louisville, 

 and all through June and a good part 

 of July is the time for sets to make in 

 Chicago. Late in June Chicago was 

 suffering for rain, and none fell there 

 until late in July. However, that sec- 

 tion has very close to an average 

 crop, and a little increase in acreage 

 over last season. Louisville had no 

 rain whatever in the set-growing sec- 

 tion from the 5th of May till the 10th 

 of July, a period of practically ten 

 weeks. Last year that section had 

 between 100,000 and 125.000 bushels 

 of sets. This year they will have 

 about 30,000 to 35,000 bushels of very 

 inferior quality, for the reason that 

 so many of the bulbs are no larger 

 than beans; such stock would blow 

 out through the mill in January and 

 February. In the Chillicothe section 

 there are a few less sets than last sea- 

 son. Whatever excess bushels Chicago 



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No. (123 

 Try one out, .and you will always 

 ii.>ie one. Sample of No. 023 wltb ball- 

 lie.Tcl for tapping glass sent postpaid 

 for five 2c. stamps. 



SMITH & HEMENWAY CO. 



181 ( liaiiiliirs hifrecl. 



New York 



may have this year over last will not 

 any more than offset the shortage in 

 Louisville and Chillicothe sections. 

 Therefore, it is not believed that there 

 are any more sets in the country this 

 season than there were last, and last 

 spring there weren't enough sets to go 

 around. Several thousand more bush- 

 els could have been sold in April at 

 $3 per bushel, but they couldn't get 

 them. 



Notes. 



For the week ending October 17, 

 1914, the value of imports of grass 

 seeds into the port of New York was 

 $12,448; of clover, $7,335; of trees and 

 plants $47,1-52. 



Louis H. Schaefer & Sons have 

 opened a seed and bulb store at 102 

 Hudson avenue. Mr. Schaefer has 

 for the last ten years represented the 

 seed house of Sherman & Eberle. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Wilbur A. Christy, Warren, O.- 

 Price List of Mapleshade Gladioli. 



J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, .Md. 

 — Advance 1915 Wholesale Prices for 

 .Market Gardeners. 



Sluis & Groot, Enkhuizon. Holland 

 — Advance Price List of Vegetable. 

 Flower and Agricultural Seeds for 

 season of 1914-15. Issued under date 

 of October 12, 1914, this wholesale 

 price list of a well known and highly 

 respected house comes with a welcome 

 assurance that in so far as first-class 

 flower and vegetable seeds are con- 

 cerned, the trade in this country ne«l 

 not be disturbed by the unfavorable 

 conditions existing in other European 

 countries. 



The B. G. Pratt Co., of 50 Church 

 St., New 'Vork City have just sent out 

 a very instructive publication in the 

 interest of 'Scalecide. " It is a 32- 

 page pamphlet, finely illustrated and 

 it gives an abundance of conclusivi' 

 evidence in testimony to the virlui-s 

 of this preparation as an effective rem- 

 edy against scale insects, with full di- 

 rections for its use. The time for scale 

 destruction is now here and Messrs. 

 Pratt & Co., are ready to do their 

 share. The pamphlet alluded to bears 

 the title "Proof of the Pudding." 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,113,350. Plant Pot. Jesse Erskine 

 Inman. Salt Lake City, Utah. 



1.113.485. Plant Protector. John W. 

 Resh. St. Henry, Ohio. 



1,113,563. Cultivator. Tice C. Kevitt, 

 Paferson, N. J. 



1,113,944. Cutter for Mowers, Reap- 

 ers, Harvesters and the like. James 

 L. Auble. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



1,113,984. Lawn-Edging Tool. Wil- 

 lir.m W. Glass, Long Beach. Cal. 



INDUCEMENT TO START NOW. 



Every new subscriber who sends 

 $1.00 for the fifty-two issues of HOR- 

 TICULTURE for 1915 will receive free 

 all the issues for the remaining weeks 

 of 1914. 



There are a good many people who 

 would get angry if called thieves, 

 who are persistently robbing them- 

 selves. — Southern Merchant. 



Lil. Longiflorum 

 Multiflorum 



Bulbs in 



Each Case Per 100 Per 1000 



6- S iuili 400 IH.OO $33.50 



7- 9 inch 300 5.75 50.00 



S-10 iucb 225 8.85 76.00 



Lil. Longiflorum 

 Giganteum 



IIiillis iu 



Em-li (';isi- IVrlOO Per lOOO 



'■- ^ ill'll 4U() .1U.00 $36.00 



'- '■' ill'li SOU 5.75 52.60 



^111 illeli 225 9.S5 S6.00 



■'-'" iii'li -'CKI l(l..50 flS.OO 



Also all other Bulbs, Seeds and 

 Supplies for the Florist. 



Send for our New Wholesale 

 Catalogue and Price List if you 

 haven't received a copy. It's 

 free for the asking. 



Henry F. Michell, 



318 Market Street 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



It is our BUSINESS to supply 

 you with 



SUPERIOJRGLADIOU 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



FLOWERFIELD, L. I., N. Y. 



"SEEDS WITH A LINEAGE" 



Seed* with a generation of finest 

 flowera and vegetables back of tbem- 

 carefMllj aelected— rcallj tested. 

 Write today for Oatalor. 

 CARTER'S TESTED SEEDS, Inc. 



1«6 Ohwiib«7 of Oommeree Bld(. 

 Boston. Haas. 



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 NEW YORK 



ROMAN J. IRWIN, 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 Houston, Tex.— Waxahachie Nurs- 

 ery Co., increasing capital stock 

 from .$20,000 to .$30,000. 



New Rochelle, N. Y.— Wade Nurs- 

 ery Co., capital stock, $2,500. Incor- 

 porators, Thomas J. and Susanna 

 Wade and Joseph Taylor. 



Owensboro, Ky — Troutman Imple- 

 ment & Seed Co.. capital stock, $15,- 

 000. Incorporators. .1. E. Troutman, 

 C. S. Price and T. J. Lee, 



Rockford, III.— Chas. J. Cherry & 

 Co., to deal in plants, bulbs, seeds, 

 etc., capital stock, $15,000. Incorpor- 

 ators, Charles J. Cherry. Laverne C. 

 Miller and A. Emmett Hickey. 



