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HORT I CULTURE 



MHroh 11. 1916 



lIliilKl I<ir union Mill, an ".i> iiiuli- 

 (Icntl.v expoctoil, nnil storks of tlio Yel- 

 low Glot ■ ■ ■.-•< -In fuel nearly all 



yellow Imve become very 



siurce, n...... ■•. -l' lurKest dealers be- 



iHK unable to offer them at wholesale 

 at any prue. In this conneollon, wo 

 may remark that If reports from Cali- 

 fornia of Uamat;e to the bulbs now In 

 the KTOunil are not exanneratod. there 

 are Inilb-utlons of another short crop 

 of onion seed the oomlns season. Sal- 

 sify Is said to have been almost de- 

 stroyed by the unusually wet condi- 

 tion of the ground and doubtless the 

 damage to the onion bulbs can be 

 traced to the same causes. 



A report which seems to be reason- 

 ably well-founded Is to the effect that 

 the Danish Government has laid an 

 embargo on the export of seeds of 

 nearly all root crops s\nh as mangels, 

 swedes and turnips. It is even 

 rumored that this may be extended to 

 cabbage and cauliflower. This latter 

 would indeed be a serious matter for 

 the seed trade of this country, as cer- 

 tain very important varieties of cab- 

 bage and cauliflower come from Den- 

 mark almost exclusively. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York of 

 horticultural matsM-ial for the week 

 ending Feb. 26, were recorded as fol- 

 lows: 



Plants— France, $25; British West 

 Indies, $25. 



Red clover seed — France, $249,664; 

 Italy, $75,947; England, $2,767. 



Grass seed — Denmark, $2,440. 



All other seeds— Denmark, $1,087; 

 France, $13,223; Germany, $138: Italy, 

 $1,817; Netherlands. $256; England, 

 $19,899; Hongkong, $380. 



Gnanc — England, $4,049; Haiti, 

 $1,036. 



Other fertilizers -- England, $462; 

 Scotland. $580; Canada, $231; Argen- 

 tine, $12,260. 



,v .-^.'11. \\ Mi>it .'..111' .111(1 M'tall Rood deal 

 ers of ChiltanaiiKo. Iiiivc- opeiii-d ■> 

 branch store at 115 .\. Warren strrct 



Lifting the Embargo on Seed Supplies. 

 Thinking that the following may be 

 of interest to your subscribers, I beg 

 to advise you that the writer has been 

 engaged in the effort to secure the 

 prompt shipment of seed supplies from 

 the growers, wholesalers and jobbers 

 to New England points, and the lifting 

 of the embargo placed by the railroads 

 on such transportation. Some of the 

 railroads have no embargoes, but the 

 Pennsylvania and New York. New 

 Haven & Hartford R. U. did have such 

 embargoes. Responding to the neces- 

 sities of getting the seed supplies into 

 the hands of the farmers in ample 

 time, the Pennsylvania and the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford have 

 lifted their embargoes by a special or- 

 der, so that all seed supplies can now 

 come forward to New England points. 

 It must be recognized that the rail- 

 roads are operating under a very 

 heavy strain, for reasons very well 

 known. The willingness of the rail- 

 roads to recognize the seedmen's con- 

 tentions deserves aiipreciation. 

 Yours truly 



Curtis Nye Smith. 



Notes. 

 Cincinnati, O. — The Shoemaker Seed 

 Company has removed to its new loca- 

 tion at 441 Main street. 



At a dinner given by Theodori- 

 Cobb, of the 1). M. F''erry Co., Detroit. 

 to his cUHlomors and local friends oi 

 C'lnclninitl, It was decided to form a 

 seedsmen's social club for Cincinnati 

 and vicinity. Chas. \VelH>r, \Vm. I'ylc 

 and A. .1. Shoemaker responded to 

 toasts. .Mr. Cobb told of the Ferry 

 seven-hundred-acre trial farm near 

 Detroit. 



Collectors of customs have been in 

 structed by Assistant Secretary of the 

 Treasury Andrew J. Peters, in charge 

 of customs, to continue the assess- 

 ment of the rate of $1 per thousand 

 on tulip bulbs Imported into the I 

 United States until the results can be I 

 ascertained of the new case being 

 brought before the Board of I'nitcd 

 States General Appraisers by the as- 

 sistant attorney general at .New York 

 in which it is believed some new facts 

 will be presented. The United States 

 Court of Customs Appeals, in a recent 

 decision, held that tulip bulbs in con- 

 troversy were entitled to entry at the 

 rate of 50 cents per thousand, and the 

 effect of this decision is held in abey- 

 ance pending the completion of the 

 new case referred to. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Carmichael Orchards. Shannock, R. 

 1. — Price List of Gladiolus Bulbs and 

 Peonies. 



P. & F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. .1. 

 — Trade List of Nursery Stock for 

 1916. Full telegraph code given. 



Thomas M. Proctor. Wrentham, 

 .Mass. — Catalogue of Dahlias offered 

 for 1916 by Wrentham Dahlia Gardens. 



The Imlay Company. Zanesville. 

 Ohio.— 1916 Catalogue of Seeds. Plants 

 and F'lowers. Hardy and tender gar- 

 den material. 



Framingham Nurseries, Framing- 

 ham. Mass. — Trade Price List of Nur- 

 sery Stock for Nurserymen, Dealers, 

 Florists and Landscape Architects 

 only. 



Fraser Nursery Company. Inc.. 

 Huntsville. Ala. — February, 1916, Sur- 

 i;lus List for Nurserymen and Dealers 

 Only. An extended list of fruit and 

 ornamental nursery stock. 



H. E. .Meader, Dover. N. H.— The 

 Gladiolus, the Crowning Splendor of 

 the Garden. This is really a catalogue 

 and price list, but externally it gives 

 no evidence of it. The cover is a gem. 

 bearing a panel portrait of a little girl 

 with an armful of gladioli in colors 

 and the inscription, "Do You Love 

 Flowers?" 



Stumpp & Walter Co.. New York 

 City. — General Seed Catalogue for 

 Spring. 1916. A splendid example of 

 good contents, press work, illustra- 

 tions arrangement and all that goes 

 to make an inspiring seed catalogue. 

 The covers show Giant Sweet Sultans 

 and Orchid Flowered Salpiglossis in 

 natural colors. 



Syracuse, M. Y.— Mrs. B. F. Metcalf 



An address by Howard M. Earl, 

 manager for W. Atlee Burroe & Co., 

 on the development of the modern 

 winter-flow-ering sweet pea. delivered 

 before the Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia, on Tuesdav evening, March 7. is 

 in type but withheld until a later issue 

 on account of overcrowding this week. 



TO OBVIATE DELAY IN RECEIPTS 

 OF FOREIGN INVOICES. 



Maltus & Ware, custom bouse 

 brokers and forwarding agents or 

 New York City, have addressed an 

 open letter to the Secretary of State 

 at Washinctoii, calling attention to 

 fhe great delay and embarrassment 

 caused by the taking off and detention 

 of important foreign mail by the Brit- 

 ish authorities at Falmouth, Eng., and 

 elsewhere. Special instances are men- 

 tioned, among them the steamers New- 

 Amsterdam, Osterdyk and Noorderdyk 

 from Rotterdam, which arrived In 

 New York with many hundreds of 

 cases of living plants for florists and 

 nurserymen in this country which re- 

 quired prompt reforwarding on ar- 

 rival, but all the invoices, bills of lad- 

 ing and other documents necessary for 

 their proper disposition were missing. 

 Messrs. Maltus & Ware suggested that 

 the Secretary take up this matter 

 with the British authorities with a 

 view to sotting aside on all mail ves- 

 sels a portion of the mail to be known 

 as Consignees Letters, containing bills 

 of lading, consular invoices, waybills, 

 and letters giving instructions for the 

 disposition <.f perishable stock upon 

 arrival, these letters to be placed In 

 envelopes by the various forwarding 

 agents in Rotterdam and other sea- 

 ports in the presence of the British 

 consul at that port and to be given in 

 charge of the purser or other officer 

 on board the vessel carrying the goods, 

 for immediate inspection by the Brit- 

 ish authorities and allowed to accom- 

 pany the property to destination. 



