August 18, 1906 



HORTICUL-TURE 



183 



New Offers in this Issue— Cofninued- 



FLOWER POTS. 



A. H. Hews & Co.. CaniliiulKe, Mass. 

 For page st'u List of Advt'i'tisers. 



FLOWER POTS. 



TV. H. Ernest, 28tli & M Sts., Wasbiii-t.Mi 



D. C. 



For page see List of Aflvertisers. 



FURMAN BOILERS. 



Herendeen Mfg. Co., Geneva, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



GIANT CYCLAMEN. 



C. Wintoricli, Deflanee, O. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GIANT CYCLAMEN. 



O. V. Zangen, Hoboljon, N. J 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GLASS. 



G. C. Watson, 9th & Marljet Sts.. Phila 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GREEN GALAX, FERNS, LEUCO- 

 THOE SPRAYS. 



Uay Bros., Elli Paris, N. C. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 



King Construction Co., .N. Touawanda 



N. Y. 



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GREENHOUSE HEATING. 



Jolinstou Heating Co., 1133 Broadway, 



New Yorli. 



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HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



H.dihink & Atl<ins. Rutliprf.,rd, X J 

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IMPORTER. 



H. Franis Darrow, 26 Barclay St., 



New Yorlj. 



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MOREHEAD RETURN TRAP. 



Mooreliead Mfg. Co., Detroit, Micli. 

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NEPHROLEPIS WHITMANI. 



H. H. Barrows i: Son. Whitman, Mass 

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NOVELTIES AT DAYTON. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 50-56 No. 4th St., 



Philadelphia. 



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ORCHIDS. 



Lager & Hurrcll, Summit, N. J. 

 For page see List of .\dvertisers. 



ORCHID FLOWERS. 



James McManus, 42 W. 28th St.. New York 

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PRIVATE GARDENERS' DIREC- 

 TORY. 



W. W. Rawson & Co.. 5 Union St., Boston 

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ROSES ON OWN ROOTS. 



The Dingee-Conard Co.. West Grove. Pa. 

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THE PENNOCK FACILITIES. 



S. S. Pennoek. Philadelphia. Pa. 

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VIOLETS, LADY CAMPBELL. 



Malcolm Orr. X. Saugus, Mass. 

 For page sec List .>f Adv.-rlisers. 



WHOLESALE MARKET CONSOLI- 

 DATION. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meohan Co., 1608-l.S 



Ludlow St., Phila. 



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WOOD LABELS FOR NURSERY- 

 MEN AND FLORISTS. 



Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., Dayton, O. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 



Referring to the article in tlie issue 

 of Aug. 11th, and particularly to that 

 part dealing with peas, a litter further 

 light may be shed on the subject. 

 Growers are often asked about the 

 origin of new varieties of peas, and as 

 a general proposition it may be said 

 that new varieties are the result of 

 hybridization, though on rare occa- 

 sions a promising sport has been 

 adopted which has proven superior to 

 its parent. Again an old variety has 

 been so improved by intelligent selec- 

 tion as to be scarcely recognized, so 

 changed is it from the original stock. 



The tendency to revert to the 

 original types is always a marked 

 characteristic, whatever may have 

 been the origin of the variety. A 

 case in point is the Alaska. This pea 

 Is a sport from the old Kentish In- 

 vincible, and has been, as is generally 

 known, a vast improvement on its 

 parent, and although regarded as one 

 of the easiest peas to keep true to 

 type, this can only be accomplished 

 by the most dili.gent and painstaking 

 care. Despite all of this care how- 

 ever, this variety under certain con- 

 ditions of soil and climate, will grow 

 entirely away from its true type, and 

 make determined efforts to be like its 

 parent. During the present summer 

 the writer has seen many fields of 

 Alaskas growing under varied condi- 

 tions and has seen widely varying re- 

 .sults from the same seed stock. In 

 some instances the true type was well 

 maintained, while in others many 

 variations were noticeable, from a 

 sli.ght difference in height, up to two 

 feet, and from a hardly noticeable 

 difference in time of maturing up to a 

 week or ten days, and there were many 

 minor divergencies. Some fields grown 

 from seed known or suspected to be 

 degenerates, were so bad, that not 

 fifty per cent, of the crop was avail- 

 able for canning, while it was abso- 

 lutely worthless as seed. 



As in the case of varieties bred up 

 from sports, so with hybrids. They 

 show the same vagaries and the same 

 tendencies to depart from recognized 

 types. This trait has been so marked 

 at times, that many promising new 

 specimens have had to be abandoned 

 because it was found impossible to 

 maintain any fixed type. However it 

 may be well to caution growers against 

 resting too confidently in the belief 

 that they can always find a defence 

 for any neglect to keep their stocks 

 as pure and true as intelligent pains- 

 taking care can make them, while 

 those who do any less than this will 

 liave good cause for anxiety. The very 



best stocks now procurable can be 

 made better, and there is a present and 

 growing demand for the best. Can- 

 ners and seedsmen however, are like 

 the gentleman from Missouri, they 

 must be "shown." The mere claim 

 of superiority will not suffice. This 

 fact must be fully comprehended by all 

 growers and dealers, for if they do 

 not make good their claims, they can- 

 not hold the confidence of their cus- 

 tomers, and without this confidence 

 they will soon have no customers. 

 "I am holier than thou" will not an- 

 swer. Let them understand that the 

 buyer of seeds has some rights they 

 are bound to consider, while the buy- 

 er should be willing to pay a fair price 

 tor good seed, and not ask the careful 

 conscientious grower to meet the price 

 of wild oat goods. 



There have been no important new 

 developments in crop conditions. 

 Weather has been generally favor- 

 able for the harvesting of peas and 

 the yields have been slightly uetter 

 than looked for, though the shortage 

 will undoubtedly be heavy. No im- 

 portant changes are reported affecting 

 beans, corn, vine seeds and other 

 crops excepting that very unfavorable 

 reports are given about the onion seed 

 crops in Connecticut. However the 

 quantity of Connecticut grown onion 

 seed compared to the total is as one 

 to a hundred. 



MARKET FOR AMERICAN SEEDS. 



Consul Maxwell Blake writes from 

 Funchal that during the first half of 

 this year the heavy rains and un- 

 usual cold weather destroyed certain 

 Madeira Island crops and seriously 

 threatened the maturity of others. 



The low temperature resisted the 

 efforts of the seeds even as late as 

 May, a month when generally the soil 

 is very warm. The potato crop was 

 practically destroyed, beans also 

 rotted in the soil, and the sweet 

 potato, perhaps the most essential 

 article of food in the diet of the 

 peasant, has been very greatly dam- 

 aged. All seeds for next year's crops 

 will, as a consequence, be short of 

 the demand and thus very much 

 dearer. Here is offered a splendid 

 opportunity for the market of Ameri- 

 can seeds, as it is generally admitted 

 that the seeds of our dryer climate 

 have never failed of good results 

 whenever they have been used In 

 Madeira. Seeds are admitted duty 

 free. There is, however, a small 

 octroi tax. [The Funchal dealers in 

 seeds are named by the consul, and 

 the names can be secured from the 

 Bureau of Manufactures. Correspond- 

 ence with them should be in Portu- 

 guese.] 



THEY ALU SAY 



Anchor Greenhouse Hose 



is the " best they ever used." Try it and you will say the same. 



MINERALIZED RUBBER CO., 18 CiSt,, New York 



