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HOKTICULtURH: 



October 20, 1906 



Seed Trade Topics 



In last week's Seed Trade Topics 

 an error was made in the following 

 sentence: "In proportion to the vol- 

 ume of seed business done. Canada 

 uses fifty pounds of Swedes and 

 Maugels to one used in the United 

 States, and the quantity of the dairy 

 products of the two countries is in 

 about the same ratio." 



The word quantity should be "qual- 

 ity." Quite a difference in meaning. 



The lithographers' strike is great- 

 ly embarrassing the canners and seed- 

 men. The former are unable to get 

 labels for their cans, and thus hun- 

 dreds of car loads of canned goods 

 are held up at this time when the job- 

 bers want them, and when there is a 

 keen demand from consumers. If 

 long continued, this state of affairs is 

 likely to result in many countermands 

 from both jobbers and retailers, to 

 the disappointment and loss of the 

 canners. Those seedsmen who issue 

 large editions of illustrated catalogues, 

 are bound to be seriously incon- 

 venienced if they do not suffer heavy 

 loss. Those who sell packet seeds, 

 either outright or on commission, are 

 greatly worried over the inability of 

 the printer to deliver their bags, and 

 particularly where colored lithograph 

 bags are used. This will cause delay 

 in getting the seeds into the hands of 

 the retail country merchants, conse- 

 quent falling off in sales, an<I loss to 

 the seedsmen. Just how serious these 

 conditions may become, will depend 

 mainly on the duration of the strike, 

 or at least on the length of time re- 

 quired by the employing lithographers 

 to fully man their plants. 



With reference to strikes, it is a fact 

 that neither employer nor employee 

 seems to regard the great neutral con- 

 suming public as having any rights 

 which either side is under obligation 

 to consider. Now if this groat neutral 

 public could only act in unison, and be 

 led by wise and honest men, they could 

 compel both sides to show a decent 

 regard for their rights, and obstinate 

 employer and reckless striker would 

 not so lightly paralyze industry, caus- 

 ing loss and often ruin to disinterested 

 persons. 



Onion seed seems to be in the lime- 

 light just now, and some very extrav- 

 agant predictions are being made as to 

 probable prices. One very prominent 

 seedsman thinks wholesale prices 

 should be about as follows: Yellow 

 Globe Danvers, $3.00; Southport Yel- 

 low Globe. $3.25; Southport Red Globe, 

 $:5.00; Southport White Globe, $3.50; 

 Yellow Strasburg, $2.50; Yellow Flat 

 Danvers, $2.50; Prizetaker, $2.50; Red 

 Wethersfield and Early Flat Red, 

 $2.00. Now while these prices are 

 possible, they are not probable. As 

 the wind is tempered to the shorn 

 lamb, so will the demand for onion 

 seed be regulated by the supply and 

 the price. 



The fact is well known to see<lsmen 

 that a high price for onions and onion 

 sets usually stimulates the demand 

 for seed, while a low price checks de- 

 mand. Now it so happens that the 

 crop of onions this year is the largest 

 ever grown, according to the most re- 

 liable statistics obtainable, exceeding 

 last year's heavy crop by three-quar- 

 ters of a million bushels, while the 

 onion set crop, though not a bumper, 



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is a good average one, and unless both 

 onions and onion sets rot badly, prices 

 next winter and spring are liliely to 

 be very low. particularly on large 

 onions, and with the high prices of 

 seeds now prevailing, the demand is 

 certain to be greatly restricted. No 

 doubt these facts will have due weight 

 with seedsmen, and prevent them 

 from making prohibitive prices. 



It seems that some varieties of 

 French grown radish seed are procur- 

 able at a price. Scarlet Globe and 

 white tipped scarlet turnip can be 

 bought at about 30c., f. o. b. New York 

 or Boston, much of the latter being 

 year old seed, and not up to recog- 

 nized standards of germination. Oth- 

 er varieties can be attained at atx)ut 

 the same or somewhat lower prices, 

 but in rather restricted quantities. 



.losiah Young of Troy, N. Y., former- 

 ly Young & Halstead, is to devote his 

 attention to developing the catalogue 

 and retail trade, and to this end is 

 closing out his heavy agricultural im- 

 plements, dairy supplies, etc. Mr. 

 Young has a very able assistant in Mr. 

 P. K. Nott, and the two make a team 

 warranted to make things go but with 

 all deference, it is suggested that if 

 they wish to develop local retail trade 

 they should seek another location, as 

 local advertising benefits their com- 

 petitors nearly as much as it does 

 them. For catalogue trade they should 

 try an ad. in HORTICULTURE. 



class (or Christmas flowering dwarfs) 

 are also being offered. All these and 

 others can doubtless be procured now 

 or very soon from the leading seed 

 houses on this side. G. C. W. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



C. S. Harrison, York, Neb. Price 

 list of paeonies and perennials. 



Thadeus N. Yates & Co., Philadel- 

 phia. Trade list of deciduous and 

 evergreen trees, shrubs and vines. 



Ludvig Mosbaek, Onarga, 111. De- 

 scriptive list of cannas and surplus 

 list of hardy flowering shrubs and 

 herbaceous perennials. 



Vincent Lebreton, Angers, France; 

 -\k- Hutchinson & Co., New York, 

 agents. Wholesale trade list of nur- 

 sery stock for season of 1906-7. 



F. E. Conine Nursery Co., Stratford, 

 Conn. Catalogue of fruit and orna- 

 mental trees and shrubs, hardy pe- 

 rennials, etc. Many illustrations. 



A call has been issued for a meeting 

 to organize a horticultural society in 

 Manitowoc, Wis. 



NEW SWEET PEAS. 

 Harking back to the sweet pea 

 review in j'our issue of Aug. 11th, 

 1906, it is interesting to note in recent 

 advices from London the offering of 

 four new sports from Gladys Unwin, 

 namely; Nora Unwin, a pure white; 

 Mrs. Alfred Watkins, a pale pink; 

 Frank Dolby, same shade of blue as 

 Lady Grisel Hamilton but larger than 

 that fine variety and E. J. Castle, car- 

 mine rose with salmon shadings. A 

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