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HORTICULTU RE, 



December 15, 1906 



SEED TRADE TOPICS. 



The next Canners' Convention is to 

 be held at Buffalo, N. Y., during the 

 week beginning with February 11th, 

 with headquarters at the Iroquois 

 Hotel. The old armory is to used 

 for the machinery exhibit. 



The last attempt of the canners to 

 hold their convention at Buffalo, was 

 a failure, owing to the "grab-all" pol- 

 icy of the hotels, and since then the 

 canners have not had the tenderest re- 

 gard for Buitalo hotel men, and they 

 have not been backward in expressing 

 their feelings. Realizing that some- 

 thing heroic was necessary to over- 

 come the well-grounded prejudice of 

 the canners, the Buffalo hotel men have 

 arisen handsomely to the occasion, and 

 have met the demands of the canners 

 to their entire satisfaction. 



It was during the year of the Pan- 

 American Exposition that the canners 

 met their rebuff. The convention is 

 alwavs held during February, and not- 

 withstanding that the Exposition was 

 not to open until May, the hotel men 

 had such exaggerated ideas of the rush 

 that was coming, that they advanced 

 their rates in February to the figures 

 they expected to realize during the an- 

 ticipated rush the following midsum- 

 mer. This recalls the story of the ac- 

 tion taken by the Niagara Falls cab- 

 men, some years before the Falls 

 passed under state control. A noted 

 European scientist predicted that the 

 Falls would become dry in about 2,000 

 years, and the morning following the 

 publication of this prediction, the cab- 

 men raised their fares. While this is 

 not a new story, it points a moral, and 

 is worth repeating here. 



The forthcoming convention prom- 

 ises to be largely attended, as matters 

 of great moment to the canners will be 

 up for consideration. Chief among 

 these is the Pure Food Law, and what 

 the canners must do to conform to the 

 same. This is giving the leading can- 

 ners very serious thought, and causing 

 grave anxiety for many. There is an 

 unprecedented rush for rooms, and 

 those wishing to secure the right ac- 

 commodations should get busy without 

 delay. 



In connection with the mention of 

 Canners' Convention it is fitting to 

 again refer to the prediction made In 

 these columns from time to time, of 

 exceptionally high prices for seed 

 peas Those who were skeptical on 

 this point and have neglected to cover 

 their shortages, are now finding it dif- 

 ficult to do so, even at the abnormally 

 high figures. This refers of course to 

 pedigree seed, and more particularly 

 to "Canners" Varieties." As matters 

 look now, unless the growers come for- 

 ward with "seed stock," in liberal 

 quantities, it will be impossible to sat- 

 isfy the demand unless varieties not 

 generally favored by the canners are 

 used. It seems a safe prediction how- 

 ever, that "seed stock" will be in evi- 

 dence in due time, as this is always the 

 case in years of crop shortage. 



Louis Sol den will open a flower and 

 seed store in Elmira, N. Y., at an early 

 date. 



Mr. Routzahn of the Routzahn Seed 

 Company, Arroyo Grande, Cal., was in 



Chicago last week on his eastern busi- 

 ness trip. 



The convention of the farmers of 

 Pennsylvania at Dubois, Pa., on the 

 11th inst., furnished opportunity for 

 another whack at the free seed dragon. 

 The Florists' Club of Philadelphia and 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 both had something to say. 



An authority on tomato seed writes 

 us; "One of your contemporaries says 

 editorially, 'Tomato seed is one of the 

 cheap and plenty items on the vege- 

 table seed lists' — we are glad they 

 have none to buy; they might learn 

 differently." 



Burpee's advance wholesale list of 

 the best seeds that grow is a compact 

 synopsis of crop results for the past 

 season. Prices are about normal ex- 

 cept on onions and one or two other 

 items. Deliveries on California crops 

 are much later than usual on account 

 of freight congestion. The same is true 

 of seed potatoes from Maine. 



BROAD BEANS. 

 The almost universal failure of 

 broad beans to produce a crop owing 

 to the ravages of the black aphis is 

 regrettably well known. A friend of 

 mine, Mr. Percy Taylor, has for the 

 past 1'2 years made beans of all kinds 

 a hobby; he has in the neighborhood 

 of one hundred varieties. Last spring 

 he got together all the kinds of broad 

 beans from Europe and this country; 

 row after row on the 12th of July were 

 in the same condition of black aphis 

 and barrenness as usual, except twenty- 

 five plants among a row of Scarlet 

 Runners, on which there was not a 

 single aphis, and on which there was 

 a good crop of perfect pods and beans; 

 on one plant I counted seventeen full 

 pods. JOHN THORPE. 



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