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HOETICULTURE 



September 25, 1915 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, J. M. Lopton, 

 Mattitnck, L. I., N. Y.; First Vice-Presi- j 

 dent, Kirby B. White, Detroit, Micii. ; ; 

 Second Vice-President, F. VV. Bolgiano, 

 Washington, D. C; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 C. E. Kendei, Cleveland, O.; Assistant 

 Secretary, 8. F. Wlliard, Jr., Cleveland, 

 O. Cincinnati, O., next meeting place. 



Seed Corn. 



Continued warm weather up to this 

 date, much of it the warmest of the 

 entire season, has probably saved the 

 corn cro|). This, at least, is the mes- 

 sage from one of the leading seed 

 corn growers. It may be well to add 

 that the com has a long line of vicis- 

 situdes to encounter before it is cured 

 and becomes seed for planting. This 

 applies particularly to sweet corn and 

 especially if any considerable percent- 

 age is soft or "in the milk." A rainy, 

 cold autumn will ruin a large percent- 

 age ot such corn, causing it to mould, 

 unless cured by artificial heat, which 

 most of the progressive growers are 

 now prepared to employ. However, 

 the condition of the crop is vastly 

 more satisfactory than appeared prob- 

 able a month ago. 



Beans. 



There is nothing more definite to re- 

 port regarding the bean crop than 

 contained in Seed Trade Notes of two 

 weeks ago. We are still hoping de- 

 spite the pessimistic reports of the 

 growers that conditions are really not 

 as bad as they fear. 



Peas. 



No further particulars can be given 

 of the pea crop. There are still fears 

 of some shortage of the late long i)od 

 sorts, but this will probably prove a 

 blessing to the dealers. We are ad- 

 vised that growers of green peas for 

 the market realized very unsatisfact- 

 ory prices this season, which, as in 

 the case of beans, will probably have 

 a restraining influence on demand. So 

 tar as we have ascertained either seed 

 crops remain in status quo as last re- 

 ported. 



Garden Beets. 



A large acreage of garden beets was 

 grown for seed the past season. One 

 grower estimated that more than 

 100,000 pounds more were grown in this 

 country this year. We have no means 

 of knowing how good this guess is. 

 Possibly some of our readers can 

 make a better estimate. So far as we 

 can learn, dealers generally are not 

 worrying about their supplies of beet 

 or other biennials. Perhaps they have 

 assured themselves on this point. The 

 situation will doubtless develop within 

 the next sixty days. We hope to give 

 a general summary of the season's 

 crops in a near issue ot Houticit.turi;. 



Notes, 

 The Door County Seed Co. have now 

 occupied their new quarters on St. 

 John street. 



The value of horticultural imports 

 at the port of New York, for week end- 

 ing September 11. is given as follows: 

 Clover seed. $13,000: grass seed, 

 $10,420; fertilizer. $11,022; trees, 

 plants and shrubs, $110.96.t. 



Charles .lohnson, American agent 

 for Denaiffe & Son, La Menitre, 

 France, has changed his main office 

 address from Marietta, Pa., to 1905 

 Virginia street, Berkeley, Cal. His 

 New York address, up to Oct. 10, will 

 be Charles Johnson, Hotel Brevoort, 

 New York, After that date it will be 

 in care ot American Express, 05 Broad- 

 way, New York. He is now on his 

 annual business tour. Denaiffe & Son 

 having resumed their business which 

 was suddenly suspended a year ago by 

 the calling into the French army of 

 more than 600 employees, including 

 every active head of the company. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 

 Ohio. — Fall Catalogue of Bulbs and 

 Plants tor 1915. 



J. F. Noll & Co., Newark, N. J.— 

 Bulb Catalogue, Autumn 1915. Seeds, 

 Plants, Bulbs. Fertilizers, Poultry 

 Supplies, 



Vincent Lebreton, Angers, France. — 

 Wholesale Trade List for Autumn 1915 

 and Spring 1916. Complete nursery 

 stock list with cable code, etc. Mc- 

 Hutchinson & Co., .\. Y., sole agents 

 for U. S. and Canada. 



Stumpp & Walter Co., New York.— 

 "Bulbs for Autumn Planting." An 

 elaljorate and very attractive fall cata- 

 logue. Handsome covers and abund- 

 antly illustrated with half-tone en- 

 gravings and four beautiful color 

 plate. 



Breck-Robinson Co., Lexington, 

 ilass, — "Trees. Plants, Planting," — An 

 exceptional publication in the arrange- 

 ment of its plates and typographical 

 make-up. Well printed, with practical 

 cultural and descriptive notes and 

 altogether a dignified and impressive 

 manual of hardy planting material. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Beacon, N. Y. — Benjamin Hammond 

 advertises that ten per cent of all sales 

 made of Hammond's Cottage Colors for 

 use on property located in the city of 

 Beacon will be turned over to the 

 treasurer of Highland Hospital. 



Hartford, Conn. — A contract for 

 1.400 potted geraniums has been 

 awarded to E. S. Drake of Fairfield 

 avenue, by Charles A. Stedman Camp, 

 Sons of Veterans, to be furnished for 

 decoration of the graves of the veter- 

 ans of the Civil War next Memorial 

 Day. Because it has grown increas- 

 ingly more difficult to secure flowers 

 by the methods which have long been 

 pursued in this city, the society, which 

 now has charge of the Memorial Day 

 celebration, decided to make a change 

 last summer, and after much delibera- 

 tion decided to buy potted plants next 

 year. 



Black's Seeds is the title of a new 

 company at Albert Lea, Minn., which 

 succeeds Robert H, Black, 



The big conservatory in course of 

 construction by Lord & Burnham in 

 the .Missouri Botanic Garden is near- 

 ing completion. Here the chrysanthe- 

 mum show will be staged in November. 



IMPORTATION OF BELGIAN PROD- 

 UCTS. 



H<inTKi'i,Tui!E Publishing Co: 



I am in receipt of the following lu- 

 lormation from the .Merchant Associa- 

 tion of New^ York. Will you be kind 

 enough to give it the necessary pub- 

 licity through your paper, and oblige? 



"Referring to previous correspondence 

 relative to your desire to tn-iug forward 

 from Kotterdam goods of Belgian origin, I 

 have to inform you that the Department 

 has received from the .\iuerican Ambas- 

 sador at Loudon the following telegram, 

 dated September S ; 



" '27G9. September 8th. Foreign office 

 today sends me printed form now being 

 sent to all persons desiring to export goods 

 of lielgiau origin from Holland. Form 

 as follows; 



■' 'The Under Secretary of State lor 

 foreign affairs presents his compliments to 

 Messrs. and, in reply to their let- 

 ter of the — , relative to the exportation 



from lielgium to of is 



direi-teil by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state 

 that his -Majesty's Consular UHicer at the 

 port of shipment will be instructed to 

 issue the necessary permit as soon as 

 Messrs. have produced to the satis- 

 faction of the Foreign Office . 



" 'One. .\ declaration or certilicate from 

 the competent Belgian local or municipal 

 .lutliorit.v that the goods in ciuestion are 

 of I-Ielgiau origin or manufacture; and 



" 'Second. A written guarantee from a 

 bank in this country that the purchase 

 mftney for the goods has been deposited 

 with them, and will not be withdrawn, 

 without the special authorization of his 

 Majesty's (Government, during the coiuinu- 

 ance of the occupation of Belgium by the 

 enem.v ; or alteruatively clear evideuce that 

 the purchase money was remitted to Bel- 

 gium before the thirty-first of .Inly, 11115. 

 such as an affidavit of the bank in a 

 neutral country through which the mone.r 

 was remitted. 



" 'Please request persons approaching 

 Embass.v in cases of this description to 

 furnish documents set forth abnve.' 



"Unless you have submitted to the otfice 

 of the Foreign Trade Advisers the neces- 

 sary undertaking as to pa.vment and the 

 required proof of the Belgian origin of the 

 goods you desire to import I suggest that 

 you do so at once." 



Possibly statements similar to the 

 above came to your attention in the 

 daily press a day or so ago. We are 

 passing this on to you for whatever it 

 may be worth. 



Yours very truly, 



CH.4S. A. D.\RDS. 



New York. 



Sharon, Pa. — The Murchie green- 

 houses on South Irvine avenue have 

 been moved from their old location 

 and are being rebuilt on a site on the 

 opposite side of the street. When re- 

 built there will be six new green- 

 houses, measuring 12fl by 20 feet, with 

 a lean-to of 12 by 120 feet. A new 

 heating system will be installed, mak- 

 ing the plant one of the most modern 

 of this kind in this section, 



Florist's Pliers 



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 shears cut a et«m. 

 Hand honed edg^-~ 

 keeps its edge; handles 

 fit the hand and make 

 the tool frork more 

 easily. 



Fits the vest pocket. 

 70c at your dealer's or 

 postpaid from ns. 

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