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HORTICULTURE 



August 12, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers— President, Klrby B. White. 

 Detroit Midi.; First Vice-I'resident, K. 

 W. Bolgiano, Washington. I). C. ; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, I.. L. Olds, Madison, 

 Wis.; Secretory-Treasurer, C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland. O. 



from those countries from which the 

 importation of bulbs is prohibited, and 

 he said the matter would require to 

 be dealt with when any New Prohibi- 

 tion Orders were being is.sued. It 

 would be kept in mind. 



—Hurt. Trade Journal. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending July 28, were recorded as fol- 

 lows: 



Bulbs — England. $5 ; Bermuda, 

 $5,300; Japan, $1,068. 



Plants — Belgium, $1,256; England, 

 $75; Guatemala, $187. 



Red Cloved seed— France, $11,123; 

 England, $130. 



Clover seed— France, $9,499; Russia, 

 ^9,583; New Zealand, $1,206. 



Grass seed — Ireland, $324. 

 Other seeds— France, $3,142;- Neth- 

 erlands, $81; British East Indies, 

 $5,515; Hongkong, $108; Argentine, 



$2,864. 



Nitrate of potash— British Indies, 

 $37,286. 



Nitrate of soda — Chile, $74,404. 



Other fertilizers— England, $134; 

 Mexico, $702; Argentine. $450. 



British Prohibit Bulbs by Parcel Post. 

 The following deputation waited on 

 Mr. Enthoven, the new Controller of 

 Imports at the Board of Trade on July 

 17, by special invitation. Mr. Cuth- 

 bertson and Mr. G. H. Barr (represent- 

 ing the Horticultural Trades Associa- 

 tion). Mr. Hunter, of Messrs. Austin 

 and McAshlan (representing the Scot- 

 tish Seedsmen), and Messrs. Sherwood, 

 Shorthouse, Sylvester, Mr. T. Page 

 and Mr. R. Page (representing the 

 Hampton Growers' Association). The 

 three points discussed were: 



1. The Imrortation of Bulbs from 

 Holland by Parcel Post. 



Mr. Enthoven, on behalf of the 

 Board of Trade undertook that all 

 parcels which may contain bulbs or 

 other prohibited articles from Holland, 

 Denmark, Sweden and Norway will be 

 stopped by the Customs or Postal Au- 

 thorities. 



2. Imports of Japanese Bulbs. 

 Mr. Enthoven agreed to admit up to 



50 per cent, of 1915 imports provided 

 that the shipments are effected before 

 October 31, and subject to the Trade 

 devising a scheme whereby the Board 

 may be assured that this quantity will 

 not be exceeded. 



3. Cut Flowers. 



Mr. Enthoven fully appreciated the 

 fact that great loss would be caused 

 the Flower Growers in this country if 

 cut flowers are allowed to come in 



Those Seductive Catalogues. 

 Extract from "A Sumiiipr in Our (;;ir- 

 den." by Mrs. Gertrude Ellis Skinner. Aus- 

 tin, Minn., in Tlir Miunesota Horli-ultnrisl. 



Summer in our garden begins with 

 the arrival of the first seed catalogue 

 in January, and closes the day before 

 its arrival the next January. Wo may 

 be short on flowers in our garden, but 

 we are long on seed catalogues in our 

 library. We do not believe in cata- 

 logue houses excepting seed cata- 

 logues. AVe find them more marvelous 

 than the Arabian Nights, more imag- 

 inative than Baron Manchausen, and 

 more alluring than a circus poster. We 

 care not who steals the Mona Lisa so 



long as S sends us pictures of his 



cabbages. The art gallery of the 

 Louvre may be robbed of its master- 

 piece without awakening a pang in our 



breasts, it D will only send us the 



pictures of those roses that bloom in 



the paint-shops of P . Morgan may 



purchase the choicest collections of 

 paintings in Europe and hide them from 

 the public in his New York mansion, 

 if M will send us pictures of water- 

 melons, such as were never imagined 

 by Raphael, Michael Angelo or Correg- 

 gio. 



While the world watches the strug- 

 gle for the ownership of some great 

 railway system, the control of some 

 big trust, the development of some 

 enormous enterprise, we watch for the 

 arrival of the seed catalogue to see 

 which artist can get . the most cab- 

 bages in a field, the most melons on 

 a cart, or make the corn look most like 

 the big trees of Yosemite. Don't talk 

 to us of the pleasures of bridge whist 

 it is not to be compared with the seed 

 catalogue habit. 



In the seed catalogue we mark all 

 the things we are going to buy. we 

 mark all the new things. There is 

 the wonderberr.y, sweeter than the 

 blueberry, with the fragrance of the 

 pineapple and the lusciousness of the 

 strawberry! We mark the Himalaya- 

 berry— which grows thirty feet, some- 

 times sixty feet in a single season. 

 Why, one catalogue told of a man who 

 picked 3,833 y, pounds of berries from 

 a single vine,~besides what his children 

 ate. Our Himalaya vine grew four 

 inches the first season and died the 

 first winter. We were glad it did. We 

 did not want such a monster running 

 over our garden. We wanted to raise 

 other things. 



But we did not lose faith in our cata- 

 logues. We believe what they say just 

 as the small boy believes he will see 

 a lion eat a man at the circus, because 

 the billboard pictures him doing it. 



If we ordered all the seeds we mark 

 in the catalogue in January, we would 



require a township for a garden, a 



Rockefeller to firfance it and an army 

 to hoe it. We did not understand the 

 purpose of a catalogue for a long time. 

 A catalogue is a stimulus. It's like an 

 oyster cocktail before a dinner, a 

 Scotch high-ball before the banquet 

 and the singing before the sermon. 



S knows no one ever raised such a 



crop of cabbages as he pictures or the 

 world would be drowned in sauer 

 kraut. If the Himalayaberry bore as 

 the catalogues say it does we should 

 all be buried in jam. You horticul- 

 turists never expect to raise such an 



apple as L describes; if you did. 



they would be more valuable than the 

 golden apples of Hesperides. 



But when we get a catalogue we just 

 naturally dream that what we shall 

 raise will not only be as good, but will 

 excel the pictures. Alas, of such stuff 

 are dreams made! We could not do 

 our gardening without catalogues, but 

 they are not true to life as we find it 

 in our garden. We never got a cata- 

 logue that showed the striped bug on 

 the cucumber, the slug on the rose 

 bush, the louse on the aster, the cut 

 worm on the phlox, the black bug on 

 the syringa, the thousand and one 

 pests, including the great America' 

 hen, the queen of the barnyard, but 

 the Goth and vandal of the garden. 



But the best part of summer in our 

 garden is the work we do in winter. 

 Then it is that our garden is most 

 beautiful, for we work in the garden of 

 imagination, where drouth does not 

 blight, nor storms devastate, where the 

 worm never cuts nor the bugs destroy. 

 No dog ever uproots in the garden of 

 imagination, nor doth the hen scratch. 

 This is the perfect garden. Our golden 

 glow blossoms in all of its auriferous 

 splendor, the Oriental poppy is a bar- 

 baric blaze of glory, our roses are as 

 fair as the tints of Aurora, the lark- 

 spur vies with the azure of heaven, the 

 gladioli are like a galaxy of butterflies 

 and our lilies like those which put 

 Solomon in the shade. Every flower 

 is in its proper place to make har- 

 mony complete. There is not a jarring 

 note of color in our garden in the 

 winter time. 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynes 



Park, London, England. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc., co«.m«rc. BidgTB«'.ton, «.... 



New 'York, N. Y. — A new seed store 

 has been opened at 87 Barclay street, 

 by Edward A. Peth and Prank Dug- 

 gan. Both of these gentlemen have 

 had long experience in the seed busi- 

 ness. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



V. Lemoine & Son, Nancy, France. 

 Special July, 1916. List of Delphiniums 

 and Peonies. Autumn Catalogue will 

 be issued in September. 



H. G. Hastings Co., Atlanta, Go.— 

 Catalogue No. 52, Fall 1916. An ex- 

 cellent seed catalogue, especially in- 

 teresting on field and farm grain 

 seeds, grasses, vegetables, etc. 



John C. Moninger Company, Chi- 

 cago, New York and Cincinnati. — 

 "Moninger Greenhouse News." This 

 is not exactly a catalogue but it is 

 identical in purport. Interesting 

 papers are included, written by A. 

 Hammarstrom, O. Hirschfield, C. P. 

 Guion, R. Kurowski and J. A. Kinney 

 and there are some very instructive 

 pictures. 



