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HORTICULTURE 



SOME VALUABLE GRASSES. 



October 12, 1912 



Here is a leaf from a seedsman's herbarium. It Khows some of the characteristics of some of the least known and 

 finer grasses for lawns, pastures, etc., better, we think, than they have ever been done before. 



the European crop of Timothy. But 

 we think, whatever the out-turn may 

 be, it will be the American seed that 

 will take the lead. 



Poa Nemoralis (Wood Meadow- 

 grass). A very good crop both in re- 

 gard to quantity and quality, of excel- 

 lent weight and purity. The price has 

 come down further and the recleaned 

 seed sells now at from $4.00 to $6.00 

 less than the previous season. 



Poa Pratensis (Smooth-stalked Mead- 

 owgrass) yielded the largest crop 

 witnessed for the last 5 to 10 years. 

 The seed is of a bright heavy quality. 

 Quotations came down to a very low 

 point, but the price has since gone up 

 again some 40 to 50 cents in view of 

 the large orders coming in. 



Poa Trivialis (Rough-stalked Mead- 

 otograss). An unsatisfactory crop so 

 far as quantity is concerned. What- 

 ever has come through, however, is of 

 good quality of satisfactory purity and 

 growth. 



Lolium Perenne and Italicum (Per- 

 ennial and. Italian Ryegrass). Both of 

 these had to sustain a long period of 

 wet weather and both crops have been 

 badly impaired. The bushel weight 

 will on an average be three to four 

 lbs less. 



Lolium Westerwoldicum fWester- 

 ivold Italian, Annual variety). A fair 

 crop. Germination the highest ever 

 attained (96 — 99 per cent). 



been increased from $30,000 to $75,000. 



Lagrange, Ga. — An interest in the 

 seed and plant business of E. L. John- 

 son has been purchased by R. M. 

 Priddy. 



the Department of Agriculture under 

 authority of the Plant Quarantine Act, 

 in order, it is stated, to prevent the 

 introduction of the disease known as 

 potato wart, black scab, etc. 



Wichita, Kan. — It is reported that 

 the Central Feed and Seed Store, 243 

 North Main street, has been placed in 

 the hands of a receiver. 



Tampa, Fla. — A warehouse and of- 

 fice building is being erected on Polk 

 street by Crenshaw Bros. & Saftold. 

 It will occupy half a block. 



Holmes Seed Company of Harris- 

 burg, Pa., has moved from Market 

 square to 119 South Second street, 

 where they will occupy a five-story 

 building. 



S. D. Woodruff & Sons report un- 

 usually brisk business on the seed 

 market during the past two months. 

 Their own advance orders for seeds, 

 seed potatoes and onion sets far ex- 

 ceed anything that this firm has 

 booked in former years. They say 

 the trade in general now realizes the 

 shortage in such items as carrots, 

 beets, parsley, turnip, globe onion, and 

 to these will soon be added sweet 

 corn, beans and peas. 



Council Bluffs, Iowa — The Shugart- 

 Ouren Seed Co. is now a corporation 

 with C. G. Ouren, president; P. R. 

 Davis, vice-president; J. P. Davis, sec- 

 retary; A. P. Schofield, treasurer. 



Council Bluffs, Iowa — A two-story 

 brick building is being erected by the 

 De Giorgi Bros., seed growers, at 

 Fourteenth avenue and Third street. 

 It will be used for offices and ware- 

 house. 



Ravages of the gipsy moth and the 

 brown tail moth on growing trees, 

 shrubs and grasses, especially in the 

 vicinity of Boston, will be the subject 

 of a hearing before the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board at the Department of 

 Agriculture, Oct. 30. The hearing will 

 decide whether there shall be a quar- 

 antine against the shipment of prod- 

 ucts liable to carry the moths into 

 other localities in the United States. 



Notes. 

 Liberal, Mo. — The capital stock of 

 the Libscomb Grain & Seed Co. has 



The importation of potatoes into the 

 United States from Newfoundland, the 

 islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, 

 Great Britain, including England. Scot- 

 land, Wales, and Ireland, Germany and 

 Austria-Hungary has been forbidden by 



Within a period of three years (1909 

 to 1912) the annual export from the 

 United States to Canada of agricul- 

 tural implements has increased from 

 $2,313,556 to $6,347,082, the chief 

 growth under this head occurring in 

 exports of plows, which increased 

 from $792,829 in 1909 to $1,760,045 

 in 1912. 



