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HOETICULTUEE 



November 2, 1912 



JUST RECEIVED— IN FINE CONDITION — A 



5URPLU5 OF 



Lilium Longiflorum Multiflorum, 7x9 



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The Yokohama Nursery Co., Ltd., 



31 BARCLAY STREET 

 NEW YORK CITY 



SEED TRADE. 



The seed trade of the old Bay State 

 are law abiding people but they are 

 wondering what's going to happen to 

 them after January first next. The 

 new law says that peas must be sixty 

 pounds to the bushel. There is another 

 law which says that thirty-two quarts 

 make a bushel. Now, it is a well 

 known fact that a bushel of wrinkled 

 peas weighs only about fifty-six pounds 

 and the question arises, which law are 

 they to obey: the thirty-two quart 

 law, or the sixty pound law. One Bos- 

 ton firm wrote to the sealer of weights 

 and measures for instructions. All he 

 got out of him was that the law would 

 be enforced as writ. Which was high- 

 ly illuminating. We await with inter- 

 est to see how this queer mixup will 

 work out. 



Over in New York state they are 

 worrying because the law says they 

 must put on every packet the percent- 

 age of purity and germination and 

 there are, of course, penalties if the 

 said packet is found at any time or 

 place afterwards and fails, which it as- 

 suredly would in time to the said per- 

 centage. Also how is a seedsman to 

 know what happens to a packet after 

 it leaves his hands. The legislators 

 say we made the fertilizer folks do it, 

 why not you seed folks. They forget 

 that seeds are live entities like a 

 horse or other live thing; and so one 

 would ask a guarantee that a horse 

 would not fall and break his leg or 

 that a brick would not fall on his 

 head and kill him the day after the 

 sale. That would be going into the in- 

 surance business and would of course 

 entail an insurance premium, and 

 would enormously increase the cost of 

 seed. A fine help that for the farmer! 



A Boston seedsman asked the writer 

 the other day: How is it that a wee 

 country like Scotland looms up so big 

 with its men at the head of affairs in 

 the seed trade of the United States and 

 Canada? We modestly opined that it 

 must be because they were all smart, 

 clever lads. But he wouldn't have it 

 that they were any smarter or shrewd- 

 er than the Yankee lads. Which is 

 true. In fact more so. The secret of 

 it lies probably in the apprentice sys- 

 tem in vogue in the seed trade of 

 Scotland. Most of the boys to begin 

 with are from the country districts. 

 sons of farmers or gardeners, and have 

 the fundamental knowledge of com- 

 mon agricultural and horticultural 

 things on which to lay a knowledge of 

 the intricacies of the wider auxiliary 

 profession. Such boys when given ro- 



AN ECONOMICAL FOUNTAIN. 



Our illustration shows the "ring" 

 lawn sprinkler used as a fountain as 

 described In our issue of October lit, 

 in operation as a public exhibit in 

 Philadelphia by H. F. Michell Co. The 



basin was filled with aquatic plants 

 and fringed with decorative foliage 

 plants and as an advertisement for the 

 house could not have been improved 

 upon, many thousands of spectators 

 being attracted to it daily. 



tation in all branches of the business 

 make as a rule better seedsmen than 

 city boys of equal mental ability. 



G. C. WATSON. 



Notes. 

 Covington, Ky. — The Covington Seed 

 Co., the business of the late N. R. Mil- 



ler, will be continued by his sons, C. 

 C. and A. R. Miller. 



Bay City, Mich. — The capital stock 

 of the Gregory Farm Seed Co. has been 

 increased to $30,000. They expect soon 

 to move into offices at Third and 



Adams streets. 



HJALMAR HARTMANN & CO., Copenhagen, Denmark 



Seed Qrowers for the Wholesale Trade 

 CAULIFIOW'R.GAIBAGE and ROOT SEIDS 



Prices and Descriptive List on application ^ 



LOECHNER & CO., 11 Warren St., NEW YORK 



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