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HORTICULTURE 



June 20, 1914 



before midsummer that any forecast 

 of these crops will be of any value. 



As to California crops, onion seed 

 is estimated at from two-thirds to 

 three-fourths of an average yield, let- 

 tuce about the same, and we may in- 

 clude under this heading, carrots, table 

 beets and some less important Items, 

 such as kale. etc. Cabbage, with the 

 exception of Danish ballhead, will be 

 little better than two-thirds of a crop. 

 Radish will be from three-fourths to 

 full, salsify the same, while parsley 

 and mangels will be practically full. 

 These estimates cover not only Cali- 

 fornia, but the general European and 

 American conditions. We understand 

 sweet peas will be very short, esti- 

 mates being about fifty per cent of an 

 average, while Golden Self Blanching 

 celery will be very short as usual. The 

 French grown seed probably will not 

 be much better than one-quarter of a 

 crop. Other varieties of celery will 

 range from half to three-fourths. 



From now on we shall endeavor to 

 keep our readers as accurately in- 

 formed of crop conditions as possible, 

 and as we have generally exceptionally 

 well informed correspondents, our crop 

 news may be accepted as reliable. As 

 has been predicted, trade which opened 

 late this year (we refer ta counter and 

 local trade) has held up well and there 

 has been greater activity than usual 

 at this season of the year. Trade, 

 however, has been easing off quite 

 rapidly within the past week or ten 

 days, and at this date business is gen- 

 eral confined to seasonable products. 



Notes. 



The St. Louis Seed Co. gave their 

 employes an outing at Waterloo, 111., 

 on Sunday, June 14, when the entire 

 force and the officers attended. The 

 affair was managed by H. Hummert. 

 vice-president of the company. The 

 weather was fine and everybody had 

 a good time. 



A rumor that Mr. F. B. Mills, 

 of Rose Hill, N. Y., the well 

 known mail order seedsman, had 

 decided to dispose of his seed business, 

 and go west to engage in some other 

 line, is emphatically denied by Mr. 

 Mills, who reports a very satisfactory 

 season's business. After nearly a 

 quarter of a century of well-directed ef- 

 fort. Mr. Mills has established a fine 

 mail order business and it is incredible 

 that he would sacrifice it for a, to him, 

 new and untried line. 



TWO SERIOUS BEAN DISEASES. 



The office of information, IT. S. Dept. 

 o; Agriculture, has sent out. a bulletin 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



SEEDSMEN 

 ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 



"FLORISTS' SEEDS" 



Write for import prices on bulbs. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE— .Teripy .<: CImg. Wjkrfleld. All 

 Head. Early * Lnte Flnt Dutrh. and other 

 Tarletles at 20c. per 100: 75«. for 500; $1.00 

 per- 1000; 10.000 and over at 8Sc. per 1000. 



tBTTUCE— Grand Rapldi. Boiton Mar- 

 ket k. Big Boston. 20c. per 100; TSf. for BOOj 

 $1.00 per 1000. Caah with Ord*r. 



R. VINCENT, JR. & SONS CO. 

 White Marsh, Md. 



on the blight and anthracnose of gar- 

 den and field beans, which caused a 

 loss in Michigan alone estimated at 

 ?2,000,000. or 20 per cent of the crop 

 of 1913. from which we take the fol- 

 lowing extracts. It is becoming more 

 difficult each year to secure bean seed 

 free from one or both of these diseases 

 and it becomes highly important that 

 the diseases be more thoroughly recog- 

 nized and that the best available meth- 

 ods of control, some of which must be 

 begun in the early cultivation of the 

 plants, be understood and put into 

 liractice. 



Bean Anthracnose. 



Bean anthracnose is caused by a 

 fungus which attacks the stems, 

 leaves, pods and seeds of the plants. 

 On the stems and leaf veins it causes 

 elongated, sunken, dark-red cankers, 

 sometimes killing young plants and 

 often producing deformed and yel- 

 lowed leaves. Rounded or irregular 

 sunken spots with a slightly raised 

 rim are produced on the pods, the fun- 

 gus sometimes penetrating the pods 

 and entering the seed, causing dark, 

 sunken specks or spots. In these dis- 

 eased seed as well as in the refuse 

 from diseased plants the fungus is pro- 

 pagated from season to season. 

 Bean Blight. 



The bean blight is caused by a bac- 

 terial organism. On the leaves it pro- 

 duces irregular, diseased areas which 

 at first have a water-soaked appear- 

 ance, later dry out and become brown 

 and brittle. The entire margin, or half 

 of a leaflet is often affected. On the 

 jiods the disease starts as slightly 

 raised and watery pustules, which 

 later enlarge, become of irregular 

 .'ihape and amber color with yellow 

 centers. Infected seed show yellow dis- 

 eased blotches or are entirely yellowed 

 and shriveled. 



Nature of Loss. 



Both diseases cause serious losses 

 in the snap bean trade. Diseased 

 pods are unmarketable and must be 

 sorted out. If but a few slightly 

 spotted pods are packed in a basket, 

 the disease may spread during ship- 

 ment. In the seed bean trade all 

 beans must be hand-picked to get out 

 the discolored diseased seeds, involv- 

 ing heavy loss of beans as well as the 

 cost of sorting. 



Control Measures. 



Anthracnose can be avoided by a 

 careful system of seed selection. Save 

 seed from pods selected with great 

 care for entire absence of spotting. 

 Shell by hand to avoid reinfection, and 

 plant on clean land. Pull and burn 

 any plants showing disease. 



In the absence of such disease-free 

 seed (1) secure for planting, seed 

 having the least possible amount of 

 disease; (2) all seed should be hand- 

 picked and no seed showing the slight- 

 est discoloration should be planted; 

 (3) never plant beans on land where 

 the same crop grew the previous sea- 

 son; (4) do not cultivate or walk 

 through the bean field or pick beans 

 while wet with dew or rain. The bean 

 blight is more difficult to control than 

 anthracnose. but the same methods 

 will give the best results at present 

 available. 



Palnesville, O. — R. E. Jackson and 

 H. C. Bickle have entered the nursery 

 business. 



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