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HORTICULTURE 



July 22, 1911 



PANSY SEED TIME 



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PANSY— Boddington's "CHALLENGE"— All Colors 



This mixture contains all the finest Giant strains — of 

 the leading Pansy Specialists in the world — the Giant self- 

 colors, the Giant striped and margined, and the Giant 

 blotched, etc., all carefully mixed in proportion — the finest 

 that money can buy — the finest your money can buy. A 

 florist who has grown it said, "Why don't you call it 

 Defiance?" 

 Trade pkt., 5«c ; ^-oz„ 75c; %-n., $1.51; %-a., $2.75 ; oz., $5.0 



Choice Varieties of Giant Pansies 



Trade pkt. V4 oz. Oz. 



Giant Trimardeau. Improved mammoth- 

 flowering in good range of color $0.15 $0.50 $1.50 



Giant Masterpiece (Frilled Pansy). Petals 



beautifully waved, exquisite colors 15 .85 3.00 



Cassier's Giant. A fine strain of large 

 highly colored flowers 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Bugnot's Stained. Exhibition. Ex- 

 tra choice flowers, large and plenty of 

 light colors 50 



Giant Madame Ferret. A recent Introduc- 

 tion, by a celebrated French specialist; 

 of strong, free growth. Especially rich 

 in red shades 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Fire King. Brilliant reddish yel- 

 low, with large brown eyes $0.25 $1.00 $3.00 



Giant Lord Beacon sfleld. Deep purple 

 violet, top petals light blue 15 .50 1.50 



Giant Canary Bird. A five-spotted yellow 

 variety. Ground color, is a deep golden 

 yellow and each petal is marked with a 

 dark blotch 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Orchideaeflora, or Orchid-flowered 

 ransy. Splendid variety. Beautiful shades 

 of pink, lilac, orange, rose, terra cotta. 

 chamoise, etc 25 1.25 4.00 



Giant Emperor William. Ultramarine blue, 

 purple eye 10 .50 1.50 



Giant Golden Queen. Bright yellow, no eye. .15 .60 2.00 



Giant Golden Yellow. Yellow, brown eye. .25 .75 2.50 



Giant King of the Blacks (Faust). Black. .15 .60 2.00 



Giant President MeKinley. Golden yel- 

 low, large dark blotch 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Prince Bismarck. Yellowish bronze, 

 dark eye 25 .75 2.50 



Giant Rosy lilac 15 .60 2.00 



Giant Pretiosa. Crimson-rose, white mar- 

 gin, violet blotch 15 .60 2.00 



Giant White. Violet spot, the largest white. .10 .50 1.50 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 342 West 14th St., NEW YORK 



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Seed Trade 



Clover Seeding Lost. 

 The following communication has 

 been issued under date of July 18, 

 from the office of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture at Washington: 



The clover and grass seed grown this 

 spring in wheat, rye and other grain, has 

 been parched up and killed, either wholly 

 or in part < ■ 1 1 thousands of fields in the 

 central western and northern states. This 

 is a serious situation and calls for prompt 

 attention. If the clover is not replanted, 

 it means no clover hay next season and 

 the planting of some substitute crop for 

 hay next spring at considerably increased 

 expense will probably lie necessary. Nol 

 only that, but the failure of the clover 

 crop moans the loss of the green manur- 

 ing crop in the rotation and a disarrange- 

 ment of the whole farm plan of crop rota- 

 tion. The situation should be met at once. 

 Every piece of new seeding should be ex- 

 amined and. if it has been burned up, steps 

 taken to replant it at once. 



I i e of the best ways known to get a 

 stand of clover is to disk the stubble field 

 as soon as the grain is off, allowing the 

 disk te run about three inches deep and 

 working the stubble into the soil. The 

 disking and cross disking should be suf- 

 ficient to clean it of weeds and grass and 

 put the top three inches of soil in fine 

 tilth. Keep the ground cultivated until 

 the first soaking rain, then sow about ten 

 pounds of clover seed mixed with 6 to 8 

 pounds of timothy per acre and harrow the 

 seed in. A still better way than harrow- 

 ing, is to sow the grass seed with a grain 

 drill, letting the seed run down the grain 

 tubes from the grass seed box and cover- 

 ing the seed from 1 to Pj inches deep. 



By sowing clover and grass seed alone 

 in this manner, without a nurse crop, it 

 makes much more rapid and vigorous 

 growth than when sown with grain. By 

 disking the land also, a much better seed 

 bed is made than could be obtained by 



plowing, since when ground is plowed in 

 dry weather it breaks up lumpy and lies 

 up loose and is very difficult to work down 

 into a compact seed bed such as is essen- 

 tial for the best results with clover and 

 grass seed. In addition, the grain stubble 

 worked into the top soil by disking seems 

 to form a top mulch especially beneficial 

 to clover. 



Tli is method of seeding clover is becom- 

 Ing 'itiite general in some of the middle 

 eastern states where farmers over large 

 sections are giving up the practice of 

 spring seeding with grain because of fre- 

 ■ I ni-ii t failure to catch and seeding alone 

 after the grain is cut instead. By this 

 method clover and grass seed may be sown 

 in the central and western states as late 

 as September 15, and still make a good 

 stand that will not winter kill, but in the 

 extreme northern states the seeding should 

 not be made later than August 15. 



To summarize, grass seedings in spring 

 grain have been burned out on thousands 

 of farms. Replant now by disking the 

 stubble about three inches deep and sow- 

 ing clover and grass seed alone without 

 a nurse crop by August 15. 



Notes. 

 Robert Nicholson, president of the 

 Texas Seed and Floral Co., Dallas. 

 Texas, for 25 years, has severed his 

 connection with that firm and estab- 

 lished himself in the wholesale seed 

 business at 401-403 Commerce street, 

 Dallas. 



Clarke & Keller, of Sha /nee, Okla., 

 report the demand for seed since the 

 recent rainfall which brought the 

 drought to an end as the largest ever 

 experienced in their business. The 

 sale of corn for replanting is espe- 

 cially heavy. 



The Texas Seed and Floral Company 

 of Dallas has filed a complaint with 

 the interstate commerce commission 



Freesi 



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FIRST SIZE : 

 75c, 100; $6.50, 1000 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, 



42 Ve«ey St., New York 



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All the best standard varieties 

 and novelties. 



Send for circular to 



WILFRID WHEELER 



CONCORD MASS 



against the Texas & Pacific and the 

 Santa Fe and connecting lines asking 

 reparation in the sum of $940.13 on a 

 shipment of incubators from New 

 York to Dallas. 



