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HORTICULTURE 



August 5, 1911 



Seed Trade 



a young Beedsman now visiting the 

 seed-growing establishments of 

 i lontinental Europe for the first Unn 

 writing of his experiences, Baj "We 

 qoI yet got all the good things 

 in horticulture in the United State 

 True! but we are getting them, and 

 we are getting them more and more 

 rapidly with each succeeding year. 



I'ordhook is an example of the in 

 traduction of the European system of 

 trials ol \ arid ies of dowers ami vege 



tables. Our leading Beedsmen and 

 seed growers now make comprehen- 

 Bive trials of the principal kinds of 

 seeds they sell or grow. 



The I'ordhook trials this season 

 comprise, firstly, sweet peas, of which 

 there is a mosl complete assortment, 

 not only of the hundreds of varieties 

 now cultivated, but of several grow- 

 ers' stocks of each variety, thus dem- 

 onstrating their quality and purity of 

 each; secondly, cabbages, savoys, 

 Brussels sprouts, cauliflowers, broc- 

 colis, kales, kohl rabis and other bras- 

 sieas in great variety, and from many 

 sources. The lessons learned are well 

 worth the pains taken, not only to 

 the seedsmen and growers, but to 

 their patrons; the selection and list- 

 ing of the most desirable sorts and 

 the selections of the best strains of 

 these are of inestimable value. For 

 instance, we note that the old pointed 

 Jersey Wakefield cabbage is still un- 

 excelled for earliness, but many of 

 the stocks of it have become so de- 

 generate that only by growing those 

 "t i he different producers side by side 

 may the seedsman be reasonably sure 

 of supplying his customers with seed 

 of high grade. The trial also brings 

 to view new varieties of excellence 

 like the Danish Early Market, which 

 in point of earliness is a close second 

 to the Jersey Wakefield, somewhat 

 larger and quite ball-shaped; thirdly, 

 lettuces occupy a large section of 

 these trial grounds. The freak sorts 



MICHELL'S 



Giant 

 Exhibition 



PANSY 



The "Distinctive" 

 Florist Pansy 



Gigantic in size, robust in texture, beautiful in form and 

 gorgeous in coloring, are only a few of the descriptions we can 

 give in this limited space. 



Spring City, Pa. 

 The Giant Exhibition Pansies, seed of which I purchased 

 of you last Fall, are now in bloom. I wish you could see them. 

 The Hewers are of the largest size and finest colors. I have 

 grown Pansies for the last twenty years and thought I had the 

 best, but I must say yours take the cake; they must be seen 

 to he appreciated. A. S. C. 



30c per }i trade pkt. ; 50c per trade pkt. ; 75c per ! § oz. ; $5.00 per oz. 



WE CAN FURNISH ALSO ALL OTHER STRAINS OF PANSIES 



Wrile for our Wholesale July Catalogue, just out. 



HENRY F.MICHELL CO., «$V Philadelphia, Pa. 



are omitted, but no really good form 

 in any of the numerous types of let- 

 tuces is absent. 



The Fordhook trials include many 

 kinds of vegetables and flowers in ad- 

 dition to those already mentioned. 

 Such work is most encouraging horti- 

 culturally, for it insures the dissemi- 

 nation of improved sorts and the dis- 

 carding of inferior ones. 



Notes. 

 Young celery plants are almost im- 

 possible to be obtained in New York. 

 What few stocks are available bring 

 from $7.00 to $7.50 a thousand and 

 even at these extraordinary figures 

 orders cannot be filled. 



Writing July 28th from Ogden, Utah, 

 Howard M. Earl reports that he had 

 not yet inspected the crops in that 

 locality — having just arrived there af- 

 ter inspecting crops in New York State 

 and Michigan. In the latter states, 

 peas promise a very poor crop again 

 this year. 



oagen Market Cabbage. 



Effects of the drought on the grain 

 and cereal markets of the Central 

 West were shown yesterday in the 

 first transaction in Timothy seed 

 shipped to St. Louis from Oreston, la. 

 There were five bags in the shipment, 

 consigned to the Eaton-McClelland 

 Commission Company. It was sold on 

 the floor of the Merchants' Exchange 

 to the A. W. Schisler Grain Company 

 of 810 North Fourth street, at $15.33 

 per 100 pounds. Last year at this 

 time the ruling price for Timothy seed 

 was $3.50 to $4 for 100 pounds. The 

 price yesterday is the highest on rec- 

 ord at the St. Louis market. — St. 

 I. milt Globe Democrat, July 22. 



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