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HORTICULTURE 



September 30, 1911 



Seed Trade 



Seeds That Are Scarce 

 The following is an extract from a 

 communication sent out under date of 

 September 28, lull by W. Atlee Burpee 

 & Co. 



While garden peas and Golden Self- 

 Blanching celery have been in ex- 

 tremely short supply for the past two 

 years, yet never before in the history 

 of the seed trade have there been so 

 many nor such alarming shortages as 

 in seed crops of 1911. There is "al- 

 most a famine" not only in peas and 

 French-grown Golden Self Blanching 

 celery, but also in nearly all the beets, 

 mangels, carrots and parsnips, as well 

 as in certain cabbages, radishes and 

 turnips. Eastern-grown cucumbers 

 are'only one-fourth to one-half a crop. 

 California sweet peas average little 

 more than half a crop. Our crops of 

 Connecticut-grown Red and Yellow 

 Globe onions are also unfortunately 

 short in yield of seed, while Gibraltar 

 onion is almost a complete failure. 



In our extensive travels the past 

 summer (more than 30,000 miles), the 

 only country in Europe where we 

 found seed crops unformly good was in 

 Denmark. On some of the islands of 

 Amager and Zealand the crops of cab- 

 bage and cauliflower were better than 

 we have seen for years and the seed 

 should possess unusual vitality. 



i Notes. 



. Among the items that show signs 

 of under-supply for the prospective de- 

 mand this fall are the Dutch bulbs, es- 

 pecially narcissi and astilbes. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Maurice Fold of Michell s has just 

 returned from a tour of the New Eng- 

 land flower shows. Among items 

 worthy of mention he cites: — that Mi- 

 chell got a first class certificate on 

 Kunderdi gladiolus at New York City; 

 at Hartford; and at the New Haven 

 shows; that C. H. Totty has the great- 

 est new rose of the year in Sunburst; 

 that at the Newport show the exhibit 

 of Miss Foster was wonderful; and 

 that Henry Wirth of Providence, R. I., 

 an amateur who exhibited thirty seed- 

 lings of cactus dahlias of his own rais- 

 ing is a wonder and ranks with the 

 best of the professionals. 



We are glad to be able to announce 

 that James Griffin, florist, of Frank- 

 ford, who with his daughter were near- 

 ly killed in a runaway accident oppo- 

 site the Michell farm at Andalusia 

 about a month ago are on the mend 

 and are able to be about again. How 

 near a case it was may be imagined 

 ■when we state that the young lady 

 was unconscious for four days. Mr. 

 Griffin was thrown twenty feet on the 

 hard road and was unconscious for 

 hours. This is rather a lonely 

 stretch of pike and it was nearly twen- 

 ty minutes before assistance came and 

 the patients were rushed to the hos- 

 pital. 



Visitors; Mr. Greaves, Pittsburg. 

 Pa.; G. B. Wiese, Buffalo, N. Y.; A. W. 

 Smith, Jr., and A. Hall, of A. W. Smith 

 & Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Alex. Forbes of 

 Peter Henderson & Co., and C. B. 

 Knickman, New York. 



Joliet, III. — The seed and agricultu- 

 ral business of Chas. S. Culver, 120 

 Jefferson ' street, has been purchased 

 by ICaffer Bros, of Minooka. The busi- 

 ness will be continued with John Kaf- 

 fer as head. 



We understand that it is the practice 

 quite generally this year for some of 

 the Holland bulb houses to "pad" their 

 American' orders on French bulbs, add- 

 ing to each shipment a thousand or 

 two more bulbs than the order calls 

 for ; The importer is, in a way, almost 

 helpless in such a case as he must 

 accept all or none and there are very 

 few who would care to get into a con- 

 troversy afterwards over so compara- 

 tively small a matter. Quite a good 

 scheme, for unloading surplus this 

 year and increasing the size of your 

 order next year. 



Brownsville, Tex. — The Brownsville 

 Growers' Association has been per- 

 manently organized here for the pur- 

 pose of co-operative marketing and 

 the buying of crates, seeds and other 

 supplies. A. H. Darling was elected 

 president; T. N. Randall, vice-presi- 

 dent and J. S. Duncan, secretary- 

 treasurer. The organization will be 

 incorporated for $2000 and a charter 

 has already been applied for. The 

 membership at present is about 125 

 farmers, all of this section, but it is 

 the plan of the promoters to have the 

 growers of the entire Rio Grande Val- 

 ley affiliate. The directors as elected 

 are: Randall Mathers, R. H. Senter 

 A. F. Pyatt, F. Rusteberg, H. H 

 Ban! ei . \V. K. Work. M, l.amb, A. C 

 v and Booth Hamleit 



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PROVIDENCE NOTES. 

 The Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety has offered the Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island $150 

 to be used in premiums at the annual 

 corn and chrysanthemum exhibition 

 which is to be held in Elysium Hall, 

 November 4 and 5. A special com- 

 mittee of the club on exhibitions will 

 make a division of the money into 

 various classes in a way designed to 

 attract exhibits of the best grower ■•. 



Edward Brooks, manager of T. J. 

 Johnston & Company, returned Thurs- 

 day from a vacation in the country. 



W. S. Pino started last Tuesday on 

 a motoring trip through Vermont and 

 he will be gone about a week. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Joliet, III. — Miss Carter is now sole 

 proprietor of the Carter Floral Co., 

 having bought out her partner. 



Racine, Wis. — The greenhouses of 

 M. Hanson. 1603 Winslow avenue, 

 have been purchased by Sam Pezzlito. 



Reed City, Mich.— T. H. Long, of 

 Evart, has purchased the greenhouse 

 formerly conducted by Jacob Noll 

 and W. P. Pepler. 



Chicago, III.— The greenhouses of 

 Peter Reinberg at Foster avenue and 

 Bowmanville road were ruined by the 

 severe storm of Sept. 18. Much of 

 the glass was broken and the wind 

 scattered flowers over the surround- 

 ing country. The loss is placed at 

 $30,000. 



NATURAL PEACH PITS 



Also Forcing Asparagus and Rhubarb 

 Hunt* and Potted Strawberry riants. 



I have peach pits, naturals, crop of 

 1911, tine; also giant forcing asparagus 

 roots, 8 years' old. Rhubarb roots for 

 forcing and strawberry plants. 



WARREN 8HINN. Nurseryman, 



WOODBURY, N. .J. 



DWARF 



ESSEX RAPE 



SEED 



4 1/4c. lb. 



This special price, 

 for a short time 

 only. Samples 

 sent on request. 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



Wholesale Seedsmen 



Baltimore. Md. 



FOR GOLD FRAMES 



STRAW rvu 

 6x6, - $1.50, $17.00 doz. 



BURL.AP IV1 

 6' + x6X, $1.20, $14.00 doz. 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, 



42 Vesey St., New York 



forcingTomato plants 



in 2% inch pots at $20.00 per M In the fol- 

 lowlng varieties: Comet, Sutton's, Winter 

 Beauty, Sutton's Best Of All, Sutton's 

 Abundance, Sutton's A 1. 



Cabbage and Lettuce Plants in unlimited 

 quantities and best market varieties. 

 FOX HALL FARM, NORFOLK, VA. 



CAULIFLOWER » 

 ABBAGE e 



MANGLD, SWEDE, TURNIP D 

 ULY OF THE VALLEY PIPS 

 HJALMAR HAMMAHN & CO. 



COPENHAGEN, DENMARK. 



^NIONlSEED 



We have a choice lot of new crop 

 Silver Skin or Portugal, also other 

 varieties. Write for prices. 



SCHILDER BROS. 



CHILLICOTHE OHIO 



COLDWELL LAWN MOWERS 



Hand — Horse — Motor 

 Known All Over the World 



Catalogue on Request. 



NEWBURGH, N. Y. 



