A04 



HORTICULTURE 



October 7, 1911 



Seed Trade 



Crop Report from Copenhagen. 



Hjalmar Harttrtann & Co. report un- 

 der date of September 25, as follows: 



Cauliflower. The prospects are for 

 a good middle crop. If the weather had 

 not been continually dry in July and 

 August the crop would have been 

 abundant. 



Cabbage, white and red. The pros- 

 pects are for a fair crop. Wintering 

 was very favorable owing to the mild 

 winter and practical absence of frost, 

 so that only 5 to 10 per cent of the 

 late cabbages and about 20 per cent, 

 of the early cabbages were lost. The 

 fine spring and good weather in April 

 and May contributed to this favorable 

 result and except in some places where 

 green lice infected the flowering in 

 May, the growth until the ripening 

 was very good. "Copenhagen Market" 

 proves to be only a very poor yielder, 

 as owing to its smoothness and fine 

 quality of heads these are inclined to 

 rot. The general condition of heads 

 for planting for 1912 crop is middle. 

 The plants have suffered through 

 drought and attacks of worms. 



Turnips and Swedes. Crop very 

 good. 



Mangolds. Crop middle but prices 

 «xceedingly high owing to failure in 

 Germany. 



Carrots. Crop short. 



Grass seed. Dactylis glomorata, 

 Festuca pratensis and Poa trivialis, 

 •crop very good and fine qualities; 

 prices high. 



Denmark has a large demand for 

 •cabbage heads this year as German 

 •customers pay 2 cts. per lb. for the 

 same or 10 cents per head. To produce 

 1 lb. of seeds needs ten heads, on an 

 average. Consequently the stock for 

 growing 1912 seeds approximates about 

 $1 per lb. already, and there must be 

 added to this growing costs for one 

 .year. Wherefore, the crop of 1912 will 

 certainly be scarce, and of named 

 crop there will be only seeds to sell of 

 this year's production provided same 

 mot contracted for in advance. 



Against Free Seeds. 



The paternal interest of the congress- 

 mien in their constituents, as manifested by 

 the distributing of free vegetable and 

 flower seeds', does not seem to be truly 



M'l iated by the Vegetable Growers' As- 



tion of America, whirl, has just held 

 nnual session at Boston 



Strange to say the president "f this in- 

 fluential organization, in his program of 

 work for the year, was so ungrateful as 

 to include a campaign for abolition of 

 free seed distribution by congressmen, and 

 *he use of the same monej Cor agricul- 

 tural development. 



The sending around yearly of 40,000,000 

 packets (if free seeds has been one of the 

 most efficient and economical methods of 

 building political femes ever devised by 

 our ingenious solons. 



The receipt of such a packet nives the 

 •constituent not merely the same sense of 

 pleasure that ci a a mention of 



his name in the local newspapers, but it 

 adds the feeling that your representative 

 Is right on the job and is toiling daily to 

 advance your interests as a property owu- 

 «r and citizen. 



So much from the politicians' viewpoint. 

 But the tav payer has always been strong- 

 ly obtuse t" the advantages acquired by 

 the half million it costs to prepare and 

 distribute these 



A seed of a u : i ruly 



tailed nature's jewel casket. In its 

 silent heart is locked a potem y of wealth. 



In the microscopic differe ietween a 



good and a poor seed lies tic difference 

 between agricultural wealth aid poverty. 

 Jf this governmental distribution led the 



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 $6.00 per 100; per lOOO $55.00 



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farmers to learn the advantages of well 

 selected seed, the money would be well 

 spent. . . 



But the men who are acquiring high 

 cereal yields through attention to the 

 choice of seed, don't probably get their 

 information from the government. Nor 

 would they, unless the government went 

 into the business of seed farming on a 

 vast scale. 



Instead thev allv themselves with some 

 good seed producing house, many of which 

 are doing such remarkable work. We know 

 of one such that never sends out a seed 

 unless It has tested S6 per cent, of germb 

 nations, and the average runs 90 to 9o 

 per cent. . . 



Were all our farmers to use such seed 

 as this, there would not be the pathetic 

 naked spots in our grain fields, which 

 mean half filled barns and high priced 

 bread for the people.— Cairo (111.) Bulletin. 



Notes. 



Baltimore, Md. — Wiseman & Dowees 

 is a new seed firm who have opened 

 a seed store on Pratt street. 



Columbus, Ohio— The Meier-Shoe- 

 maker Seed Co. have reduced their 

 capital stock from $50,000 to $10,000. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Hunkle's seed 

 store has filed an amendment chang- 

 ing its name to the H. G. Hunkle Co. 



Mr. Einar Knutsson, representing 

 Hjalmar Hartmann of Copenhagen, is 

 visiting at present the seed trade in 

 the United States and Canada, and 

 will stay two or three months here. 



West Hoboken, N. J. — Hans P. and 

 Johanna Irven, doing business as the 

 Beule Seed Store, filed a petition in 

 voluntary bankruptcy on September 

 26th. Liabilities, $4,995.11; assets, 

 $1,900.00. 



INCORPORATED. 



Portland, Ore.— Articles of incorpor- 

 ation have been filed by the Clack- 

 mas Greenhouse Co., capital stock. 

 $20,000. Incorporators, P. Niklas, Al- 

 bert Herbert and William Lawrence. 



New York, N. Y.— D. J. Pappus, to 

 deal in natural and artificial flowers, 

 shrubs, etc., capital stock $10,000. In- 

 corporators: Demetrius Pappas, Ma- 

 mie A. Pappas, Nicholas C. Koutsou- 

 kos, all of 275 Broadway. 



Sherman, Texas. — Early Wheeler 

 Orchard Co., capital stock $20,000. 

 Incorporators: T. H. Smith, T. E 

 Goff, W. W. Rodgers, H. R. Wallace 

 and C. C. Mayhew of Sherman, L. M. 

 Morehead of Dallas, and J. E. Wallace 

 of Fort Worth. 



GIANT 



English Cyclamen Seed — best strain, $9.00 

 per 100. Tansy Seed — home grown. $5 00 

 per ox. Mignonette (Slant, greenhouse 

 forcing, $5.00 per ox., % ox. $1.00. 



S. S. SKIDELSKY & CO. 



1215 Betz Bldg. Philadelphia 



HEMP 

 SEED 



3c. lb. 



This special price 

 for a short time 

 only. Samples 

 sent on request. 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



I Wholesale Seedsmen 315E 



Baltimore, Md. 



FOR COLD FRAMES 



STRAW MATS 

 6x6, - $1.50, $17.00 doz. 



BURLAP MATS 

 6Xx6«, $1.20, $14.00 doz. 



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42 Vesey St., New York 



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 lowing 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. 

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