November 4, 1911 



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Seed Trade 



Mr. Grenell Will Not Retire. 



In our Issue of Oct -1st, we Btated 

 under the bead ol "Seed Trade Note8" 

 what we supposed was, and which «>• 

 have since learned is a matti i ol gen- 

 eral knowledge, thai w. n. Grenell, 

 had announced bis intention of Belling 

 a large part of bis Beed Btock, and 

 accepting no contracts tor the 1'J12 

 crop. 



In a circular letter sent out by Mr. 

 Grenell, he had stated this tact, after 

 Kiviii^ bis various reasons tor arriving 

 at this decision. Now we have not 

 the sllghtesl intention ol butting into 

 Mr. Grenell's affairs or misrepresent- 

 ing him in any way. but simply printed 

 what we though! would be an Item 

 of general interest to the trade. 



Mr. Grenell has written us protest- 

 ing againsl the Item we published i ad 

 saying thai be has no Intention of re- 

 tiring from the Beed-growing business 

 mil thai In- intends to grow peas and 

 beans on contract for 1912, the same 

 as be has for the past thirty years or 



more We ;ii,' cliel iii :'i\ Mi (ire- 



mil's denial of bis Intention to retire 

 the same publicity we did the other 

 statement, and while there may be an 

 apparent Inconsistency and contradic- 

 tion in these statements, be can no 

 doubt reconcile them and we wish 

 him sin cess, as heretofore in Ins busi- 

 ness. 



The Advance in Pea Prices. 



Just at the present time, there is 

 very little of interest worthy of note 

 in the trade. Nearly everyone is busy 

 with bulbs and other fall requisites, 

 and the seed end of the business has 

 not received much attention tor the 

 coming year as yet There Is one mat- 

 ter, however, which will doubtless, at- 

 tract much attention in the near fu- 

 ture and that is the contrai tiug pi ices 

 for peas for the crop of 1912. while 

 so far as we know, no contracts have 

 yet been booked, we are Informed that 

 prices will show a sharp advance over 

 last year's, ranging from flftj cuts to 

 one dollar per bushel .lust how the 

 trade will view this advance remains 

 to be Been, but from the Beed grower's 

 point of view, it is inevitable and we 

 are inclined to think that when the 

 trade fully appreciates the difficulties 

 which besel tie seed grower, they will 

 consider that the advanced pile 

 not u a enable or unjustifiable 



For the past five yeai s, I be gi owera 

 have suffered losses, varying from a 

 fey thousands ol dollars to man] 

 thousands, and it is doubtful if any 

 ol them have madi a dollar tor an av- 

 erage of more than five years, bul this 

 IS a matter that calls tor special ,'real- 

 ment and we shall no dOUbl have oc- 



■ asion to refer to it again In the near 



future. 



The Bean Situation. 

 it may not be am i attention 



to the rather odd fact that w 1 i 



peas have tor the past 



a < 1 crop been largt 1] a failure, 



beans have been a fairly good crop. 

 ami though the delivi ries this 



will fall considerably below estimates 



of a month or sis wt it will be 



owing to a wet harvest, which has 

 caused serious damage to all bean 

 crops not under cover However, there 



W-P Mushroom Spawn 



.(In* ln-»t Mii kMnIi brick — made io toe 

 most expert mushroom growers in Eng- 

 land — »t reduced price, to 



MAKI 



'OOM 



for other crop', now nrri\iiiK. Itt-iculttr 



price $7.00 per ion lbs. Until farther 

 not Ire upectal price! 



$6 per lOO lbs. 



GEORGE C.WATSON 



Dobion Bldg., 9th and Market St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



FORCING TOMATO PLANTS 



in 2Vi inch puts at $20.00 per M in the fol- 

 lowing varietien: Comet, Sutton'H, Winter 

 Beauty, Sutton'H Uc-t Of All, Sutton'n 

 Abundance, Sutton'H A 1, 



Cabbage and Lettuce Plants In unlimited 

 quantities and best market varieties. 

 FOX HALL FARM. NORFOLK, VA. 



ONION SETS 



HEADQUARTERS FOR THE EAST. 



We carry large stocks of choice quality 

 at both our Orange. Conn., and New York 

 City houses. Full line all varieties of Gar- 

 den and Flower Seeds. Trade List on ap- 

 plication. 



S. D. WOODRUFF A RONS. 



82 Dey 8treet, 

 Oransre. Conn. New York City. 



will be no famine prices as we have re- 

 marked before, excepting on a very 



small number of varieties, of which 

 practically none were carried over 

 from last year. For this reason it will 

 he much easier to get acreage for 

 beans, and there will be only a slight 

 advance in growing prices over la I 

 year. 



Seed Trade in New Zealand. 



i ii vice Coi i leneral Henry D. 



Raker, on Special Service in New 



Zealand.) 



The seed business of New Zealand 



is of considerable importance, over 



$600,000 worth of grass, clover, and 



other seeds being exported from the 



Dominion in 1910, and ah. nit $501 



imported. During the nexl few months 



the .\'i v. '.'' aland 



pos ■■ a M ext epl lona I nti I for 



American set d < 



as owing to the recent drought 

 art now very scarce and a 

 for prices about 40 per cent higher 

 than a year ago. 



Seed-Grain from Sweden. 



Sweden is a country ' i Icul 



turai conditions are in. i 

 as those of the more southern parts 

 of Europe. The Swedish farmi r has 



tfjj A hundred-story office 

 ^ building is proposed for 

 erection in New York City, to 

 be over 1000 feet in height. 

 A fifty story one is now being 

 constructed two blocks from 

 our office. These fine edifices 

 are monuments to master minds 

 of the present day. One thinks 

 only of the height and magnif- 

 icence of the building, but the 

 principle part of such construc- 

 tion lies almost without regard 

 — the foundation. Just think 

 of the weight of a hundred 

 story building — better still go 

 to the top of a twenty story 

 one to think about it. The av- 

 erage man has no conception 

 of the immensity of the under- 

 taking. The building is ap- 

 preciated as an end without 

 regard to the means. That's 

 the way with lily bulbs. A 

 grower appreciates an excellent 

 crop of (lowers, but he seldom 

 considers that the foundation 

 of his successful crop was care- 

 fully laid in Japan or in Ber- 

 muda by painstaking and 

 patient bulb growers — men 

 who love bulbs and their pro- 

 pagating. The best (lowers 

 always come from the best 

 bulbs. Horseshoe Brand lily 

 bulbs are the best you can buy 

 anywhere in the world. There 

 are none better grown. They 

 are cultivated and exported to 

 support the highest class of 

 trade and to satisfy the most 

 careless growers. There could 

 be no surer foundation to suc- 

 cess in lily growing than these 

 bulbs, and you need them in 

 your business. They are worth 

 all they cost and more often 

 more. Write us. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co. 



Sot Bow Cheap 

 But How G*o4 



12 West Broadway 

 NEW YORK CITY 



