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HORTICULTURE 



November 11, 1911 



Seed Trade 



Prize Vegetables at Boston. 



Following is a summary of the 

 awards in the vegetable section of the 

 Agricultural Department of the Indus- 

 trial and Educational Exposition re- 

 cently held in Boston: 



Onions — E. C. Kidder, Sunderland, Mass., 

 tirst prize, silver cup. A. H. Wiugett. 

 Lenox, Mass.. Ailsa Craig Onions, special 

 first prize. E. L. Underwood, St. Albans, 

 Vt., first prize. 



General Exhibits— Massachusetts State 

 Farm at Bridgewater, Mass., farm pro- 

 ducts, Brst. Boston Market Gardeners' As- 

 sociation, vegetables, gold medal. Fruit 

 and Vegetable Dealers in Faueuil ITall 

 Market, fruit and vegetable, special certifi- 

 cate of merit. Waban Gardens, Waban, 

 Miss . vegetables, first. 



Potatoes— Samuel G. French Westwood, 

 Mass, general exhibit, first; Johnson Seed 

 Potato Co., Leominster, Mass., second. N. 

 I. Bowditch, Framiugham, Mass., variety 

 exhiliit. special prize. Samuel G. French, 

 Westwood, Mass., single box, first; John- 

 sou Seed Potato Co., Leomiuster, Miss., 

 second. St. Martin Farm, Littleton, Mass., 

 general exhibit, certificate of merit. 



Corn — Baker Farm, So. Lincoln, Mass., 

 general exhibit, field corn, first. A. H. 

 Weld, Rochester, Mass., field corn, special 

 first prize. N. Dwi'ght Piatt & Sou, Mil- 

 ford, Conn., sweet corn, Stowell's Ever- 

 green, first. N. Dwigbt Piatt & Son, Mil- 

 fonl, ('mini, p.ivwer's Yellow Iient, first. 

 N. I. Bowditch, Framingham, .Mass., Stick- 

 ney Corn, first. Harry A. Smith, Mt. Ver- 

 non, N. II.. Twelve-Rowed Yellow Flint, 

 first; Seymour A. Ryan, St. Albans, vt., 

 seeon. 1. Baker Farm, So. Lincoln, Mass., 

 Eight-Rowed Yell m Flint, first; Wm. Pop- 

 ple, St. Albans, Vt., second. 



Alfalfa — Maples Farm, Berlin. Conn., 

 first. 



Oats and Barley— A. D. Collins, St. Al- 

 bans, Vt., oats, first; Fred St. Jermain, St. 

 Albans, Vt., second.; C. X. McGowan, 

 Fairflax, Vt., barley, first. 



Pumpkins and Squashes — Anson Wheeler. 

 Concord, Mass., pumpkins, first; F. ii. Bur- 

 nell, St. Albans, Vt., second. G. H. Ar- 

 nold & Son, Braintree, Mass.. Bay state 

 Squashes, first; A. M. Beckwith, So. Sud- 

 bury, Mass., second. H. F. Hall. Brighton. 

 Mass., Hybrid Squashes, first. Waban 

 Gardens, Waban, Mass., general exhibit, 

 first. 



Cucumbers— FT. F. Hall, Brighton, Mass., 

 best box packed for market, first. 



Noxious Seed Laws or the Restraint 

 of Seed Trade. 



We note from time to time in your 

 valuable paper the announcement of 

 some new seed law being placed on 

 the statute books in the various States. 

 Taking them as they are, we find they 

 are all more or less dpawn along the 

 same lines, with the exception that 

 some of them are more stringent than 

 others, as they prohibit the sale of 

 seeds containing certain weed seeds 

 which in that particular State are con- 

 sidered noxious. 



For instance, in North Dakota 

 quack grass and Canada thistle are 

 termed noxious seeds; in West Vir- 

 ginia dodder is termed a noxious 'seed; 

 in North Carolina cheat (or chess) is 

 also termed a noxious seed, and there 

 are no doubt other States where sim- 

 ilar laws are enacted. 



The intent of any such legislation — 

 if it were possible, is all right, but who 

 can control Dame Nature that pro- 

 duces both pure and noxious seeds. 

 We do not think there is today a pure 

 seed law on the statute books that 

 would be upheld before any Supreme 

 Court, and further don't think it pos- 

 sible to have seed legislation, unless 

 it be along the lines of adulteration or 

 misbranding of seeds. 



HENRY NUNGESSER & CO., 



New York. 



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 Wheat 



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Descriptive pamphlet, prices and samples on application 



SOLE AGENTS: 



Loechner & Co., 



11 Warren St. 

 New York 



Oats 

 Barley 

 Wheat 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 

 Eng. — Special List of Fruit Trees. 



F. W. Kelsey Nursery Co., New York 

 City — Special Wholesale Price List of 

 Trees, Shrubs and all Hardy Plants. 



M. Herb, Naples, Italy. — Catalogue, 

 No. 123, being a price list, illustrated, 

 of novelties of M. Herb's raising, for 

 1912. The offers include some note- 

 worthy and highly interesting novel- 

 ties in annual flowers and bedding 

 plants. 



Sluis & Groot, Enkhuizen, Holland. 

 — Advance Price List (October 20th), 

 of Vegetable, Flower and Agricultural 

 Seeds. As usual, a very important 

 and complete wholesale list. Contract 

 offers for delivery, fall 1912 and 1913, 

 are promised for December mail. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Evansville, Ind. — Fire destroyed the 

 warehouse of the Ohio Valley Seed 

 Co., on Nov. 1, loss $25,000. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — The wholesale 

 house of the Smith & Young Co., 134 

 North Alabama street, opened the 

 first of the week. 



Evergreen, Ala. — Chas. S. Lee & 

 Co., dealers in hardy evergreens and 

 other southern decorative stock have 

 just completed a 50x100 packing 

 house. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — A block of land 

 at Thirty-eighth street and Senate 

 avenue has been purchased by F. 

 Sidney Smith, wholesale grower, to 

 be used in connection with his pres- 

 ent business. 



