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HORTICULTURE 



November 25, 1911 



HEADQUARTERS FOR CHRISTMAS GREENS 



Special Selected Grades for Florists. 



HOLLY — MISTLETOE — LYCOPODIUM 



WREATHS —Laurel, holly and lycopodium. 

 ROPING — Laurel and lycopodium. 

 MOSS — Green lump and sheet. 



And all other specialties for the Holidays. 

 Special circular with prices mailed to all. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 

 MARKET STREET, 



PHILA., PA. 



Seed Trade 



Pea and Bean Percentages. 



The growers of peas and beans are 

 sending out their final estimates of 

 deliveries on the 1911 crop. They cer- 

 tainly are most disappointing— not 

 only on peas, but beans; the latter 

 item has fallen down very greatly dur- 

 ing the past five or six weeks, heavy 

 damage having been done the crop by 

 too much and long continued rains in 

 the district where these beans are 

 grown. We understand that the bean 

 crop of New York state is in pretty 

 fair shape and that very fair deliveries 

 will be made by those who are growing 

 their beans there; but the percentage, 

 as compared to the total, is not very 

 large, consequently there appears to be 

 a strong tone to bean prices, and the 

 probabilities are that notwithstanding 

 considerable quantities carried from 

 last year, there will be an active de- 

 mand for all the desirable seed in the 

 country. Percentages on beans have 

 fallen from ^3 to 50 per cent below 

 what was thought probable in Sep- 

 tember; but while this is considerable 

 of a loss to the growers, it will not 

 prove an unmixed evil to the seeds- 

 men, who, as stated, are carrying in 

 most cases more or less beans from 

 last year. 



Carrots, Mangels and Garden Beets. 



Conditions affecting carrots are 

 worse than we feared until within 

 the last few weeks, as some of the 

 larger jobbers will not deliver any- 

 thing whatever on orders booked for 

 the different varieties of carrot seed 

 this year. About I condition 



rules with reference to mangels, and 

 several of the more fancy varieties of 

 garden beets. It is rather surprising 

 to see the word "failure" opposite the 

 names of such a large number of 

 varieties. Never has the oldest seeds- 

 man in the business seen a season like 

 this. Let us hope none will see its 

 like again, although the great scarcity 

 of roots, raised this year, indicates 

 that seed of these varieties will be 

 very high and scarce in 



has decided to sell a considerable 

 portion of their seed stock and accept 

 no contracts for the 1912 crop. In view 

 of our recent experience, we hesitate 

 to name the concern, for fear they 

 may experience a change of heart and 

 call us to account. However, we be- 

 lieve the information to be authentic 

 and it simply means the withdrawal 

 of a good many thousands of bushels 

 of high-grade seed stocks from an al- 

 ready insufficient supply. It will be 

 well to warn all interested parties not 

 to delay placing their orders for the 

 1912 crop, as the tardy ones are likely 

 to be left, as they were a year ago in 

 a few iustances, although the con- 

 ditions are much more serious this 

 year. 



From such information as we can 

 get alter a pretty thorough investi- 

 gation ;t would seem that prices 

 should be a secondary consideration 

 with seedsmen. The main question is 

 to get your order booked with a re- 

 sponsible concern and this applies es- 

 pecially to peas and beans. Any price 

 named now will probably look low 

 next fall. 



Strenuous Outlook for 1912. 



We are informed that the leading 

 Canadian grower of peas and beans 



Destructive Temperatures in Colorado, 



Kansas and Oklahoma. 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — We have just received 

 advice from Rocky Ford, Colo., stat- 

 ing they had another severe snow 

 storm and the thermometer dropped 

 to 1C degrees below zero on the 11th 

 inst. 



The most of our crops have been 

 harvested, but there are a few still 

 in the pits which were covered and 

 protected. We are afraid, however, 

 that the severe cold may affect the 

 germination of some of the cucumber 

 crops in that vicinity, also in the 

 vicinity of Ordway, and that it will 

 also affect the germinating vitality of 

 the late crops of watermelon in Kan- 

 sas and Oklahoma and the crops of 

 pumpkin and squash in Nebraska that 

 had not been seeded prior to the cold 

 weather and which may make con- 

 siderable difference in the percentages 

 of the deliveries for some of the va- 

 rieties of vine seeds. Yours truly, 



WKSTERN SEED & IRRIGATION 

 CO. 



Per Wm. Emerson. Manager. 



INCORPORATED. 



Cincinnati, Ohio — American Horti- 

 culturist Co., to publish a horticultural 

 journal, capital stock $25,000. Incor- 

 porators, E. M. Shurburne, E. D. Sals 

 bury, W. E. Roby. 



San Antonio, Texas — The Monarch 

 Plantation Co., capital stock $10,000. 

 To do a general seed and nursery busi- 

 ness. Incorporators, E. R. Smart, M. 

 B. Graham and Wm. L. Corey. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Cleveland, Ohio — F. C. Pinyoun & 

 Son, manufacturers of portable gar- 

 ages, is branching out into the manu- 

 facture of portable greenhouses. 



Westminster, Vt. — The Connecticut 

 Valley Orchard Co., recently incorpo- 

 rated, state that their capital stock of 

 $10,000 will later be increased to $100,- 

 000 and that they will do a business 

 in fruit, live stock, fertilizers and real 

 estate. They now have fifty acres of 

 land, but will eventually have five 

 hundred more. Greenhouses will be 

 built later. George A. Dascomb is 

 president and E. G. Tuthill, superin- 

 tendent. 



FRENCH VEGETABLE SEEDS 



Lettuce, Imported Big Boston ; Forcing 

 Lettuce (black seeded); Radish, Scarlet 

 Globe, White Tipped Scarlet Turnip; Beet, 

 Crosby; Cabbage, Early Flat and Savoy; 

 Celery, Self-Blanching and Green; Beet, 

 Spinach, Endive, etc., the same varieties 

 as the market gardeners of Paris use. 



BEAULIEU. Woodhaven, N. Y. 

 100,000 



FORCING TOMATO PLANTS 



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

 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. 



FOX HALI- FARM, NORFOLK, YA. 



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 & SONS, 



82 Dey Street, 

 Orange, Conn. New York City. 



