SEEDAGE 



Cabbage : About half imported, the other half chiefly 



Long Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and to 



small extent, Puget Sound. 

 Cauliflower: Finest kinds imported from Denmark; 



coarser kinds from Italy. 

 Carrots: The bulk of finest kind imported from 



France, some finer grades in Connecticut, and 



coarser grades in California. 

 Sweet corn: Connecticut, Nebraska, New York, 



Ohio. 

 Cucumbers: Chiefly in Nebraska, northern New 



Lettuce: California. 



Watermelons: Nebraska, Kansas and the South. 



Muskmelons: Nebraska. 



Onions: Chiefly in California; Connecticut, New 

 York. Michigan. 



Peas: Northern New York, Canada, Michigan, Wis- 

 consin. 



Parsley: Imported from England and France. 



Potatoes: Pine grades chiefly in Maine and New 

 York; also in every state. 



Spinach: Imported from Holland. 



Squash: Nebraska. 



Tomato: Chiefly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New 

 York, Connecticut and Michigan. 



Turnip: About half is imported from England and 

 Prance, where it is grown chieflv from American 

 seed; other half chiefly in Connecticut, New York 

 and Pennsylvania. 



Lima beans: California. 



Celery: California. 



Dealers in garden seeds arf aI-<.' }:\ri:<- .l.-MJcrs in flow- 

 ering bulbs, such as hyacintlis. nilijw. !i;iiii-'-us, crocus, 

 etc. These are chiefly importr.l ti "111 I li.llainl, south of 

 Prance, Italy and Japan. 



Birixioiis of the Trade. -The trade is divided into 

 the main branches of garden and flower seeds and 

 bulbs and agricultural seeds. The latter is practically a 

 business by itself, devoted to such seeds as blue grass, 

 timothy, clover, red top and alfalfa, some of which are 

 exported or imported as the exigencies of the season's 

 product demand. 



Trtj'iYA — Flower seeds are subjected to no import 

 duties, while on garden seedi there is a tariff c.f 30 per 

 cent ad valorem. It is a mo<.ti-.i |,..int wh.^ih.-r iliN tariff 

 at the present time operates \n ihe a(i\ani:i-r .^t' ihe 

 trade, the principal seeilsui.n In m- LMm rally ..i the 

 opinion that it tends to stiiiiuliiie ,.\er (>ru(liieiieii in 

 this country. 



Number of Firms in the Trade. -The main business 

 of the country is in the hands of about l.'iO tirms, liut 

 practically every groceryman in country towns and vil- 

 lages carries a stock during the spring sesison. These 

 men, however, deal as a rule with the larger houses, 

 •and constitute the principal class of middlemen for 

 retail trade. 



niiol.sale Seedsmrn'f! Lr„,,v,' : Ti^ Ohjrrts.-On 

 August 2-4, 1900, sonii- 4-J of tie- l.-^,,lin- li,iii-i-s ,,r the 

 country incorporated ilienisehes ju ttie A\'lielesali> 

 Seedsmen's League. Hiih the ,.l,jert c,f retjtilatiii- the 

 general interests of the ti-aih'. The elliei. (.( tlie League 

 is in Philadelphia; its ]iresident, F. W. Bruggerhof, of 

 New York; vice-president, S. F. Leonard, of Chicago; 

 secretary and treasurer, Burnet Landreth, of Phila- 

 delphia. The climate and soils of the United States are 

 so varied that entirely different methods of carrying on 

 the seed business obtain in different trade centers, and 

 one of the principal efforts of the League is in the direc- 

 tion of agreeing as to the uniform listing of prices for 

 crops of the same seed which mature at different dates 

 in diflierent localities. It is hoped in this way not only 

 to prevent the sacrifice of stock by growers in early dis- 

 tricts, but also to prevent the demoralization of the 

 general market, caused by the publication of clearance 

 prices by seedsmen in an early district before the 

 market has been adequately supplied by seedsmen in 

 those districts in which the stock matures at a later 

 «<^''«o°- J. M. Thokburn & Co. 



SEED-BOX, Ludwigia alternifoUa; probably also 

 sometimes applied to plants that have loose seeds in 

 inflated pods, as Crotolaria. 



SELAGINELLA 



1647 



SELAGINfiLLA (dii 



inutive of Latin Selugo, old 

 •■liniiiii'llAcew. Club Moss. A 

 ipieal plants of diverse habit, 

 Innate annuals to erect or even 

 ^ily leeognized by the produc- 

 es- powdery microspores from 

 < arises and larger microspores 

 age just within the axil of the 

 terminal leaves ot the stem, which often form a 4-angled 

 spike. Ill all iiur cultivated species the Ivs. are in four 

 ranks, the two upper smaller and pressed against the 

 stem, giving it a flattened appearance. Selaginellas are 

 graceful fern-like greenhouse plants, often known to 

 gardeners as Lycopodiums. 



large genus of 

 ranging from in 

 climbing pereiu 



produe 



