SEEDAGE 



Cabbage: About half imported, tlie other half chiefly 

 Long. Island, Connecticut, Peunsj'lvania, 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 



York. 

 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: Fine grades chiefly in JIaine 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 chiefly from American 

 seed; other half chiefly in Connecticut, New York 

 and Pennsylvania. 

 Lima beans: California. 

 Celery; California. 



Dealers in garden seeds are also large dealers in flow- 

 ering bulbs, such as hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, crocus, 

 etc. These are chiefly imported from Holland, south of 

 France, Italy and Japan. 



DifixioHS 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. 



Tariff. — Flo-wer seeds are siibjected to no import 

 duties, while on garden seeds there is a tariff of 30 per 

 cent ad valorem. It is a mooted point whether this tariff 

 at the present time operates to the advantage of the 

 trade, the principal seedsmen being generally of the 

 opinion that it tends to stimulate over-production in 

 this country. 



yiimber of Firms in the Trade. — The main business 

 of the country is in the hands of about 150 firms, but 

 practically every groceryman in country towns and vil- 

 lages carries a stock during the spring season. These 

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

 and constitute the principal class of middlemen for 

 retail trade. 



Wholesale Seedsmen^s League: Its Ohjects. — On 

 August 24, 1900, some 42 of the leading houses of the 

 country incorporated themselves iu the Wholesale 

 Seedsmen's League, with the object of regulating the 

 general interests of the trade. The office of the League 

 is in Philadelphia; its president, F. W. Bruggerhof, of 

 New York; vice-president, S. F. Leon.ird, 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 iu the direc- 

 tion of agreeing as to the uniform listing of prices for 

 crops of the same seed which mature at different dates 

 in different 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 

 season. j_ m. Thokbuen & Co. 



SEED-BOX. Ludwigia alternifolia; probably also 

 sometimes applied to plants that have loose seeds in 

 Inflated pods, as Crotolaria. 



SELAGINELLA 



1647 



SELAGINfiLLA (diminutive of Latin Selago, old 

 name of a club moss). tSeUiginell&cece. Club Moss. A 

 large genus of mostly tropical plants of diverse habit, 

 ranging from minute, prostrate annuals to erect or even 

 climbing perennials. Easily recognized by the produc- 

 tion of two kinds of spores — powilnry niicrosiKtrcs from 

 which the male prothallus arises :iim1 Inu'rr microspores 

 produced four in a sporange jusi « itliin tli.- uxil of the 

 terminal leaves of the stem, which .iltni Lum u 1-ungled 

 spike. In all our cultivated species the lvs. luu 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. 



livs. 4-ranked, of two sorts, forming 

 an upper and a lower plane. 

 Mostly hothouse exotics. 



B. Foliage of the spikes uniform, 

 c. Main slim ihriiiiihint, usually 



D. Ph< 



lvs. firm. 



branched nearly or quite to 

 the base. 

 V. Hoots confined to the lower 

 half of the stems. 

 E. Plants perennial, with 



F. Color of Ifs. and stem 

 pale or bright green. . . 1 



FF. Color of lvs. dark green, 

 becoming red: stem 



reddish brown 1 



EE. Plants annual 1 



D. Hoots confined to the base of 

 the stems. 



G. Stems crowded in 



atrovindis 

 CaliSomica 

 Martensii 



rosettes, curling 

 closely when dry ... 19. 



21. 



involvens 



lepidophylla 



cuspidata 



