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The Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBEE 14, 1918. 



special to the Trade : 



VAN ZONNEVELD BROS. & PHILIPPO 



Sassenheim, Holland 



Offer: HYACINTHS in leading varieties 



First, Second, Third (bedding) size, and Miniature; also Lilium Giganteum (cold storage). 



For immediate delivery. 



WE ALSO OFFER NARCISSI, GRAND SOLEIL D'OR, FRENCH GROWN 

 Orders and all correspondence to be sent to our New York Office 



18 Broadway, New York City 



per cent of the entire production of 

 canned tomatoes in the United States. 

 This is based upon estimates of the pack 

 being from 18,500,000 to 20,000,000 

 cases of No. 3 tomatoes^ two dozen cans 

 to the case. The government will re- 

 quire about 8,500 carloads of a thousand 

 cases each. It would take a freight train 

 nearly sixty miles long to move this 

 quantity. 



The chief interest from a trade stand- 

 point in the foregoing dispatch from 

 the Committee on Information will be 

 the statement of the government as to 

 its ideas of the total pack of this year. 

 The pack last year has been officially 

 computed at 15,076,074 cases, not in- 

 cluding 1,023,474 cases packed in pulp. 

 Not since 1914 had there been any such 

 pack as last year, that of 1914 being 15,- 

 222,000 cases, the highest on record. It 

 is thus evident that the effort to secure 

 a large tomato crop this year was suc- 

 cessful. 



THE NATION'S SEED SUPPLY. 



[This Is the sixth Installment of an extract 

 from the monograph on "Tlie Seed Supply of the 

 Nation," by R. A. Oakley, agronomist in charge 

 of seed distribution, Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 The first installment appeared October 3. The 

 next installment will appear in an early issue.] 



Denmark and Holland have grown 

 most of our cabbage seed in the past, 

 but now domestic production is being ex- 

 tended, especially in the Puget Sound 

 country and on Long Island. The possi- 

 bilities of cabbage seed production in 

 the former section are great. This 

 might also be said of cauliflower, kale 

 and rape. 



Kale seed is grown in considerable 

 quantities in our southern states. Rape, 

 which is more of a forage crop than a 

 human food, is grown extensively in 

 Japan, as well as in Europe, and just 

 now most of the seed which we are im- 

 porting comes from that country. The 

 Japanese varieties of winter rape appear 

 to be much the same as the European 

 varieties. For the fiscal year 1917, 

 2,285,700 pounds of rape seed were im- 

 ported. 



Much spinach seed is required for 

 home gardens, market gardens and 

 canneries. Formerly it has been se- 

 cured without difficulty from Holland, 

 Italy and Greece. On account of em- 

 bargoes and transportation difficulties, 



Bedding Hyacinths and French Bulbs 



ALL SHIPMENTS BY EXPRESS TO AVOID DELAY 



SHORT SUPPLY 



ORDER AT ONCE 



HYACINTHS 



Binyls Bedding' 

 Fer 100, 94.00; per 1000, 935.00 

 Bine Bose Fnre White 



Xilght Bine Bed and Boee White Shade* 



FRENCH BULBS 



Paper White Orandlflora, 13 otm., 1250 ^^ 



to case, Select 92.30 



Paper White Orandlflora, 14 ctm., 1000 



to caae. Mammoth 2.50 



Bomane, 11/12 ctm 4.00 



Bomane, 12 ctm. and np 5.00 



Bomana, 13 ctm. and np 6.00 



Tmmpet Major, yellow 3.00 



Alllnm XTeapolitannm, white 1.00 



Grand Solell d'Or, 900 to oaee, yellow 



Paper White 5.00 



1000 

 920.00 



23.00 

 35.00 

 45.00 

 55.00 

 25.00 

 8.50 



45.00 



LILIUM CANDIDUM 



18 to 20 ctm 9 7.50 par IM 



20 to 22 ctm 0.50 per 100 



24 to 26 otm 11.50 par 100 



PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 



American Bulb Co. 



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it recently has not been possible to get 

 seed from Europe as freely as desired. 

 In 1917 the spinach seed acreage in 

 California was greatly increased over 

 previous plantings; likewise that in the 

 Pacific northwest; but the California 

 crop was short and the increased acre- 

 age failed to produce enough seed to re- 

 lieve the situation caused by the difficul- 

 ties surrounding importations from 

 Europe. The canners and market gar- 

 deners are taking active interest in the 



possibilities of the much increased pro- 

 duction of spinach seed along the At- 

 lantic coast and in the Puget Sound 

 country, as well as in California, with 

 a view of making this country inde- 

 pendent of foreign countries for its seed. 

 An abundance of prickly spinach seed 

 can be had from Japan, but this variety 

 is not in favor here. 



Bermuda Onions in Texas. 



The growing of Bermuda onions in 



