78 



The HoHsts'ReviCT* 



Max 8. ltl». 



reliable this expectation scarcely was 

 lealized. It is said the avejrage size 

 of the seed^ orders hfts been approxi- 

 mately $1.50. Mail order seedsmen will 

 be interested in comparing this with 

 their own records. It probably will be 

 found not far from general experience, 

 counting strictly mail orders from the 

 general public. 



One of the features of the seed orders 

 received by Sears, Roebuck & Co. which 

 has attracted the attention of those 

 who have had the opportunity of watch- 

 ing them has been the number of calls 

 for flower seeds. These have exceeded 

 expectations. It has seemed to indicate 

 that the seed catalogues went into the 

 hands of the farmers' wives and chil- 

 dren rather than into the hands of the 

 farmers themselves. 



BERMUDA ONION SHORT. 



American seedsmen dealing in Tener- 

 iffe onion seed will have to reckon with 

 the loss of half the 1919 crop, accord- 

 ing to Consul George K. Stiles, who 

 wrote March 6: 



"The most persistent drought within 

 the last fifty years has just been broken 

 in the Canary Islands by a fairly heavy 

 rainfall, which has arrived, however, 

 too late to prevent an extraordinary 

 amount of damage. Of principal inter- 

 est to American buyers is the fifty per 

 cent destruction of the onion-seed crop, 

 for in 1917 and 1918 over ninety per 

 cent of this important product was ex- 

 ported to America, the value in 1917 

 being $133,264 and in 1918 $99,036. 

 The onion seed was caught in full blos- 

 som by the drought and a great deal of 

 it was badly burnt by southerly winds. 

 Although this is largely an irrigated 

 crop, the plant can not reach its best 

 condition unless rain falls upon the 

 blossoms and foliage. 



"It would perhaps be of interest to 

 American holders of Canary Island 

 onion seed to know that experiment 

 here seems to have proved that the seed, 

 if carefully soldered up and kept in a 

 dry, dark depository, can be guarded for 

 at least twelve months without any ap- 

 parent loss of germinating power or any 

 depreciation in the size, weight or qual- 

 ity of the onion grown from such seed. 

 This statement is based on information 

 furnished by one of the largest and 

 most scientific growers in these islands, 

 who states that he has so conserved and 

 afterwards sown such seed with most 

 satisfactory results. There have been 

 heretofore a certain number of com- 

 plaints proceeding from American buy- 

 ers that Canary Island seed when kept 

 from one season to another failed to 

 give satisfaction. It would be inter- 

 esting to know the result of experiments 

 along this line carefully conducted by 

 scientific growers in various sections of 

 the United States." 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Commencing May 1, the market has 

 distinctly improved. The near ap- 

 proach of Mothers' day is in some de- 

 gree responsible for this, particularly 

 in the case of carnations, which open 

 the present week at $8 to $10 per hun- 

 dred and promise to make a consider- 

 able advance over these figures before 

 May 10. A good supply will be avail- 

 able, provided we get a few warm days 

 to make the flowers pop out, to use a 



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