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The Florists^ Review 



JUNB 7, lit'iT. 



because they specially liked the Ger- 

 man. Like many seedsmen in this 

 country and in our colonies, they were 

 led to believe Germany was the source 

 of seed supply instead of being largely 

 a mere store or intermediary. Take 

 the sugar beet supply. The American 

 beet growers were in a funk when the 

 war started, because they thought no 

 seed would get through from Germany. 

 But in a short time they discov- 

 ered that Eussia had, all along, been 

 growing the seed which Germany had 

 sold, and according to the last report, 

 the Americans had succeeded in import- 

 ing something like 20,000,000 pounds 

 of sugar beet seed from Eussia, and 

 you may bet your bottom dollar that 

 ithe Americans will not bother about 

 Germany in future." 



DISPOSITION OF CENSORED MAIL. 



Since the outbreak of the war the 

 volume of mail both ways between 

 Germany and the United States has 

 steadily decreased in volume, but it 

 has not stopped. While direct mail 

 communication has been interdicted, 

 Germans are posting mail in Scandi- 

 navia and Holland and are receiving 

 correspondence from this country 

 through an addressee in a neutral coun- 

 try. Almost from the beginning of hos- 

 tifities the British censor has examined 

 all European mail from and for the 

 United States. Communications that 

 were of no value have been forwarded 

 to and from Germany, even since the 

 United States entered the war, but any- 

 thing of value to Germany has been 

 held up. Inquiry as to the disposition 

 made of this intercepted commercial 

 mail brings the information that none 

 of it has been destroyed. The British 

 censor has stored away thousands upon 

 thousands of sacks of it, to be held 

 until the close of the war. In the mass 

 of parcel post mail for the United 

 States are large numbers of small lots 

 of flower seeds that were stopped by the 

 censor for the reason that they would 

 assist in establishing German credit in 

 the United States. In the letters mailed 

 from America are large numbers of 

 orders and remittances that have never 

 been permitted to reach the German ad- 

 dressees. All remittances are contra- 

 band, but where in the form of drafts 

 payable to order they have been with- 

 out value in a prize court. 



CLOVER FOE WET PLACES. 



The possibility that a continuance of 

 the war may affect the supplies of con- 

 centrates for stock feed makes it wise 

 at the present time to consider growing 

 feeds rich in proteins. Of such feeds the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture calls 

 attention to alsike clover as a plant for 

 low, wet places. Analyses show that 

 alsike clover hay is slightly richer in 

 protein than red clover, and the hay 

 is fine and well liked by stock. For 

 dairy cattle, especially, it is an excel- 

 lent feed, and a ration of alsike hay 

 could partly replace a ration of silage 

 and concentrates where these have been 

 used, making a saving in concentrates. 

 The department especially calls atten- 

 tion to the wet bottoms that are often 

 waste or weed-overgrown lands. Alsike 

 clover thrives in such places. 



MOTT-LY GLEANINGS. 



Eamsey & Son, of Auburn, N. Y., 

 are well pleased with the season's seed 



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100 1000 



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9/11 3.60 30.00 



11/12 6.00 55.00 



12/14 11.00 100.00 



Tuberoses, 4/6 75 6.50 



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