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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 21, 1921 



RUGOWSKFS ASTERS 



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J. K. Rugowski Seed Co., Manitowoc, Wis. 



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turity. The latter qualification is im- 

 portant, as farmers nowadays mow the 

 peas instead of picking them, and all 

 that are not in a stage for use at the 

 time of mowing are a total loss. These 

 pea vines are then run through a viner, 

 which delivers the peas ready for fac- 

 tory processes. 



The Alaska also is a white-flowered 

 pea, and any except white-flowered 

 peas darken when processed for can- 

 ning, thereby deteriorating the packed 

 product. The spurious variety sold as 

 Alaska grew to a length of five or six 

 feet and did not begin to bloom until 

 it had made considerable growth. It 

 then set pods through a long period, 

 finally having the whole range from 

 blossoms to dry pods, but :it no time 

 having a satisfactory yield of peas at 

 the right stage for canning. In addi- 

 tion, many of the pea vines bore col- 

 ored flowers, and when processed the 

 peas from these turned dark and 

 stained the liquor to almost an inky 

 hue, giving the buyer or consumer the 

 impression that the product was un- 

 clean or spoiled. 



The deiiartment found that the ob- 

 jectionable peas came from certain 

 growers in Idaho and Washington, 

 some of whom were honest, but some 

 of the dealers appear to have taken 

 advantage of a threatened shortage in 

 seed peas to perpetrate substitution. 

 There is another variety which is 

 locally known there as Alaska but 

 which does not have the qualifications 

 desired by the eastern canners. A 

 number of lawsuits have grown out of 

 the situation, but there 'seems little 

 likelihood of injured parties recovering 

 more than the price paid for the seed, 

 although the damage they sustained 

 was far greater. The dealers' integ- 

 rity seems to be the only practical pro- 

 tection against repetitions of the same 

 situation, says the department. 



MOTT-LY GLEANINGS. 



"Judging from what we read in The 

 Review," observed Alex Ferguson, of 

 Dupuy & Ferguson, ISrontroal, Can., 

 "the" season is rather backward, al- 

 though it opened earlier than usual. 

 We find a general desire on the part of 

 the busy planters to wait for better 

 general conditions." 



Charles F. Saul, Syracuse, N. Y., finds 

 counter trade fully up to usiial at this 

 date. A large order for field seeds 

 elicited the remark that "there were 

 many farmers who worked methodically 



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