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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



May 26, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



Pres., 8. F. Willard, Wetbersfield, Oonn.; First 

 Vloe-Pres., J. Ohas. McCuUoucrh, Cincinnati, O.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 

 The 22d annual meetlncr will l)e held at St. Louis. 

 lIo.,Jane,U(M. 



English seedsmen are offering Lilium 

 Harrisii, African grown. 



This year's turnip seed crop on thy 

 Pacific coast is reported a failure. 



The Page Seed Co., Greene, N. Y., 

 •will nearly double its facilities before 

 another season. 



The Western Seed and Irrigation Co, 

 is reported as contemplating an early 

 addition to its plant at Fremont, Neb. 



Seeding for onion sets is completed. 

 The early plantings show a fair stand, 

 but the later plantings promise to be the 

 best. 



Field corn is about cleaned up; $2 

 to $2.50 per bushel has been paid for 

 Pride of the North, and other good early 

 kinds. 



Tn a number of recently protested 

 cases the General Appraisers have held 

 that canary seed is not free of duty as 

 grass seed. 



Visited New York. — Louis Goep- 

 pinger, on his annual tour. His firm is 

 now Piegnaux & Lorin, successors to 

 Louis Leroy. 



Seed sweet corn is in brisk demand, 

 and where the seller is reasonably sure 

 of his stock the purchaser puts up a good 

 stiff figure for what he needs of it. 



Among the few displays of seeds from 

 the south is one from the UUathorne 

 Seed Co., of Memphis, in ^e Tennessee 

 building at the St. Louis "World's Fair. 



Knud Gunderstrup succeeds P. F. 

 Thomsen, who for a number of years 

 has conducted a seed business at Jeffer- 

 son Park, 111. The business will be con- 

 tinued along the same lines. 



The Massachusetts legislature, May 

 23, passed a law forbidding the payment 

 or acceptance of a commission where 

 an employe acts as a purchasing agent, 

 the penalty for so doing being a fine of 

 from $10 to $500. 



Reports from Louisville, Ky., put the 

 acreage of onion sets this year at some- 

 what less than a year ago. In places a 

 fairly good stand is reported, while in 

 othersi the stand is poor and on the whole 

 the season is two weeks behind, with 

 the outlook for a good crop not encour- 

 aging. 



Eeports from the pea growing dis- 

 tricts of Wisconsin and Michigan are en- 

 couraging. As a rule the stand and 

 prospect is equal to last year's at same 

 date. At some of the points well 

 north crops are planted, but not yet up, 

 conditions favorable for quick growth, 

 however. 



It is usual at this time of the year to 

 see plenty of home-grown green stuff on 

 the Chicago market. This year there is 

 nothing so far and it will likely be some 

 time before the market gardeners will 

 realize anything from this year 's product. 

 It is needless to say that this has a great 

 deal of effect upon the seedsmen 's profits. 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



The American Seed Trade Association 

 will hold its twenty-second annual conven- 

 tion at the Forest Park University Hotel, 

 St. Louis, June 21 to 23. Secretary Ken- 

 del has just issued a very neatly printed 

 program of papers and discussions, as fol- 

 lows : 



"Points of Interest for Seedsmen at St. 

 louls," by H. M. Schlaler, of the Schlsler- 

 CorneUl Seed Co., St. louls. 



"Points of Interest Pertaining to Seeds and 

 Seed Growing In the State of Washington, by 

 E. F. Bogardus, Lilly, Bogardus & Co., Seattle, 



"Irrigation In the West and Its Possibili- 

 ties." by George H. Maxwell. „ ^ . „ 



"The Middle West as a Seed Producing Sec- 

 tion; Varieties Most Profitably Grown," by 

 Mel. L. Webster, Independence, la. 

 - "Breeding of Field Corn for Increase In 

 Yield." by Franlc H. Fuul£, of Funk Bros. Seed 

 Co., Bloomington. 111. 



"Soil Innoculation, or the Innoculatlon of 

 Legumes to Insure the Formation of Nodules, 

 by George T. Moore, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington. ,, ^ „ ^ 



"Trial Grounds and their Necessity to Seeds- 

 men," by E. D. DarUngton, of W. Atlee Burpee 

 & Co., Philadelphia. „ »„ „ 



"Ideals In Seed Growing," by W. W. Tracey, 

 Sr., D. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton. _ . 



"Difficulties of the Present Contract System; 

 Is there a Eemedy?" by J. C. Vaughan, Chi- 

 cago. „ 



Fire Insurance Expenditure; What Ix)ss Ex- 

 perience Teaches," by Albert McCullough, of 

 J. M. McCnllough'a Sons, Cincinnati. 



It will be readily seen that the subjects 

 and the standing of the speakers presages 

 a session which for practical interest has 

 had no equal in the history of the asso- 

 ciation and a large attendance is assured. 



C»RN TO PLANT. 



In the Yearbook of the Department 

 of Agriculture for 1902, in discussing 

 corn breeding, C. P. Hartley states that 

 butts and tips should be rejected when 

 shelUng for seed. Replying to an in- 

 quiry Mr. Hartley writes: 



Our reasons for recommending that 

 seed ears be nubbed, which signifies the 

 removal of the ill shaped kernels at both 

 ends of the ears, are two-fold. First, 

 the butts of the ears very frequently 

 contain large, misshapen kernels caused, 

 perhaps, by the pressure of the husk at 

 this point, while the tips of the ears 

 often contain misshapen kernels, some of 

 which are frequently very small. If 

 such kernels be included with the seed 

 no corn planter will drop it evenly. This 

 reason in itself is quite sufficient to 

 warrant the discarding of such kernels, 

 as an even stand is of much importance 

 in obtaining a good yield. 



Second, we have conducted experiments 

 which have demonstrated that the plant- 

 ing of these small and ill-shaped ker- 

 nels results in a crop containing a greater 

 per cent of feeble and unproductive 

 stalks. In demonstrating this the ker- 

 nels from the two extremities of the ears 

 were planted in one patch and in the 

 adjoining patch the well-shaped kernels 

 from the middle portions of the same 

 ears were planted. Counts of the stalks 

 and estimates as to the per cent of feeble 

 and unproductive stalks was much in 

 favor of the patch planted with the well 

 shaped kernels. 



These results were perhaps due to the 

 small and weak kernels, which were 

 found to the greatest extent at the apex 

 of the ears. At this part of the ear 

 there are often kernels So very small 

 and poorly developed that if they ger- 

 minate at all they are sure to produce 

 weak plants. 



There have been experiments conduct- 

 ed in Ohio, Kansas and Georgia com- 

 paring the kernels from the apecal third, 

 the middle third and the butt third of 

 seed ears. Such experiments have shown 

 for the most part that there is very 

 little difference regarding these portions 

 of the ear. 



This, however, is not contradictory to 

 the recommendations given regarding the 

 discarding of the small and poorly shaped 

 kernels at the extremities of the ears. 

 If the parentage of the kernels be iden- 

 tical we believe that the location of the 

 kernels on the cob is a matter of no im- 

 portance, providing the kernels are 

 equally mature and equally well de- 

 veloped. As the kernels on the butts of 

 the ears are the first to form, it may 

 often happen that the kernels at the 

 tips of the ears are less matured and 

 may be injured by weather conditions 

 that do not so seriously affect the more 

 mature kernels at the butt portions of 

 the ears. 



OBITUARY. 



Httgh Dickson. 



We regret to learn of the death of 

 Mr. Hugh Dickson, of the Eoyal 

 Nurseries, Belfast, Ireland, on May 5, 

 at the age of 70. Mr. Dickson has b«en 

 in delicate health for the past twelve 

 months, but continued to attend to his 

 duties to the last. He was in the nur- 

 series, giving some directions to one of 

 his employes, when he fainted without 

 warning. The doctor was summoned, 

 but within five minutes he breathed his 

 last. The cause was pronounced to be 

 heart failure. 



Mr. Dickson was an enthusiastic ros- 

 arian, and sent his roses to the leading 

 shows, not only in Ireland, but to Eng- 

 land and Scotland, where he secured 

 many triumphs. He was also well known 

 to the fraternity. His daintily gotten 

 up rose catalogue for 1903 contained a 

 colored plate of a new hybrid perpetual 

 rose named Hugh Dickson, which is 

 claimed to be the most valuable addi- 

 tion that has been made to the class 

 for many years. The cupped blooms 

 are of a brilliant crimson shaded with 

 scarlet, and open well in all weathers. 

 This will now serve to perpetuate his 

 memory. — Gardening World. 



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