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214 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNB 23, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEXO TRADE ASSOaATN)N. 



Pres., 8. F. WUlard, Wethersfleld, Conn.; First 

 vlce-Pres., J. Ohas. McCuUougrh, CinclnnaU, O.: 

 SS?'^?"* Treas., C. H. Kendel, Cleveland, a 

 The asd annual meetlii«r will be held at St. Loais. 

 Uo.,Jane,lMM. 



Visited Chicago: — C. Dalwig, Mil- 

 waukee. 



Reports from the Pacific coast show 

 sweet peas suffering and a very short 

 crop in prospect. 



J, M. Thorburn & Co., New York, 

 report the season's business as about 

 normal with them. 



Gradus peas in sacks of one and a 

 half bushels in the pod brought $2.50 on 

 the Chicago market June 21. 



Beans are going into dry ground at 

 many of the southern Michigan points. 

 It is feared that this may cause a poor 

 stand. 



Sweet com has had a better chance 

 during the past week, owing to the few 

 warm days, and the outlook for a crop 

 is better. 



Reports just at hand from Canada 

 show the growing pea crops there to bo 

 progressing very favorably, with the 

 weather fine. 



Up to date there are no reports Bhow- 

 ing that cucumber is not doing well; on 

 the contrary, everything seems to be fa- 

 vorable so far. 



Pea crops are suflSciently advanced in 

 many sections to need inspection, and 

 within the next ten days growers will 

 have their men out for this purpose. 



Many of the canners are short on to- 

 mato plants. There has been consider- 

 able effort put forth by them the past 

 week to secure good, stocky plants with- 

 out much response. 



Some of the onion set fields in the 

 vicinity of Chicago would make good 

 pictures at present. The warm weather 

 is pushing the crop along and much ac- 

 tivity in weeding and cultivating is no- 

 ticed. 



Dry weather is reported from all the 

 sections where onion sets are growing and 

 it is thought that a short crop will be 

 the result. Chicago sections are suffer- 

 ing more than any from lack of rain at 

 present. 



The a. a. Berry Seed Co., Clarinda, 

 la., reports a very successful season and 

 far beyond its expectations. They are 

 greatly increasing their growing depart- 

 ment this spring, especially in the line 

 of sweet corn and vine seeds, of which 

 they are heavy producers. They had a 

 surplus after filling contract orders in 

 full this spring and were able to fur- 

 nish ^ quantities to pickle factories and 

 canning concerns. This firm is only seven 

 years old. 



Aechibald Smith, for many years 

 manager for Joseph Breck & Sons, 

 Boston, has sailed for England, 

 having bought the Prince seed busi- 

 ness at Oxford, which he will hereafter 

 conduct. Prior to his departure the 

 Breck employes presented him with a gold 

 watch, the firm remembering him with a 

 suitably inscribed silver service. Mr. 

 Smith's father died in Scotland only a 

 month ago and two brothers are in the 

 seed business there. 



The few advices so far at hand from 

 St. Louis are to the effect that there is 

 a good attendance and considerable en- 

 thusiasm at the convention. Election of 

 officers will take place Thursday, June 

 23. 



DEATH OF a C AGNEW. 



Hugh C. Agnew, of Santa Clara, Cal., 

 died June 11, aged 50 years. It is 

 ^bought that his demise was caused by 

 glanders contracted from a horse which 

 he drove. He suffered intensely before 

 the end. Mr. Agnew was born in Iowa 

 but removed to San Jose while a young 

 man. For some years he ^d his father 

 were engaged in fruit raising but about 

 fifteen years ago they went into seed 

 growing, Jesse Agnew becoming a mem- 

 ber of the firm. The business has pros- 

 pered steadily and they now have many 

 hundreds of acres in seed crops in the 

 Santa Clara valley and in Contra Costa 

 county. Mr Agnew was highly respected, 

 both in the seed trade and in his own 

 community. The remains were cremated 

 at San Francisco June 13. A widow sur- 

 vives. 



VITALITY AND GERMINATION. 



Of the few things which the United 

 States Department of Agriculture has 

 done for the assistance of the seed trade 

 Bulletin No. 58, on the Vitality and Ger- 

 mination of Seeds, is one of the most 

 important. It is a technical paper by 

 J. W. T. Duvel, published as a pamphlet 

 of ninety-six pages, largely devoted to 

 tabular and other details of experiments 

 to test loss of vitality under different sys- 

 tems of storing and shipping seeds. The 

 preface says: 



Because of variation In the amount and qual- 

 ity of each year's crop It Is frequently neces- 

 sary for seedsmen to carry over large quantities 

 of seeds from one year to another. Such seeds 

 often lose their ability to germinate, and either 

 are a loss to the seedsman or, if they are mar- 

 keted, cause still more serious losses to those 

 who plant them. Since 1S99 Mr. Duvel has 

 been engaged in a general investigation of 

 the causes affecting the vitality of seeds, with 

 special reference to the conditions under which 

 they are stored commercially. This investiga- 

 tion was begun in 1899 under the Dexter M. 

 Ferry Botanical Fellowship at the University 

 of Michigan, and since September 1, 1902. it 

 has been continued by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



The general method pursued has been to 

 store seeds experimentally under all sorts of 

 conditions, and afterward to ascertain the 

 exact percentage of germination. It Is now 

 possible to speak with precision of the extent 



of damage caused by careless methods of stor^ 

 age, to express in actual figures the greater 

 liability of seeds to loss of vitality under the 

 warm humid conditions existing in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States than under colder 

 and drier conditions, and to demonstrate the 

 utility of storing seeds, when they must be 

 kept in a humid climate, in moisture-proof 

 packages. 



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etc. 



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76-78 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. 



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 the best, but better tban tbe rest. 

 TBT THSM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



mVAVZA, OHIO. 



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In original cases of 500. 1,000 and 2.600. Pricea 

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