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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 28, 1904, 



Seed jrade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATHM. 



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Sm^^'^F^!.^®''*"''- The 23rcl annua? meetini^ 

 win be held on tbe St. Lawrence. June IBOs! * 



Good "corn weather" is reported at 

 most of the sections where seed corn is 

 grown. 



The onion set harvest as it progresses 

 shows a heavy falling oflf from what was 

 expected. 



Cable advices from London and Paris 

 July 23 report continued dry weather 

 with high temperatures. 



At Chicago the deficiency in precipita- 



^u"" 9''/.^^'' ^° 19<>4 in 5.53 inches and 

 tue deficiency in temperature 635 de- 

 grees. 



Good reports are at hand from the 

 radish seed sections of Michigan. The 

 weather at present is all that can be 

 desired. 



The main shipments of Harrisii are 

 due in a few days. The crop is general- 

 ly estimated to be shorter tlian last year, 

 particularly on large sizes. 



Reports to date show that the blight 

 on the cucumber vines that are intended 

 for seed is not so noticeable as on the 

 vines that are for the pickle men. 



J. W. Rateikin, Shenandoah, la., says 

 his firm has over 3,000 acres of corn grow- 

 ing for seed purposes, with the finest 

 crop prospect July 25 he has seen in 

 years. 



The onion crop will be .short. High 

 prices may bo looked for. Speculators 

 are looking over the marsh fields with 

 a view to securing the crops previous to 

 har^'e8t. 



The government report shows an in- 

 crease of 2,823,000 in the cotton acreage. 

 If prices hold until the crop is picked 

 business should bo good in the south next 

 season. 



The situation on beuus :ind peas is 

 unchanged. Dry weather at points in 

 Michigan is bad for the bean crop at 

 this time, and wet weather at points in 

 Wisconsin does the early peas no good. 



The Chicago Dock Company, in which 

 the Dickinsons are the principal stock- 

 holders, have sold to the Illinois Tunnel 

 Company, for $2,500,000, the property 

 at West Taylor street and the river, Chi- 

 cago, where the office and seed ware- 

 houses of the Albert Dickinson Company 

 are located. It is stated that the Dick- 

 inson Company will erect a fine building 

 at South Chicago. 



Last fall a western seedsman im- 

 ported a lot of 300 pounds of an Eng- 

 lish pickling cucumber, which had been 

 successfully tried in a smaller way, and 

 it is now being grown at several pick- 

 ling points in the middle west. If it 

 gives satisfaction, the seed could last 

 year have been had at considerably less 

 than what American pickling sorts 

 brought. 



Eeports continue to come to hand 

 that the crop of French Itomans is short 

 and prices firm. It is reported that 

 American orders are not numerous, but 



that other countries are buying freely. 

 Failure of most growers to find a profit 

 in this stock last year will operate to 

 reduce this country's requirements cour 

 siderably as long as present pricfts hold, 

 high for the bulbs, low for the cut flow- 

 ers. 



CORN TO PLANT. 



As may be seen from the letters we 

 have published, there still exist differ- 

 ences of opinion as to whether anything 

 more than uniform grains for planting 

 is obtained from discarding the tip aw] 

 butt kernels of field corn. 



CLOVER SEED. 



Henry Nungesser & Co. send out the 

 following under date of July 19: 



There has been a very good demand In 

 crimson clover and already a large business has 

 been done. Stocks of the crop 1903 are almost 

 exhausted In Europe as well as In this coun- 

 try, and only small lots for immediate ship- 

 ment are left. We are very much interested 

 In these seeds and pay particular attention 

 to the importation of same. We have already 

 made arrangements for new crop to arrive 

 here August 1, 8 and 15. 



The crop in Europe was at first expected 

 to be a large one. We find, however, that it 

 has not turned out so well. In consequence 

 the prices are already somewhat higher and 

 the market is very strong, and as the demand 

 In Europe as well as here is large, It is need- 

 less to e.\pect lower prices. The quality of 

 the new seed is excellent. 



PANDANUS SEEDS. 



F. B, Vandegrjft & Co., custom house 

 brokers, Avere recently in receipt of a 

 shipment of j>alm and pandanus seeds 

 mixed. A protest was made at the duty 

 assessed, the following being the ruling 

 of the board of appraisers: 



The goods in this case were all assessed 

 for duty at thirty per cent ad valorem under 

 the provision for "seeds of all kinds not spe- 

 cially provided for" in paragraph 254 of the 

 tariff act of 1897. The local appraiser re- 

 ports that the merchandise consists of palm 

 nuts and pandanus seeds mixed, the greater 

 part of which are pandanus; and that as no 

 separation was possible, they were returned 

 as though all were pandanus seeds. The palm 

 and pandanus appear to belong to different 

 Iwtanlcal orders, and there is nothing In the 

 case before us which would enable us to say 

 that the clnsslflcatloa of pandanus seeds under 

 paragraph 254 was not correct. Palm nuts 

 are. by name, made free of duty under para- 

 graph 622, and on this provision the protest- 

 ants base their claim. 



The proportion of palm nuts In the Importa- 

 tion, however, has not been shown, and it is a 

 well-eatabllshed principle that collectors, where 

 free and dutiable goods are thus commingled, 

 may assess the entire Importation at the rate 

 applicable to the dutiable merchandise, unless 

 the Importer shows what part of the whole 

 Is n'lt subject to duty. The protest Is over- 

 ruled. 



Barrie, Ont. — Wm. Taylor has suc- 

 ceeded F. Brown as leasee of the Morgan 

 greenhouses. He will grow carnations, 

 chrysanthemums and bedding stock. 



Albany, N. Y.— The New York Mar- 

 ket Florists' Association has been 

 licensed to incorporate with $5,000 capi- 

 tal; directors, H. C. Steinhoff and John 

 Birnie, West Hoboken; P. F. Daley, New 

 Durham. This is the association which 

 proposes to build a 'permanent plant 

 market in New York. 



FLOW FROM RETURN. 



In heating with steam, is it practical 

 to take off a fiow from a return pipe 

 which is already established and lead the 

 return pipes back to the main return pipe 

 to the boiler? Is it necessary that flow 

 pipes be overhead, or can they be strung 

 along the side walls if properly ar- 

 ranged? Lack of access to a competent 

 steam fitter causes me to ask these sim- 

 ple questions. C. L. W. 



Yes, a flow may be taken from a return 

 if not too far from tl\e boiler and there 

 is no danger of the return becoming 

 choked by condensation. It is not ad- 

 visable to do this if a flow, or riser, can 

 be carried from a main riser or from the 

 boiler direct. #The riser, or flow, may be 

 carried either under the ridge or along 

 the side walls or under the benches, just 

 as one sees fit, so long as it is properly 

 graded and the returns which it supplies 

 are all beneath it, so as to care for all 

 condensation. In steam heating the high- 

 est point in the system should be as 

 nearly directly over the boiler as possible. 

 This provides that all condensation must 

 pass the length of the flow pipe, enter the 

 returns and thus find its way back to tne 

 boiler. All this is simply a matter of 

 grading the pipes. The greater the dif- 

 ference between the height of the riser 

 and returns the better, everything else 

 considered. L. C. C. 



Richmond, Ind. — H. M. Altick, of 

 Dayton, 0., was here July 12 to pro- 

 cure the arrest of one Wm.. Jones, ac- 

 cused of burglarizing Mr. Altick 's home 

 and attacking Mr. Altick more than a 

 year ag6. The man's whereabouts bad 

 just been discovered. 



Paper Whites 



A consiKnment coming direct from France. 

 The size of bulbs are 13 cms. and over, and are 

 duty free. New York City. Paper Whites, 

 97.60 per lOOO; Grandlflora, §9.60 per 

 lOOO. FEBBET'8 PAHST SEED, this year's 

 seed, oz. $4.00; 14 oz. $2.60; pkt., $1.00: % pkt., 50c. 



HUBERT CO., Ltd., ^^t.^eWn^n^";. 



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Pansy Seed. 



A distinct and most beautiful race, which for 

 size of blooms, diversity of colors and robust 

 growth is unrivalled. The flowers are much 

 larger than the ordinary pansies, whilst the 

 form, colors and markings are what a cele- 

 brated French grower terms "quIU ramirkabit." 



THE FINEST STRAIN IN CULTIVATION. 



Far superior to any other English, French or 

 German selections. 



Price S4.00 per oz. $1.00 per pkt. Postage paid. 

 Dollar notes accepted in payment. 



The Surrey Seed Co., Ltd., 



BBDHZZ.X., ENGLAND. 



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D. Landreth Seed Company 



BLOOMSDALE SEED FARM 



BRISTOL, PA. 



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