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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



4(BP1BUBER 8, 1004. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMCMCAN SEED TRADE ASSiDCUTIOM. 



PrM., C. N. Page, Dee Moines, la ; First Vloe- 

 Pre*., Xi. li. May. St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas.. O. E. 

 Kendel, CleveUnd. The 33r<l annual meetln* 

 will D« held on the St. Lawrence, June, 1906. 



Thbwwsia B. Shepherd, Ventura, Cal., 

 has been quite ill this summer. 



C. S. Clakk, Wakeman, O., has 2,000 

 acrfes in Leaming com for seed. 



Visited ]Njew York.— David Smith, of 

 Thomas Smith & Sons, -Strenrier. Scot- 

 land. 



Rocky Foed muskmelon seed from all 

 reports is likely to be plentiful the com- 

 ing season. 



No improvement over last week in the 

 condition of wax podded beans is shown 

 by this week's reports. 



There seems to be no uneasiness at 

 eastern points as to any serious shortage 

 in green podded beans. 



The early varieties of sweet corn are 

 reported safe from frost, and a fairly 

 good harvest is expected. 



The dwarf varieties of wrinkled peas 

 are about as short as usual at this time 

 and the prices are going up. 



Reports to hand September 3 indicate 

 that seed crops of sweet corn in Connecti- 

 cut and New York are very late. 



Cucumber and sweet corn crops are 

 having suitable weather now and the out- 

 look for a harvest is more favorable. 



Onion set harvesting was completed at 

 Chicago by September 10 last year; it 

 will go beyond September 20 this year. 



The later harvest of onion sets at 

 Chicago shows the stock to be quite in- 

 ferior to that harvested early. This is 

 always the case; a slow growth is not 

 favorable to the onion set, and a late 

 harvest always gives a large percentage 

 of stiff necks. 



Visited Chicago:— Otto H. E. Weis, 

 manager David Sachs, Quedlinburg, Ger- 

 many; J. Comont, representing Jas. 

 Carter, Dunnet & Beal, London, Eng- 

 land; S. B. Dicks, representing Cooper, 

 Taber & Co., London, England; E, V. 

 Hallock, Queens, N. Y. 



The Archias Seed Store, Sedalia, Mo., 

 not only makes a good display of seeds 

 and implements at the state fair, but 

 makes the agricultural exhibits a strong 

 advertisement for them by offering a 

 number of premiums for vegetables, etc., 

 grown from their seeds. 



Henry Fxeld, Shenandoah, la., says 

 that for the season of 1904 his expendi- 

 ture for newspaper advertising was a tri- 

 fle over $1,000, and he received over 10,- 

 000 direct inquiries. Almost half of 

 them proved to be buyers, and he made 

 direct mail-order sales amounting to over 

 $24,000. This was exclusive of any 

 commission or wholesale business. 



SOUTHERN SEED CHiOPS. 



G. B. McVay, president of the Amzi 

 Godden Co., Birmingham, Ala., on Sep- 

 tember 5 supplies the following report on 

 seed crops that are grown in that sec- 

 tion of the United States: 



Watermelon is a fairly good crop and 

 deliveries will not be short of seventy- 

 live to ninety per cent. 



Egg plant is a big crop and deliveries 

 will be made in full. 



White multiplying onions were a short 

 crop and only about twenty-five per cent 

 deliveries were made. 



Winter top setB were also an exceed- 

 ingly short crop and not over twenty-five 

 per cent deliveries were made. 



Okra is the principal seed crop grown 

 in this section. The crop looks fine at 

 the present time and unless a heavy frost 

 visits us a full crop will be made, but it 

 requires a full season for this crop, as 

 the period of producing never ceases 

 until -about -the -middle of October. From 

 present Y'^^sp^cts -we have every reason 

 to believe that full delivery will be made 

 on this item. 



PURE SEEDS. 



Is it not about time for the American 

 Seed Trade Association, the postal au- 

 thorities, or some other organization 

 wielding authority, to undertake to put 

 a stop to the fraudulent use of the mails 

 by many of the so-icalled seedsmen? 

 Farms have been ruined by obnoxious 

 weeds contained in seed purchased from 

 these parties. Many a farmer after tak- 

 ing exceptional pains to prepare his best 

 ground for some supposedly fine grain 

 advertised by such seedsman, discovers 

 that the yield was not as good as he had 

 been feeding his live stock. If the pure 

 food law is doing any good for humanity, 

 may not the same principles be applied 

 to the seed business to benefit the farm- 

 ers of our country and the good seeds- 

 men? Frank B. White. 



ORANGE, N. J. 



At the regular meeting of the New 

 Jersey Floricultural Society, September 

 2, the topic of the organization for the 

 gardeners was laid on the table upon mo- 

 tion of Jos. A. Manda. Mr. Manda 

 told the society of his experiences at St. 

 Louis and the ravages of the white aphis 

 upon the maple trees of East Orange 

 was discussed but no remedy suggested. 

 The floral display was a representation of 

 the season's flowers, the awards showing 

 varying degrees of merit, and consisted 

 of gladioli, dahlias, phloxes, delphiniums, 

 asters and verbenas, to which the well- 

 known names of Edward Thomas, Arthur 

 Bodwell, D. Kindsgrab, Peter Duff, Wm. 

 Read, W. J. Bennett, Malcolm MacRorie 

 and John Hayes were appended. 



Some fine sprays of Polygonum cuspi- 

 datum from the estate of Stuart Harts- 

 home, grown by Arthur Caparn, occu- 

 pied the center of the main table. Mr. 

 Caparn showed a well arranged vase of 

 this with delphiniums. Peter Duff's 

 large blooms of the white dahlia. Grand 

 Duke Alexis, were much admired. The 

 group of C^pripedium insigne hybrids 

 from Henry Graves, Edward Thomas, 

 gardener, and the collection of ferns, 

 Scottii, Piersoni and Anna Foster, from 

 William Barr, Arthur Bodwell, gardener, 

 received high praise. Flowers not for 

 competition consisting of gladioli from 

 Stuart Hartshorne, A. Caparn, gardener; 



caitiations from Mn, H. A. Mandeville, 

 M. M»eBDrie, gardener, and O. D. Munn. 

 John Hayec, ^rdener, and asters and 

 verbenas from JT, B. Davis were suitably 

 rewarded with the society's certificates. 

 The judges for the evening were Ar- 

 thur Caparn, Jos. A. Mand» and Edward 

 Thomas. J. B. D. 



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