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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SSFTEMBBB 16, 1004. 



SUZUKI & IIDA 



CHINESE SACRED HUES 

 JAPAN-GROWN CALLAS 



On Hand How. Frlo«B on Application. 

 31 BABOXiAT ST. 



NEW YORK. 



about half a crop. Curled Scotch kale 

 was nearly all killed by the winter and 

 but little seed was produced. It was the 

 same with Brussels sprouts. Some va- 

 rieties of cabbage are sufficient for the 

 demand, but the crop, is very short on a 

 number of the second early sorts; on sev- 

 eral of them only forty per cent deliv- 

 eries seem quite probable at this date, 

 September 6." 



CONNECTICUT SEED CROP. 

 The Everett B. Clark Co., Milford, 

 Conn., writes September 8: "Our crops 

 of turnip, parsnip, beet and onion have 

 all been harvested and are all good av- 

 erage crops, yield and quality good. 

 Carrot is very poor and sweet corn has 

 ripened down considerably the past two 

 weeks, but is not a large yield." 



EASTERN SEED CROPS. 



The D. Landreth Seed Co. writes that 

 "in the east the seed crops so far har- 

 vested of such families as cabbage, kale, 

 turnip, radish and spinach have been 

 very deficient in product on account of 

 too much rain and too low a temperature. 



"The seed crops not yet harvested, 

 consisting of pepper, egg plant, melon 

 and cucumber, are doing poorly for the 

 same reason, growing too much to leaf 

 and producing very little fruit. 



"The acreage in onion sets in Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware was 

 curtailed to almost nothing, the result of 

 an indisposition to pursue the culture on 

 account of low prices. The crop, even 

 on a reduced acreage, has been unsatis- 

 factory this year in the yield, but there 

 are indications of better prices being 

 obtainable. Field com looks well, but is 

 very tall and late." 



GEORGIA SEED CROPS. 

 Mark "W. Johnson, Atlanta, Ga., writes 

 that "seed crops in our growing terri- 

 tory are encouraging. Most crops will 

 fall below an average. Cucumber about 

 fifty per cent; early com about seventy- 

 five per cent; squash and pumpkin fifty 

 per cent; Rattlesnake watermelon very 

 short, other varieties seventy per cent; 

 okra sixty per cent; Qiant Curled mus- 

 tard and Seven Top turnips seventy- 

 five per cent; Georgia collard seventy 

 per cent. Field crops so far are unusual- 

 ly fine, corn and cow peas 100 per cent. 

 Bains are, however, too copious now and 

 unless they cease soon these crops will 

 be damaged. Successive years of short 

 garden seed crops create the belief in 

 the minds of our farmers that seed grow- 

 ers have cornered the business in order 

 to obtain exorbitant prices, an unfor- 

 tunate condition." 



CALIFORNIA SEED CROPS. 



C. C. Morse & Co., Santa Clara, Cal., 

 write under date of September 8: 



"We expect to fill practically all of 

 our garden seed orders in full, with the 

 possible exception of a few varieties of 

 white radish and possilbly some tomato 

 shOTtages. Onion is again a full crop, 



D. Landreth Seed Company 



BLOOMSDALE SEED FARM 



BRISTOL. PA. 



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Paper White Narcissus 



Dlx«ot firom 7x»nc«, b«st ouallty uid 

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 oases of 1400 to 160O bulbs. 



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but the total acreage, we believe, is con- 

 siderably less than that of last year and 

 the average yield ia probably not quite 

 so good. This, we believe, has a ten- 

 dency to reduce surplus somewhat. This 

 has been a decidedly unfavorable sea- 

 son for tomato crop, the summer having 

 been far too cool, but with the extremely 

 warm weather we are having at present 

 it should hasten the ripening of fruit 

 and may yet turn out all right. Sweet 

 peas did not turn out very well, and we 

 had quite a number of shortages on 

 named varieties, as well as on mixtures. 

 Other flower seeds, such as asters, ver- 

 benas, poppies, mignonette and cosmos, 

 are all looking well and prgmise a full 

 crop, 



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NEBRASKA SEED CROPS. 



Frank T. Emerson, of the Western 

 Seed and Irrigation Co., Fremont, Neb., 

 writes as follows, September 7: 



' ' The past season in Nebraska has 

 been exceedingly unfavorable for com, 

 both sweet and field varieties, owing to 

 almost constant wet weather. In the 

 months of June and July we had but 

 twelve days that permitted field cultiva- 

 tion. Crops, therefore, have been pro- 

 duced under unusually unfavorable con- 

 ditions and are at least three weeks later 

 than usual in reaching maturity. Late 

 varieties at present writing are by no 

 means in a condition to warrant surety 

 against frost and will not generally be 

 safe until the last week of September. 



"Vine seed crops, viz., cucumber, 

 muskmelon, squash, pumpkin, etc., prom- 

 ised a liberal yield until about the mid- 

 dle of August, when a period of gener- 

 ally dry weather began, accompanied 

 with warm days, quite hot winds and 

 cold nights, checking growth of vines 

 and fruit and materially reducing pros- 

 pective yield of seed. 



' ' In our opinion the crop of vine seeds 

 in general, estimated the middle of Au- 

 gust, will fall short at least fifty per 

 cent, and in some instances even more, 

 depending upon weather conditions, dur- 

 ing the next fifteen to twenty days. ' ' 



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 Specialist, 3>^ Ibt. Giant Trimardeau 

 Pajtties, leading varieties. Will sell them at 

 $42.00 nctt cash. Seed guaranteed true to 

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75tli ■tr««t, oor. Xiczlnffton Av«. 



NEW YORK CITY. 



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FORCING PIPS. "Vi'!"""'' 



JULIUS HANSEN. 



PINNEBERG, (Germany). 



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