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TheWcckly Florists* Review, 



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October 13, 1904. 



HARRISII 



GUARANTEED SOUND BULBS 



5 TO 7 



400 IN A CASE for $6.00 CASH 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS 



Auction 

 Department 



NEW YORK 



Mention The BcTlew wbaa 70a write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., C. N. Page, Des Moines, la ; First Vlce- 

 Pret., Li. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas., C. E. 

 Kemlel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

 will be held on the St. Lawrence, June, 1906. 



Visited New Yoek.— Wm. Rennie, of 

 Eennie & Pino, Providence, E. I. 



EvEEETT B. Claek, Milford, Conn., is 

 visiting at Omaha, Neb., and calling on 

 the trade in the west. 



The previous record for a late harvest 

 of onion sets has been beaten by a Chi- 

 cago grower who started in to finish 

 up his last ten-acre patch October 10. 



At Chicago onion set orders for af- 

 ter January delivery are being booked 

 now at $2.25 for red and yellow and 

 $2.50 for white, for a thirty-two-pound 

 bushel. 



INDIANAPOUS, Ind.— Last week Hunt- 

 ington & Page gave a clam bake to the 

 employes of their onion set farms, in 

 celebration of the end of a harvest that 

 had been unusually prolonged. 



European aster seed crops have suf- 

 fered severely all season but the aater 

 has been taken up by many widely scat- 

 tered growers, so that adequate supplies 

 for the normal requirements are ex- 

 pected. 



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

 will this fall distribute a new pofcito, 

 Noroton Beauty, said to be sixteen days 

 earlier than Early Rose and a heavy 

 producer. They regard this as their 

 most important introduction in this line. 



Visited Chicago.— ^J. Simmers and 

 Mrs. Simmers, of Toronto, Can., retum- 

 from the St. Louis exposition; J. G. 

 Purvis, representing Wm. Rennie, To- 

 ronto, on his way to Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

 to open a branch distributing house at 

 that point. 



Very discouraging reports are being 

 received from the bean growing sec- 

 tions. The damp weather will not per- 

 mit of threshing, and it is feared that 

 a continuation of it will mold the 

 beana in the stacks and spoil a large pro- 

 portion of them. 



The directors of the Wholesale Seeds- 

 men 's League held the regular October 

 meeting at New York last T^riday. Vari- 

 ous matters of trade interest were dis- 

 cussed and crop conditions canvassed. 

 It is yet too early to fix prices on more 

 than a few articles. 



Reliable estimates of the probable 

 harvest of sweet corn and cucumber seed 

 are not likely to be had for some time 

 to come. The fact that there has been 

 plenty of corn fit for canning purposes 

 and practically more than enough pick- 

 les for the saJting vats does not insure 

 either a good crop of com seed nor any 

 sort of a crop of cucumber seed. 



Garden Seeds and Sweet Corn. 



THE EVERETT B. CLARK CO., MILFORD, COHN. 



Hive lust hirTested of »• ( 

 ceilint quility and offer : \ 



TURNIP— Red Flat Strap. Red Top Globe and P. T. Rutabaga. 

 PARSNIP— Long Smooth, and Hollow Crown. 

 BEET— Crosby's Egyptian, Edmandslmpd., and Dewings B.T. 

 ONION— SoutbportYeUow and Red Globe and Selected Y. G. D. 



FALL PRICES ON SWSET CORN NOW READY. 

 IVTHE ABOVE IS ALL STRICTLY CONNECTICUT GROWN. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



CoNTiNENT.u. Europe has suffered a 

 visitation of vermin which has done much 

 damage to all crops this season. 



Philippe de Vilmobin, who has been 

 serving on the international jury of 

 awards at St. Louis, has returned to 

 Paris. 



The government estimate of the year's 

 corn crop is 2,315,000,000 bushels, a loss 

 of 19,000,000 bushels from the Septem- 

 ber estimate. 



QuEDLiNBUKG growers had an average 

 crop of spinach, but demand has been 

 active, so that stocks are largely dis- 

 tributed and prices strong. 



CHICAGO ONION SET CROP. 



The onion set crop at Chicago, now 

 that the harvest is completed, pans out 

 about sixty per cent of what the seed 

 sown was expected to produce. The sea- 

 son began wrong, bad spring weather 

 put the ground in poor shape for seed- 

 ing and the cold weather that prevailed 

 throughout the growing period kept the 

 crop back. On sandy ground, where nat- 

 urally crops mature early, the effect of 

 the unseasonable weather was not so 

 noticeable and the seed sown in this sort 

 of land pushed along and made a fairly 

 satisfactory crop of sets. The greater 

 portion of the seed planted for sets, 

 however, went into clay soil, where good 

 growing weather is needed during June 

 and the first half of July to mature a 

 good crop of sets. This year unseason- 

 able weather strung along throughout 

 June and July, with rains at the wrong 

 time, giving a second growth to at least 

 a third of the crop, thereby lessening it 

 just that much. The "evergreen" onion 

 field is something that no onion grower 

 likes. It makes the harvest more costly, 

 shortens the crop and hurts the quality. 

 A few of the Chicago growers experi- 

 enced it this year, as did growers at oth- 

 er points. With a short set crop at Chi- 

 cago and the dropping out of growers 

 at points that formerly cut a figure as 

 onion set sections, there is not likely to 

 be any recession from prices now ruling. 



MAILING CATALOGUES. 



Apropos of an item in the Review ot 

 October 6 I beg to say that we have not 

 found the new postoffice regulations in re- 

 gard to mailing catalogues in bulk unrea- 

 sonable except in one particular ; that we 

 secured permit No. 2, having made ap- 



LONG ISLAND CABBAGE SEED 

 AMERICAN CALLIFLOWER SEED 



And other Special Seed Stocks. 



Francis Brill - Grower, 



Hempstead, L I., New York. 



Mention The RfTlew wb— yow write. 



(iladiolos Bolbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 tbe best, but better than tbe rest. 

 TBT THEM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



■TXiVAVZA, OKZO. 



Mention The BeTlew when yon' write. 



plication in July; that we have had the 

 electrotype piade, have placed an order 

 with the paper bag manufacturers, who 

 have the electro ere this and probably 

 have it on the press. The Cleveland post- 

 office received advices on October 3 and 

 we received our permit October 8. That 

 hardly seems as though the obstacles were 

 insurmountable. 



It is reasonable that the certain words 

 should be printed on the wrappers and 

 that they should come within certain lim- 

 itations as to size, the letters between 

 10-point and 24-point and the figure be- 

 tween 14-point and 36-point. It is rea- 

 sonable also that the number at a time, 

 2,000. at least, should be prescribed. 



It does seem unreasonable, however, 

 that mail to Canada and Mexico must be 

 sent in the usual way, and it will certain- 

 ly add labor to have catalogues presented 

 at the postoffice in packages of equal 

 number that can be easily counted, but 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 only asked that these regulations apply 

 to third-class matter and they apply to 

 fourth-class as well. 



We believe that when the new order is 

 understood everyone will realize that we 

 have gained a long step toward second- 

 class classification of catalogues and one 

 or two other desirable things along these 

 lines. C. E. Kendel, Sec'y. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Mrs. A. F. J. 

 Baur has been quite ill for several weeks 

 but is now happily on the road to re- 

 covery. 



PxoRiA, III. — George A. Kohl decorat- 

 ed the Standard Theater October 10 for 

 Miss liuppen's recital. It wa« one of 

 the social events of the season. 



