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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



DBCBMBBIt 15, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



I AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTHML 



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

 Pres., Ii. L. May, St. Paul; Secy and Treas., C. B. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

 Will be held on the St. Lawrence, Jun6, IMK. 



Visited Chicago.— W. H. Grennel, 

 Gape Vincent, N, Y. 



No one has said recently that there 

 will be any shortage of cucumber seed. 



Farquhae & Co., of Boston, will ask 

 $1 per ounce for a strain of forcing 

 cucumber seed. 



The Louisville onion-set dealers feel 

 that it will be a Merry Christmas and 

 a Happy New Year. 



No information that a uniform scale 

 of wholesale prices has been adopted has 

 come to hand as yet. 



The Chicago seed houses which sup- 

 ply bouquet green and holly to the trade 

 report a brisk business. 



Petee Hollenbach, Chicago, returned 

 this week from a trip to Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore and Washington. 



The percentages of deliveries on beans 

 are very disappointing to the contract 

 buyer. Better things were hoped for. 



It is rumored that a California seed 

 growing firm is canvassing for the mar- 

 ket garden trade at some of the prin- 

 cipal eastern cities. 



Anything may be fair in business 

 that is open and above board, still the 

 local dealers at certain points have 

 cause for objection if the grower they 

 buy from hustles out to sell his goods 

 to their customers. 



D. Landreth Seed Company 



BLOOMSDALE SEED FARM 



BRISTOL. PA. 



WHOLESALE ORDERS SOLICITED 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS i i 



ONION SETS 

 79 and 81 East Kinzie Street, # «-> CHICAGO 



Mention Th*. Review when yea write. 



SWEET CX5RN FOR SEED. 



The Maryland Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station has just issued, as Bulletin 

 96, a pamphlet entitled "Sweet Com; 

 Breeding, Growing and Curing for Seed. ' ' 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



In the preface the Director of the Sta- 

 tion says: 



It has been fully demonstrated that the 

 character of seed used has much to do In de- 

 termining the quality and quantity of the 

 crop produced. Again, it has been shown that 

 it Is not only necessary to have seed from 

 stock giving good crops, bat (or best results 

 seed should also be from acclimated plants. 



Maryland stands fourth in the production of 

 canned corn, devoting annually about 17.00<> 

 acres to this crop for canning purposes, and 

 packing about 1,000,000 cases. Besides the 

 amount of corn grown for the canneries there 

 are large areas grown for Immediate consump- 

 tion in the green state. Maryland growers pur- 

 chase annually from 3,000 to 4,000 bushels of 

 sweet corn seed. The bulk of this seed is 

 grown In the New England states and northern 

 Ohio. 



The reason that our farmers purchase seed 

 from the north is due to the prevailing opin- 

 ion that northern-grown seed will give a sweet- 

 er corn than the home-grown seed. Then, 

 again, many farmers say that sweet com will 

 soon run out and deteriorate in other ways. 



HmnhM Inid. 



Silverbali Lettuce as Grown by Kimberlin & G)., Santa Qara, CaL 



LONG ISUND CABBAGE SEED 

 AMERICAN CAUUaOWER SEED 



And other Special Seed Stocks. 



Francis Brill - Grower, 



HinpstNd, L I., New York. .• 



Itontlon The BeTltw wben yoe wrtte. " 



RALPH M.WARD&CO. 



Exporters and Importers 

 17 Battery Pleee. NEW YORK 



Bulbs, Plants.- 



Villi)! iw smciiii) "^"J^^rjini 



Mention The Bevlew when yon write. 



when fiown Ifa this climate. In view of our 

 present knowledge of the corn plant these 

 statements did not seem reasonable, and upon 

 investigation they were not borne out by the 

 practicfs of some of the most suceesful and ad- 

 vanced growers and packers of sweet corn in 

 Maryland. 



Before preparing this bulletin the author 

 took a trip to Ck>nnectlcut. and studied the 

 methods of growing and curing aa practiced 

 there by the largest and most advanced seed 

 growers, and the results of Lis observations 

 are given herewith. 



The facts, as set forth by Dr. Stabler, in 

 the following pages, prove almost conclnslvely 

 that Maryland farmers can not only grow their 

 own sweet corn, but by doing bo, can, with rea- 

 sonable care improve the yield and quality of 

 the corn, and get a more desirable crop in many 

 other ways. 



Seedsmen who may wish to study the 

 Bulletin will be supplied with copies by 

 addressing Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, College Park, Md. 



ALFALFA SEED. 



The increasing acreage of alfalfa, not 

 only in the western irrigation districts, 

 where it first became popular, but east 

 of the Missouri river, is making alfalfa 

 seed more important to the seed dealer, 

 who is finding it more necessary to de- 

 termine the quality of alfalfa samples 

 and their freedom from weed seeds. A 

 valuable treatise on this subject has been 

 published by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, as farmers' bulletin No. 194, from 

 which the facts given herewith are taken. 



