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The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



MABCH 9, 1905. 



orchard, near Bdloxi. It will be the 

 first extensive trial of the fig for com- 

 mercial purposes in this vicinity. 



J. H. Hale speaks well of the Waddell 

 peach. 



During the year 1903 the total value 

 of the nursery stock exported by the 

 United States was $158,959, in 1904, 

 $287,880. In 1903 the United States im- 

 ported nursery stock of all classes to the 

 value of $1,373,19« and in 1904, $1,- 

 496,427. ' ' 



GUERNSEY LILIES. 



Some four years ago I brought home 

 with me from the Island of Jersey two 

 pink nerines, the true Jersey lily. They 

 came in pots, the bulbs undisturbed. 

 Since then they have grown and multi- 

 plied. Every autumn they have had long, 

 thick stems with six immense and most 

 lovely lilies on each stem. Last month 

 two of the longer bulbs showed second 

 stems of buds, and several of the small- 

 er bulbs had stems of buds, but none of 

 them matured. Can you tell me what 

 is the reason and what I ought to dof 

 They all have greenhouse culture. 



I have some Japanese peonies for forc- 

 ing, but am in doubt as to how they 

 should be treated, whether after potting 

 they should be kept in a warm, dark 

 place and sprayed every day, as are Jap- 

 anese cherries, etc., or if they should 

 be given light as we treat begonia bulbs. 

 Of course, the peonies are just a root 

 with two little shoots showing and not 

 bushes like the cherries and wisteria. 



G. L. 



These bulbs called Guernsey or Jersey 

 lilies are no lily at all. Nerine Samien- 

 sis is the species that grows to perfection 

 in the Channel Islands. They make their 

 growth in winter and flower in the fall, 

 are beautiful and interesting for the 

 amateur, but will not likely ever become 

 popular with the florist. I cannot ac- 

 count for your plants making flower 

 spikes in January. Here, briefly, is what 

 the late John Eobertson, an authority, 

 said of ftiem in the Florists' Keview: 



"The secret of success with nerines is 

 to secure the fullest possible development 

 of the bulbs. This refers to their win- 

 ter treatment. They enjoy an abundance 

 of water at the roots and overhead, with 

 occasional applications of liquid manure. 

 This treatment should be continued until 

 the leaves turn yellow, which is a sign 

 that the plants are finishing their growth. 

 Then diminish the water supply gradually. 

 Lay the pots on their sides, where they 

 will not get wet, and in full sunlight, so 

 that the bulbs may ripen thoroughly. 

 Nerines do not like to have their roots 

 disturbed and do well with small root 

 room. Three bulbs in a 5-inch pot in 

 fibrous loam and a little sand added will 

 do well for five or six years, as the off- 

 sets can be removed and separately pot- 

 ted, while the old bulbs go on increas- 

 ing in size. As the flower scape appears 

 in the fall, carefully remove an inch of 

 the surface soil and renew with a top 

 dressing and then a thorough watering." 



It is not likely you will get flowers 

 from the peonies this spring. They want 

 no dark place, merelv put them in full 

 light on a bench in a cool house. Forty- 

 five to 50 degrees at night is sufficient. 



W. S. 



We are well pleased with the Review 

 and consder it in a class by itself. — 

 Frank MosMiLLEB, Bichmond, Ya. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEHCAN SEED TIAH ASSOCUHON. 



Fraa., O. N. Pafe, Des MolnM, la ; First Vice- 

 ft««., L. Ik Hay, St Paul: Bec'y and Traaa., 0. B. 

 Kemlel, Cleveland. The ttrd annnal meeting 

 will be held en the 8t Lawnnoe, June, 1806. 



Thomas Landbum has reached Santa 

 Clara, Cal., after a ten weeks' eastern 

 trip for C. C. Morse & Co. 



The San Francisco Chronicle for Feb- 

 ruary 5 devoted the colored page to 

 "Mrs. Theodosia Shepherd, Wizard of 

 Flowers and Creator of New Varieties." 



W. B. Nightengale, Valley, Neb., 

 has a flne new sweet corn which is re- 

 ported to have large kernels on very small 

 cobs. Several offers are said to have been 

 made for his stock of seed, twenty ears. 



The Supreme Court of Nebraska has 

 affirmed a decision to the effect that a 

 contract for a crop yet unplanted is not 

 valid. If this is good law a large pro- 

 portion of the contracts made in the 

 seed trade, and a good many other lines, 

 would not hold. 



The tomatoes packed in Canada last 

 year amounted to 297,750 cases, each of 

 which contained two dozen tins, com- 

 pared with 397,500 cases in the preced- 

 ing year. The United States packed 

 8,671,053 cases last year as compared 

 with 10,282,309 in 1903. 



While in 1903 the total exports of 

 seeds* of all classes from the United 

 States were valued at $9,455,283, in 

 1904 they were valued at only $2,583,- 

 325. At the same time our total im- 

 ports of seeds increased from $2,831,279 

 in 1903, to $3,587,469 in 1904. 



The old case of J. M. Thorbum ft 

 Co. vs. the United States, in the United 

 States Circuit Court has been dismissed. 

 It was an application for a review of a 

 decision of the board of appraisers, ap- 

 pealed December 10, 1890, and related 

 to an importation of bulbs under the 

 tariff act of 1883. 



Wm. K. Harris bought shamrock 

 seeds at. Belfast, Ireland, and the col- 

 lector of customs at Philadelphia as- 

 sessed duty at thirty percent advalorem. 

 Mr. Harris appealed, contending that 

 the seed was free as grass seed, in par- 

 ticular, clover seed, appealed to the 

 board of appraisers, who adopted his 

 view. 



That so few seedsmen should have 

 taken advantage of the law permitting 

 the mailing of catalogues without 

 stamps affixed must have convinced the 

 Powers-that-be at Washington of one of 

 two things: Either that the regulations 

 of the Department are too involved, or, 

 more likely, that the privilege is not 

 generally considered so valuable as those 

 who asked it professed. 



THE BAG FILLING CASE. 



Justice Anderson rendered a decision 

 Mareh 2 in the United States Court at 

 Washington, granting an injunction in 

 the suit recently brought by the Brown 

 Bag Filling Machine Co., of Fitch- 

 burg, Mass., to restrain the in- 

 fringement of its patents by the 

 Department of Agriculture and its 

 contractor, James Drohen, who is 



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