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May 25, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



21 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERIC4N SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Pres., li. L. May, St. Paul ; Sec'y and Treae., C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 2Jrd annual meetlngr 

 will be held at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., from June 

 20 to 22, 1905. 



Seeds of many of the root crops that 

 American seedsmen depend upon Euro- 

 pean growers to supply, are' reported 

 short. 



This week's protest at the duty on 

 canary seed was by Chas. Kessler, of San 

 Francisco, but it was overruled like all 

 others. 



There are those among the seedsmen 

 •who look for low prices for onions this 

 fall, because of large acreage, and who 

 expect complaint of one kind or another 

 from disappointed growers. Those who 

 take this view have seen to it that trial 

 plots of each lot of seed have been plant- 

 ed where they can watch results. 



We are now booking orders for 



LILIUM H3RRIS1I, 



LILIUM LONGIFLORUM, 



ROMAN HYACINTHS, 



PAPER WHITE NARCISSI, etc. 



Apply for prices, stating number wanted. 



CYCAB XtEVOlOVTA 



at $8.00 per 100 lbs. 



COZiD STOBAOE VA^I^EY PIPS 



in cases of 3000, at $10.00 per 1000. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



36 Coftlandt St. NEW TOBK. 



Rorttibo* Briad. 



RALPH M. WARD & GO. 



Exporters and Importers 

 1 2 West Broadway, New Yorli 



Bulbs, Plants. 



Vaiiiy m Spacialt) ""iJ.^Tol'SSi 



Mpntlon Thp R«»t1pw when yon wrltft. 

 ^^ LOCAX OBOWN 



Qsparagus SL".":"" 



This Season's Crop. 

 Lots of 5000 or more 92.00 per 1000, 



Samuel Feast & Sons, 



331 H. Cliarles St., BAI.TXMOSE, MD. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



The Michigan radish seed crop figures 

 considerably in the trade now and it is 

 expected that the plantings will be up 

 to the average this year. 



Tomatoes are being set out in in- 

 creased quantities by the pickle men. 

 Catsup and chili sauce, it appears, are in 

 shorter supply than salted pickles. 



Kentia seeds, both Belmoreana and 

 Forsteriana, are being offered in Lon- 

 don at 10 shillings ($2.40) per thousand", 

 and less for a quantity, for stock recom- 

 mended as in extra fine condition. 



As to the keeping quality of onion 

 sets, it is stated by a pioneer grower 

 that the condition of the weather at har- 

 vest time is the factor in the case and 

 not the locality in which they may be 

 grown. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has issued a bulletin on the imported 

 cabbage worm which will be of interest 

 to seedsmen. It characterizes this as 

 the worst of the many destructive ene- 

 mies of the cabbage. 



J. J. GRULLEiMANS & Sox, Lisse, Hol- 

 land, write under date of May 6: 

 "Bulbs, generally speaking, have suf- 

 fered very much of the frost, and cold, 

 rainy weather liere. Especially in tulips 

 there are many failures and they do not 

 look up to much at present." 



No up-to-date reports from the In- 

 dianapolis and Louisville onion set cen- 

 ters are at hand. Indirectly it is stated 

 that the wet weatheir which has prevailed 

 so generally did considerable damage to 

 some of the fields. Previous reports were 

 to the eflect that the crops at both places 

 were looking well. 



There is always a difference of opin- 

 ion as to the value of one section over 

 another for the production of seed crops. 

 It is natural for a grower operating at 

 any given point to extol the advantages 

 of his location. It should be borne" in 

 mind, however, that many things besides 

 soil and artificial accessories are needed 

 to produce crops. 



Reports from California upon the 

 coming onion seed crop are not encourag- 

 ing. Percentages as low as twenty-five 

 per cent of a crop are named by some 

 of the growers. The reports cover all 

 the standard varieties. An average of 

 seventy-five per cent on the whole is 

 thought to be all that can be expected 

 at harvest from present prospects. 



The low-lying fields in the Chicago 

 onion set district are very much hurt by 

 the excessive rains spoken of in this 

 column last week. The clay soil which 

 usually produces excellent crops of sets 

 is in bad .shape; the cultivator fails to 

 loosen it up and the plants have an ap- 

 pearance of going backward instead of 

 forward. On the soil where sand is well 

 intermixed with the black loam the situa- 

 tion is different, fields of this class show- 

 ing up wellj with a good healthy appear- 

 ance of growth and a full stand. 



NOTICE, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co., New York 



Having purchased my crop of BERMUDA HARRISII BULBS for the leason 

 of 1905, have the sole right to sell them in the American and Canadian markets 

 and to offer them as PENISTON'S BERMUDA HARRISII. 

 March 81. 1906. CLARENCE PENISTON, Hamilton, Bermuda. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



The pea fields of Wisconsin are doing 

 well, according to latest reports. 



The firm of Smith Bros., which does 

 probably the largest seed business in 

 South Africa, has lost two of its mem- 

 bers within two months. 



It is now up to the Michigan farmer 

 to get beans into the ground. From gen- 

 eral reports the ground will be in good 

 shape to start in on time. 



Some of the large pickle men are pre- 

 paring ground for pickles that owing to 

 unfavorable weather got beyond the time 

 for an intended different crop. 



SEEDSMElSrS PROGRAM. 



The twenty-third annual convention of 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 will be held at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., 

 June 20 to 22. The Crossman House! has 

 been secured for the exclusive use of the 

 members. Elaborate arrangements for 

 entertainment have been made and the 

 following program of addresses is an- 

 nounced : 



"Points of Interest at the Thousand 

 Islands," by Major J. H. Durham, Cape 

 Vincent, N. Y. ; "Early History of the 

 Seed Business," by Charles H. Breck, of 

 Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston; "Increas- 

 ing or Restricting Membership in the 

 American Seed Trade Association," by 

 Albert McCuUough, of J. M. McCul- 

 lough's Sons' Co., Cincinnati; "Seed 

 Growing in California," by Lester L. 

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

 Cal.; "The Science' of Business Building," 

 by R. U. Conger, New York City; 

 "Methods of Advertising," by Wm. Henry 

 Maule, Philadelphia; "Growing and 

 Keeping Onion Sets," by C. F. Wood, of 

 Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, Ky.; 

 "Is the Vocation of Seed Dealing a 

 Promising Field for Young Men?" by 

 Mel. L. Webster, Independence, la.; 

 "Good Seeds Which do Not Grow," by C. 

 L. Allen, Floral Park, N. Y.; "New and 

 Desirable Forage Plants," by C. V. Piper, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington ; "Trials and Pleasures of the 

 Seed Trade," by H. L. Holmes, of the 

 Holmes Seed Co., Harrisburg, Pa.; "The 

 Modern Seed Catalogue," by AL B. 

 Templin, of the Templin Co., Calla, O. 

 The question box will be a new feature 

 and will be employed in executive ses- 

 sion. Secretary Kendel says he hopes it 

 will bring out beneficial discussion of 

 knotty business problems. 



SEED GROWING IN COLORADO. 



D. V. Burrell, Kocky Ford. Colo., 

 writes as follows under date of May 17: 



"In the Review of May 11, I note a 

 statement that a Nebraska seed firm 

 which thought of going into Colorado 

 with extensive vine seed operations, has 

 abandoned the idea, also stating that 

 they did not consider Colorado to be so 

 safe for vine seed crops as Nebraska. 



"Those who are familiar with Colo- 

 rado, will readily understand that vine 

 seeds cannot be grown without irriga- 

 tion, and that the location of the land 

 and the ditches under which the seed is 

 grown, has everything to do with the 

 crop. We have lands here under the 

 old irrigating canals worth from $300 to 

 $500 per acre, which produces almost 

 every year abundant crops which reach 

 the highest possible state of maturity. 

 Only a short distance from this land, 



