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JUNK 1, 1«05. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



89 



Field of Australian Brown Onion at Waldo Rohnert's, Gilroy, Cal. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMCRKM SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Pres., L. L. May, St. Panl; Sec'y and Treas., C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 2Jrd annual meeting' 

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

 20 to 22, 1906. 



It is reported that Luther Burbank 

 has a new yellow calla lily. 



Reports from the pea growing sections 

 are favorable ; everything seems to be 

 about as it should be. 



The report from- California is of the 

 usual .small proportion of large sizes of 

 calla bulbs and a good crop of the 

 smaller sizes. 



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The Prior Seed Co., Minneapolis, will 

 shortly remove to a new doubla store on 

 Seventh street, the building being now 

 in course of erection. 



Charles Henderson, of New York, 

 is in Europe, accompanied by Mrs. Hen- 

 derson. They have visited the principal 

 firms in England and Ireland. 



A Holland houss is offering a new 

 single early tulip called Eose la Eeine, 

 lik3 the ordinary La Eeine except that 

 the color at opening is a bright rose and 

 is retained until the petals fall. It is said 

 to force easily and come in at least ten 

 days earlier than La Eeine. 



The onion set fields in the vicinity of 

 Chicago that went back on account of the 

 heavy rains have adjusted themselves. In 

 the adjusting process many bare spots 

 have appeared and the crop in a general 

 way is not at all Avhat it would liave 

 l>een had there been no drawbacks. It is 

 thought by the most experienced growers 

 that at least one-third of the crop is 

 spoiled. 



The British Nursery and Seed Trade 

 Association advertises its objects to be: 

 * ' To collect and disseminate information 

 beneficial to members, collection of 

 debts, investigation of bankruptcies and 

 assignments, attending creditors' meet- 

 ings, making trade inquiries and sup- 

 plying status reports; members afford 

 to each other through the secretary mu- 

 tual private information as to the fin- 

 ancial position and extent of credit 

 which may be given." 



Watsonia Ardernei is being pushed 

 by English bulb dealers. 



A. G. Trumbull, formerly of the 

 Trumbull Seed Co., and later president 

 of the Missouri Seed Co., has associated 

 himself with J. G. Peppard, at Kansas 

 City. 



From reports it seems that the acreage 

 of peas planted is about equal to last 

 year, and the quantity of beans that will 

 go into the ground for seed crops will 

 not be as large as last season's plant- 

 ing. 



Cucumber for seed in the Michigan 

 section is being planted. The ground is 

 cold and the weather rather damp for the 

 purpose, but better things are expected 

 from now on and a good stand is hoped 

 for. 



At Chicago the market gardeners are 

 calling for beans in good sized lots. Late 

 cabbage seed is not selling as well as it 

 did last year. Retail counter trade is on 

 the wane and the jobbers are busy with 

 turnip seed. 



Seedsmen have the past season had a 

 strong demand for nitrogen fixing bac- 

 teria as recommended for trial by the 

 Department of Agriculture and supplied 

 commercially by an eastern firm. Next 

 season the call will be many times 

 greater but there will be other sources of 

 supply. 



Late reports from the sections where 

 the onion for commercial purposes is 

 grown are to the effect that the crop has 

 been very much cut down by the adverse 

 weather conditions of the past three 

 weeks, and that the acreage now standing 

 is not likely to produce more than a fair 

 average crop. It was feared that owing 

 to the unusually large quantity of seed 

 sown this spring that a swamping crop 

 would be the result. The evening up 

 process caused by the bad weather will 

 likely prove a benefit to the growers in 

 the end. 



MAILING WITHOUT STAMPS. 



The postoffice department is at work 

 on a new set of regulations governing 

 the mailing of catalogues, etc., without 

 stamps aflixed. As the official who drew 

 up the regulations in force since the law 

 went into effect, admits: "Hindsight 

 is better than foresight and the present 

 plan has been proved unnecessarily cum- 

 bersome and will soon be superseded by 

 a department order doing away with 



much j)f the detail and simplifying the 

 method so that it is hoped to make the 

 privilege a valuable assistance to both 

 the public and the department." As a 

 matter of fact it is believed that the 

 department found that the amount of 

 red tape with which it had been thought 

 necessary to surround the privilege had 

 rendered the law practically inopera- 

 tive. 



SEED GROWING IN COLORADO. 



Frank T. Emerson, manager of the 

 Western Seed and Irrigation Co., Fre- 

 mont, Neb., writes as follows under date 

 of May 29: 



"In relation to the state of Colorado 

 being a desirable locality for the pro- 

 duction of vine seeds, I beg to state that 

 we have been having vine seeds grown 

 in the above state for the past five or 

 six years, beginning in a small way as 

 an experiment, and increasing our acre- 

 age at several different growing stations. 

 Our production one year of one variety 

 of musk melon alone, viz., the Eocky 

 Ford cantaloupe, exceeded 45,000 

 pounds, from which our customers have 

 always obtained results that could not 

 be more satisfactory. 



"We have had a large acreage of cu- 

 cumber, melons, pumpkin and squash at 

 several different growing stations in 

 Colorado during the time mentioned, and 

 can furthermore, state that we have been 

 well pleased with the results obtained, 

 wherein, as Mr. Burrell states in his com- 

 munication of last week, the conditions 

 were favorable both in relation to the 

 quality and condition of land and as to 

 the available supply of water for irriga- 

 tion purposes. 



' ' Our object in having vine seeds 

 grown in Colorado was for the purpose 

 of placing crops in localities where they 

 would not all be subjected to the same 

 ])ossible adverse conditions, so as to suc- 

 cessfully depend upon our getting crops 

 from these points in the event of pos- 

 sible failures and short crops at our sev- 

 eral growing stations in the state of 

 Nebraska. 



"If, in conducting this business in 

 Colorado, intelligent and responsible 

 farmers only are engaged, who have the 

 ])roper kind of soil and proper irriga- 

 tion facilities, and if they are treated 

 in an upright, business-like manner, we 

 cannot imagine any cause for any such 

 statement as that referring to Colorado 

 as being an unsafe locality in which to 



