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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 3, 1903. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMCRIC4N SEED TRADE ASSOaATHM. 



wi ?"■■?,?•' ^- H- Grenell, Saginaw. W. S., Mleh.; 

 First Vice- Free., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. The 24th annual 

 meeting will be held at San Jose, Cal., June, 1906. 



First shipments of French Romans 

 ar« at hand. 



Henry Cratz, of Cratz Bros., clover 

 seed dealers, at Toledo, O., died July 

 25, aged 57 years. 



Beans are still doing what is ex- 

 pected of them. No unfavorable reports 

 have been received for some time. 



Recent arrivals from Europe are L. 

 W. Bowen and D. M. Ferry, Jr., De- 

 troit, who reached New York July 26. 



The Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dallas, 

 Tex., will erect a seed warehouse 50x150 

 and four stories high, with track facili- 

 ties. 



Extra Early and Alaska peas are har- 

 vested for the most part and the grow- 

 ers estimate that they will thresh out 

 a fair average crop. 



Frank Rue has bought the seed de- 

 partment of the J. C. Murray business 

 at Peoria, 111., with which he' has been 

 connected for some time. 



An English judge sustained the seeds- 

 man's non-warranty clause although a 

 nondescript kale grew where the seed 

 was bought as Best of All purple ton 

 swede. 



The Haven Seed Co., which in 1903 

 removed from South Haven, Mich., to 

 Arroyo Grande, Cal., has now removed to 

 Lodi, in San Joaquin county. The mem- 

 bers of the firm are E. M. and A, B, 

 Haven. 



With the government still at it, and 

 all the large mail order houses going 

 after it, how much of an increase will 

 the mail order seed houses be able to 

 show in the year of the next census over 

 the year of the last census! 



In a recent inquiry for a low price on 

 «nion sets the prospective buyer stipu- 

 lated that anything larger than a golf 

 ball need not be quoted. This gives the 

 grower fully a better leeway than the 

 inch and an eighth screen that is some- 

 times mentioned in quoting an off grade. 



The shakeup in the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture has resulted in the resig- 

 nation of Prof. George T. Moore, who 

 perfected the method of preparing nitro- 

 culture and in whose name the govern- 

 ment took a patent on the process. It 

 was found that Prof. Moore was finan- 

 cially interested in the Nitro-Culture Co., 

 Westchester, Pa. 



The onion set crop for this year, as 

 indicated in a recent issue of this paper, 

 will be fully one-third less than the crop 

 -of 1904. The unevenness of the crop at 

 all the growing points has cut the yield 

 of good, merchantable sets far below 

 the expectations of the least optimistic 

 of the growers. The harvest is about 

 two-thirds finished and the remaining 

 one-third will add its full- proportion to 

 the shortage. 



LEONARD 



ONIOH SITS. 



Our plantings for the 

 new crop are about 

 ready to harvest. 



We take orders now for deliv 

 ery this fall or next spring 

 Writ* for Prioas. 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS. 



Seeds for present requirements ready to ship. 

 Contract orders for delivery after harvest 19& 

 are being booked now. 



BUNS. PEAS AND GARDEN SEEDS. Write for Prices. 



TURNIP SEED. "Ki;,Vr'iJ!!* 



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WANTED 



DRIED LYCOPODIUM 



in large or small lots. Write 

 with lowest prices to 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. 



PEAS AND BEANS. 



W. H. Grenell, Saginaw, Mich., writes 

 as follows, under date of July 29: 



"The heavy rains at planting time 

 shortened the crops of peas and beans 

 in this section and then the continuous 

 rains from July 1 to 15 completely de- 

 stroyed the early varieties of peas. Far- 

 ther north the damage is not so great 

 and crops will be fair. The effect of 

 the rain has been equally bad in cen- 

 tral Wisconsin. 



"Beans were put in very late on ac- 

 count of wet weather and may be mate- 

 rially shortened by frost. Some fields 

 are turning yellow at this time and will 

 amount to nothing. However, if frost 

 holds off a reasonable length of time the 

 bean crop should be a fair one. 



' ' Hay, oats and wheat had a very fine 

 growth, but are very badly damaged 

 and a large percentage entirely lost." 



SEED GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



[A paper by Lester L. Morse, Santa Clara, 

 Cal.. read before the American Seed Trade 

 Association at Its meeting at Alexandria Bay, 



There is probably no one in the seed 

 trade in America who is not more or less 

 familiar with some California seed. It 

 would be impossible now for a dealer to 

 make up his stock without a large part 

 of the important items coming from 

 California and those who have spent 

 many years in the seed business must 

 be impressed with the constantly increas- 

 ing list of kinds and varieties that the 

 seed growers here are now growing. 



Many of the seed dealers have visited 

 the Pacific Coast and have some knowl- 

 edge of conditions here, or as much 

 knowledge as can be gained from a fly- 

 ing trip. But the phenomenal growth of 

 the seed business as a business has 

 brought a large number of new men 

 into the field who have not yet visited 

 California and it is to these men that I 

 trust my paper will prove of special in- 

 terest. 



When we speak of California, we 

 comprehend a large territory, with a 

 great variety of climates, and soils, and 

 conditions, for California is a state 770 

 miles long and 375 miles wide, with two 

 long mountain ranges, two great plains, 

 a number of great mountain peaks, sev- 



NEW CROP SEED 



Of my well-known 



Christmas Sweet Peas 



will be ready the first week in Augutt next. 



ZVOXAHEK'S CHBIBTMAS PUTK; 



FZiOBBVCB DBVZSB, pure white, $2.00 per 



lb.: 75c per M lb. Also CHBXSTICAS BBD and 



CHBIBTMAS WHITE, (new black seeded), 



2 oz., 76c, mailed free. 



All these peas, if sown the first days in Sep- 

 tember, will bloom for Christmas and all winter. 

 This seed is sold only in my original packets, 

 with coltural directions. Not less tban 75c worth 

 sold. Orders booked in rotation. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK,The Originator 



Bound Brook, fermrlf Brand Vltv, N. J. 



SEED GROWERS 



7i*ld, Sweat and Fop Ctom, Ouonm- 

 b«r, Malon and Squash S««d. Write 

 OS before placing: contracts. We bave 

 saperlor stock See:! and can fornisb you 

 good Seed at reasonable prices. Address 



A. A. BERRY SEED COMPANY, ClariiHla, la. 



LILIES 



Lilium Harrlsii, OallaLUy, Lilium Longiflorum. 

 Paper White Narcissus, Roman and Dutch 

 Bulbs for summer and fall. Will quote you 

 prices that will save you money. 



D. RUSCONI, 32 W. 6tl) St., Cincinnati, 0. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



eral great rivers, and a number of very 

 fertile and highly cultivated valleys. 

 There are coast counties, mountain 

 counties and counties in the interior, 

 fifty-seven in all, some of them as large 

 as eastern states. Japan, with its forty 

 millions of people, covers only ninety-five 

 per cent of the area of California with 

 its one and a half millions of people, 

 and there is a great deal more fertile 

 soil here than in Japan. 



The seed farms are all situated in 

 what we call the coast counties, and 

 south of San Francisco. The principal 

 section is Santa Clara county, extend- 

 ing from thirty to eighty miles south of 

 San Francisco. The adjacent county of 

 Alameda, a few miles nearer and on the 

 eastern side of San Francisco Bay, also 

 contains several seed farms, quite an area 

 being devoted to garden peas. From 

 Santa Clara south there are no general 

 seed farms for 270 miles, or in San Luis 

 Obispo county, although at Watsonville, 



