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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



SBPTRMItKU 7, 1005. 



scaniest articles, peas are generally 

 worm-eaten, and the crops short. As to 

 prices, however, much depends on the 

 actual damage done by the exceedingly 

 heavy hailstorms in the seed-growing 

 districts of Oermany. 



Secretaky Kendei, has mailed to 

 members the printed report of the 

 twenty-third annual convention of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, held 

 at Alexandria Bay, June 20 to 22, 1905. 



It is r?)>orted that the cabbage sec- 

 tion, from Chicago north as far as Green 

 Bay, Wis., is not going to produce 

 enough late cabbage to make kraut for 

 Milwaukee, not to mention that Eacine 

 and IS'eenah-Menasha will be needing a 

 good supply. 



Market gardeners at some of the prin- 

 cipal onion growing centers report the 

 onion crop to be the poorest in many 

 years. The stand was poor to begin 

 with, the weeds worse to take care of 

 than they ever experienced and to end 

 up comes rainy autumn weather, which 

 makes it exceedingly hartl to save what 

 little remains of the crop. 



In the Chicago onion set districts the 

 heavy rain of Septsmber 1 flooded many 

 of the fields. The bulk of the crop that 

 is harvested is still standing outside in 

 the crates. Some of the growers had the 

 •xjrates piled up and roofs on, which in a 

 iineasure protected the onions; others had 

 the crates piled up without any cover 

 and the rain got into them. No special 

 damage is reported, but considerable ex- 

 tra labor in drying out will have to be 

 put on, which will add to the cost of the 

 crop. 



At many of the growing stations de- 

 liveries of peas are reported to be later 

 than usual. This is laid to the recent 

 wet weather, which has kept the farmers 

 busy saving their crops of other grain, 

 as well as to the fact that those in 

 charge of the receiving warehouses want 

 ths deliveries held back to avoid taking 

 in damp peas. Deliveries thus far made 

 f»re reported to show an uneven size 

 sample, all containing an unusually large 

 percentage of small peas that will screen 

 out in the milling. 



The John H. Allan Seed Co. has com- 

 pleted its new warehouse at Sturgeon 

 Bay, Wis. It is close to the site of the 

 former building, which was destroyed by 

 fire last fall. A feature of the new build- 

 ing is a cement floor on the ground level, 

 which will facilitate trucking to and 

 from the dock in receiving and shipping 

 and make easy work of getting the stock 

 to the elevators. It is a convenient 

 building, with all of the up-to-date clean- 

 ing appliances. They still stick to the 

 old-style picking table, preferring that 

 to the picking machines that are tak- 

 ing the place of the old tables in most 

 of the new pea and bean picking estab- 

 lishments. 



NEBRASKA SEED CROPS. 



J. C. Eobinson, Waterloo, Neb., writes 

 as follows under date of September 2: 



' ' Prospects for the vine seed crops in 

 Eastern Nebraska have changed materi- 

 ally in the last ten days. A blight or 

 rust has cut the cucumber crop dow.n one- 

 half or more from earlier expectations. 

 Most crops will make 100 pounds to 150 

 pounds per acre, while in a few cases 

 they will i)ot make enough to coyer har- 

 vesting expenses. Musk melons have 



LEONARD 



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Our crop Is now 

 harvested. 



WHITE PEARL SETS 



Ready to ship. 

 Writ* for Prioas 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS. 



Seeds for present requirements ready to ship. 

 Contract orders for delivery after harvest 1906 

 are still being booked. 

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A. A. BERRY SEED COMPANY, ClariiHla. ia. 



also been affected by the unfavorable 

 weather but not so seriously. Water 

 melons are late but may yet make a fair 

 crop. Squash, both summer and win- 

 ter, have made a light setting but the 

 vines are standing up well. 



"Early corn is out of the way of 

 frost and will make a good crop. The 

 later varieties are also looking well and 

 have mad? wonderful progress in the last 

 three w«eks. The crop promises to be 

 good, but the sweet corn acreage is not 

 over one-half that of a year ago. ' ' 



Another large Nebraska grower writes 

 under date of September 5: 



"Vine seed crops have not been doing 

 well f.or the past two or three weeks and 

 the returns will be very much less than 

 anticipated earlier. A spell of hot, dry 

 weather the forepart of August caused 

 the small fruits to drop off and the 

 later setting is likely to be caught by 

 frost. In some fields the vines have 

 died out badly. The returns will depend 

 to a great extent on the time and sever- 

 ity of the first frost and it is hard to 

 make estimates under present conditions. 



' ' Early sweet corn will give good, 

 fair returns, as will the later kinds if 

 the fields mature, but many of them are 

 rather late. Field corn will be just a 

 fair crop, not being eared as well as 

 usual. ' ' 



Obconica 

 Primroses 



My New Hybridised Giant Flow- 

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 8^-inch pots. Nice plants. 



COItPAOTA, a fine potter S6.0O per 100 



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 these colors, fine, mixed $8.50 per 100 



MTOSOTI8 WZBTBB QVBBB. It flow- 

 ers from November until Easter on the 

 bench or in pots and is unsurpassed for 

 cut flowers, nice plants in 2>i-ln. pots, 94 00 

 per 100. 



0. Y. Zangen, "^air Hoboken, N. J. 



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HENRY METTE 



QUEDUNBUR8, GERMANY 



firower ui Exporter of Choice 



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OKe cannot be anything but pleased 

 with the Review; the Special Number 

 was a "beaut." Anything I can do to 

 push a good thing along I will do with 

 pleasure. H. P. Lowng. 



