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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NovBMBEB 0, 1905; 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SCCO TRADE ASSOOAIKW. 



Pres., W. H. Grenell. Saginaw, W. S., Mich.; 

 FlTBt Vlce-PreB., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

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

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



Nesraska reports a considerable drop 

 from a full delivery on quite a few varie- 

 ties of muskmelon. 



A SURPLUS of onion seed of the Italian 

 varieties is being offered by some of 

 the American seed growers. 



The high price of onion seed is putting 

 a. damper on the customary fall purchas- 

 ing of seed by the onion set growers. 



At latest reports S. D. Woodruff, Or- 

 ange, Conn., was convalescing from his 

 recent attack of heart failure. 



S. M. ISBELii & Co., Jackson, Mich., 

 are rapidly extending their operations 

 in the growing of farm and garden 

 seeds. 



Visited Chicago: A. A. Berry, of A. 

 A. Berry Seed Co., Clarinda, la.; Chas. 

 P. Guelf, with Jerome B. Kice Seed Co., 

 Cambridge, N. Y. 



The weather in Wisconsin woods con- 

 tinues unfavorable for picking of green. 

 Supplies are likely to equal legitimate 

 demand, but prices are reasonably cer- 

 tain to be high. 



The Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station reports this season an unusual 

 niimber of complaints against wire 

 worms in potato fields. Fall plowing 

 for at least three successive years is 

 recommended as the best remedy. 



A. B. McKenzie, of A. E. McKenzie 

 & Co., Brandon, Manitoba, left Chicago 

 by the limited freight last Saturday eve- 

 ning in charge of two car-loads of onion 

 sets. This is a novel method of insur- 

 ing safe carriage of onion sets, but Mr. 

 McKenzie thinks it a good one. 



There seem to be very few reliable 

 reports as regards beans. The growers 

 up to the present time report being un- 

 able to give definite information as to 

 probable deliveries. It is thought that 

 the crop will be as disappointing as the 

 pea crop when all the returns are in. 



The situation on peas is getting worse 

 right along. The deliveries from the 

 fanners are falling below anything that 

 was anticipated, and the milling and 

 hand-picking shrink the crop heavily. It 

 is quite apparent that on the whole the 

 pea crop is the shortest that has been 

 harvested for many years. From all 

 reports it looks now as though there will 

 not be a variety that can be delivered 

 in full, and some kinds will drop to al- 

 most nothing. 



ALBERT McCULLOUGH, 



Albert McCullough is one of those 

 seedsmen who keep everlastingly at it 

 eleven months in the year, and for that 

 reason find all the greater pleasure in 

 the recreation to which the other four 

 weeks are devoted. Mr. McCullough is 

 now in Florida on his annual outing, 

 hunting and fishing, for he is not far 

 less enthusiastic than Grover Cleveland, 

 at one time also head of a seed business, 

 in his fondness for the rod and gun. 



At Cincinnati they regard Albert Mc- 

 Cullough as one of the choicest products 

 of the town, for he was born there, in 

 1851, when the place was not big enough 





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to even peep out from behind its bluff, 

 and has grown and prospered and been 

 identified with its business life until, 

 at least in the seed trade, to speak of 

 McCullough is to speak of the big town 

 on the Ohio, and to speak of Cincin- 

 nati is to speak of the McCuUoughs. 



Mr. McCullough was favored with a 

 college training, a boon not common to 

 the youth of his school days, just after 

 the civil war. After college he was 

 taken into the seed business founded by 



his father, J. M.* McCullough, to which 

 he has devoted the full of his energies. 

 Now associated with the firm are H. B. 

 McCullough and his son. They do a 

 very large counter and catalogue trade, 

 as well as a considerable wholesale seed 

 business and have a large wholesale cut 

 flower department. 



Mr. McCullough has been a member of 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 since its organization. He was its sec- 

 retary ^nd treasurer for three years, 



MUSHROOMS 



Cornell Experiment Station 



got two pounds of mushrooms 

 per square foot of bed with 



"TISSUE-CULTURE 

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IS Bfnshrooms, 4 Iba^ 

 from ''Tlssue-Cultnre Pnre Spawn." 



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 of spawn. Our illustrated booklet —" Musbrooms 

 and Mushroom Spawns and Guide to Muflb< 

 room Culture," is sent free. Tells all about it. 



PLRE CILTURE SPAWN CO. 



Meramec Highland and Paeilic, Mo. 

 Address us at PACIFIC, MO. 



