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.I.VMAIiV 11. I'Jf'O- 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



505 



.\ T. BODDINGTON Co., New York, has 

 beeii appointed American agent for the 

 uecial strains of flower seeds packeted 

 t,v Sutton & Sons, Reading, England. 



The Templin Co., of Calla, 0., states 

 that the total edition of its catalogues 

 lO'iehes 460,000 per year. The present 

 lnisiiifs« is reported double that of 1902. 



CALIFORNIA REJECTED. 



The executive committee of the Ameri- 

 aii Seed Trade Association met at 

 |)oouer's hotel, Philadelphia, on Wednes- 

 jjiv January 10. Those present were 

 President W. H. Grenell, Secretary C. E. 

 Ivendel, S. F. Willard, F. W. Bolgiano, 

 \\. Atlee Burpee, Burnett Landreth, 

 Howard M. Earle, C. H. McKubbin, 

 Alcssrs. Johnson and Breck. It was de- 

 cided to hold the convention next June 

 ,it Toledo, O., instead of in California, 

 much opposition to so long a trip having 

 .loveloped since the meeting at which 

 (he invitation was extended. A program 

 was outlined and routine matters dis- 

 posed of. 



CELERY SEEDING PREMATURELY. 



Some of our customers have com- 

 plained of their celery going to seed 

 prematurely. They do not say whether 

 it is the Self Blanching or the Giant 

 Pascal. We have been purchasing only 

 the best grade of French grown seed that 

 we could get. We are trying to find out 

 whether it is the fault of the seed 

 or the manner of growing that is 

 ut fault. Some of the market garden- 

 ers, when they find a celery seed that 

 suits them in the spring, buy of that 

 same stock for the next season, in 

 preference in taking chances on the 

 next crop of seed suiting them as well. 

 We would like to know whether you 

 would consider that the seed two or 

 three years old is more likely to go to 

 seed than that which is strictly fresh. 

 We are desirous of handling as good a 

 grade of seed as possible. We would 

 also like to know whether you consider 

 American grown or imported seed the 

 best, and who is the most reliable 

 grower of celery seed. We are well 

 pleased with the Eeview, and get much 

 of valno from its Seed Trade Depart- 

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in thf absence of definite informa- 

 tion as to the conditions under which 

 the celery crops referred to by our 

 correspondent were grown, we can only 

 reply to the queries in a general way. 



If the natural growth of celery be- 

 comes retarded by adverse weather 

 condition.*, a tendency to run to seed 

 is shown by the plant as soon as a re- 

 newed growth begins. A fairly rapid 

 und continued growth is essential to 

 the well lieing of a celery crop; hence 

 a retard'il or checked growth throws 

 it off an<l rauses trouble. The hollow 

 ^talk which often spoils celery is a 

 more common source of annoyance to 

 the growers at Chicago than the pre- 

 mature tendency to seed, and the best 

 'clery growers are of the opinion that 

 l>oth these annoyances are caused by 

 tlie same conditions. The Review has 

 'onsulted several of the most expe- 

 lienced growers of celery in this dis- 

 frict and has been unable to get from 

 •iny of them a positive statement that 

 'le is prepared to name a sure reason 

 for these drawbacks in celery growing. 

 •Some have advanced the theory that 

 too large a plant when set out at an 



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unfavorable time might be a cause of 

 premature running to seed; the major- 

 ity of them, however, hold to the opin- 

 ion that a dry spell after the plants 

 get a good start, causing a check in 

 growth, and a spell of wet weather 

 following, causing a renewal in growth, 

 is the main cause. The plants in the 

 interval having got beyond the stage 

 of producing the desired stalk, assume 

 the natural tendency of the species to 

 push on to the second or seeding stage. 

 Beets have been known to run to seed 

 under similar weather conditions be- 

 fore the l)ii]b had formed a growth 



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larger than a small radish. The seed 

 was blamed for the trouble, but a 

 second planting of seed out of the 

 same bag behaved properly, thereby 

 demonstrating that the seed had noth- 

 ing to do with it. 



A crop of celery grown under irri- 

 gation, it is thought by some of the 

 most experienced growers, would run 

 increased chances of going to seed pre- 

 maturely than a crop grown under ordi- 

 nary circumstances without irrigation. 

 There is some sound sense in this, inas- 

 much as too much water being allowed 

 to flow in after a carelessness had given 



