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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 14, 100(f. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICABT SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 First Vlce-Pres., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

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

 meeting: will be held at Toledo, O , June 26-28, 1906. 



The bean fields in many sections are 

 too wet and the onion set fields too dry. 



It looks bad for the canned tomato in- 

 dustry at present. The dry weather and 

 the unusual shortage of plants is likely 

 to make the harvest sliort. 



The pea crops continue to do well. 

 Some of the early sorts are in bloom 

 and the stand throughout the central 

 growing section is uniformly good. 



The injury to the Italian crop by the 

 eruption of Vesuvius is reported to be 

 resposible for the latest advance in the 

 price of Paper Whites for fall shipment. 



E. C. Holmes, doing a mail order seed 

 and plant business at East Somerville, 

 Mass., using half a dozen names, filed a 

 petition in bankruptcy June 5, with lia- 

 bilities of $51,245. 



There is a dearth of news from the 

 Nebraska growers. It is likely that all 

 their energies are bent on getting out 

 a good acreage of vine seeds and sweet 

 corn, and that reports will follow in due 

 course. 



The lack of demand for sweet corn 

 was something of a disappointment. The 

 usual acreage is supposed to have been 

 planted, but the source from which the 

 seed to do this with was drawn is a sort 

 of conundrum. 



The cabbage growers are about ready 

 to set out plants for their main crop. 

 There seems to be no shortage of plants, 

 but the weather has put the land in poor 

 shape. There are two weeks yet, how- 

 ever, if the plants will hold. 



Market gardeners are complaining 

 -about the low prices at which they are 

 forced to sell green stuff. The weather 

 is against good crops and the combi- 

 nation of low prices and short crops is 

 something that does not Jook right to 

 them. 



C. P. Beaslan, San Jose, Cal., writes 

 under date of June 9 : " The onion crop 

 during the past ten days has had a se- 

 vere dose of mildew and the crop has 

 heen reduced fully fifty per cent. The 

 «talks are yellow, giving the crop the 

 appearance of having jaundice. The 

 onion crop in California promises to be 

 the shortest in many years." 



Possibly fearing that some of the 

 seeds it mails under congressional 

 franks were failing, through the ignor- 

 ance of the recipients, to achieve the 

 purpose for which nature intended them, 

 the department of agriculture issued a 

 bulletin entitled "The Home Vegetable 

 Garden," with forty pages of cultural 

 directions and elaborate planting tables. 

 Then surely nothing remained for the 

 department but to issue a cook book, 

 and it is now being distributed, just as 

 the early vegetables are ready. It is 

 •"Preparation of Vegetables for the 

 Table," Farmers' Bulletin No. 256 — or 

 perhaps this is only another slap at the 

 beef trust. 



TURNIP SEED 



SEVEN TOP 



VERY SCARCE THIS SEASON 



We Offer taardy Northern-Brown, all the produce of Bloomsdale Seed Farms: 



ufuoi re A I r ( lOO pounds at 20c per lb. 



■" "M"z2 -^ 500 pounds at 19c per lb. 



PRICES UoOO pounds at 18c per lb. 



Fifteen dollars for one hundred pounds of other leading sorts. 



Write for New Wholesale Priced Card of Seeds for Mid-Summer Sowing. 



Bristol, Pa. 



D. LANDRETH SEED COMPANY 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PACIFIC SEED GROWERS* CO. 



411-415 SANSOMK STRKET 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAI«. 



Specialties t 



O nion, Carrot, Letttice, Siveet Pe as 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



LEONARD 



Leading SEED 

 Onion Set p,rt»,Fi» ^>^v 

 Growers "^IgSEfs* CO. 



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SEED GROWERS 



Largest mowen of Peas, Beans and 

 Gatxien Seed In the Central West. 



Write for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



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C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



On account of fire which destroyed 

 our store at San Francisco, head- 

 quarters are removed to old address 

 at SANTA CLARA, CAL. 



Careful BTOwera of California speelaltle* 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 tion. 

 WHOLSSALK SEED GROWERS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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The onion maggot has been more in 

 evidence this season than for many years. 

 It has done considerable damage to the 

 crop of large onions and its ravages in 

 the fields for sets has been serious. 



Some washouts from heavy rains are 

 reported from the cucumber seed sections 

 of Michigan. Some of the pickle men 

 report replanting necessary from the 

 same cause. It is not too late to replant 

 in either case. 



Rochester seedsmen have had an un- 

 even season, because of unseasonable 

 and changeable weather, but the same 

 factor has required second, and even 

 third plantings, in some cases, and has 

 contributed to bring the aggregate 

 business to a quite satisfactory total. 



Waldo Rohnert 



OILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster. 

 Cosmos, Migrnonette, Verbena in variety. Cor* 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Gladiolus Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



w 



B Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



^ STLVANIA. OHIO. 



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The end of the seed season finds all 

 of the trade in good spirits. The profits 

 of the season are satisfactory and re- 

 ports in general indicate that little sur- 

 plus will be carried over. The fact that 

 there is complaint in several sections 

 that one or two good bunches of onion 

 seed did not show up after it was planted 

 may be taken to mean that good onion 

 seed was well cleaned up. It is stated 

 that some field corn has been carried 

 over. This being one of the less impor- 

 tant items, causes little uneasiness. The 

 important thing from now on is the con- 

 dition and probable outcome of the grow- 

 ing crops. It seems to be generally felt 

 that there will be need of all that may 

 be harvested. 



