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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jcr.Y 26, 1»0«. 



Seed Trade News. 



AIEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; First 

 Vlce-Pres.. Jharles Burgre, Tuledo,0 ; Sec'y and 

 Treae., C. E. Keudel, Ulevelano. The 3&tb annual 

 meeting will be held at New York City, June, ISH*?. 



The H. E. Fiske Seed Co., Boston, 

 is a new concern organized by the 

 former manager for W. W. Rawson & Co. 



The harvesting of onion has begun 

 in California and there is a prospect 

 that deliveries will be larger than early 

 reports had led the trade to expect. 



Nobody is saying much about beans at 

 present. It is best so ; the truth Avill be 

 known soon enough and it will be just 

 as unsatisfactory then as a guess would 

 be now. 



Latest reports from the pea fields 

 show an improved condition, and some of 

 the growers predict that a good crop 

 may be looked for. There are many 

 things that may yet happen to upset 

 these calculations, however, and a large 

 pea crop is not any more of a sure thing 

 than a big crop of onion seed. 



The onion set harvest is begun at Chi- 

 cago. The fields of the southern section 

 of the district are the ones first ready for 

 the harvest and it is there that operations 

 are under way. The northern section, 

 except in a few cases, will not be touched 

 for another week. The harvest so far 

 bears out the recent forecasts made by 

 the Review that the crop will be fine as 

 to quality, but much below average as to 

 quantity. 



Repoets show that in the seed line 

 summer trade as a rule has not been so 

 good this season as ordinarily. The dry 

 weather is responsible for this. In the 

 Chicago district the exceedingly dry 

 weather is working much hardship to 

 some of the market gardeners. Crops 

 that should be at hand to send to mar- 

 ket are so far behind that little can be 

 expected of them. The drought has pre- 

 vented the usual plantings of beans, 

 which will further curtail their source of 

 revenue. Onions will be small, and on 

 the whole the outlook from the ordinary 

 gardeners' standpoint is far from ideal. 

 There are exceptions to this rule, but 

 rhoy are what are considered the for- 

 tunate ones and are the people who coulil 

 best stand a season of adversity. 



SEED CROPS. 



Peas and Beans. 



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

 ' ' Pea crops in this section are good 

 and stand even. I expect, with a good 

 harvest, to get a normal yield. Early 

 varieties are being harvested under 

 favorable conditions. Beans are a good 

 stand and color, but short in growth, 

 o«ing to the cold spring. The present 

 warm, dry weather is hurrying the blos- 

 soming and will curtail the yield. I do 

 not look for more than a fair crop and 

 not much, if any, surplus. Wax varie- 

 ties are lacking badly in vine a^d if 

 any rust appears the crop will develop 

 short of present estimates. ' ' 



Kentucky Grass Seed. 



Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, report 

 as follows : * * Orchard grass seed has 

 turned out considerably better than we 



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 SAN rRANCISCO, CAL. 

 Specialties t 



Onion, Carrot, I^etttice, S'weet Peas 



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LEONARD SEED growers 



Largest cwowers of Peas, Beans and 

 Gatden Seed in the Central West. 



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C. C. MORSE & CO. 



Now Located At 



171-173 CLAY STREET 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



WAREHOU8S8, 8AMTA CLARA, CAL. 



Cmrefnl Growers of California Specialties 



Mention The RcTlew when yoo write. 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 tion. 



WHOLESALE SKKD GROWERS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Mention Tlie ReTlew when yoo write. 



have had for several years. Quality is 

 brighter and crop is larger. The price 

 of this item is lower than has ruled for 

 four or five years. 



"Kentucky blue grass was seriously 

 injured by dry weather, and the rain 

 came too late to prevent a serious short- 

 age in the crop. There has not been 

 much movement of tliis item an yet, due 

 to the fact tliat growers are holding their 

 seed at stiff prices, and cleaners are 

 not inclined to pay the prices or to quote 

 at anything like reasonable figures. 



"Redtop will turn out a better crop 

 than was anticipated a short time ago, 

 though nothing like a large crop, and we 

 arc looking for higher prices for this 

 seed the entire season. Very little old 

 seed has been carried by dealers, and 

 there will be a demand for all there 

 has been carried before the new crop 

 will be ready to ship, which will be some 

 time in September. 



"Winter lurf oats are shorter this 

 year than usual, due to less acreage, 

 bad growing season, and the fact that 

 farmers arc using many of them as sheaf 

 oats instead of threshing. 



"Bed clover is at present looking 

 well in this section, and we are not 

 anticipating any serious shortage. 



"The crop of seed wheat in this local- 

 ity is remarkably fine this year, and we 

 have had most excellent yields from our 

 crops, which will yield the very finest 

 .stocks for seeding. ' ' 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Oosmos, Mignonette, Verbena In variety. Oo^ 

 respondence solicited. 

 .vifutiuu liie Kerlew when yon write. 



Gladioltts Bfllbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



■ Gushman Gladiolus Go. 



^ STLVANLA. OHIO. 



Mention TTie ReTlew when you write. 



Onion Sets. 



"Wood, Stubbs & Co. say of sets in the 

 Louisville district: "Onion sets have 

 turned out fairly well, though not quite 

 so large a croj) as in the last three or 

 four years. The acreage sown in this 

 locality tliis year was about the same 

 as usual, but owing to the unfavorable 

 weatlier many of the sets did not come 

 up altogether satisfactory, and it looked 

 at one time as if the crop would be 

 very much shortened. The season has 

 been fairly favorable for the growth 

 of sets however (not too wet) and fields 

 that it was thought at one time would 

 make altogether i)ickle onions, liave 

 turned out fairly well, so we have a fair 

 average cro}) of sets of good quality. 



"Last season, owing to the wet 

 weather and continual rain <luring 

 harvest, many Louisville sets were very 

 bad quality, especially the whites; in 

 fact, it was almost impossible to get 

 good quality white sets. We are not 

 anticipating any such trouble this year, 

 and there will not be anything like the 

 shrinkage in sets this year that there 

 was last. Quantities of sets alreaily have 

 been dug, though no movement in the 

 crop has taken place. 



"From crop reports in other sections 

 it seems sets will be higher than they 

 were last year, and we are anticipating 

 considerably higher prices in the winter 

 and early spring months than ruled last 

 season. 



