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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 26, 1906. 



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that no profit is ever made now on hardly 

 any class of seeds, contending that with 

 the light yields growing prices have not 

 advanced accordingly. It remains to be 

 seen whether this probable advance will 

 come out of the pockets of the actual 

 consumer or the dealer. I imagine it 

 will come out of the pockets of the con- 

 tracting wholesale houses only. 



In recent reports from Naples it is 

 stated that the seed crops are making 

 good progress, although annual and bien- 

 nial flower seeds will be very late. Now 

 that growth has got well under way, the 

 flower seed fields of all classes are look- 

 ing far better than ever could have been 

 expected when viewing the fields after 

 the eruption, and the quantities of most 

 .innual varieties of flower seeds will not 

 be much below the average, although 

 ■quality may be impaired by the necessity 

 for replanting. The Paper White nar- 

 cissi seem to be the hardest hit, and an 

 advance of some forty to fifty per cent 

 has taken place in top grade bulbs. 



J. B. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. 



The generally poor quality of lily of 

 the valley in England this season, and 

 in fact for some seasons past, is caus- 

 ing a deal of comment among growers 

 and the generally accepted opinion is 

 that the quality is not improving, as it 

 should do, but rather it is getting worse 

 each year. One of the largest growers 

 in England complained bitterly to me 

 the other day that formerly he had no 

 diflSculty in getting all his spikes to 

 bloom with from fourteen to eighteen 

 large bells on each, whereas now if he 

 gets that number of bells they are 



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usually very small, and if he wants large 

 bells he has to be content with only 

 about ten on each spike. Of course this 

 year it is fully recognized among grow- 

 ers that the poor crop of salable pips in 

 Germany is caused largely by weather 

 conditions, but it is also now becoming 

 pretty well apparent that the continued 

 yearly cause of this deteriorating qual- 

 ity is the fact of the large and rapidly 

 increasing demand from America. 

 Many German dealers appear to make it 

 a general practice to buy up and other- 

 wise control, by contract or otherwise, 

 the entire product of the best growers 

 and the product of the best plots of 

 valley ground, thus leaving only the 

 second, rate pips to come to England. 



The fact of the English growers of- 

 fering a higher price does not in many 

 cases appear to secure an improved qual- 

 ity, although the price now given by 

 many is quite as high as it is possible 

 to give to leave the slightest profit to 

 the grower. One of the largest growers 

 in England, to place himself on an equal 

 advantage with American buyers, and in 

 the hopes of getting the highest quality, 

 has sent a buyer regularly to the valley 

 growing districts to buy direct from the 

 smaller growers. 



Some others in England have taken up 



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the cultivation of pips at home with 

 great success in quality at any rate, and 

 I lately came across a grand stock of 

 the true Berlin variety, some fourteen 

 acres in extent, in the west of England 

 and another fine lot of five acres on the 

 east coast, both looking the picture of 

 health and vigor. In the course of con- 

 versation with the growers I learned that 

 these home-grown pips were in every way 

 equal in quality to German grown, and 

 in fact better than they had been in 

 the habit of receiving from Germany 



