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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 9, 1906. 



tives are preparing to take their annual 

 journey gettiilg orders. 



It is very satisfactory to report that 

 favorable weather continues, warm with 

 occasional showers, and this is causing 

 most crops to continue to improve. There 

 is some talk of mildew in onion, which 

 may or may not be serious. B. J. 



HARVEST DAYS. 



It is an impressive sight to see the 

 harvest of onion sets in full swing in 

 the district north of Chicago, and gives 

 as perhaps can be given in no other 

 way an idea of the magnitude of the 

 businesfi as it is conducted by Chicago 's 

 principal growers. All the help possible 

 to pi'ocure is put at work, and for the 

 last week the following advertisement 

 has appeared in Chicago daily papers: 



PLENTY OF GOOD, HEALTHY, OUTDOOR 



work for men, women, boys, and girls, on our 

 700-acre garden; good pay every night; train 

 tor our farm leaves Clybourn Junction on C. & 

 N. W. R. R., Clybourn-pl. and Wood-st., every 

 morning at 0:17, returning at quitting time; or 

 take Lincoln-av. electric cars to Foster-av. ; 

 fare, 5c either way. L. A. BUDLONG & CO., 

 Lincoln-av. and West Foster-av. 



The same train carries workers for the 

 Leonard Seed Co., A. L. Jones, Knud 

 Gundestrup and others in that vicinity. 

 It carries often a thousand people, who 

 go into the fields after sets, or to do 

 the work of the market gardeners with 

 whom the district abounds. The sets 

 are gathered in half-bushel baskets and 

 as each basket is turned in the inspector 

 calls out the worker's number, from 

 which a checker makes a record from 

 which payment is made in silver at 6 

 o'clock every night. The line to the pay- 

 master is a long one, but payment to the 

 hundreds of workers, each one with num- 

 bered check in hand, is made in a few 

 minutes. 



GERMAN SEED CROPS. 



In the vicinity of Quedlinburg the 

 spring was cold and wet, which rendered 

 the planting of most of the root and 

 bulb crops, such as carrots, chicories, 

 beets, turnips, swedes, mangels, winter 

 radishes, onions, etc., and the early sow- 

 ings of lettuces, spinach, spring and 

 summer radishes, onion, leek and the va- 

 rious open-ground-sown annual flower 

 seeds very difficult and later than usual. 

 The first part of May, when most of 

 the annual and perennial flowers raised 

 under glass are planted out in the open 

 ground, was unusually dry and windy, 

 and caused many blanks in the planta- 

 tions, and made the starting of the 

 young plants very difl&cult. The plant- 

 ing during the latter part of that month 

 in many instances could not be done in 

 the usual proper way owing to the heavy 

 rains that made the soil muddy and un- 

 fit to work on for days. The weather 

 during the whole of June, alternative 

 rain and sunshine, was favorable to the 

 growing seed crops, and brought them 

 a good deal forward, though they are 

 at present about a week or two behind 

 the usual time. 



The harvested crops: Corn-salad, good; 

 turnips and forget-me-not (Myosotis al- 

 pestris varieties), middling and pretty 

 good. 



The present state of growing crops is: 

 Beans, dwarf or kidney and runner, 

 partly good, partly middling, and the 

 delicate varieties below middling; beet- 

 roots, carrots, cress, chervil, chicory, leek, 

 lettuces, onions, parsley, parsnips and 

 radishes, good; peas, round-seeded varie- 

 ties, good; wrinkled marrow varieties, 

 middling; cabbage, white, red and sa- 



voy, . kohlrabi and spinach, middling and 

 pretty good; cucumber, ridge varieties, 

 have seriously suffered from the un- 

 favorable weather and stand rather thin ; 

 ipangels, sugar beets and swedes, partly 

 good and partly middling. 



Pansies, although they look very well, 

 the yield of the crop appears to turn 

 out below middling owing to frequent 

 heavy rains that caused part of the 

 flowers to pass away without setting 

 seed. Stocks, wallflowers, asters, lark- 

 spurs, balsams, carnations, mignonette, 

 nasturtiums, sweet peas, snapdragon, 

 scabious, Canterbury bells, sweet william, 

 sweet sultan, Chinese pink (Dianthus 

 Chinensis and varieties), lobelias, lu- 

 pins, helichrysum, marigold, petunias, 

 polyanthus, violets, zinnias and the mis- 

 cellaneous flowers are partly good and 

 partly middling, while hollyhocks and 

 Drummondii phlox stand rather thin. 



Of principal pot-grown flower seeds, 

 stocks, annual, autumn and winter, dou- 

 ble wallflowers, large-flowered petunias, 

 begonias, calceolarias, cinerarias, cycla- 

 men, gloxinias. Primula Chinensis and 

 obconica, pelargoniums, etc., are partly 

 good and partly middling. 



On the whole, the present state of the 

 growing seed crops may be considered 

 as satisfactory. H. T. J. 



SEED IMPORTS. 



The seeds imported through the port 

 of New York for the week ending Aug- 

 ust 3 were as follows as to quantities and 

 invoice values: 

 Kind Bags. Val. Kind. Bags. Val. 



Canary .. .2,053 $6,003 Hemp l,!50l» |9.218 



Cardamon . 31 632 Millet 600 1,672 



Coriander . 455 2,337 Mustard . . 200 1,456 



Cummin ... 27 225 Rape 40 229 



Grass 100 1.255 Other 6,049 



CROPS IN ESSEX, ENGLAND. 



At one time the outlook was unsatis- 

 factory, owing to the cold spring, but 

 during the first few weeks crops have 

 improved greatly. With a few excep- 

 tions there is promise of a fair aver- 

 age harvest. 



Early peas, medium; second early, 

 promise well; late varieties have blight, 

 which came over the district at the be- 

 ginning of July, and some varieties will 

 be short, and as stock seed of some of 

 the choice sorts was scarce last year 

 and small acreage planted, prices will 

 rule high for peas ot Gladstone type. 

 Broad beans, not so large an acreage, 

 nor looking so well as last year. Scar- 

 let runners are grown very extensively 

 in Essex, and are now in full bloom, 

 looking. well; the showers have been very 

 beneficial in helping to set the bloom. 

 Beet is a small acreage, crop improved 



VAN DER WEIJDEN A CO. 



The NnrMrles, BOSKOOP, HOLLAND 



The best time to place your orders has come. 

 Our prices for the following are most reaBonable 

 and the quality strictly first-class and true to 

 name guaranteed: RoseB. dwarf and standard, 

 best varieties, Baby Rambler; also standard 

 (One) Rhododendrons; Azaleas, best varieties; 

 Boxwood, busby specimens, all sizes; Clematis, 

 pot and field-grown: Peonies, Magnolias, Blue 

 Spruce, Koster, etc. Xo aeents. Catalogue free 

 on demand. For the traae only. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



Danish Seed 



CAUL.iri.OWBB Snowball and Haace'a 

 Extra Earlr Erfnrtcr Dwarf. 



CABBAGE. White Amager (Stonehead). 

 Write direct to the srower. 



CHRIS. OLSEN, ofow.r Odense, Denmark 



The Royal Ttfftenham 

 Nurseries, Ltd.'^M'V* 



Managing Director, A. M. C. VAN DER ELST 



Dedemsvaart, Holland 



Headquarters for Hardy Perennials, among: 

 which are the latest and eboicest. 13 acres de- 

 voted to KFowing this line, includinf Anemone, 

 Aster, Campanula. Delphinium, Funkias, Hein- 

 erocallis, Hepatlca, Incarvillea, Iris, Peonies, 

 Phlox decussata and sufTrutlcosa, Primula. 

 Pyrethrum,Tritoma. Hardy Heath. Hardy Ferns. 

 Also 5 acres of Daffodils, 12 acres of Conifers, 

 specially youm; choice varieties to be srown on; 

 3 acres Rhododendrons, includinR the best Amer- 

 ican and Alpine varieties; 2 acres Hydranseas. 

 We make it a point to grow all the latest novel- 

 ties m these lines. Ask for Catalog. 



HOLLAND PEONIES, ROSES, 

 EVERGREENS, HOLLIES, ETC. 



French Fruit and Ornamental Stocks 



Kn^liah Manetti Stocks lor Florlats 

 and Nurserymen 



Lily of tlie VaUey Pips 



Finest brand Berlin and Hamburg Pips. 



Raffia from Stock and for Import 

 Direct Importer of Dutch Bulbs 



Please apply for quotations, etc.. to 



H. Frank Darrow* Importer 



Snccessor to Aug. Rlioten 

 t6 Barolsy St., P. O. Box 1850, New York 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Some of our Conifers. 



N. DEN OUDEN & SON, *Ssai- '^"iSS'il 



nursery stock for the American trade. Catalogue 



free on demand; also views in our nursenei. 



Mention Th» Rerlew when yog write. 



Bulbs! Bulbs! 



Pleaae ask tor 



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Wholesale Trade List 



K. VELTHUYS 



Hillegoin, Holland 



Bulbs! Bulbs! 



Maoetti Stocks 



One million fine, one-year, English-grown. 

 Also- a large stock of Roses, all leading kinds, 

 per 1000 strong plants. Quantities Bhlpp€»d an 

 nually to leading American firms. Reference: 

 Bassett & Washburn, Chicago. 



W. C. SLOCOCK. Woking, Surrey, Englaad. 



XiABOBBT BTOCK OF AX£ 



BELGIAN PLANTS) 



Asaleas, Araucariaa, S'weet Bays« 

 Palms, Beg^onias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, BeUrium. 



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