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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



715 



the last three weeks. Broccoli, brusscls 

 sprouts, cabbages, and savoys are a small 

 acreage owing to dry summer of 1905, 

 unable to put any plants out till Sep- 

 tember, when very small proportion run 

 to seed; crop will be very light. Car- 

 rot and parsnip looking fair. The cold 

 spring kept radishes back, but they have 

 now got together and are looking fair. 

 Of turnip and swede a very small acre- 

 age was planted and there will be a 

 light crop; large acreage had to be 

 ploughed up early in spring; prices will 

 be high. Mangel is extensively grown 

 in Essex, the land being specially adapt- 

 ed; acreage not so large as last year; 

 the plants for some time looked very 

 bad, but last three weeks improved very 

 much; medium crop. 



Nasturtiums are extensively grown in 

 this district, one firm turning over about 

 500 bushels yearly; at present they are 

 looking well; the light-leafed varieties 

 promise a good average crop, but it de- 

 pends on the weather we have for gath- 

 ering; they have all to be picked up 

 from the ground by women; dark-leafed 

 varieties, such as Empress of India, etc., 

 fair. Sweet peas are doing well, July 

 not being so hot as the last three years; 

 they have remained on growth longer 

 and promise a good crop. Candytuft, 

 poppy, godetias, larkspur and other an- 

 nuals are looking well. H. T. J. 



FRENCH BULBS. 



The steamer Gallia, from Marseilles, 

 landed at New York on August 4 twen- 

 ty-six cases of immortelles for Beed & 

 Keller, twenty-five cases for "William 

 Hagemann & Co., and the following 

 quantities of French bulbs: 



Cases. 



Henry A. Dreer 175 



K. P. Flower 95 



P. Henderson & Co 102 



Henry & Lee Ill 



Henry F. MIcbell Co 129 



.v<hulz & RiiokKaber 210 



Stumpp & Walter Co 115 



Thorburn & Co 155 



Vaughan'8 Seed Store 526 



II. Waterer 87 



U. M. Ward & Co 364 



To Order 446 



SVEET PEA SPECIALISTS. 



The following is from an article on 

 ' ' New Sweet Peas, ' ' by David R. Wil- 

 liamson, published in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, London: 



* ' Mr. Lester L. Morse, the great Ameri- 

 can hybridist, who has given to the world 

 many interesting varieties, recently sent 

 to me from San Francisco, just before 

 the conflagration, a most attractive 

 classification of modern sweet peas, in 

 which my own Eckfordian namesake, 

 among many others, has the honor of 

 being described. The characterizations 

 are for the most part distinctive and ex- 

 pressive. Mr. Morse has also forwarded 

 to me his famous varieties raised by 

 himself, viz., Helen Pierce and Shasta, 

 of which the fofiner resembles in its 

 unique color a blue-mottled gloxinia, the 

 background being white; while the lat- 

 ter may be described as an improved 

 Emily Henderson. The great American 

 rival of Mr. Morse is Mr. W. Atlee 

 Burpee, of Philadelphia. One of his 

 latest and finest productions is entitled 

 Burpee's Earliest White, which, judging 

 from its reception at the hands of com- 

 petent cultivators, is likely to prove a 

 considerable acquisition. Navy Blue, I 

 presume, was raised by Mr. Burpee. If 

 so, he must rejoice in its continued popu- 

 larity, though like many susceptible va- 

 rieties, it has its limitations." 



A. F. J. BAUB. I 



F. S. SMITH. 



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 bkxmis and good colors. Sow seed between now and September 1, 

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EMPLOYEES' CLUBS. 



It may interest the larger seed firms 

 in the States to know that at Sutton & 

 Sons, Beading, England, there have been 

 for some time a number of clubs among 

 the employees, such as shooting, foot- 

 ball, cricket, tennis, etc., also a rifle 

 club, with a rifle range. These clubs 

 have always been popular among those 

 employed by the firm and have been more 

 or less successfully managed, each by a 

 separate committee. It is now thought 

 advisable to manage the whole under one 

 committee, so that the joint club can 

 undertake any kind of sport or games 



PONSY m 



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 Oaih with order. 



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