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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



AiursT 30, 1006. 



Seed Trade News. 



. AHEBICAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Vlce-PreBM. Charles Burge, Toledo, O ; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Keudel, Cleveland. The ibth annual 

 meeting will be held at New York City, June, 19U7. 



J. M. Griffith, of Griffith & Turner 

 (^o., Baltimore, • is spending ten days in 

 Boston. . 



There were only seventeen cases of 

 bulbs on the boat from Bermuda arriv- 

 ijig at New York August 24. 



' A WELL posted seedsman says that 

 White Globe onion seed is likely to be 

 worth $4 per pound before next spring. 



There was a touch of frost on the low 

 lands of Iowa and Kansas on the night 

 of August 27, but no harm came to corn 

 i»r other crops for seeds. 



Tomatoes, at the eanners' and in the 

 produce markets, are bringing such satis- 

 factory prices that seed production is 

 likely to be cut down. 



No one seems vwilling to offer any sur- 

 plus of Alaska peas. It is felt that 

 perhaps there are enough to go around, 

 but then again,' perhaps not. 



Reports from the Ohio and Indiana 

 marshes state that the onion crop will 

 be a good one this year and that the 

 bulbs will be hard, dry and of good 

 keeping_(juality. 



H.' C. Johnson, formerly with the 

 .fohnson & Musser Seed Co., Los Angeles, 

 Oal., and later with W. H. Maule, Phila- 

 -"ielphia, tiied at Marietta. Pa., August 

 .17, ,£^ged ,34 years. 



A CIRCUMSTANCE that may help out if 

 the onion seed crop proves to be short, 

 is .the fact that. many of th^ local gar- 

 "lenenr at the different onion-growing 

 lections have' small patches of seed to 

 harvest. 



The radish seed crop in southern Mich- 

 igan is gQing to be short, and cucumbers 

 and other vine crops are not doing well. 

 The bean fields begin to show signs of 

 rust, which it is feared will cut that 

 «-rop down considerably. 



Hugh M. Taylor, Lloyd, Fla., says 

 that full reports from melon fields in 

 Florida indicate good crops. Water- 

 melons are exceptionally fine, with the 

 exception of one or two varieties. He 

 expects full deliveries, subject to no loss 

 in harvesting. 



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ONION. SEXS. . 



The onion set harvest at Chicago is 

 now completed. The normal product 

 liere is in the neighborhood of 350,000 

 iiushels. This year's harvest, according 

 ro the returns, is not more than 220,000 

 bushels, which is something like 130,000 

 bushels less than what it should be. 

 The quality for the most part is excel- 

 lent. A few of the large growers report 

 that some of their plantings did not 

 J)ulb up well, and that thick necks have 

 rut their product down to a considerable 

 extent. The clay soil which constitutes 

 •i large part of their acreage, and which 

 usually produces the best of crops, failed 

 to pan out properly this year, on ac- 

 i-ount of dry weather at the critical 

 time. Two-thirds of a crop has been the 

 jirediction of the Review all along, and 



LEONARD 



Leading 

 r;Se^* -owpR CO, 



SEED GROWERS 



Largest flrowen of Peas, Beans and 

 Garden Seed in the Central West. 



WMt* for Prioos* 



CHICAGO 



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PACIFIC SEED GROWERS' CO. 



109 MARKET STRK£T 



SA.N FRANCISCO. CAL. 



Specialties t 



Onion. Carrot, Lettuce, Street Peas 



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[ Burpee's Seeds Prow ) 



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3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. S^* 



tion. 



WHOLKBAUE BKKD GROWKRS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peaa, Astei, 

 Oosmo8. Mignonette, Verbena in variety. Oor 

 respondence BoUoited. 



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two-thirds of a crop is all that has been 

 harvested. Shortages at all of the set 

 producing centers will keep prices high. 



BERMUDA LILIES. 



W. H. Heyl, American consul at Ham- 

 ilton, Bermuda, supplies the following 

 figures as to the value of lily bulbs 

 shipped to the TJnitel States in the last 

 ten years: 



Year. Value. 



1890 166.080.08 



1897 55,874.45 



IS»S 36,896.99 



1899 58,352.51 



1900 50,197.50 



1901 30,438.71 



1902 50,091 .72 



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190.-> 27,074.87 



liHW 19,790.67 



The figures for 1906 are up to August 

 20. There may be another small ship- 

 ment of $200 to .$300 in value. Consul 

 Heyl adds: "For several years a 

 parasitic disease attacked the lily plants, 

 which has now been entirely extermin- 

 ated, owing to the careful selection of 

 good stock and the free use of germi- 

 cidal solutions. The present season's 

 crop is unusually small, especially in 

 large size bulbs, owing to the long 

 drought, which continued from March 

 9 to August 8." 



EUROPEAN SEED NOTES. 



The latest crop reports to hand are 

 that in the Anjou districts of France 



C. C. Morse & Co. 



■a. 



8KKD GBOWKBS, now located at 



171-173 Clay Street, 

 San Francisco* Cai. 



Growers of the folIowinR specialties 

 for the trade : 



Carrot, Celery, Endive, 



Leek, Mnatard, Parsnip, 

 Parsley, Radish, Spinach, 



Salsify, Tomato, Cucumber, 



Onion, Lettuce 



Flower Seeds, especially 



SWEET PE3S 



Refrlntered tnleirraph and cable address: 

 BIors«ed, San Francisco. Atnericaa Seed 

 Trade Asti'n Code, ABC Code 4th edition. 



Seed Farms at Newark, Alameda Co., Vic- 

 toria l8l<ind and GUroy, Santa Clara Co. 



Farm Office. Trial Grounds and General 

 Growing Headquarters at Carnadero, near 

 GUroy, Cal. 



Warebouses and Bulk Warehouse, Santa 

 Clara, CaJ. Addt ess all communications to 



I7M73 Clay St., San Francisco 



-some miich heavier crops of onion^, car- 

 rots, etc., are resulting than were an- 

 ticipated. No better reports are to 

 hand of yields in other parts of Eu- 

 rope. The mildew in onion is very prev- 

 alent in all districts, Holland crops 

 in some cases being totally destroyed, 

 while Germany is badly affected. 



No mildew is apparent in Italy, but 

 hail storms and other weather severities 

 have much reduced the yield of onion 

 and cauliflower in some cases is to- 

 tally destroyed. Probably nine-tenths of 

 the cauliflower seed in Italy is very hard 

 hit, and some high prices are being 

 spoken of. On the other hand, the qual- 

 ity of what seed is harvested is spoken 

 of as likely to be very good. The water- 

 cress seed is in some parts a total fail- 

 ure and some dealers are not offering 



