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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., HearyW. Wood, Richmond, Va.; Plret 

 Vlc»-Pre8M Charl«8 Burg-e, Toledo, O ; Sec'y and 

 Treaa., C. B. Keudel, Cleveland. The 2&th annual 

 meetintr will be held at New York City, June, 19(17. 



Mes. Theodosia B. Shepherd, Ven- 

 tura, Cal., is reported critically ill. 



The crops of late varieties of seed 

 sweet corn are said to be very promis- 

 ing- 



The catalog men are getting busy. In 

 December the southern lists will be sent 

 some unusually nice books. 



It Ih reported by one authority that 

 Connecticut eeed crops of the Globe va- 

 rieties of onion will be well up to aver- 

 ages. 



From reports at hand the Michigan 

 cucumber seed crops give better prom- 

 ise in proportion than the Nebraska 

 acreage does. 



Harry W. Fisher, manager of the 

 seed department of Montgomery Ward & 

 Co., Chicago, spent his vacation in the 

 pea district of Canada. 



No change in the pea and bean situa- 

 tion is reported. The milling of peas 

 and the harvesting of beans continues, 

 and net results will be known in due 

 time. 



Secretary Kenuel has mailed to 

 members the twenty-sixth annual report 

 of the American Seed Trade Association, 

 containing a stenographic record of the 

 Toledo convention. 



The onion set is still holding its own 

 and the smaller growers, who ordinarily 

 let go of their product gracefully in 

 September of each year, are holding on 

 to it in an exasperating manner this 

 season. 



The pea packers have reached the end 

 of the season, with a light pack ana 

 all stock sold on contract, so that a 

 good demand is assured for next year, 

 and a probability of an increased acre- 

 age being required. 



White Portugal onion seed will likely 

 cost the onion set growers considerably 

 more by planting time of 1907 than it 

 did in 1906. As low a delivery as ten 

 per cent is all that some of the growers 

 will be able to supply. 



Visited Chicago: Lowell Emerson, of 

 the Western Seed and Irrigation Co., 

 Fremont, Neb. ; S. A. Bedford and W. A. 

 McCracken, of E. A. McKenzie Co., Ltd., 

 Brandon, Manitoba; S. B. Dicks, of 

 Cooper, Taber & Co., London, England. 



It is reported that a Holland firm 

 of bulb growers has this year supplied a 

 custom house broker with invoices for 

 about two-thirds the total of the invoice 

 sent to the customer, with the naive re- 

 quest that the difference in duty be re- 

 mitted to the shipper in Holland. 



The board of general appraisers on 

 August 28 sustained the protest of 

 Currie Bros. Co., Milwaukee, against the 

 assessment of duty on vetch seed by the 

 collector at Milwaukee. The case re- 

 corded as T. D. 27,306 now is considered 

 as authority for admitting vetch seed 

 free. 



Septembeb 13, 1906. 



LEONARD SEED growers 



Leading 

 r-^Je^* -Sow^ CO, 



uuMsl siowci'B of rt9Mf B o ns And 

 Gaidcn Seed in the Central West 



WHt« for Pilo«s» 



CHICAGO 



Mention The IU>Tlew when you write. 



PACIFIC SEED GROWERS' CO. 



109 MARKKT STR££T 

 SAN rRANCISCO, CAL. 

 Specialties t y 



Onion, Carrot, Letttice, Siveet Peas 



Mention The Itevlew when you write. 



Seeds Grow | 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY. CAIi. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Oosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oor- 

 respondence solicited. 

 Mention The ReTlew when yon wrtte. 



Braslan Seed^£ 

 Growers Co.£^^ 



WHOT.MAT.g 8KBD OBOWXBa 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Walter Mott is now on the road for 

 H. H. Berger & Co., New York. 



Hugh M. Taylor, the melon seed 

 grower, is at Silver City, N. M. 



It is reported that the Shugart-Ouren 

 Seed Co., Council Bluffs, la., has largely 

 increased its business since moving into 

 its own building. The corporation was 

 organized in 1893. The oflScers are: 

 President, T. J. Shugart; vice-president, 

 F. B. Davis; secretary, J. P. Davis; 

 treasurer, C. G. Ouren. Field seeds, 

 poultry supplies, implements and fruit 

 packages are handled. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has pub- 

 lished another of his adulterated seed 

 circulars, No. 20. It relates that 352 

 samples of alfalfa were obtained in the 

 open market and examined. Of these, 

 160 were found to contain seed of the 

 destructive parasitic plant dodder; nine 

 samples were found to be adulterated 

 with yellow trefoil, and nine samples 

 adulterated with bur clover. The names 

 of those who sold the adulterated lots 

 are given, with the percentage of adul- 

 terant in each sample. Some eminently 

 respectable names are included. 



CONNECTICUT SEED CROPS. 



A. N. Clark, Milford, Conn., writes: 

 "Due to unfavorable weather conditions 

 through the growing season seed crops in 

 this locality will be light, less than fifty 



C. C. Morse & Co. 



SSBD GROWKB8, now located at 



171-173 Clay Street, 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



Growen of the foUowing; specialties 

 for the trade : 



Carrot, Celery, XndiTe, 



Iieek, Mustard, Parsnip, 

 Paraley, Radiah, Spinach, 



Salsify, Tomato, Cnenmber, 



Onion, Lettuce 



Flower Seeds, especially 



SWEET PEAS 



Recrlstered telegraph and cable address: 

 Moraeed, San Francisco. American Seed 

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



Seed Farms at Newark, Alameda Co., Vic- 

 toria Island and GUroy, Santa Ulara Co. 



Farm Office. Trial Grounds and General 

 Orowlnr HeadQuarters at Camadero, near 

 QUroy, Cal. 



Warehouses and Bnlk Warebonse, Santa 

 Clara, Cal. Address all communications to 



171-173 Clay St., San Francisco 



Mention Ihe Review when you write. 



per cent of an average crop as a whole. 

 Some pieces of onion will not give over 

 ten per cent, others are a total failure. 

 So far as my observation has been the 

 Southport Yellow Globe variety has been 

 the most affected by the blight. The 

 corn crop will be fair, but not large. 

 There was a smaller acreage planted this 

 season, which will reduce the general 

 average quite a little. We are now hav- 

 ing a dry spell, which is favorable for 

 maturing the crop, but unfavorable for 

 turnip." 



NEBRASKA SEED CROPS. 



Wm. Emerson, of the Western Seed 

 and Irrigation Co., Fremont, Neb., writes 

 as follows under date of September 10: 



' ' The writer lias been inspecting some 





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