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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SKPTEMBEU 20, ItKHI. 



Sweet Peat at Waldo Rohnert's, Gilroy, Cat 



a lot of damage having been done in 

 Germany; a great shortage is certain. 



Little can be added to what has al- 

 ready been said as to the conditions of 

 general crops for the whole of the pres- 

 ent season, and it may be now generally 

 accepted as a fact that all vegetable 

 and farm seed crops will be short in 

 yield per acre, and in many sorts in 

 number of acres cultivated. Every re- 

 port of the condition of crops points to 

 this, and in some lines the shortage wWi 

 be acutely felt, as there is little or no 

 surplus left over from last year. 



Samples generally will be poor in color 

 and weight, but germination will as a 

 rule be high. Abundant proof of this 

 may be gathered from the facts that in 

 Italy at least one firm is offering no 

 colored onion seed of this year's growth, 

 and some other firms are offering no 

 cauliflower seed at all this year. One 

 of the leading French firms of seed 

 growers is offering only yearling seed 

 of radish in at least half the catalogued 

 varieties, and some few sorts are not 

 being offered at all this year. 



The total loss of the colored onion 

 crops will be keenly felt by the whole 

 of the European trade, and indirectly 

 by dealers in America, as last year's 

 crops were entirely cleaned out; and the 

 whole supply depended on this year's 

 hardest. The trouble will be much ag- 

 gravated by mildew and other troubles 

 experienced in other onion varieties, prac- 

 tically every district throughout Europe 

 being badly affected. Italy is of course 

 free from mildew, the climate being too 

 dry for it. Holland has probably suf- 

 fered the worst in this respect. Pru- 

 dent buyers of seeds will do well to 

 make their season's arrangements early, 

 as high prices are asked in some cases 

 already. There is no doubt that prices 

 will steadily advance all through the 

 season, especially for first-class samples. 



In flowers most lines appear likely to 

 yield a middling to good crop, the ex- 

 ceptions perhaps being pansies, wall- 

 flowers and stocks. These are in a poor 

 way. Nasturtiums appear to be excep- 

 tionally heavy everywhere, and look like 

 yielding far above the average. Taken 

 as a whole, there probably will be no 

 shortage in flower seeds, but rather the 



reverse. The boftrd of agriculture of 

 England has received information that 

 the diamond-back moth has appeared in 

 Norfolk and some other parts of the 

 eastern counties, and is doing consider- 

 able dam;ige among the turnip, cabbage 

 and other crops of the brassica tribe. 

 The board is freely distributing a leaflet 

 dealing with the pest, and methods of 

 prevention. 



The wholesale seed houses of England 

 which have the bulK of their supplies 

 grown on contract by various English 

 and continental growers, are consider- 

 ably alarmed at the almost certain short- 

 age of the yield of their contract 

 growths, particularly in radish, cauli- 

 flower, spinach and onion, and in these 

 four lines particularly are vigorously 

 seeking to supplement their supplies by 

 ordinary growths; this is yet another 

 factor causing prices to tighten, and will 

 also cause some speculative transactions 

 which will also tend to make values 

 keen. B. J. 



PRIMROSES 



IMPROVED CHINESE. Finest ^own, named 

 or mixed, strong, 2-inch, t2.00 per 100. 



XXX SEEDS 



CHINESE PRIMROSE 



Finest grrown, large flowering, fringed, slnrle 

 and double, 16 varieties, mixed, 600 seeds, tlOO; 

 halt pkt., 6i'c. Have the varieties separate, also. 

 ^*\g^i A mi P IM Olant mixed, 200 seeds, 

 WTWLAIVItN tl.OO; H-pkt.,60c. 



r> A I ^ \/ Double Olant, mixed, 

 I^MIOT 1000 seeds, 26c. 



GIANT PANSY S^^eXV vVrfe! 

 ties, critically selected. eoOOseeds, 11.00; half pkt., 

 &0c. 500 seeds of giant Mme. Ferret paLsy n<>od 

 added to every 11.00 pkt. of Giant Pansy. CASH. 

 Liberal extra count of seeds In all packets. 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



THB HOME or PBlMBOeKS. 



Cineraria 



Large flowerioK prize, splendid mixed, t. p., 60o. 

 Large-flowering, semi-dwarf prize, splendid 



mixed, t. p., 60c. 

 PAM8T, suoerb mixed, oz., 94 60; ^-oz., $1.15; 



J^-oz., 60c. 



W. C. BECKER r, ALLEGHENY, PA. 



HOWLING MOB SWEET CORN. 



This is a new introduction of W. Atlee 

 Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, so named 

 because the originator asserts that when 

 he offers the first load in market the buy- 

 ers collect about his stall in a mob, each" 

 trying to secure a few dozen ears of the 

 earliest large corn grown in his local- 

 ity. Our sowing was made late in May 

 for succession to such extra early kinds 

 as Malakhov and SheflSeld, and furnished 

 large rounded, 14-rowed ears of very 

 white corn with white cob by the second 

 week in August. These plump, heavy 

 ears, with their broad and deep white 

 kernels, doubtless appear taking in the 

 dealer's eyes, as they look as if the con- 

 sumer would get big measure for his 



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Gladiolus Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest 



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