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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuausT 1, 1807. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMBBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pros., George S. Green, Cblcaro; First Vlce- 

 pre«., U. H. Duryea. New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. B. Kendel, Cleveland. 



Eaoish will be a scarce item agi'.in 

 this season. 



Theee are reports of operations by 

 the army worm in Wisconsin. 



Boyd's Dispatch says there are sev- 

 enteen seedsmen in the Hawaiian Islands. 



P. G. Campbell, Oswego, N. Y., in- 

 tends to add an extensive line of seeds to 

 his rapidly growing florists' business. 



A. A. Berry, Clarinda, la., has begun 

 harvesting onion sets. He has twenty- 

 two acres in sets this season and reports 

 a fair crop. 



Although seed crops now appear in 

 better shape than a few weeks ago, there 

 is prospect of almost no surplus after 

 deliveries on contracts. 



The canners report a short pack of 

 Alaska peas, although one packer advises 

 that * ' east of Eochester, N. Y., the grow- 

 ers have a full average yield. ' ' 



The warehouse of the newly organ- 

 ized Dakota Improved Seed Co., Mitchell, 

 S. D., is well under way. The first 

 structure will be 70x74, three stories 

 high. 



The wholesale seedsman's greatest 

 worry just now is not where he shall 

 look for orders, but where he shall 

 search in quest of stock to fill those al- 

 ready taken. 



Please extend our order to make it 

 thirteen insertions of our advertisement 

 of colored seed bags. Results are very 

 satisfactory. — Heendon, Lester & Ivey 

 Co., Richmond, Va. '' 



The peas are past the point of great- 

 est danger, but have not come through 

 as well as had been hoped, and the con- 

 dition of most fields is not so good as 

 it was a month ago. 



It is said that stocks of seeds of the 

 popular greenhouse varieties of sweet 

 peas are so low that they are not likely 

 to meet the increased demand expected 

 to result from the excellent profit made 

 last season by the forcers of winter 

 flowers. 



Jacques Eolland, Nimes, France, 

 states that his seed , business has been 

 continued uninterruptedly since 1680, or 

 for 227 years. He adds: "I should be 

 very glad to know if I can count myself 

 to be the oldest establishment in the seed 

 trade line." 



Onion sets at Chicago have suffered, 

 on low land, during the extreme heat of 

 the last fortnight In July, the tops on 

 some pieces falling over and rotting. 

 Weeding has been pushed. Harvesting 

 will begin in a few days, but the bull« 

 are not forming as rapidly as the grow- 

 ers would like. 



CALIFORNIA SEED CROPS. 



Lester L. Morse, of C. C. Morse & 

 Co., writes as follows under date of 

 July 23: 



Relative to the present condition of 

 crops, I would say that we have begun 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Headquarters for TURNIP and other seasonable seeds. 

 Write for prioea. 



Flower Seeds— Onion Sets " JnV^X'do'iVist.. CHICAGO 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



[ Burpee's Seeds Grow | 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE « CO. 



M—A Grow«ra 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



48 to 56 Jackson St., San Francisco, Cal. 

 Onion. Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other Oalliomla apcolaltlei 

 Mention lie Review when yon write. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growsrs of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



to harvest spinach, salsify, radish, let- 

 tuce and sweet peas. The latter three 

 items are running short and will not be 

 an average crop. The onion crop is set- 

 ting and what acreage is now left prom- 

 ises to be a fair crop, providing we 

 have no unfavorable weather before it 

 is harvested. It will be about three 

 weeks before we begin cutting onion 

 seed. We are still of the opinion that 

 it will be very short, owing to the lim- 

 ited acreage. 



HARRISn BULBS. 



The main shipment of Harrisii bulbs 

 reached New York July 26 on the steam- 

 er Bermudian. There were consignments 

 on board as follows, according to cus- 

 toms house figures: 



Consignee — Cases. 



Crossmond, L. D., & Co 769 



Elliott, Wm., & Sons 78 



Henderson, P., & Co 68 



Hagemann, Wm., & Co 242 



Mlddleton & Co 55 



Meyer, Chas. F 67 



Maltus & Ware 86 



Outerbrldge, A. E., & Co 298 



Pierson, F. E., Co 172 



Vaughan's Seed Store 643 



Weeber & Don 37 



Ward, R. M., & Co 192 



To order 1,727 



This is a large total. The custom 

 house people have before now reported 

 consignments of freesias from Bermuda 

 as "lily bulbs." 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED. 



Frank Leckenby, vice-president and 

 manager of the seed department of the 

 Charles H. Lilly Co., Seattle, Wash., 

 writes as follows under date of July 24: 



"Owing to the bad floods and ex- 

 tremely cold weather which we had last 

 winter we will have the lighest crop of 

 cabbage seed we have had for many 

 years. The growing season, however, has 

 been most favorable and as the seed is 

 about ready to harvest we do not look 



COLORED 



VE6ETABLE 



SEED 

 BAGS 



Send lor Cat. 

 and Prices. 



Herndon, Lester 

 & Ivey Co., 



Richmond, Virginia. 



Mention The ttevlew when yon write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion. Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, MiKnonette. Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



ssd sn tMt sf Bsries Seeds st Whslessle Osly. 



CAMBRIDGE, washi.rto.co.. NEW YORK 



Mention Hie Review when yaa write. 



for any further drawbacks, and what 

 seed we do get will be of extra fine 

 quality. ' ' 



NEBRASKA SEED CROPS. 



The end of July is too early a date, 

 says William Emerson, of the Western 

 Seed and Irrigation Co., Fremont, Neb., 

 to give any positive information as to 

 yields, etc., of the different crops we are 

 growing. We can only give a general 

 idea of the conditions at present. 



We find on looking through our crop 

 book, and drawing off a memorandum of 

 the acreage and present conditions, that 

 with a few exceptions, and a favorable 

 season from now until fall, and through- 

 out the harvesting season, we should be 

 able to fill our contract orders nearly in 

 full. 



We further wish to state that our con- 

 tract orders have run considerably larger 

 than last year, and that we have a 

 larger acreage of nearly all varieties 

 growing this season. 



We have, however, been obliged to re- 

 duce the quantities of some of the va- 



