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'^The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



August 15, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Oeorge S. Green, Cblcaro; First Vlce- 

 pres., M. H. Duryea. New York; Stc'y and 

 Treaa., C. B. Kenuei, Cleveland. 



Visited Chicago: — J. G. Peppard, 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



P. H. Gage has left S. M. Isbell & Co., 

 Jackson, Mich., with whom he has been 

 for three years. 



The South Texas Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion will hold a meeting at Brownsville, 

 Tex., August 16 and 17. 



An average crop of onion sets is re- 

 ported at Chillicothe, O. ; quality excel- 

 lent; harvesting completed. 



The states of Kansas and Nebraska 

 have not reported their onion set crops 

 as yet. It is understood that they have 

 a few, however. 



It is reported that the Louisville crop 

 of onion sets contains a large quantity 

 of smutty onions. It is feared that this 

 will have a bad effect and will cause a 

 heavy shrinkage when time to ship ar- 

 rives. 



A. C. Nellis, well known to the seed 

 trade, is manager of the departments of 

 agriculture, horticulture and floriculture 

 at the fair of the Richmond County Ag- 

 ricultural Society to be held near Mid* 

 land Beach, S. I. 



Answering several inquiries: Yes, 

 the article relaiing to the history of the 

 onion set industry at Chicago, by S. F. 

 Leonard, was originally written for the 

 Eeview and appeared in our columns 

 some two years ago. 



Reports from the bean growers are 

 not as good as they were a week ago. 

 The general statement is that the freak- 

 ish spring weather did not permit of 

 getting the ground in proper shape. The 

 ground has hardened, making it difficult 

 to cultivate, and the weeds are getting 

 beyond the capacity of the average farm- 

 er's facilities for killing them. 



Early varieties of peas are harvested 

 and the reports have it that the crop in 

 some places meets expectations but in 

 others is quite short. It has been hinted 

 that the canners' sorts will be scarce. 

 This is being realized and there is 'a 

 • possibility that the threshing, which will 

 begin shortly, will show more of a short- 

 age than the cut straw in the stacks gives 

 indication of. 



The initial number of the Market 

 Growers' Journal is on seedsmen's desks. 

 C. F. Wood, of Wood, Stubbs & Co., the 

 Louisville seedsmen, is president of the 

 company. The issue to hand contains 

 8. F. Leonard's story of the origin and 

 development of the onion-set industry at 

 Chicago printed in the Review some two 

 years ago and since copied by many 

 European and American publications. 



The onion set harvest at Chicago is 

 progressing nicely. The weather is all 

 that could be desired. An uneven ripen- 

 ing is causing some trouble, as it makes 

 shifting from one place to another neces- 

 sary. A uniform ripening is the most de- 

 sirable thing toat can happen to a set 

 crop, as it insures a good quality of bulb. 

 When, as is the case this year, sets do 

 not all ripen up at the same time on the 

 same bed, trouble in the keeping quality 



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Growers and Wholesalers off Superior Garden Seeds 



Headquarters for TURNIP and other seaBonable seeds. 

 Write for prices. 



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Immense stock of all leading Oommerclal Vari- 

 eties for Fall delivery. We can also supply some 

 very fine New f arietles in limited quantities. 



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tor Import and from Oold Storage. 



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 PLAMTS for foroinc 



French, Dutch and Japanese Bulbs 



For prices and full information, please apply to 



H. Frank Darrow, Importer 



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Mention The ReTlew when yoo write. 



C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Growers 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



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

 Onlon^ Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other California Specialtlea 



Mention The RfTlew when you write. 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABB4GE SEED 



of the sets may be looked for after they 

 have been stored. As intimated in a re- 

 cent issue, the fields are not yielding any- 

 thing like the quantity that they should. 



M. B. Faxon, until recently with the 

 Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, O., is 

 now with J. M. Thorburn & Co., New 

 York. 



F. C. Graves, a mail-order seedsman 

 at Des Moines, la., was arrested August 

 12 by federal authorities, charged with 

 using the mails to defraud. 



Lou FosTEE, for several years with the 

 Oklahoma Seed House, has become man- 

 ager of the newly organized Shawnee 

 S6ed House, Shawnee, Okla, 



The onion seed crop from the central 

 western states will pan out fine, accord- 

 ing to reports. We may repeat that the 

 quantity that will be harvested from this 

 section will be a surprise when gathered 

 in. 



D. J. Tamminoa, who grows onion sets 

 in the territory south of Chicago, makes 

 the following report August 12: "Many 

 sets are in crates and I think they are 

 fewer this year than last. A good num- 



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 BAGS 



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 and Prices. 



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 & Ivey Co., 



Kidunond, Virginia. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet ^as, Aster, 

 OosmoR, MlKDonette. Verbena, in variety. Oor* 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review wiien yon write. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



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Mention The Rerlew when yoo write. 



ber are too large and the men who were 

 looking for eight bushels to the pound 

 of seeds now find two and one-half to 

 three bushels. Some fields have many 

 sets, but others will not return half of 

 the seed money." 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending Aug- 

 ust 3 were as follows:' 



Kind. Bags. Val. Kind. Bags. Val. 



Caraway . 188 | 1,372 Millet 250$ 583 



Cardamom. 8 300 Mustard 106 1,172 



Caator ...6,701 23.946 Poppy 180 331 



Celery ... 40 1,244 Rape 4 12 



Clover ... 461 11.263 Other 2,221 



Coriander.. 673 2,020 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$21,054. 



Thk five-story building occupied by 

 the headquarters of the American So- 

 ciety of Equity and the seed store of J. 

 A. Everitt, at 227 West Washington 

 street, Indianapolis, has been condemned. 

 City Building Inspector Thomas Winter- 

 rowd says the building is unsafe, and 

 the upper two stories of the structure 



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