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28 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Septembeu 10, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN KEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., George S. Green, Cblcaro; First Vice 

 pres., M. H. Duryea. New Yorit; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendei, Cleveland. 



The Michigan radish seed crop is re- 

 ported to be doing well. 



The tendency with practically all 

 seeds is toward higher values. 



Late sweet corn has been given a boost 

 by the nice warm weather of the last ten 

 days. 



C. F. Wood, of Wood, Stul)bs & Co., 

 Louisville. Avas a visitor at Chicago last 

 weeli. 



C. D. Brown has sold his interest in 

 the Brown Seed Co., Sedalia, Mo., to 

 R. W. Tyree. 



Visited Chicago: George H. Dicks, 

 representing Cooper, Taber & Co.. Lon- 

 don, England. 



It looks as though there might be an 

 overproduction of gladiolus bulbs of the 

 eommon sorts. 



J. Otto Thilow, secretary of the 

 Henry A. Dreer Co.. Philadelphia, has 

 sailed for a trip to Europe. 



Recent rains in the vicinity of Roch- 

 ester have helped the crops of late vari- 

 eties of asters growing for seed. 



Seedsmen' will be interested in the 

 outcome of the suit for an injunction 

 reported on page 34 of this issue. 



The Michigan crop statisticians re- 

 port that the estimated average yield of 

 peas in the state is seventeen bushels per 

 acre. 



Good September corn weather gives 

 improved prospects for crops of the late 

 varieties of sweet corn 'growing for 

 seed. 



The sale for pansy seeds has been 

 exceptionally brisk this year, largely due 

 to the short crop and the lateness of the 

 German stock. 



The Nebraska vine seed crops have 

 made good progress the last few days. 

 Weather conditions have been exception- 

 ally favorable. 



Cablk reports indicate that the second 

 week of September was the warmest of 

 the summer in most European seed- 

 growing districts. 



Truckers in the south, and especially 

 in the southwest, are calling for seeds 

 for early winter crops in heavier quan- 

 tities than last year. 



It looks as though the European seeds 

 are likely to be so late that it will occa- 

 sion considerable inconvenience when the 

 general southern trade opens. 



The tomato crop has responded to the 

 favorable weather and the vines are now 

 yielding abundantly. Two weeks ago it 

 looked as though the crop would be very 

 light. 



The Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y., in its annual estimate of 

 the onion crop of the country, places the 

 1907 crop about ten per cent below that 

 of 1906. 



The reports on the bean crop are that 

 it is hard to say which varieties will be 

 short, or which ones plentiful. In a I 



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month some considerable threshing will 

 have been done and the growers say that 

 then will be the time to give definite re- 

 ports. 



George C. Thompson, formerly with 

 R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, is now 

 with the H. E. Fiske Seed Co., having 

 charge of the flower seed and bulb de- 

 partments. 



The high price that the small farmer 

 is securing for pickles at the different 

 salting stations will cause him to go in 

 heavier for pickles next year and the re- 

 sult will help the seedsmen. 



In the canning district of Maryland 

 the annual glut of tomatoes was on in 

 full force by September 10 and the pack, 

 which had looked to be smaller than 

 usual, now gives promise of meeting 

 market requirements, although the mar- 

 ket still is strong. 



The crop of onion seed harvested from 

 the various small plantings throughout 

 the middle west is reported to be large 

 for the acreage. It is thought that it 

 will thresh out heavily and yield a qual- 

 ity of seed something above the average. 

 As has been intimated in this column pre- 

 viously, this addition to the onion seed 

 crop will cut a considerable figure in mak- 

 ing up for the California shortages. 



Some of the market gardeners in the 

 vicinity of Chicago are still harvesting 

 onion sets. The smaller growers this year 

 appear to be harvesting more sets in pro- 

 portion to the acreage planted than are 

 the larger operators. The reason for this 

 may lie in the fact that the smaller grow- 

 ers plant their seed thinner, making it go 

 over more ground. In good years their 

 product runs too large for good quality, 

 but they get more quantity. In an oflf 

 year like the present one, they usually hit 

 it about right. 



VARIETIES OF GARDEN BEANS. 



Next to the potato, says W. W. Tracy, 

 Jr., in the introduction to his latest vol- 

 ume, American Varieties of Garden 

 Beans, just published as Bulletin No. 

 109 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, the 

 bean is by far the most important vege- 

 table of this country. Being sold in the 

 United States under more than 400 vari- 

 etal names and having at least 185 dis- 

 tinct types, it easily stands first among 

 vegetables in number of varieties and it 

 ranks second in the value of the crop pro- 

 duced. One American seedsman sells 

 every year more than 24,000 bushels of 

 seeds of garden varieties alone. 



In Bulletins No. 21 and No. 69 of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry reference 

 is made to the increasing number of 



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vegetable varieties and to the need of 

 some established standard of excellence 

 for vegetable types. The present publi- 

 cation, which is a continuation of the 

 line of work followed in the bulletins 

 mentioned, is largely the outgrowth of 

 variety tests carried on at Washington, 

 D. C, and in various places in the states 

 of Connecticut, New York, Minnesota, 

 Nebraska, Missouri, California and 

 Washington, says Dr. Galloway, chief of 

 the Bureau. "Considerable assistance 

 was obtained by Mr. Tracy from the pub- 

 lications of the state agricultural experi- 

 ment stations, and many valuable sug- 

 gestions were offered by seedsmen and 

 seed growers, several of whom have re- 

 viewed the manuscript of this mono- 

 graph. 



"Varieties of garden vegetables are 

 now in such a confused condition and 

 reports of vegetable trials generally are 

 so meager and contradictory that it is 

 usually quite impossible for any but the 

 experienced seedsman to determine 

 whether a vegetable type, unknown to a 

 particular community, is really a new 

 type or a sort already cultivated in some 



