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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 28, 1908. 



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Forced Bulbs 



In the following varieties : 



NARCISSUS Golden Spur. 

 TULIPS Keizenkroon, Prince of 

 Austriat Murillo Dofsble^ 

 La Reine* 

 HYACINTHS White Roman. 



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100 1000 5000 

 Asparagus Plumosus Nanus seed, 



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Asparagus Sprengeri seed 15c .75 3.00 



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course a good rain in June would help 

 out, and we may get one, but do not 

 look upon it as likely. 



"Parsnips look well, as do parsley, 

 spinach, mustard, leek, coUards and en- 

 dive. Salsify will be short, at least 

 with some growers, but not enough to 

 make a great deal of diflference. " 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 



of New York for the week ending May 



16 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Annatto ... 1 $ 12 Cummin 95 $ 837 



Caraway .. 500 4730 Fenugreek ...304 1095 



Card'm .... 2 73 Millet 500 1654 



Castor 5544 18994 Rape 5 22 



Clover 301 5971 Other 1400 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$9,084. 



CONDITIONS IN FRANCE. 



April 25 there was the heaviest fall 

 of snow ever known so late in the sea- 

 son in the seed growing district o# 

 Prance, and at last reports this had been 

 followed by cold, there being several de- 

 grees of frost for a few nights, so that 

 anxiety was felt for cabbages, turnips, 

 etc. Fortunately, the frosts did not last 

 long enough to do much harm, and were 

 followed by splendid weather; sunshine 

 and now and then a little shower are 

 pushing everything forward. A corre- 

 spondent of the Horticultural Advertiser 

 (English) has the following from a 

 French correspondent May 5: 



"Within a week or so we shall be able 

 to set in our lettuces for seeds; plants 

 are generally looking well. Radishes also 

 will soon be transplanted. A short time 

 ago we have been planting our beets, 

 mangels and carrots under pretty good 

 conditions; the worst is that plants gen- 

 erally were scarce and tiny, and there- 

 fore acreages planted are much smaller 

 than usual. Of beets specially there is 

 a big shortage, and even if the crop were 

 to turn out a splendid one we should still 

 be far short of the quantities we want 

 here every year; and as nearly all stocks 

 have been cleared out last season, no 

 doubt high prices must be expected for 

 next. 



"Mangels have been largely planted 

 again this year, but one fact must be no- 

 ticed, that is, the scarcity of Long Red 

 Mammoth Mangel. Last autumn the de- 

 mand for it was so big that all stocks 

 were soon cleared out at a good price. 

 As there were but "few plants to set for 

 1908 crop, no doubt this good old variety 

 will fetch a good price again next sea- 

 son. Yellow varieties do not seem to 

 have moved much in price. White va- 

 rieties were a big crop last season, and 

 prices dropped. 



"Of carrots, plantations are not large, 

 a good many plants having been de- 

 stroyed by bad weather, worms, etc., dur- 

 ing the winter. Then most of them were 

 tiny and delicate, owing to their having 

 been sown late last autumn. A small 

 crop is expected. 



"Onions have been largely set again 

 this spring for 1908 crop, and should 

 everything turn out well a big crop may 

 be expected. Leeks are doing pretty well 

 for the present, although the plants we 

 set in for seeds were small. Parsnip not 

 much planted; a short crop is expected. 

 Parsley is doing well; winter radishes 

 also. ' ' 



SEEDSMEN'S PROGRAM. 



Secretary C. E. Kendel is distributing 

 the program for the twenty-sixth an- 

 nual convention of the American Seed 

 Trade Association, to be held at the 

 Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit, June 23 

 to 25. It is expected that the attendance 

 will be the largest in the history of the 

 organization. The program of essays 

 and discussions i^ as follows: 



"Theoretical and Practical Seed Breeding," by 

 Dr. W. W. Tracy, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



"Farm Practice Investigations in Clover Seed 

 Production," by C. B. Smith, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



"The Use of Forage Plants as Soil Im- 

 provers." In the South, by Henry W. Wood, of 

 T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va. In the 

 North, by J. E. Northrup, of Northrup, King & 

 Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 



"What Effect Does a Commercial Depression 

 Have on the Garden Seed Business?" by E. C. 

 Dungan, of William Henry Maule, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



"Practical Education In Horticulture," by 

 Dr. A. C. True, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. , 



"The Effect of Low Prices on the Production 

 of High-Grade Stocks," by C. N. Keeney, of 

 N. B. Keeney & Sons, Le Roy, N. Y. 



"Fire Insurance," by Albert McCullough, of 

 J. M. McCullough's Sons Co., Cincinnati, O. 



Disclaimer Discussion, In executive session, 

 led by Leonard H. Vaughan, of Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, Chicago, and S. F. Wlllard, of Comstock, 

 Ferre & Co., Wethersfleld, Conn. 



"The American Trade-Mark Law and Its Im- 

 portance to Seed Growers and Merchants," by 

 Edward T. Fenwlck, of Mason, Fenwick & Law- 

 rence, Washington, D. C. 



In a circular to members Secretary 

 Kendel says: 



"The topics that will be discussed at 

 the convention at Detroit this year are 

 of interest to all seedsmen. 



' ' There will be interesting reports 

 from committees in regard to seed legis- 

 lation, both state and national. 



"Thousands of people annually pass 

 through Detroit that do not know they 

 have the right to a ten days' stop-over 

 on their tickets without extra charge. 

 This applies to all tickets to or from 

 any point in the United States or Can- 

 ada, provided same is within the final 

 limit of said ticket. Passengers desir- 

 ing this privilege will make application 

 for same to conductor or train audit^ 

 and latter will endorse coupon "Off at 

 Detroit," date and sign same, and ad- 

 vise passenger that immediately upon 

 arrival at Detroit the ticket must be 

 deposited with ticket agent at the depot 

 arrived at. The latter will furnish a re- 

 ceipt for ticket. 



"There will probably be very low 



CUTWORMS 



Corn, Grain, Potatoes, Roots, 

 Cotton, Vegetables and Flowers 

 suffer enormous damage from 

 CutworniB, Eelworme, Ants, Slugs 

 and all kinds of Bugs in the soil. 

 Maybe you don't see them, but 

 you pay for them— quit doing so 

 and use Vaporite. 



Vaporite is the new, marvelous 

 English product— a non-poisonous 

 powder. Just sprinkle it onto the 

 soil and plow or dig in as directed 

 before planting or sowing. It acts 

 quickly — the insects are destroyed 

 in a few days, so that your ground 

 is free and fertile. 



Vaporite is revolutionizing many 

 branches of Agriculture. 



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 No. 4 It is a finely gotten-up, factful lit- 

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It tells you briefly and simply all about 

 Vaporite and shows the remarkable extra 

 profits made by practical growers who 

 use "Vaporite. It gives reports from all 

 over the world. Write us today (getting 

 reply in about two weeks). 



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rates offered to the convention of the 

 National Education Association at 

 Cleveland, so if any members wish to 

 attend the latter they can use the above 

 stop-over privileges to good advantage. 



"The management of the Hotel Pont- 

 chartrain promise to make us comforta-. 

 ble and would like to hear in advance 

 from as many as intend to engage rooms. 



"The rates offered are $2 each for 

 two in a room or $2.50 single, and up- 

 wards, without meals. Other hotels are 

 near and eating houses numerous." 



