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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



June 11, 1908. 



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Choice 

 PANSY 



Seeds 



A Specialty. 



Giant Pansy, ^isr 



mixture of the most beautiful and newest Riant 

 flowering kinds. Oz.. $3.00, postage paid. Cash 

 with order. Ask for price list and testimoniale 

 received from American nurserymen. 



V. FROMHOLD & CO., ^^l^. 

 Naimbiirg-Saale, Pnn. Saioiy, 6ERHAIIY. 



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BIG CROPS SEEM CERTAIN. 



Enormous yields of wheat and oats 

 are indicated by the government's report 

 of general conditions on June 1, which 

 ■was made public June 8. The prospects 

 are for much better results than those 

 obtained last year, the outturn of oats 

 promising to be a record breaker. De- 

 spite reports of damage to ripening win- 

 ter wheat, the condition of the plant is 

 better than even the most sanguine had 

 expected, and the situation in spring 

 wheat territory borders on the ideal. 



The statement indicated a condition 

 of winter wheat of 86, a loss of 3 points 

 from the May 1 showing, but compared 

 to only 77.4 June 1, 1907, 82.7 June 1, 

 1906, 85.5 June 1, 1905, and a ten-year 

 average of 81.1, which, using the popu- 

 lar basis of computation and the May 1 

 area of 29,744,000 acres, promises a 

 yield of 444,000,000 bushels. 



The condition of spring \*eat is given 

 as 95, with a sown area of 17,710,000 

 acres, or 631,000 acres greater than the 

 sown area June 1, 1907. The crop in 

 sight in the northwest is 290,000,000 

 bushels, the total for the nation being 

 approximately 734,000,000 bushels, or 

 about 100,000,000 bushels more than the 

 total crop harvested last year. 



Harvesting already is under , way in 

 the southwest, the reports indicating sat- 

 isfactory results in Oklahoma, Tennessee 

 and Texas. 



The general average condition of oats 

 is given as 92.9, compared to only 81.6 

 June 1, 1907. The condition in 1905 

 also was 92.9. Using the sown area — 

 31,644,000 acres — and the popular basis 

 of computation, a yield of approximately 

 1,056,000,000 bushels is indicated. This 

 is the largest prospective yield in the 

 history of the nation. 



The June 1 condition of the rye crop 

 was 91.3, with an indicated yield of 

 31,000,000 bushels, against an outturn 

 of 31,556,000 bushels in 1907, when June 

 1 the condition was 88.1. The area of 

 the barley crop is given as 6,697,000 

 acres, with a condition of 89,7, against 

 84.9 June 1, 1907, and an indicated crop 

 of 178,000,000 bushels, against a yield 

 of 153,597,000 bushels last year, when 

 the area was 6,153,000 acres. The con- 

 dition 6f hay was 96.8, much better than 

 that of last year. 



CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATIVE ACT. 



The large number of importers of 

 horticultural products and trade supplies 

 will be interested in the chief changes 

 which are made by the new law in the 

 Customs Administrative Act, and which 

 are as follows: 



1. Time for protests is changed from 

 ten to fifteen days. 



2. Provision is made for rehearings 

 by the Board upon motion of either 

 party within thirty days after decision. 



3. It is required that all evidence 

 shall be presented to the Board of Gen- 

 eral Appraisers. 



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4. Provision is made that the Circuit 

 Court may remand cases to the Board 

 of General Appraisers for the taking of 

 other testimony. 



5. Provision is made for cases arising 

 within jurisdictions having no Circuit 

 Court, for appeals to courts having cog- 

 nizance of the same class of cases as Cir- 

 cuit Courts. 



6. The general appraisers of mer- 

 chandise shall hold office during good 

 behavior, "but may, after due hearing, 

 be removed by the President for the fol- 

 lowing causes, and no other: Neglect of 

 duty, malfeasance in office or ineffi- 

 ciency. ' ' 



7. The salary of general appraisers 

 is raised from $7,000 to $9,000 per an- 

 num. 



8. The Board of General Appraisers 

 and the members thereof are granted all 

 the powers of a Circuit Court in preserv- 

 ing order, compelling the attendance of 

 witnesses and the production of evidence, 

 and in punishment lor contempt. 



PENNY POST WITH ENGLAND. 



Postmaster General Meyer announced 

 June 4 that an agreement had been 

 reached with the British government pro- 

 viding for a letter postage of 2 cents an 

 ounce between the United States and 

 Great Britain and Ireland, to become ef- 

 fective October 1, 1908. 



The matter of "penny postage," as it 



Cutworms 



Millipedes, Eelworms, A&ts, 

 Beetles, Woodlice, Slugs, and 

 all kinds of bugs in the soil 



Killed 



Vaporite is a ^ay non-poisonous 

 powder which when dug into the soil 

 as directed completely destroys the 

 insects therein. It has proven re- 

 markably successful in Europe and is 

 revolutionizing many branches of 

 horticulture. 



Vaporite means an enormous in- 

 crease in profit to truckers and horti- 

 culturists who have bug-infested soil. 



Vaporite 



100 lbs $ 4.00 



2000 lbs 65.00 



F. 0. B. Ntw Yirk, BastM. PbHaielvbia 



Our New Booklet No. 4 tells you 

 briefly and simply all about Vaporite 

 and shows the remarkable practical 

 results from those growers who use 

 it. It is mailed free on receipt of 

 mail card (2-cent stamp). 



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London, Eng. 



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JOHNSON'S, Ltd. 



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is called in England, has been under con- 

 sideration for some time, and as far back 

 as last July President Roosevelt ap- 

 proved Mr. Meyer's course in urging a 

 "restricted union with England." 



October 1, 1907, the universal postal 

 union, which governs the international 

 postal transactions of the various civil- 

 ized countries, reduced the rate of let- 

 ter postage from 5 cents a half ounce 

 to 5 cents for the first ounce and 3 cents 

 for each additional ounce, which is the 

 present rate between the United States 

 and Great Britain. 



Under the articles of the universal 

 union, any two states can form a re- 

 stricted union. Examples of restricted 



