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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 0, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMBUCAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



P^e8.^ Watson 8. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

 First Vice-pres., J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 



A. MiTTiNG, Santa Cruz, Cal., shipped 

 his first car of calla bulbs this season 

 June 28. 



The crop prospects are not so good as 

 they were in the grain states, especially 

 the corn states. 



The corn for seed, both sweet and 

 field varieties, was planted late iu Ohio, 

 but is making a good start. 



If any seedsmen feel dissatisfied with 

 the business done in the past season, thus 

 far no one has been found to admit it. 



The boat from Bermuda due to arrive 

 at New York July 10 is expected to 

 bring the first of the season's crop of 

 Harrisii lily bulbs. 



W. Atlee Burpee has returned from 

 a two months' European trip and is pre- 

 paring to get busy on his annual task 

 of catalogue building. 



ScHLAEPER & Owcheek, Cleveland, O., 

 are opening a new flower store at 7403 

 Dunser avenue, and state that they wUl 

 make a specialty of imported seeds and 

 bulbs. 



The Cumberland Seed Co., Nashville, 

 Tenn., has been incorporated with $30,- 

 000 authorized capital stock, by C. F. 

 Wood, E. H. Young, W. B. Ewing, Rob- 

 ert Luck, and J. T. Bailey. 



Aijbert Dickinson, president of the 

 Albert Dickinson Seed Co., has acquired 

 from Henry Heinz, of Pittsburg, Pa., 

 the property at 1728 and 1730 Clark 

 street, Chicago, being 37*4x79 feet. 



On the protest of the Barteldes Seed 

 Co., LawTence, Kan., the Board of Gen- 

 eral Appraisers has held certain impor- 

 tations to be free of customs duty under 

 paragraph 656, tariff act of 1897, as 

 mangel wurzel and sugar beet seeds. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co. affairs 

 will be closed up July 25, at 10:30 a. m., 

 when the final accounting of F. H. Henry, 

 assignee, will be approved unless objec- 

 tion be filed with Gilbert H. Montague, 

 referee, 32 Nassau street, New York. 



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From a large number of reports it 

 appears that corn is doing better in 

 Iowa than in Illinois or Indiana. The 

 crop is from one to three weeks late, and 

 acreage is likely to be less than last 

 year, owing to damage to low lands from 

 too much rain. The majority of reports, 

 howevei, say the crop looks well, espe- 

 cially on high lands, and has lately been 

 making quick growth. 



Charles D. Woods, director of the 

 Maine Experiment Station, upon whom 

 devolves the enforcement of that state's 

 many inspection laws, says that "since 

 the middle of April the deputy has de- 

 voted the most of his time to collecting 

 samples of seeds. It is gratifying to find 

 that nearly all of the grass seeds which 

 are being sold are named and guaranteed 

 in accord with law. Only a few of the 

 samples have as yet been analyzed, but 

 they are for the most part running well 

 up to guaranty. Both the spirit and the 

 letter of the Maine inspection laws de- 

 mand truthful labeling." 



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THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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Mllford, Conn. 

 East Jordan, Mlclk, 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GIIiROY, CAL. " 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos. Mismonette, Verbena, in variety. Oor- 

 respondence solicited. 



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Drought has not improved the pros- 

 pect for a full crop of peas. 



L. R. Bell, Manlius, N. Y., is now con- 

 ducting his business under the name of 

 Bdl's Seed Store. 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, have 160 

 varieties of sv?eet peas on trial at their 

 Marblehead grounds. 



^ From' Medford, Ore., comes word that 

 D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, have pur- 

 chased, through an agent there, "a large 

 tract of farm land, whhjh will be tilled 

 scientifically for the purpose of raising 

 seeds for market. The tract contains 

 1,400 acres, 1,200 of which is in fine 

 fruit trees. The present owner gives 

 possession the first of the year, when 

 extensive improvements will be made. 



CROPS IN CALIFORNIA. 



Referring to the condition of seed 

 crops in California July 2, Waldo Roh- 

 nert wrote : 



"Onion still is holding out quite well. 

 While conditions have not improved to 

 any great extent the last month, yet we 

 are that much nearer the harvest, which 

 is only one month off. The warm wave 

 of June 22 to 27 seems to have done no 

 injury. 



"Sweet peas and radish were cut 

 rather short by the hot wave. There 

 will probably be a fifty per cent crop of 

 sweet peas, while radish will be much 

 below the average. 



"Lettuce is only developing small seed 

 stocks and no doubt much of the seed 

 will be light and hard to save in the 

 cleaners. ' ' 



SOUTHERN SEED CROPS. 



We give in brief the prospects of a 

 few southern seed crops as we see the 

 situation at present: 



Collard — The crop of these has already 

 been harvested, most of them marketed. 

 The crop was above the average, the 

 quality of seed good, and prices ought 

 to rule lower than last year. 



Mustard — This crop was about an av- 



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HUBERT BULB CO., Giieral Agints, 



. Lowembergh BIdg., Main St., Norfolk, Va. 



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JACKSON, MICH. 



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 Squaah, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



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erage one. The yield was probably larger 

 than last year, but was damaged some- 

 what, owing to excessive rains at the 

 time the seed was harvested. But there 

 is a good supply, and there will be enough 

 to go around. 



Okra — This crop is looking well, and 

 the prospects are good for a big yield. 

 But it is impossible to tell much about 

 it this early in the season, because this 

 is a crop that grows on till fall frost. 



Watermelon — In some sections of the 

 south the dry weather has ruined the 

 melon crop, but in all sections where they 

 have had abundance of rain the crops 

 are unusually good, and the seed crop 

 will undoubtedly be up to the average, 

 with the quality better. 



Eggplant — In some sections of the 



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