July 30, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Veatlva Maxima, extra white 

 WmmtlvtL, drop white 

 Boule de NelB«» late white 

 Duoliesse de Nemours, pure 



white 

 Duke of Wellington, sulphur white 

 Mme. de Vemevllle, pure white 

 Xdulis Superba, soft pink 



Peonies 



For September and October Delivery. Strong: 

 Undivided Transplanted Clumps :: :: 



M. Jules EUe, extra pink 

 X<ouiB Van Houtte, bright red 

 Dr. Bretonneau, pink 

 Golden Harvest, extra 



Vaust, extra fine shape 

 Felix Crousse, bright red 

 Rosea Superba (new), earliest, 

 best pink oiticinalls 



Several of these varieties answered the roll call after the severe test of April and May weather this year. All plants are guaranteed to be true 

 to name and description. No plants sent out unless they have shown flowers at our nurseries. Enormous stock of advertised and other kinds 

 enables us to sell at prices no European or American house cares to meet. For descriptive catalogue apply to 



H. FBAHK DARBOW, 26 Barclay St., New YBrk, Sele Agent for H. M. HABDYZEB, Boskoop, Hollaad 



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working on the melons, and some small 

 lots of cucumber in eastern Nebraska. 

 The striped beetle has also done some 

 damage to the pumpkin and squash 

 crops. 



A large percentage of many varieties 

 of sweet corn has been washed and 

 drowned out, especially the medium early 

 and late varieties. Many of the crops 

 are also in a backward condition, so that 

 we do not look for any surplus crops of 

 the medium early and late varieties of 

 sweet corn, but believe there will be a 

 serious shortage of some varieties. 



Nearly all sweet, flint and field corn, 

 also vine seed crops, are somewhat late 

 and backward, and it will require favor- 

 able conditions and a late frost to insure 

 fair average crops on the acreage 

 standing. 



SEED NOTES FROM EUROPE. 



It is a little too early to speak vdth 

 any degree of accuracy as to crop pros- 

 pects in seeds at present, but in Eng- 

 land, at least, it is fairly safe to say 

 that peas, beans, turnips and other such 

 crops will be very light indeed, and, I 

 fear, in many cases a failure. 



Growths were badly crippled by the 

 backward spring, continuous rains and 

 bitter cold, and when the warm weather 

 came they were weak and unpromising. 

 But all seed crops grew away from this 

 condition rapidly enough. In fact, it 

 seemed almost like the work of a magic 

 hand as we beheld the rapidity vrith 

 which the whole country side took on a 

 summer aspect, and the seed fields were 

 no exception. But from beautiful spring 

 weather we rapidly were plunged into 

 excessive heat, almost tropical, which 

 continued without rain long enough to 

 cause a serious drought, and the crops, 

 when relieved by the late storms and 

 heavy rains, were in many cases too 

 weak to ever pull up to a full crop. Dur- 

 ing the hot wave, too, insect pests have 

 been a terror to plant and animal life 

 alike, and some of the crops are badly 

 handicapped by the ravages of swarms 

 of fiies and caterpillars. 



I think only a very moderate return 

 may be expected i rom cabbage, turnips, 

 peas and other such crops. Clovers ap- 

 pear to be heavy, both white and red. 

 Some fields of white that I have visited 

 appear particularly promising. Much 

 is being said in the daily papers as to 

 the bumper cYop of hay and clover, but 

 I think that when these are stacked the 

 farmer will not have so much cause for 

 congratulation. 



The seed crops in the seed districts of 

 southern Europe have lately been rather 

 badly knocked about by storms, and it is 

 generally reported that in Italy many 

 crops are destroyed. This, I think, is 



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