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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 6, 1008. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBIGAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



PreB., Watson S. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

 First Vice-pres., J. 0. RobiiiHon, Waterloo, Neb.; 

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



Tomatoes are suffering severely for 

 want of rain. 



There is great need for rain in all 

 the seed growing districts. 



The first French bulbs are expected to 

 arrive at New York during the present 

 week. 



Henky Nungesser & Co., New York, 

 had 200 bags of grass seeds on the last 

 steamer from Havre. 



The seed trade will be interested in the 

 report of the English sweet pea show on 

 pages 10 and 11. 



Death claimed a member of the fam- 

 ily of W. W. Barnard, Chicago, July 29, 

 when an aunt, Alice L. Barnard, passed 

 away at the age of 79 years. 



Jesse E. Noethrup, who is president 

 of the board of park commissioners at 

 Minneapolis, is down for an address of 

 welcome to the American Association of 

 Park Superintendents when that body 

 opens its annual convention at Minneapo- 

 lis August 11. 



J. F. Sinn, secretary of the A. A. 

 Berry Seed Co., Clarinda, la., wrote, Aug- 

 ust 4: "Corn is looking very well, con- 

 sidering the unfavorable spring. The 

 timothy seed crop will not be extra heavy, 

 but' there will be considerable seed 

 shipped from this section." 



L. H. Archias, president of the Ar- 

 chias Seed Store, Sedalia, Mo., and J. C. 

 Archias, of Barteldes Seed Co., Denver, 

 were registered this week at the Great 

 Northern hotel, Chicago. They arrived 

 at New York July 31, on the S. S. Lusi- 

 tania, from a two months' trip in Eu- 

 rope. 



PEAS AND BEANS. 



Writing under date of August 1, E. M. 

 Parmelee, president of the John H. Allan 

 Seed Co., Sheboygan, Wis., said: 



"There is little that can be said at 

 the present time regarding the pea and 

 bean crop. The . weather is extremely 

 dry and has been for the last three 

 weeks, and the pea louse has now made 

 its appearance, and damaged some fields, 

 to what extent we are unable to say. 

 Of course, this damage can only apply 

 to the late crops. Many of the early 

 crops have gone into the bams in nice 

 shape, and the condition of these vrill, 

 in a measure, make up any loss that 

 may come to the later crops." 



WATERMELON. 



Writing under date of August 1, D. H. 

 Gilbert, of Monticello, Fla., said: 



"I have given considerable time and 

 attention to the inspection of the melons, 

 and, as the harvest season is now on, be- 

 lieve I can make a close estimate as to 

 the yield. From present outlook there 

 will be about an average crop. My own 

 crop consists of about 600 acres, from 

 which I am expecting to get about 70,000 

 pounds, and this is about an average of 

 other crops in this section; however, 

 nearly all late crops of watermelons have 

 practically failed, owing to the continued 



THE EVERETT B. CURK SEED CO; 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, ETC. 



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ItlUord, Conn. 

 Kast Jordan, Mlohc ' 

 Slater Bay, Wla. 



and heavy rains during the latter part of 

 June and July. Hot sun following the 

 heavy rains scalded the vines so badly 

 that the fruit would not set." 



CLOVER IN OREGON. 



A correspondent at Hubbard, Ore., 

 sends the following: 



"Among the new buildings going up 

 here is a warehouse to be used for clean- 

 ing and storing clover seed. The build- 

 ing, for which the foundation is laid and 

 lumber on the ground, is to be 36x60 and 

 is being erected by Hershberger Bros. The 

 building is to contain a specially con- 

 structed cleaner of large size, which it 

 is claimed will remove all weed seeds 

 from clover. ^^ 



"The growing of clover seed has as- 

 sumed large proportions in this vicinity 

 the last few years. Five or six threshers 

 are kept busy for two months threshing 

 seed, all of which must be recleaned for 

 market. Some of the larger growers have 

 fanning mills suited for cleaning clover 

 seed, but heretofore many have been 

 compelled to market the seed just as it 

 came from the separator. The central 

 cleaning plant and storehouse now being 

 erected will be a boon to the smaU 

 grower, for here he can, for a few cents 

 a bushel, have the seed cleaned and 

 stored until such time as he sees fit to 

 seU. 



"Hershberger Bros, have for several 

 years run a cider mill and also a feed 

 mill at this place, and the new line of 

 business will work well with their estab- 

 lished trade." 



CLOVER SEED IN CONNECTICUT. 



Legitimate seedsmen are much in- 

 terested in the efforts being made in 

 many states to stamp out the practice 

 of adulterating grass and other seeds, 

 for such effort leads to the general good 

 of the regular seed trade. 



The Connecticut Experiment Station 

 is doing much work in testing clover 

 seed. It obtained fifty-one samples of 

 seed sold in Connecticut. These samples 

 were tested for weed seeds, and also to 

 see what per cent of the clover seed 

 would germinate, and the results are set 

 forth in a recent bulletin. Forty-one of 

 the samples had more or less dodder. Of 

 one sample there were 44,522 weed seeds 

 in a pound. In another sample there 

 were 78,604 weed seeds in one pound. 

 Another thing waa the low quality of the 

 clover itself. It has been demonstrated 

 that the heaviest seeds give the strong- 

 est plants during early growth, and in 

 most cases largest yields. This Con- 

 necticut bulletin states that clover seed 

 of average quality should run 302,000 to 

 the pound. While lighter seed may give 

 a greater number of plants, a greater 

 proportion of them would die out or do 

 poorly. In twenty-six out of fifty-one 

 samples the seeds weighed less than the 

 standard. As for vitality, the average of 

 these fifty-one Connecticut samples was 

 86.6 per cent. One sample was so poor 

 that only 48.1 per cent of the seed was 

 clover, and only eighty-four per cent of 

 that would sprout. Three samples were 

 evidently adulterated with Black medic. 

 Seed of this plant is imported from Ger- 



Send for Price List of 

 Florists' Bulbs, Flower Seeds and Supplies 



YUESS GARDENS CO., 



91 Water St. NEWBURGH, N. Y: 



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many expressly to adulterate clover seed. 

 In one sample there were 11,615 seeds 

 of dodder in one pound. 



The Connecticut authorities inquire: 

 "What are we going to do about it?" 

 They give the following advice: 



"Begin now by urging local seeds- 

 men to buy and pay for only such clover 

 and alfalfa seed as the wholesaler will 

 guarantee to be free from dodder, and 

 to have a sprouting power of eighty-five 

 per cent and purity of ninety-five per 

 cent. Such seed will cost more than the 

 mixed or low-grade seed, and will be 

 worth much more than the difference. 

 Do not buy clover seed until you have 

 had its vitality and purity tested by the 

 Experiment Station, and both are found 

 satisfactory. There is some pure seed in 

 the market, and there will be plenty of 

 it when inferior seed finds no buyers." 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 



of New York for the week ending July 



25 were as follows: 



Kind. PkK8. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Caraway MO $7385 Millet 200 | 623 



Cardamom .. 16 490 Mustard 300 3420 



Clover 316 8642 Poppy 1 18 



Fennel 19 224 Rape 50 412 



Grass 24 319 Other 1194 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$4,452. 



THE STOECKER SEED CO. 



Bef erring to the incorporation of the 

 Stoecker Seed Co., at Peoria, 111., re- 

 ported in last week's Eeview, the Peoria 

 Transcript says: • . 



"A charter petition was filed with 

 the secretary of state yesterday by L. F. 

 Stoecker, president of the Weber Seed 

 Co.; K. and N. W. Stoecker, promoters 

 of industries, and Ernie Nuzicker, live 

 stock dealer, to engage in the raising 

 and selling of all kinds of garden, field 

 and flower seeds, trees, shrubbery and 

 implements, foreign as well as domestic, 

 and to do a general grain, flower and 

 seed business, wholesale and retail. 



"June 18, 1863, C. A. Taylor, of 

 this city, opened a seed store in con- 

 nection with farmers' implements. He 

 sold his seed business to Sery & Bouse 

 in 1865. The firm was changed a few 

 years later to Bouse & Hassat, and in 

 1897 Andrew Weber & Son bought it, 

 continuing in business until March 5, 

 1902, when L. F. Stoecker became the 

 head, calling the firm the Weber Seed 



