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The Weekly Florists^ Re view^ 



Bbptdmbbb 3, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBIC AN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pree., Watson 8. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

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

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



It is reported that French Boman hya- 

 cinth bulbs are pretty well cleaned up. 



The L. L. Olds Seed Co. has complet- 

 ed its removal from Clinton to Madison, 

 Wis. 



Collectors say the seed of bouglas 

 spruce are unprecedentedly scarce this 

 season. 



The tomato crop in Delaware is dis- 

 appointing. Growers say the trouble 

 lies in the long drought and the heavy, 

 cold rains which followed. 



The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., 

 Owatonna, Minn., will go into the seed 

 business for next season. 



8. Groot, Jr., eldest son of S. Groot, 

 of Sluis & Groot, seed growers, Enk- 

 huizen, Holland, has been admitted a 

 partner in the firm. ^ 



Charles N. Page has been elected 

 president of the Iowa State Florists' So- 

 ciety. He already was president of the 

 Iowa Seed Dealers' Association. 



The California crop of onion seed has 

 been harvested without unfavorable con- 

 ditions interfering. The yield is gen- 

 erally understood to be good, but the 

 acreage was short. 



RiCHAEDiA Mrs. Roosevelt, a variety 

 of American origin, introduced to the 

 trade in 1905, was given a first-class cer- 

 tificate at the recent meeting of the 

 Dutch Bulb Growers' Society at Haar- 

 lem, Holland. 



The sweet corn in Nebraska has been 

 making good progress the last few weeks 

 and, with no early frost, the crop is 

 likely to be much better than was at 

 first thought, but the prospect for vine 

 seeds is not improved. 



Work on the 1909 catalogues is well 

 along in many houses, but the question 

 of prices still remains to be considered. 

 From present indications there will be 

 few reductions and many advances as 

 compared with last year. 



Hugh Low & Co., the English seeds- 

 men, say that this year the crop of 

 cyclamen seed is a fine one, and that 

 they appreciate a good year after last 

 season's dull, sunless weather. Follow- 

 ing on the demand for Low's Salmon 

 King, they have nearly as much seed of 

 this variety harvested as of all the other 

 varieties put together, except their 

 Giant White. 



When France placed an embargo on 

 the importation of American nursery 

 products, bulbs were included. Now an 

 influentially signed petition against the 

 interdiction on bulbs has been lodged 

 with the French government. The French 

 nurserymen point out that their chief 

 imports from the U. S. A. are liliums 

 and tuberoses, neither of which could act 

 as a vehicle for the importation of the 

 San Jose scale; their purchases of 

 shrubs, etc., being quite insignificant. 

 It is said the only effect of the recent 

 law has been that what American bulbs 

 are urgently required are imported via 

 England and Germany at an extra cost 

 of thirty to forty per cent. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



48-66 jackaon St., Sail Fraiicisco, Cal. 



THK LARGEST SKKD GROWERS ON THE PACiriC COAST 



Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



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Carrot, Celery, Leek» Mustard, Parsley, Parsnip, Radish, Salsify 



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THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED C0.° 



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



MlUord, Conn. 

 Q Baat Jordan, Bllcllt 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



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S.IM.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmeion 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 



■^^Wrlte for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 i^^v tor Immediate Sliipment 



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IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 



of New York for the week ending August 



22 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind Pkgs. Val. 



Anise 80 $ 970 Ht-mp 26 f 85 



Caraway .. 725 6765 Millet 450 1080 



Clover 1017 20001 Rape 108 808 



Cumin ... 94 1853 Other 6823 



Oraas 326 3082 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$30,713. 



SEED CROPS IN HOLLAND. 



Although last winter was not exceed- 

 ingly severe in Holland, the late frosts 

 of last spring destroyed large quanti- 

 ties of all root crops. Cabbages, tur- 

 nips, and parsley suffered. During the 

 latter part of last spring and the early 

 part of the summer we had favorable 

 weather, but this was followed by persis- 

 tent drought with an east wind, and 

 many plants of the brassica type did not 

 develop well and suffered from insects 

 in the pods, together with other vermin. 



Cauliflowers were looking well at the 

 middle of August, although they showed 

 the effects of the dry weather and winds. 



Waldo Rohnerf 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 CosmoB, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oo^ 

 reepondence solicited. 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Gro'wers of 



PUGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



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LONG ISLAND CABBAGE, CAULI- 

 FLOWER and other CHOICE SEEDS 

 lor DEALERS, TRUCKERS, and 

 PLANT GROWERS. 



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NEIPSTUD. (L. I.) 

 NEW YORK 



Cabbages, Brussels sprouts and borecole 

 promise only a medium crop and in some 

 places they look even bad, especially on 

 account of the plants having started to 

 grow again after having produced a 

 great many pods. This is due to the 

 fact that rains came too late and it is, 

 of course, highly detrimental to the un- 

 developed seeds in the pods. 



Turnips and swedes suffered largely 

 last spring, and the remainder do not 



