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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



'Septbmbeb 10, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

 Sec'y and Treas., 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 



Hjalmar Habtmann, the Copenhagen 

 seed grower, is now in Paris. 



The New York seedsmen are busy — 

 exhibiting at or attending the numerous 

 Long Island agricultural fairs. 



The U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture has imported from Holland fifty- 

 two cases of Dutch buibs f»r use in its 

 bulb-growing experiments. 



The first considerable shipment of 

 Dutch bulbs last season was received at 

 New York September 3. They were ten 

 days earlier this year. 



It is said that ' ' variety is the spice of 

 life." You can get it in the reports on 

 western sweet corn; one says too cold, 

 another too dry ; yet a third, weather fine 

 and crops progressing rapidly. 



TritOTHY seed was steady at Chicago 

 at the opening of the week. September 8 

 the September delivery closed at $3.55 

 bid and $3.65 asked, and October $3.40 

 bid and $3.55 asked. Country lots, $2.85 

 to $3.50. Clover seed was easy at $9.60 

 for October and $8.50 to $9.60 for cash 

 lots. 



The H^ry Field Seed Co., of Shen- 

 andoah, la,, has purchased the wholesale 

 bulb business of O. B. Stevens, of the 

 same place, and will add it to their own 

 large bulb business. The sale includes 

 the growing stock, amounting to about 

 35,000 dahlias, about 40,000 cannas, 

 4,000 German iris and 50,000 perennial 

 phlox. The combining of these two firms 

 of bulb growers and their collections 

 will make a very strong bulb business in 

 Shenandoah. 



NiMMO & Blair, seed merchants of 

 Dunedin, New Zealand, are buyers of 

 American seeds, but sell little in this 

 country; still the conditions that they 

 meet in New Zealand are in some re- 

 spects 80 similar to those in this country 

 that they have adopted the Seed Trade 

 Association's, non-warranty, and it is 

 stated on alt letter-heads and printed 

 matter that "Nimmo & Blair give no 

 warranty, express or implied, as to the 

 description, quality, productiveness or 

 any other matter of seeds they send out, 

 and they will not in any way be respon- 

 sible for the crop. If purchaser does 

 not accept the seeds on these terms they 

 are at once to be returned. ' ' 



THE CORN CROP. 



The Department of Agriculture issued 

 its September crop statement September 

 8, basing its deductions on reports re- 

 ceived from its thousands of correspond- 

 ents up to the first day of the month. 

 The average condition of the crop was 

 given as 79.4, compared to 82.5 August 

 1, 80.2 September 1, 1907, and 90.2 Sep- 

 tember 1, 1906. On the popular basis of 

 computation the figures indicate a total 

 yield of about 2,598,000,000 bushels, 

 compared to 2,702,000,000 bushels indi- 

 cated by the August statement, and ap- 

 proximately 2,592,300,000 bushels har- 

 vested last fall. 



The following table gives the condi- 

 tion of corn in the important producing 



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BliUord, Conn. 

 East Jordan, BUob. 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



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GILROT, CAL. 



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JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muslcmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



Correspondence Solicited 



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 for Immediate Shipment 



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states, with that of August 1, 1908, Sep- 

 tember 1, 1907, and a. ten-year average, 

 and percentages of the total acreage: 



Sept. 1 Acreage, 



Sept.l, Sept.l, lOyr. Aag.l, pet. 



States. 1908. 1907. avge. 1908. U. S. 



Illinois ., 72 86 84 77 9.2 



Iowa 80 76 83 83 9.0 



Texas 85 80 75 86 7.8 



Missouri 72 86 81 74 7.5 



Nebraska 82 76 78 86 7.5 



Kansas 72 72 71 76 6.9 



Oklahoma 78 71 77 80 4.9 



Indiana 69 84 87 75 4.5 



Georgia 84 92 85 89 4.5 



Ohio 82 77 84 85 3.4 



Kentucky 80 87 86 83 3.3 



Tennessee 84 86 82 84 3.0 



Alabama 84 87 84 87 3.0 



North Carolina ..84 92 84 91 2.8 



Arkansas 80 62 80 79 2.6 



Mississippi 87 77 80 86 2.6 



All others 84 80 84 86 17.5 



United States.. 79. 4 80.2 81.0 82.5 100 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 oi New York for the week ending August 

 29 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Grass 513 S4214 



750 6240 Millet 100 260 



.21 1067 Mustard ...1124 8599 



Rape 315 2006 



Other 9783 



In the same period the imports of 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Anise _^10 1209 



Caraway 



Cardamom 



ClHstor ...10476 18603 



Clover 102 3463 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, After, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oor- 

 respondence solicited. 



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Growers of 



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bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 .$37,322. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Fraser Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., 

 fruit trees, shrubs and other nursery 

 stoak; Allen's Garden, Lebanon, Ore., 

 peonies and dahlias; Henry F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, Pa., wholesale and 

 general catalogues of bulbs, seeds, plants, 

 tools, fertilizers and other supplies; 

 Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N, Y., 

 ' ' A Business ProT>osition for Seeds- 

 men ; ' ' Shatemuc Nurseries, Barrytowa, 

 N. Y., flowering shrubs, herbaceous 

 plants, fruit trees, ornamental trees and 

 other nursery stock; Franz Birnstiel, Co- 

 burg, Germany, baskets. 



Herbington's book on mums sent by 



the Review for 50 cents. 



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