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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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five per cent higher than at the same 

 time last year. There does not appear 

 to be any proportionate difference in 

 the quantity of any of the colors, com- 

 pared with last year. White sets usually 

 bring 15 to 25 cents per bushel more 

 than either of the other colors, From 

 the reports so far received, well posted 

 dealers in sets are of the opinion that 

 the percentage of advance in the prices 

 now prevailing will continue to hold good 

 for the full season. It may be that if 

 we get a real stiff, cold winter, spring 

 prices will be fifty per cent higher than 

 they were last spring. 



PEAS AND BEANS. 



An operator in^the Michigan growing 

 territory wrote as follows to the Eeview 

 under date of September 18: 



"We have nothing new to report in 

 reference to pea and bean crops, except 

 to say that all are coming in short of es- 

 timates that were made in the fields. We 

 expect that both peas and beans will be 

 of gdod quality, except that beans will 

 probably be smaller than usual on ac- 

 count of the dry weather. 



"Commercial beans remain very firm 

 at a slight advance and it looks as though 

 they will remain firm during the season. 

 In our opinion it is absolutely unneces- 

 sary for seedsmen to give away their 

 peas and beans at low prices. Those who 

 have contracted ahead for their full sup- 

 ply of both peas and beans have made 

 no mistake. 



^Please do not mention our nam6 in 

 any' note you make from this letter, as 

 it might give the dealers a wrong im- 

 pression. They might charge us with try- 

 ing to bull the market when as a matter 

 of fact we are not, as we have but very 

 few of either peas or beans to sell." 



MICHIGAN SEED CROPS. 



S. M. Isbell & Co., Jackson, Mich., 

 write as follows under date of September 

 19: ''Conditions are not. satisfactory. 

 We have had a most unfavorable season. 

 The spring was late, and while planting 

 time was followed by some favorable 

 weather, yet before the crops were far 

 enough along, it became too dry and has 

 remained so up to the present time. It 

 is well known that peas are very short 

 and we do not believe beans will run over 

 fifty per cent, on an average; vine crops 

 probably twenty per cent to thirty per 

 cent. Conditions this year were very un- 

 usual for Michigan, as this state is usu- 

 ally favored with good growing weather. ' ' 



Darling & Beahan^^ of Petoskey, Mich., 

 make a specialty of peas, beans and po- 

 tatoes for seed purposes. They endeavor 

 to keep pretty well posted on these three 

 lines, but say they do not pay much at- 

 tention to other lines of seeds except in a 

 retail way. Under date of September 19 

 they say: 



"The 1908 pea ccop with us is very 

 poor indeed and as near as we can learn 

 it is about the same all oyer the Michi- 

 gan pea growing district. While our own 

 crops are not all in, we have received 

 enough from the farmers to give us an 

 idea of how they will run. Hosford's 

 .Market Garden, Bliss' Abundance, Sur- 

 prise, Telephone and Champion of Eng- 

 land are averaging about three-fifths of 

 an average crop; Everbearing, American 

 Wonder, Ameer, Advancer, Thomas Lax- 

 ton and Early Market about one-half of 

 an average; Alaska, Extra Early and 

 Nott's Excelsior about two-fifths of an 

 average; Gradus and Gems about one- 

 fourth of an average. 



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S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



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Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



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"As we said before, these figures are 

 based on crops which have already been 

 delivered. While they ought to indicate 

 pretty accurately what the final result 

 will be, crops that come in later may run 

 a little better, or worse, and change th5ni~ 

 somewhat. 



"Up to the present time few beans 

 have come in, so we can not form any 

 estimate from crops already in hand. We 

 are confident, however, from the inspec- 

 tion of crops in the field, that we will 

 not receive more than one-half of an 

 average crop. Wardwell's Kidney Wax 

 and Davis' White Wax have suffered the 

 most. Golden Wax and Black Wax and 

 the green pod sorts wiy be some better. 



"Potatoes will not be ijne-half of an 

 average crop in this vicinity, and from 

 reports we have had we are confident 

 that they are pretty poor all over the 

 state. 



' ' These bad conditions have been 

 brought about by unfavorable weather. 

 The spring was late and cold, so that 

 early sowed peas and beans rotted in the 

 ground and did not come up. June was 

 very dry, with hot winds, which damaged 

 the early peas to a great extent. About 

 July 4 we had a good rain, but have not 

 had any since that time. Along about 



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GDiROY, CAL. 



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the last of August we had a bad freeze, 

 which finished up what the bad weather 

 had left on low land. Potatoes and corn 

 on high land are still in fair condition, 

 so far as frost goes, but they are now 

 too far gone for rain to help them. 



"Take it all together, we have had a 

 very unfavorable season for growing our 

 specialties, so that we will be buyers of 

 some varieties of peas, beans and pota- 

 toes instead of having a surplus to whole- 

 sale, as is usually the case." 



THE HOLLAND BULBS. 



The export houses in Holland have 

 been working at high pressure to deliver' 

 the goods, but the weather has been 

 against them for the last three weeks. 

 Such goods as anemones and ranunculus 

 could not be delivered, owing to the ab- 

 sence of sunshine, which is required to 

 dry these roots. Owing to the continued 

 rainfall that followed the long dry spell, 



