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0Cf*OBER 1; 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



33 



Colored 

 Flower 

 and 

 Vegetable 



SEED 

 BAGS 



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Herndon &' Lester, Inc. 



RICHMOND, VA. 



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the acreage are not excessive, yet the crop 

 is going to get well ripened up. and in 

 all probability there will be enough to 

 go around and prices must be moderate. 



"Vine seeds of all kinds are on the 

 short side. The red onions are also short 

 in supply and those that grow on contract 

 are not filling their contract orders. 



"Beet seed is a short crop and many 

 other articles on the list will also be 

 known as short items before the season 

 goes by. Prices are bound to rule strong 

 on everything above mentioned." 



NEBRASKA SEED CROPS. 



Wm. Emerson, manager of the West- 

 ern Seed and Irrigation Co., Fremont, 

 Neb., has made a tour of the district on 

 crop inspection. Writing September 23, 

 he said: 



"The writer has just inspected our 

 melon crops, and regret to state found 

 them even poorer than anticipated. The 

 prospects, therefore, are very unfavor- 

 able for anything like one-half an aver- 

 age crop of muskmelon and watermelon, 

 and in a very large number of cases the 

 crops will not pay to harvest, and we will 

 not be able to secure suflScient seed for 

 our own planting. 



"Pumpkin and squash will also be 

 rather light crops, but we believe in most 

 eases somewhat better than the cucumber 

 and melon. 



"Sweet and field corn crops are matur- 

 ing nicely, and while some of the later 

 crops arc quite badly worm-eaten, we 

 hope to have, generally speaking, fair 

 yields and good quality to apply upon 

 our orders. We believe, however, that 

 some of the very late crops of replanted 

 com will prove to be somewhat light and 

 chaffy, on account of the very hot 

 weather ripening these late crops too 

 quickly, and which, of course, will have 

 a tendency to reduce the yield." 



THE CROP OF FESCUES. 



Conrad Appel, Darmstadt, Germany, 

 ^rote under date of September 10, in 

 part, as follows of the several varieties 

 •f f estuca : 



"Festuca elatior, the guaranteed true 

 Bhenish product, which is only grown in 

 a small district, yielded much less than 

 last year. Consequently a higher price 

 had to be granted for the rough seed; 

 therefore the recleaned qualities, specially 

 the superior grades, will demand higher 

 figures. The new crop produced a seed 

 of first-class quality, and I can only 

 advise everybody, who knows the ad- 

 rantage specially of this true Ehenish 

 product, to commence buying in his 

 stock now. Some parties try to use 

 Festuca pratensis as an equivalent fo^ 

 this sort, because in former normal years 

 the latter reached double the figure 



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MUford, Conn. 

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 Sister Bay, Wis. 



S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



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which had to be paid for the other kind; 

 but Festuca pratensis cannot at all re- 

 place the true Rhenish tall fescue, the 

 latter having a much higher value for 

 agriculture. This year, owing to the 

 enormous price of Festuca pratensis, 

 everybody should prefer Festuca elatior. 



"Of Festuca duriuscula and Festuca 

 ovina, at the beginning of the season 

 there were hopes for a good crop, but 

 in July before the harvest started we 

 found out that many fields had been 

 thickly covered with clover and in con- 

 sequence have been used to make hay. 

 The grounds left for seed production 

 represent only a small percentage of the 

 whole acreage, so that the result is much 

 behind last year's yield. The buying 

 prices, particularly for cleaner, better 

 qualities, went up rapidly and reached 

 the limits we had in 1901. Many lots of 

 the new crop are intermixed with sorrel, 

 trefoil in shells and seradella, which 

 makes it costly to clean them and raises 

 the prices for the fancy and still more 

 for the superfine grades; the same situa- 

 tions and sale prices we had already in 

 1901. as mentioned before. 



"Festuca ovina angustifolia yielded 

 somewhat better than last season, Ijut the 

 gseat competition in this seed, which only 



Waldo Rohnert 



GBLROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mi^onette, Verbena, In variety. Oor- 

 respondence solicited. 



seat'aXe. wash. 



Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



grows in certain small countries, induced 

 the owners to keep prices high, and 

 therefore we were compelled to pay their 

 figures. The seed shows this year a qual- 

 ity which gives entire satisfaction, is of 

 bright color and heavy grain. 



"Of Festuca heterophylla and Festuca 

 rubra home-grown seeds had only been 

 collected in small lots and command high 

 prices as usual. This year New Zealand 

 had an average crop in Festuca rubra." 



CATALCX3UES RECEIVED. 



Lord & Burnham Co., New York, N. 

 Y., Burnham boilers; J. Murray Bassett, 

 Hammonton, N. J., dahlias, gladioli, iris 

 and phlox; Anton Schultheis, College 

 Point, N. Y., decorative and flowering 

 plants; Soupert & Notting, Luxemburg, 

 Germany, roses; P. J. Berckmans Co., 

 Augusta, Ga., general nursery stock; An- 

 derson Floral Co., Anderson, S. C, bulbs, 

 roses, greenhouse plants and supplies; 



