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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 15, 1008. 



'Window of Henry A. Dteet, Philadelphia, During Founders' Week Celebration. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHKBICAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

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



E. V. Hallock, Floral Park, N. Y., 

 sends out 100,000 catalogues. 



H. A. Bunyard, with Arthur T. Bod- 

 dington. New York, has returned from a 

 trip to England. 



It is reported that the holly in Dela- 

 ware is of fair quality but not so abun- 

 dant as might be wished. Shippers are 

 holding off for a pretty stiff price before 

 accepting orders even from regular cus- 

 tomers. 



At Chicago October 13 timothy seed 

 was unchanged. October closed at $3.50 

 bid and March $3.70 bid and $3.75 asked. 

 Country lots, $2.30@3.40. Clover seed 

 was off 50 cents. October closed at $8. 

 Cash lots, $6.50@8. 



At St. Louis, October 7, the United 

 States District Court confirmed the com- 

 position offered by the St. Louis Seed 

 Co. and creditors have received from the 

 clerk of the court thirty-three and one 

 third per cent of their claims. 



Mr. Tweedale, who has been seventeen 

 years in the flower seed and bulb depart- 

 ment of Peter Henderson & Co., New 

 York, started October 10, in company 

 with William Park, another employee of 

 the firm, for a trip to Europe for his 

 health. A Marconigram reached the 

 house October 12 that he had died on 

 board the ship and had been buried at 

 sea. P. O'Mara speaks highly of the life 

 and character of the deceased. He was 

 38 years old and unmarried. 



FOUNDERS' WEEK AT DREER'S. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 reproduced from photographs showing 

 the decorations of the Chestnut street 

 establishment of Henry A. Dreer during 

 the celebration of founders' week in 

 Philadelphia. 



The window decorations were interest- . 

 ing to many strangers on their way down 

 Chestnut street to visit Independence hall 

 and other places of historic interest in 

 which this neighborhood abounds. The 

 colors used in these decorations were blue 

 and gold, which are the city colors. In 

 the floral window hardy larkspur was 

 used for blue and yellow dahlias for gold, 

 tastefully arranged so that each color 

 would show distinctly. The vegetable 

 window displayed pumpkins and squashes 

 of golden yellow and dark green, the 

 nearest they could come to blue. Many 

 large and heavy specimens were used, 

 each tagged showing weight, and this 

 feature proved especially interesting to 

 the many persons who stopped to look at 

 the display. A large show card painted 

 in blue and gold bore the words, "Some 

 Pumpkins." 



The photograph showing the windows 

 was taken late at night, with no other 

 light than the ordinary electric lights in 

 the windows, and has been pronounced 

 an excellent piece of night photography. 



THE CROPS. 



The government's October crop report 



shows that the corn crop shrank, in the 



estimates, 54,000,000 bushels since the 



September report and is likely to be 



some 48,000,000 bushels less than the 



1907 outturn. The report shows: 



Bushels. 1908. 1907. 



Spring wheat 2.33,090,000 224,ti4.-..000 



Winter wheat 42r).94O.O00 409,442,000 



Total wheat fir.9,0.'jo.000 «:j4, 087,000 



Corn 2,.">44.0fK>.noO 2,r)92,:S20.0C»O 



Oats 789. 101,000 7.54,44.'!.0OO 



Rarloy Iti7.242,00o ir>.3,. "97.000 



Rye .'{0,921, OUO 31,5«0,000 



PEAS, BEANS AND OTHER CROPS. 



Arthur B. Clark, president of the 

 Everett B. Clark Seed Co., writes as 

 follows from East Jordan, Mich., under 

 date of October 9: 



"We can now make a fairly intelligent 

 report on the 1908 crop of peas, as a 

 fair portion of our crop is already in 

 store. While we have very few deliveries 

 of beans, we think we are able to esti- 

 mate pretty well the outcome of that 

 crop. 



"Our crop of peas, taking both Wis- 

 consin and Michigan together, is just 

 about a counterpart of the 1907 crop. 

 There is this difference, however, that 

 the Michigan crop is somewhat better 

 this year than a year ago, while the 

 Wisconsin crop is less than a year ago, 

 the average of the two remaining about 

 identical. Another difference is, that 

 this year the dwarfs and early varieties, 

 such as Gradus and Thomas Laxton, are 

 much shorter than they have been for 

 years. This is due to the dry, hot winds 

 of middle June. The Gradus and Lax- 

 ton are particularly short, several grow- 

 ers reporting barely twofold on Gradus. 



"The writer has just returned from a 

 trip through several of the growing sec- 

 tions in both states, and finds no one to 

 be faring any better than ourselves. 

 This, again, augurs a short supply and a 

 recurrence of last season's high values, 

 in view of the fact that a year ago there 

 were two or three sections where there 

 was a large acreage that yielded well. 

 This year the drought has been prac- 

 tically universal and the crop conse- 

 quently everywhere short. 



"Beans look to us, from present indi- 

 cations, like just about a half crop. The 

 sample is of pretty good color, but very 

 small. We have had frost in some one 

 of our bean growing sections each month 

 of the summer, and these frosts, coupled 

 with the drought, have brought about the 



