Juke 3, 1909. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review, 



39 



the island famous all over the country. 

 From Mattituck Mr. Brill went to River- 

 bead, in the same county, and after a few 

 years he removed to Hempstead, where he 

 has since resided and carried on his seed 

 business. Besides being successful in 

 practical affairs, he is recognized as an 

 authority in the discussion of subjects 

 connected with his life-work and is the 

 author of a book entitled "Farm Gar- 

 dening and Seed Growing." 



Mr. Brill has been prominent politic- 

 ally, and is still interested, as a good 

 citizen, in public affairs. In 1876, while 

 a resident of Mattituck, Mr. Brill was 

 elected on the Democratic ticket as a 

 membel- of assembly from Suffolk county. 

 For several years he served as town clerk 

 of the town of Hempstead. In both 

 positions he gave practical evidence of 

 his devotion to the people's interests. 



Nine children have been born to Mr. 

 and Mrs. Brill, five of whom are still liv- 

 ing. They are Walter A. Brill, Mrs. 

 John S. Nichols, Jr., Mrs. Louis F. Huleu 

 and Miss Minnie A. Brill, of Hempstead, 

 and Katharine A., who a few years ago 

 married Walter Bodger, a member of the 

 firm of John Bodger & Sons, seed grow- 

 ers, of Gardena, Los Angeles county, Cal. 



FOREIGN COMMERCE IN SEEDS. 



In the month of March, 1909, our im- 

 ports of seeds, compared with the same 

 month in 1908, decreased $43,468, while 

 our exports increased $128,237. The 

 figures are as follows: 



. . 1908. 1909. 



iJopoTts $632,374 $588,906 



'•sports 352,746 480,983 



Balance against us $279,628 $107,923 



DRY IN CALIFORNIA. 



W. J. Fosgate considers the situation 

 in California, everything considered, to 

 be as good as could be expected. At 

 Santa Clara May 24 he said: 



"The prospects for a good seed crop 

 are very promising, but we cannot say 

 now just what effect the long, continuous 

 dry weather will have. We have had no 

 rain since the floods in February. I have 

 seen most of the other seed farms, and 

 everything looks favorable." 



CONDITIONAL VARIATIONS. 



The uninformed gardener often blames 

 the seedsman for apparent departures 

 from an established type as to form, col- 

 or or development, when really the varia- 

 tion is attributable entirely to some ab- 

 normal climatic influence of the year or 

 years preceding, as they affected the at- 

 mosphere or soil at periods during the 

 growth of the parent plants. 



This is interestingly illustrated this 

 season on Bloomsdale Farm, where on one 

 field are two pieces of radish growing for 

 seed, the identical strain of the indicated 

 sort which we have been growing for 

 over twenty years and usually as much 

 alike as pennies from the mint. This 

 year one-half of the patch is from hand- 

 selected roots of the crop of 1907, the 

 other half of hand-selected roots of the 

 crop of 1908, but the growing crops of 

 1909 exhibit a marked difference in color 

 and vigor of foliage. The crop from the 

 older seed, grown and harvested through- 

 out a rainy summer, is thirty per cent 

 stronger in top, while the other, grown 

 and harvested in a dry season, shows a 

 dwarfing in habit— both of the same, 

 identical breed and the same progenitors. 

 The two examples are so variable as to 

 give good grounds for an observer con- 



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