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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



June 10, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



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

 First Vlce-pres., J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. £. Kendei, Cleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Niagara 

 Falls, Ont., June 22 to 24, 1909. 



The Cottage tulips will be the feature 

 of many of the fall bulb catalogues. 



The turnip seed lists bo far at hand 

 show better prices than those of last year. 



Visited Chicago. — Charles P. Braslan, 

 of Braslan Seed Growers' Co., San Jose, 

 Cal. 



The radish seed crops of Michigan are 

 said to be looking well. Conditions so 

 far have been favorable. 



The California growers report crops 

 in general to be in good condition, but 

 they qualify their reports by saying that 

 the. critical period is yet to come. 



Peas are reported to show a good 

 stand; the crops are somewhat behind 

 what they were at this time last year, but 

 there is every reason to think that the 

 liatvest will be as good as usual. 



,. The bean growers have now got what 

 acreages they need, according to reports. 

 Planting is progressing at some places 

 and the outlook for a normal crop is as 

 good as it has been at this date for some 

 years back. 



Outside of the Nebraska district, the 

 growers of the central west are not look- 

 ing for any great increase in vine seed 

 product. In most cases it looks as though 

 a considerable decrease in the acreage 

 will be the rule. The Nebraska district 

 is excepted because of lack of news from 

 that region. 



Trade in general for the week has been 

 normal, according to reports from the 

 wholesalers. The market garden seeds- 

 men, on the other hand, report sales far 

 in excess of last year 's at even date. The 

 mail order business counts for little and 

 counter trade outside of the market gar- 

 den department is only a trifle better 

 than normal. 



Theee is an old saying that "politics 

 makes strange bed-fellows," and so do 

 the exigencies of that modern occupa- 

 tion, being a press agent. Not long ago 

 one William Wolff Smith, a Washington 

 press agent, was conducting a campaign 

 for the Wholesale Seedsmen's League 

 against the congressional seed distribu- 

 tion; now Mr. Smith is engaged by in- 

 terests attacking the packers who use 

 benzoate of soda, while a number of 

 wholesale seedsmen are contributing to 

 a fund being raised by canners to adver- 

 tise the purity of canned goods. 



The weather continues to cause much 

 uneasiness to the onion set growers in 

 the Chicago district. Continued rains 

 give no chance to do the much needed 

 weeding. The cultivators are being run 

 between showers, but it has been impos- 

 sible to get the hand weeding done. The 

 long delay in getting the seed into the 

 ground gave the onion plants no chance 

 to get ahead of the weeds, so that both 

 the plants and the weeds stand an equal 

 chance at present, as to growth, with con- 

 ditions favoring the weeds. The acreage 

 at Chicago is no larger than it was last 

 year and the adverse conditions point to 

 a considerably shorter crop. 



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The peas this year will not be ready 

 to rogue by the usual date. It is likely 

 to be July before much of this work can 

 be done. 



The Sluis Seed Store, established last 

 season at 644 West Sixty-third street, 

 Chicago, has opened a market gardeners' 

 branch store at 21 South Halsted street, 

 near the Haymarket square. 



Howard W. Earl left Philadelphia 

 June 3 via New Orleans and the South- 

 ern Pacific for California, and next 

 week will be joined by W. Atlee Burpee 

 and his son, David Burpee, in looking 

 over the contract crops there. 



At Knoxville, Tenn., June 1, Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture J. W. Thompson 

 had a meeting with local seedsmen for 

 consideration of the administration of 

 the new seed law in Tennessee. The fol- 

 lowing seedsmen were present: Joe 

 Broyles, of the Broyles-Hackney Co. ; S. 

 Kaiser, of Kaiser Bros.; W. W. Scar- 

 borough, of W. W. Scarborough & Co.; 

 F. S. Keap and George Ketchen, of C. W. 

 Henderson & Co., and a representative of 

 Eoss Bros., Louisville. Prof. H. A. Mor- 

 gan, of the University of Tennessee, rep- 

 resented the agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion at the meeting. 



Novelties and Qops for 

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The Routzabn Seed Co. announce 

 that their Novelties, consistinK of 

 many new and beautiful Spencer 

 type of Sweet Peas, Gorgeous Nas- 

 turtiums of both flower and foliage, 

 and other crops, will be ready for 

 the insDection of the Trade from 

 about June 15 to July 15. A cordial 

 invitation is extended to all interested. 



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