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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Jdne 1, 1911. 



date. One of the results of the dryness 

 and heat has been an unparalleled at- 

 tack by vermin, the most vigorous 

 measures being necessary this year to 

 save the plants. The root crops were 

 aeriously attacked, and those carrots of 

 the finer garden kinds suffered severely. 

 The field kinds suffered less, but tur- 

 nips, parsnips and kohlrabi were badly 

 affected. Beet came off somewhat bet- 

 ter and the brassicas, while not un- 

 scathed, promise well. Cauliflowers are 

 quite up to the average. 



At Quedlinburg the winter also was 

 mild and April 2 there came a heat 

 wave, followed a few days later by 

 extreme cold, frost doing a great deal 

 of harm to growing seed crops, bien- 

 nials and perennials, as well as early 

 sown annuals. Some fields of the lat- 

 ter were entirely destroyed by the frost 

 and had to be resown. The weather 

 in this district also has been extremely 

 dry, making planting unusually difficult 

 and many of the seeds slow to germi- 

 nate. On the whole, the Quedlinburg 

 growers consider their start this year 

 one of the poorest in many seasons. 

 Business in both vegetable and flower 

 seeds this season was unusually good. 



EASTERN PEAS ABE LATE. 



An authority in the canning trade 

 said the other day: "Interest now cen- 

 ters in the pea situation, which is some- 

 what unusual. The dry weather pre- 

 vailing in most of the producing sec- 

 tions has retarded the development of 

 crops and put the packing season back 

 a week or more. The reports from Del- 

 aware and the eastern shore are espe- 

 cially doleful. According to these the 

 vines are not over a few inches high 

 and are already in bloom, so that if 

 irain does not come soon the canners 

 are afraid they will not get much more 

 than half of last season's pack. Few 

 of the prominent southern packers have 

 yet made quotations, and they are not 

 anxious to secure orders until they get 

 a better line on their probable pack. 

 Reports from Indiana are not reassur- 

 ing for those buyers who looked for 

 early deliveries from that quarter, as, 

 according to all accounts, the crop there 

 is at least a week later than usual. Not 

 much is being said with reference to 

 Wisconsin prospects, but the inference 

 is that they are no worse than usual at 

 this time of the year, or, in other 

 words, that an average pack may be 

 expected. ' ' 



AUTOS AID CANXEBS. 



The canners find the automobile 

 makes possible a radical change in 

 methods, greatly increasing their radius 

 of operations. In discussing the sub- 

 ject, George G. Bailey, of Eome, N. Y.,' 

 formerly president of the National Can- 

 ners' Association, said: 



"As you know, one of the chief ob- 

 stacles the canner always has faced 

 in maintaining a sufficient output has 

 been his ability to grow enough raw 

 material near enough to the factory to 

 bring it from the field, prepare it and 

 get it into the cookers while fresh and 

 crisp. "With farmers dependent on 

 horse-drawn wagons for hauling their 

 produce to the canneries, stuff would 

 wilt and be useless for canning pur- 

 poses if grown more than three or four 

 miles from the plant. It has meant re- 

 (?tricted acreage on the one side or sup- 

 plementary plants in scattered centers 

 as the alternative. 



"Someone suggested that we buy a 



per 5000, $30.00 

 per 5000, 25.00 

 per 5000, 30.00 



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