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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 17, 1911. 



the season, when the crops are too ma- 

 ture to be cultivated without injury, and 

 it soon produces a mat of foliage tliat 

 completely covers the ground. No satis- 

 factory means of combating it have yet 

 been discovered. Government experts 

 are now at work endeavoring to discover 

 some method of exterminating it or keep 

 ing it in check. 



A most impressive sight was the Fair 

 Oaks seed farm of the Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co., San Jose, Cal., when the 

 writer visited it August 2. The farm 

 contains 850 acres and is some two 

 miles long, the crops being mainly let- 

 t'tice and onion. The land is perfectly 

 level and the stand of lettuce was so 

 uniform that the sweeping view gave 

 somewhat the effect of a beautifully 

 figured table cloth. Harvesting had al- 

 ready begun and though ninety hands 

 were then in the field, the foreman was 

 asking for forty more, as the seed was 

 ripening so rapidly. To the writer 

 crop results here seemed to be all that 

 could possibly be desired, and the auto- 

 mobile ride through two miles of let- 

 tuce was an experience that will long 

 be remembered. Several other farms 

 of the Braslan Co. were visited, the 

 acreage being largely onion for seed, 

 and all promised a good average crop. 



BULB AWABDS IN HOLLAITD. 



The following awards of merit were 

 made at the recent meetings of the 

 floral committee of the General Bulb 

 Growers' Society of Haarlem: 



Leucanthemum maximum excelsum, with pure 

 white flowers of an extraordinary size, raised 

 from seed, G. Leestraton & Sons, Oegstgeest. 



Gladiolus Electra, new variety raised from 

 seed, with brilliant vermilion flowers, size, form 

 and color extra, P. Hopman & Sons, Hillegom. 



Gladiolus HohenzoUern, new variety, raised 

 from seed, flowers rosy salmon, spotted reddish 

 brown, J. Barth Bos, Overveen. 



Gladiolus nanceianus Willy Wigman, new va- 

 riety, flowers rosy white, spotted purple, G. 

 Leestraton & Sons. . 



Gladiolus Meteor, new variety, raised from 

 seed, flowers scarlet shaded brownish red, form 

 and color extra, J. Barth Bos. 



Gladiolus nanceianus Golden West, new vn 

 riety, originally from California, raised from 

 seed, flowers orange brilliant spotted carmine, 

 N. Dames, Llsse. 



Gladiolus Gaudavensis Ivorlne, flowers creamy 

 yellow. G. Leestraten & Sons. 



Phlox decussata Asia, new variety, raised 

 from seed, flowers orange shaded carmine, the 

 truss Is of an extraordinary size, 0. G. Van 

 TtiN-reren. Jr., Haarlem. 



DAYTON. O. 



The Market. 



Business until two weeks ago was 

 quite encouraging and a better trade 

 could not be wished for. This, perhaps, 

 was due to a scarcity of stock, there 

 being until that time practically no out- 

 door stock, owing to the fact that the 

 weather man had not favored us with 

 much rain. Since then, however, the 

 much needed rain has come, bringing 

 in great quantities of outdoor stock, 

 such as asters, gladioli, etc., which 

 were only waiting for a little en- 

 couragement. This made the supply 

 more than abundant; consequently 

 prices were cut away down, and much 

 of the stock found its way to the ash 

 barrel. 



The oversupply of outdoor stock 

 more than killed the market for the 

 indoor varieties. Rose crops are heavy 

 in all varieties and stock is exception- 

 ally good for the season. Few carna- 

 tions from old stock are seen, but some 

 good flowers are coming from the young 

 plants and bring a good price. 



Auratum and Melpomene lilies are 

 abundant and while there is a good de- 



70,000 DELPHINIUMS TO NAME 



AND TENS OF THOUSANDS ON TRIAL 



1 cwt. of seed from the finest named varieties ever offered in this or any other 



country. 



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ENTIELD, 

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mand for them, still the supply is ex- 

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 quantity and the market for them is 

 slow. 



Palms, Araucarias, Bay Trees, 

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