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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuaosT 18, 1910. 



PANSY SEED 



HUN KJ CL'S GIANT FLOWERING PAN3T 

 MIXTURE is without an oyual for Florists' use. 

 Comprises tlie finest strains from the most 

 noted Pansy Specialists of this country and 

 Europe. Blooms are of the largest size, and very 

 distinct and varied in their markings. New 

 crop seed. Trade packet, 25c: ^ oz.. 60c; oz.. 

 $4.00; I4 lb.. $14.00. 



FREESIAS 



REFRACTA ALBA. First size bulbs, ifl-in. 

 uj). 90c! per 1(X); $s.(K) per 1000. 



HARRISII, FORMOSUMS, CALLAS, etc. 

 Now ready. Get our prices. 



G. H. HUNKCL CO., Seedsmen 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mention The Review when you Tyrlte. 



GLADIOLI 



Did you visit our exhibit 

 at Rochester? 



Great convention, 

 wasn't it? 

 Yours truly, 



E. E. STEWART, 



Rives Junction, Mich. 



Thorborn's Bulbs 



Liliam Barrisii 



HIGH GRADE STOCK 



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5 to 7, 6 to 7, 7 to 9, 9 to 11, 



at popular prices. 



— Inquiries solicited. — 



J. M. Thorburn & Co, 



83 BarcUy Street. NEW TOBK 

 Mentioo The Review when vou write. 



Fall Bulb 



Catalogue 



If you liavt' not received a copy 

 s«-'nd for it. 



James Vick's Sons 



SEEDSMEN 

 ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Golden Spur - - $ 9.80 

 Emperor - - - - lO.OO 

 La Reine - - - 5.90 

 Cottage Maid - - 6.90 



Send for price list of other Daffodils and Tulips. 



ROSE GARDENS ^'orm^pori. 



Baad for onr new and eomplet* 

 Sprinc 1910 Oatalofoe. 



Pull List Seeds, Balbs, Plants. 



■.H. BSBG>B*CO.. 70 Wurna St.. New Tcrk < 



their product would be seriously "off" 

 the next season. 



In practice, the most that one can 

 hope to accomplish by roguing seed 

 peas is to prevent the stock from de- 

 teriorating still further, the only hope 

 of securing a pure or improved stock 

 being in selecting and breeding from 

 the best rather than in eliminating the 

 poorest. 



While roguing should not be depend- 

 ed upon, especially for the grow^ing of 

 stock seed, it should not be neglected. 

 The fields should be carefully gone over 

 at the time when the earliest plants 

 are passing out of bloom. Each man 

 should take a strip of a certain width 

 and, moving with his back to the sun, 

 confine his attention to that strip, re- 

 moving all of the rogues seen there 

 and resisting the temptation to go for- 

 aging to the right or the left; and he 

 should return over the same strip, scan- 

 ning it as carefully as at first, for very 

 often a rogue which was not noticeable 

 when looking with the sun is very evi- 

 dent when looking in the opposite di- 

 rection. 



Gathering and Curing. 



The commercial value of seed of gar- 

 den peas is largely influenced by the 

 appearance of the seed, and this is very 

 dependent upon the conditions and the 

 care used at the time of harvest. With 

 many sorts it is desirable that the seed 

 should retain a green shade, and that it 

 may do so, as well as to prevent loss 

 from shelling, the vines should be gath- 

 ered as soon as the bulk of the crop 

 is hard and before any of the ripest 

 pods begin to shell or have been 

 bleached by the sun. 



The best plan of harvesting will de- 

 pend upon the variety grown, the 

 weather conditions, and the kind of la- 

 bor, and of farm machinery available. 

 Where the low-priced labor of women 

 and boys can be obtained, the very 

 dwarf sorts, like American Wonder, 

 can often be most economically gath- 

 ered by h?;ind into bunches of two to 

 four cubic feet. The next larger-sized 

 sorts can be gathered with a sharp 

 hoe, a short scythe, or a pea rake into 

 bunches of about the same size. The 

 larger-vined sorts can be rolled into 

 bunches' of four to eight cubic feet 

 with a short scythe or cut with a mower 

 carrying pea guards on the cutting bar, 

 so as to raise the vines and prevent 

 cutting the pods, and then be gathered 

 into windrows or bunches. 



While in the field, the bunches should 

 be turned every two or three days and 

 after every rain, in order to hasten the 

 curing and to prevent the rotting or 

 the bleaching of the seed. In order to 

 avoid loss of color or injury from rain, 

 it is desirable that the vines be well 

 stacked or put into barns as soon as 

 they are so dry that they will not mold 

 or spoil in the mow. The vines should 

 remain in the mow until they are well 

 cured and can be easily and convenient- 

 ly thrashed. 



The smaller-vined sorts can usually 

 be thrashed most economically by flails. 

 The larger-vined varieties are best 

 thrashed by an ordinary bean thrasher 

 with part of the concave teeth removed, 

 but it should be so managed and run 

 as to prevent splitting the peas. Skil- 

 ful handling of the thrasher is quite 

 as important with peas as with beans. 



Yield to the Acre. 



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 of Mignonette for Winter forcing; 

 seed saved from select spikes under 

 glass. We have received many testi- 

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 of this variety. Trade pkt. 60c.. ^ oz. 

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