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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



October 7, 1909. 



it comes into ownership of the fifty acres 

 at Bacon. 



According to the last census there are 

 3,916,800 acres of land on the peninsula, 

 of which 2,058,299 acres are under culti- 

 vation. There are 28,355 farms on the 

 peninsula, and it has a total population 

 of some 500,000. To secure additional 

 farmers to cultivate the 1,858,501 acres 

 of idle land is one of the reasons for 

 which the Pennsylvania railroad is to 

 undertake the operation of an experi- 

 mental farm. The cooperation of the 

 farmers of the peninsula is already as- 

 sured, and the state agricultural colleges, 

 agricultural boards and horticultural so- 

 cieties are enthusiastic supporters of the 

 project. 



CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE. 



Forty-five thousand enumerators out 

 of the estimated grand total of 65,000 

 will be engaged April 15 next in gather- 

 ing the required information concern- 

 ing agriculture for the thirteenth de- 

 cennial United States census. Director 

 Durand purposes making every effort to 

 secure progressive farmers and crop re- 

 porters for these places. The agricul- 

 tural schedule, which is to be placed in 

 the hands of these enumerators, is near- 

 ing completion by the Census Bureau. 

 It will be as simple as possible, and yet 

 secure the greatest amount of important 

 information concerning agriculture. 



By means of the census schedule an 

 effort will be made to secure an accurate 

 statement of the total number of acres 

 of land in the farms of the country, by 

 states and counties; also the improved 

 area, number and size of farms. An 

 important part of the schedule will be 

 that enabling a study of the crops of 

 1909. The enumerators will ask about 

 areas, quantities produced, and value 

 of crops, in the case of all the principal 

 crops grown in all parts of the United 

 States. This inquiry covers grains and 

 seeds, hay and forage crops, and all im- 

 portant special crops, such as fruits, nuts 

 and vegetables, cotton, tobacco, rice, 

 hemp, potatoes, broomcorn, etc. 



SOIL FERTILITY INCREASING. 



Declaring that the world's soils are 

 today a greater storehouse of fertility 

 than they ever were, Prof. Milton Whit- 

 ney, chief of the Bureau of Soils in the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, in a 

 bulletin just issued, takes a stand in 

 direct opposition to the view of many 

 writers that soils are gradually wearing 

 out. 



Prof. "Whitney states that a study of 

 the records for the past forty years will 

 show that the average of crops is in- 

 creasing, particularly in the older states, 

 where the soil has been worked the long- 

 est. There has been, he states, an in- 

 crease of two bushels in the average 

 yield of wheat per acre in the past forty 

 years, although the yield of corn has 

 decreased one-half a bushel. 



"The soils of New England have ma- 

 terially increased in yields of corn and 

 wheat during forty years," says the pro- 

 fessor, ' ' but, what is more startling, they 

 are producing considerably heavier yields 

 than the soils of the Mississippi river 

 states." 



He adds that an examination of the 

 records shows that the leading European 

 nations are not only producing greater 

 crops now than at an earlier period, but 

 the crops are larger than those produced 

 by the comparatively new soils of the 

 United States. 



Dreer's New Crop 



CYCLAMEN PER. GIGANTECM 



Our strain of this important florist flower 

 is grown for us by the acknowledged f re- 

 most specialist of Europe, a man who hag 

 made the Cyclamen a life study and wi oge 

 stock is justly considered "perfect." i ig 

 grown by the best groweis around P|..l». 

 delphia, and if you want the best you rugt 

 get this fctrain. 



We ofler It as follows: 



Per 100 Per looo 



seeds see^s 



Pvire Wbite $0.75 $ii.oo 



Blood Red 76 coo 



Briebt Rose 75 a.oo 



Wbite \7ltli Red Eye 75 ii.oo 



Mixed, all colors 60 5.00 



New Cyclamen 

 Wonder of Wandsbek 



the flnest color in Cyclamen to date, being 

 a rich, intense salmon-rose, retaining its 

 bright color till the last and never fadiug 

 out to the objectionable bluish tint like 

 others. Price, 11.50 per lOO seeds; $12.00 

 per 1000 seeds. 



Our Wholesale Price List contains a com- 

 plete list of the best of everything in 



Seeds, Bulbs 

 and Plants 



HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia 



Mention The Review when you write. 



NARCISSUS GRANDIFLORA 



Of this, the most popular and most profitable of all bulbs for florists' forcing, we have a 

 very large stock, and also of the very best, largest-flowering quality. These bulbs we can 

 place in cold storage for our customers and deliver them as wanted up to January Ist at an 

 additional cost of 25c per 100 per month after September 1st 



100 1000 5000 10.000 



First Size Bulbs, 13 cm. and up (1250 to case) $1.10 $9.00 $43.75 $85.00 



Monster Bulbs, 14 cm. and up (1000 to case) 1.30 11.00 53.75 106.00 



Jumbo Bulbs, 15 cm. and up 2.50 20.00 



FREESIA BULBS ,.o .«. 



First Size, selected $0.85 $ 7.00 



Mammotb 1.50 lO.OO 



Jumbo Bulbs 1.75 15.00 



50 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



FRESH SEED- 



Eastern Greenhouse Grown 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus 



Per 100 aeeda 60c Per 1000 seeds $3.00 



Larger qnantitiea, better prices. 



W. W. RAWSON ft CO., Seedsmen 



6 UNION ST., BOSTON, MASS. 



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