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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Sbptembbk 14, 1911. 



Harvesting Seed Oops on One of the Farms of Waldo Rohnert, Gilroy, Cal. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Leonard H. Vaughan, Chicago; First Vlce- 

 Pres., M. H. Duryea, New York City; Sec'y and 

 Treae., C. E. Eendel, Cleveland, O. 



The radish crop in Holland has 

 turned out well. The seed was ripe 

 earlier than ever before. 



European seed growers, who had light 

 crops of carrot this season, see in soil 

 conditions a menace to the crop of 1912. 



The boat from Bermuda that arrived 

 at New York, September 5, brought only 

 thirty-five cases of lily bulbs, consigned 

 to L. D. Crossmond & Co. 



The Brown Seed Store, of New Al- 

 bany, Ind., has been succeeded by the 

 New Albany Supply Co. John Zahnd 

 has secured an interest in the business 

 and will act as manager. 



The long rain has seriously damaged 

 the tomato crop in Maryland, but is 

 Indiana and other western tomato centers 

 the crop is good. Canners in Maryland 

 fear they cannot fill contracts. 



The government crop report as of 

 September 1 was not an inspiring docu- 

 ment. It indicates that the corn crop 

 will fall short of last year 's by 390,000,- 

 000 bushels, the oat crop by 24,000,000 

 bushels and the wheat crop by 28,000,000 

 bushels. 



W. Atlee Burpee has returned to 

 Philadelphia after his European trip 

 and is now engaged in the attempt to 

 form some idea of the value of sweet 

 peas for the advance list that goes out 

 at this date. This is unusually difiicult 

 this year, as from the lateness of the 

 season some of the crops are not yet even 

 cut, let alone being threshed. 



Maurice Fuld, of Henry F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, commenting on flower 

 seed crop conditions, predicts a scarcity 

 of certain seeds next season. The hot 

 weather and drought have been general 

 in the seed producing districts of this 

 country and Europe. Asters, Mr. Fuld 

 thinks, have suffered so severely that a 

 shortage in the crop of seed seems cer- 

 tain. 



CORRECTION 



In the view of our Farm, appearing in our double page 

 advertisement in The Review, issue of August 31, at the bottom 

 of the page, looking west, showing beyond the line of Sunflowers, 

 is a part of the Farm occupied by the Pieters-Wheeler Seed Co., 

 as a seed farm, and comprising 320 acres. This firm are tenants 

 of C. C. Morse & Co., and will be until the fall of 1912. 



To the right of this picture, about two miles, but not show- 

 ing, is another seed farm occupied by us, 430 acres, known as 

 the Breen place. Still further north, about fourteen miles, are 

 our Gilroy Farms, occupying about 640 acres of seed. Of course 

 one view could not include the various different farms. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



48-56 Jackson Street, 



San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 8, 1911. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Gladiolus-Niagara 



La Grange, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1911 

 Mk. Fkaxk Banxixc;. 



Kiosman, Ohio. 

 Dear Sir:— As to Niagara, it will 

 not take long to say that I consider it far 

 the finest variety on the market. 

 Yours very truly, 



N. L. Crawford, Grower. 



FRANK BANNING 



KINSMAN, O. 



Ori|iiitor if Americt, Niigtra ud Puami. 



The Champaign Seed Co. has opened 

 a store at 10 East University avenue, 

 Champaign, 111. Besides seeds, the firm 

 will also handle cut flowers and nursery 

 stock. 



SEED LAWS 



Compilfttion of Purity and Germination re- 

 quired, and Weed Seed prohibited in United 

 States and Canada. Tlie first authentic published 

 list ever ofTered to the Seed Trade. Includes all 

 recent letrislation. 



No Dealer Should Be 



Without This List 



Tabulated, printed on heavy bristol board, 

 postpaid to your address. SOo each; or tbree 

 copies, $1.00. Ask about our seed crop condi- 

 tion reports. 



THE SEED TRADE REPORTING BUREAU 

 Dept R, 627 Pistil Telegripk BMg., Ckicigi, U. 



All records of watermelon growing in 

 Georgia have been broken this season. 

 The Central of Georgia railway alone 

 has carried over its lines to the market 

 centers 3,418 cars, which is by far the 



