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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Aphil 18, 1912. 



regular seed houses, but usually seed 

 dealers who, as a rule, do not make 

 seeds their principal line. 



CALIFORNIA CONDITIONS. 



The rain which began falling in the 

 California seed growing sections the 

 night of April 8 continued without in- 

 termission until noon of April 10, stead- 

 ily increasing in volume. Though so 

 late in the spring, it was more like a 

 January storm than a spring rain. It 

 was much the heaviest downpour of the 

 season and the ground is thoroughly 

 soaked. Heavy and frequent showers 

 followed the rain in the afternoon of 

 April 10 and through the night. This 

 storm seems to have been general all 

 over the state, and should insure splen- 

 did agricultural crops. These crops re- 

 quire more rain than those of the seed 

 growers or the orchardists, for the lat- 

 ter get more benefit from a limited 

 rainfall through their system of thor- 

 ough and timely cultivation. It is by 

 conserving every bit of moisture in the 

 ground through constant cultivation 

 and following closely after every rain, 

 that the seed growers are enabled to 

 produce crops without irrigation on a 

 season 's rainfall of as low as ten 

 inches. 



It has been an unusual winter. The 

 rains starte<i rather late and soon pe- 

 tered out. At long intervals the proc- 

 ess was repeated. By March 1 the 

 season was pronounced a dry one and 

 gloom was general. March 5 came the 

 first soaking rain. It lasted several 

 days and finished up with springlike 

 showers. Then the wind whipped into 

 the north and several days of dry north 

 wind took a good deal of moisture out 

 of the ground again, except where the 

 cultivator had closely followed the 

 rain. Apparently the rains were over 

 for the season. No one looked for any- 

 thing further than light spring showers. 

 Hence the soaking rain of April 8 to 

 10 was a great surprise, though a most 

 welcome one. 



The Santa Clara valley could have 

 polled through in good shape without 

 this last rain, though it insures a bet- 

 ter summer growth. But the HoUister 

 and San Juan districts, where the aver- 

 age rainfall is several inches less, had 

 serious need of it. Waldo Rohnert says 

 that on his place several miles north of 

 Hollister the ground was moist down 

 to a depth of only one foot before the 

 last rain. Below that the soil was per- 

 fectly dry. But the last rain went in 

 deep. At San Juan the rainfall had 

 been an inch or two more than at Mr. 

 Bohnert 's, only fifteen miles away, and 

 in consequence conditions were better 

 there. (Certainly there is plenty of 

 moisture in the ground now all through 

 the seed growing sections, and this 

 soaking so late in the spring may in- 

 sure a better average growth than usual 

 through the summer. Still, as the seed 

 growers say, you are never sure of a 

 seed crop until it is in the bags. 



SALES "TO ARRIVE." 



About a year ago we placed an or- 

 der with a wholesale seed house in 

 Europe for a certain quantity of stock 

 from the 1911 crop. The purchase was 

 by letter only, no formal contract be- 

 ing entered into, but our understand- 

 ing was that the sale had been made 

 to us subject to the usual trade terms 

 and, when only a part of the order was 



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 IN BULK 

 AND 

 PACKAGES 



BLUE GRASS 



RED TOP 



WHITE CLOVER 



ETC., ETC. 



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 Correspondence solicited. 



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Contract Seed Growers 



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