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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 26, 1012. 



try recommend that such tests should 

 be made by weight and not by count. 



"As many seedsmen in New York 

 state have their seeds tested by the de- 

 partment at Washington, all such tests 

 will be useless under the proposed law, 

 and dealers doing an interstate business 

 will be seriously handicapped, as they 

 will be obliged to make two tests, one 

 by weight and one by count, because 

 the results made by each test vary ma- 

 terially. ' ' 



COMMERCE IN SEEDS. 



The imports and exports of seeds for 

 the month of February in 1911 and 

 1912 make the following comparisons: 



IMPORTS. 



February, 1911 $2,504,062 



February, 1912 2,188,151 



EXPORTS. 



February, 1911 $ 333,466 



February, 1912 294,660 



BOBINSON'S PLANS. 



It having been reported from Eocky 

 Ford, Colo., that the J. C. Eobinson 

 Seed Co., which, as had previously 

 been announced in this column, has 

 bought out the Eocky Ford Seed Grow- 

 ers ' Association, was removing from 

 Nebraska to Colorado, The Eeview 

 asked for a statement of plans. The 

 following letter came over the signature 

 of J. C. Eobinson, president: 



"Yours of April 20 in reference to 

 our moving our business from Waterloo 

 to Eocky Ford is received. In reply, 

 beg to state that we are establishing 

 a growing station at Eocky Ford. Have 

 purchased a warehouse there, in the 

 central part of the town, will install 

 complete cleaning machinery, and our 

 branch will be under the charge of J. 

 A. Eobinson, who, for fourteen years 

 past, has been traveling for a promi- 

 nent seed firm. Mr. Eobinson will 

 travel about three months in the year 

 for our firm, and the balance of the 

 time will be spent at Eocky Ford, in 

 charge of the work there. 



"It is our ambition to do work on 

 our stocks at Eocky Ford that it has 

 been impossible to do here at home in 

 the last few years, since the aphis has 

 troubled our crops so seriously. We 

 hope to bring vine seed stocks back to 

 the point where they were some six or 

 eight years ago, as we believe that 

 stocks today are not as good as they 

 were at one time." 



SWEET CORN FOB SEED. 



The use of sweet corn, at least of the 

 quality and in the quantities now com- 

 mon, is comparatively modern, says W. 

 W. Tracy in a recent bulletin. Seeds- 

 men handled very little sweet corn pre- 

 vious to 1825 or 1830, and for the next 

 twenty or twenty-five years practically 

 all of the seed used came from New 

 England. In later years the growing 

 of sweet-corn seed gradually extended 

 into western New York, northern Ohio, 

 Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska, until at 

 present fully eighty per cent -of the 

 sweet-corn seed produced in the United 

 States is grown at points west and 

 north of Cleveland, Ohio. South of the 

 latitude of that city sweet corn is so 

 liable to injury from the boUworm that 

 it can seldom be profitably grown for 

 seed. 



The corn plant is influenced as to 

 size of stalk and earliness of maturity 

 by climatic conditions, and this effect 

 is transmitted through the seed, so it 



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