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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



A PHI I. 25, 1912. 



is desirable that seed of sorts in which 

 earliness in aii important element of 

 value should be grown as far north as 

 it can be fully ripened and cured. 



The qualities of sweetness and ten- 

 derness in green corn are also influ 

 enced by soil and climatic conditions, 

 l)ut there is a difference of opinion as 

 to how far this influence is carried in 

 the seed. The corn packers of Maine 

 insist that green corn grown in the 

 north from northern-grown seed is su 

 perior to that which can be produced 

 from seed grown farther south. The 

 Maryland packers insist that they can 

 get not only more but sweeter and more 

 tender corn from seed grown in their 

 own locality. In both cases the su- 

 perior results obtained from local-grown 

 seed may be accounted for by the fact 

 that seed grown in any locality for a 

 number of generations has been found 

 by experimentation to give better re- 

 sults in that locality than seed of the 

 same stock equally well grown else- 

 where. 



The belief that the use of northern 

 and eastern grown seed will result in 

 better and sweeter green corn is so 

 general that seedsmen's catalogues are 

 often so worded as to give the impres- 

 sion that all the sweet corn they offer 

 is grown in the east, but very often 

 seed bought of an eastern seedsman and 

 supposed to be eastern grown was ac- 

 tually produced in the west. There 

 are many facts that seem to indicate 

 that the gardener's prejudice against 

 western seed is well founded. 



If a field of sweet corn is planted 

 with two lots of seed of the same vari- 

 ety, one eastern and the other western 

 grown, and ears as uniform as possible 

 as to maturity and quality are gath- 

 ered from the two parts of the field, 

 processed and canned iti the same way, 

 experts can with a fair degree of cer- 

 tainty decide which lot of seed the corn 

 in different cans was grown from, and 

 they will generally declare that the 

 corn from the eastern-grown seed is 

 the better. 



This difference in quality is much 

 more noticeable in the earlier than in 

 the later maturing sorts and with some 

 lots of seed than with others. The be 

 lief that it actually exists is so gen 

 eral that it affects the relative market 

 value both of canned corn and of sweet 

 corn seed. If we carefully select ears 

 grown from eastern and from western 

 seed which are in exactly the same 

 stage of maturity, chemical analysis 

 fails to detect any constant difference 

 in sugar content. There is, however, a 

 slight but discernible difference in the 

 size of chit, or germ, and in a general 

 way the green corn from western seed 

 is slightly coarser in texture and less 

 tender than that from eastern seed. 

 The difference in quality may be ac- 

 counted for as follows: 



The climatic conditions in the west 

 em corn-growing sections, especially 

 during the season when corn is earing, 

 are often such as to induce a marvel- 

 ously rapid development — much more 

 rapid than is often seen in the east. 

 In the west it is sometimes difficult to 

 find ears of sweet corn green enough to 

 be in prime boiling condition in fields 

 where it was equally difficult to find 

 ears which were mature enough to be 

 palatable forty-eight to seventy-two 

 hours earlier. Seed grown under such 

 conditions would often transmit the 

 rapid-maturing habit of the plants that 

 produce it. The quality of green corn. 



GLADIOLI 



Ten Bushels America Bulblets 



$8.00 per peck, $30.00 per bushel 



My gladioli are exceptionally fine this season and have kept through the 

 winter in good condition. I offer to the trade the following, II3 inch and uj. 



unless otherwise stated : 



Per 1000 



10,000 America, IH in. to 1^2 in $25.00 



JO.OOO America, lin. to 1>4 in 20.00 



Also 4th, 5th and 6th sizes. 



•t.OOO Augusta, lU in. tol^ in 12. CO 



1,000 Columbia 25.00 



1.000 Geo. Paul 30.00 



5,000 Golden Queen 30.00 



1,000 Independence 15.00 



1,000 Klondyke 25.00 



5,000 President Taft 25.00 



1,000 Hurity 35.00 



1,000 Taconic 30.00 



Per ICO 



200 Barou Hulot $10.00 



500 Princeps 12.00 



.500 Rosella 10. Ot) 



250 of a kind at 1.000 rate. 25 at 100 rate. 



Per 1000 



1,000 Red and Scarlet $ 9.0o 



1.000 Extra White and Light 15.00 



2,000 Pink and Rose 15.00 



1,000 Striped and Variegated 18.00 



3,000 Scarlet, white throat 15.00 



2,000 Pink and White Mixture 18.00 



1,000 Childsii Mixed 15.00 



5,000 Fancy Mixed 10.00 



5,000 XXX Mixed 18.00 



15,000 Mlxad Bulbs, counter size, 1% to 2^-ii)., $10.00 per 1000. 



I can also supply Africa, Addison, Black Beauty, Bouquet d'Or, Chocolate Drop, 

 De Cheville, Edison, Empire, Embossed Yellow, Isaac Buchanan, Lucille, Mrs. 

 Beecher, Mohonk, Mrs. Jas. Lancashire, Michigan, Ophir, Pink Perfection, Rath. 

 Sulphur Queen, Shirley, "19C0." 



SEND FOR 1912 TRADE LIST 



E. E. Stewart, Rives June, Mich. 



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SELECT GLADIOLUS 



100 1000 



America, First Size $4.()(i $35.00 



America, Second Size 3,25 28.00 



Mra. Francis Kingr. First Size 3.00 25.00 



Mrs. Francis Kin^, Second Size 2.26 20.00 



Mme. Monneret, First Size 2.25 20.C0 



Independence, First Size 3.00 25.00 



Light and White Mixed, Fancy 1.75 15.00 



Light and White Mixed, Second Size. . . 1.50 13.60 



Choice Mixed. All Colore 1.00 9.00 



Caladiums, 7-9 strong bulbs 3.50 30.00 



Tuberoses, First Size 1. 10 9.50 



Cold Stontfl:* OlBantsums, 7-0, $tl.00 per caae of 800. 



Asparairus Plumoaos Nanus, New Crop Wlaoonaln Oreenliouse Groivn Seed, 



1000 Seeds, $8.50 5000, $16.85 10,000, $80.00 



G. H. HUNKEL CO., Seedsmen, 'iiiSISSS^: 



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Gladiolus ^^ Niagara'' 



Just a few more bulbs, U to 1-inch, at $12.00 per 100 



FRANK BANNING 



OrifiMtor of Amsrica. Niagira and Panama KINSMAN, OHIO 



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