48 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J0NB 6, 1912. 



about finished seeding the 140 acres of 

 peas on his place. 



There are fields of fifty to 160 acres 

 which were up two or three inches high 

 by May 25. 



PEAS AT PETOSKEY. 



The pea growing industry is practi- 

 cally extinct in the northern end of 

 lower Michigan, as a result of the un- 

 profitable character of the crops of the 

 last few years. All the large growers 

 formerly operating in that section of 

 the state have withdrawn and are look- 

 ing for pastures new and, mostly, far 

 afield. Darling & Beahan, who have 

 for years made a specialty of northern 

 grown peas, still are operating in the 

 vicinity of Petoskey, but their acreage 

 is insignificant as compared with what 

 it was a few years ago. They estimate 

 the acreage in the northern counties 

 of southern Michigan as not more than 

 two per cent of what it was five years 

 ago, when all the large seed houses 

 had peas in those four counties. Writ- 

 ing May 27, Darling & Beahan said: 



"Although the season is decidedly 

 backward, the few peas sown in north- 

 ern Michigan are looking well. The 

 bad failures we have had in northern 

 Michigan the last three or four years 

 have discouraged our farmers to the 

 extent that there is not one acre of 

 peas being sown this spring where 

 there were fifty acres five years ago. 

 All the large seedsmen used to grow 

 peas in the four northern counties of 

 the southern peninsula. We know of 

 none of them who are attempting to 

 grow here this season. We are in hopes 

 of getting a good crop from the few 

 peas we have put out in this locality 

 this season, so that our farmers will be 

 more willing to plant another year." 



CONDITIONS IN OAUFOENIA. 



The showers of May 20 and 21 in the 

 California seed growing districts were 

 followed by quite heavy rains May 24 

 and 25. In the San Juan valley the 

 rainfall amounted to sixty-hundredths 

 of an inch, bringing the total for the 

 season up to eleven inches, only one inch 

 less than the annual average. Almost 

 as much fell in the Santa Clara valley. 

 This late rain will no doubt do some 

 crops considerable good, but will work 

 injury to others. Whether the benefit 

 will be greater than the damage will 

 not be definitely known for a week or 

 so. It is certain that the rot in the let- 

 tuce has been increased and that prob- 

 ably further damage to the onion has 

 resulted. This has been a little worse 

 in the Santa Clara valley, where the 

 last rains were followed by some ab- 

 normally hot days. There is no longer 

 , any hope of more than about half a 

 crop of sweet peas. These May rains, 

 which would have been of the greatest 

 value had they come a month or so 

 earlier, caused considerable losses for 

 the ranchers. A good deal of new cut 

 hay was injured and the cherry crop 

 was materially reduced, as rain on the 

 ripening cherries causes the skin to 

 split and the fruit is then worthless. 

 On the other hand, the recent rains will 

 be of much benefit to other orchard 

 fruits. 



SALZEB NOT IN HASTE. 



The La Crosse newspapers recently re- 

 ported that the John A. Salzer Seed 

 Co., of that city, was badly handi- 

 capped by the state law limiting the 



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