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The Florists^ Review 



Maech 13, 1913. 



000 pips, of which 12,000,000 to 15,- 

 000,000 are exported to the United 

 States, the declared value of exporta- 

 tions from Hamburg to America hav- 

 ing been as follows during the last six 

 years: 



1812 $163,022 



1811 173,240 



1910 95,959 



1809 74,729 



1808 64,650 



1807 97,242 



The chief centers of cultivation are 

 Hamburg, Halle, Frankfort (Oder), 

 Hanover and various parts of Meck- 

 lenburg. Nearly all the pips exported 

 go forward via Hamburg. 



The larger portion of the crop is ex- 

 ported to Great Britain and the United 

 States. There are also substantial ex- 

 portations to Scandinavia and Kussia, 

 and Germany takes up the remainder. 



Until 1912 flowering bulbs, such as 

 lily of the valley pips, were not spe- 

 cially mentioned in German statistics 

 and therefore comparative figures can 

 not be given except as to the United 

 States. The figures as far as available 

 are: 



1812. ' Tons 



Total Importations 544 g 



Whereof from Holland 520*4 



Total exportatlons i 306*1 



Whereof to Sweden * is 5 



Russia 9l'7 



Great Britain 437!3 



United StHtts 470 b 



1911— to United States eoi 4 



1910— to United States ' 582'7 



1909— to United States ' ' .3812 



1908— to United States ].'. 465!? 



SEED OROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



Those who read with interest the 

 notes on onion seed as grown in Califor- 

 nia, published in this department of 

 The Review for February 27, may like 

 something more from the pen of F. G. 

 Cuthbertson. Mr. Cuthbertson is the 

 son of W. Cuthbertson, of Dobbie & Co., 

 Edinburgh, and he views seed grow- 

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 and a couple of years' experience in 

 the west. His notes originally were 

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"California is a wonderfully product- 

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 but the farmer, seed grower or orchard- 

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 The real estate man will tell you that 

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 minimum amount of trouble. Don't 

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 yet only a few miles apart. One valley 

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 be impossible. Another valley may 

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"The present article will deal with 

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 flower seed crops are almost a failure. 

 We find onion and carrot seed doing 

 well in one location, yet a few miles 

 away a crop twice as great can be pro- 

 duced. 



"There are many different soils in 

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 10 degrees. The greatest trouble the 



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seed grower has is perhaps the short 

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