HORTICULTURE IN MISSOURI. 



year. Yellow Globe Danvers sold best, next the Red 

 Wethersfield, and Prizetaker for transplanting. In toma- 

 toes we noticed an increased demand for all the Living- 

 ston varieties, especially for Beauty and Stone. Royal 

 Red sold well in packets in a general way, and in quan- 

 tity among canners. We had a good sale of Early Ohio 

 potatoes for early shipping, and Seneca Beauty for main 

 crop. There was the usual call for standard sorts of 

 cabbage-seed. Dwarf Lima beans. Early Hackensack 

 melon, Dixie watermelon and the New Columbus musk- 

 melon sold well. — Robert Livingston, Co/umbus, O. 



The call was especially heavy for Silver King, Red 

 Wethersfield and Yellow Danvers onion-seed, Ignotum 

 and Matchless tomato, and Surehead and Earliest cab- 

 bage. The demand for all plants was one-sixth larger 

 than last season. — C. A. Reeser, Spyi?igfu'ld, O. 



The demand was especially large for Yellow Globe 

 Danvers and Red Wethersfield onions. We could have 

 sold many hundred pounds more than we had in stock 

 May Favorite is a superb tomato, and we sold out our stock 

 of it. The demand for seed-potatoes was light, except 

 for Beauty of Elberon, which had a large sale ; it is a 

 very early and fine sort. Farmers here are not planting 

 so many potatoes as last year. There are thousands of 

 bushels of old potatoes on hand, and they are hard to 

 sell at any price.— R. D. Hawley & Co., Ilarlford, Cl- 



SALES IN VIRGINIA. 



Our sales of onion-sets for last season have been 

 greater than in any previous year ; Yellow Danvers, 

 Large Red Wethersfield, Mammoth Silver King and 

 Copper King, being the varieties greatest in demand. 

 Acme and Livingston Beauty are the favorite tomatoes 

 for marketing, Livingston Perfection the favorite for 

 canning ; sales of these sorts have been about loo per 

 cent, greater than last. Potato sales were about 5 per 

 cent, greater than last season, southern-grown second- 

 crop Early Rose being the favorite. Northern-grown 

 Rose and Beauty of Hebron are in great demand, but 

 we think the southern-grown potato will supplant them 

 to a certain extent, particularly in trucking sections. 

 Our sales in cabbage-seeds were double those of last 



year ; favorite early varieties. Early Jersey, Wakefield 

 and Early Flat Dutch ; late ones. Flat Dutch and Drum- 

 head. Our sales in strawberry-plants were larger than 

 they have been in any previous year ; Bubach is the 

 favorite, while the old sorts hold their own. — T. W. 

 Wood & Sons, Richmond, ]'a. 



sales in WISCONSIN. 



Onion-seed sold 35 per cent, better than in previous 

 years. Our sales of tomato-seed were about the same ; 

 of potatoes, 50 per cent, smaller. We noticed no marked 

 difference in sales of cabbage-seed and strawberry-plants. 

 Eclipse cabbage has taken the place of ail other main 

 crop varieities. — Corrie Brothers, Mihuaukee, Wis. 



SALES IN MICHIGAN ^ND MINNESOTA. 



Carefully going over our last season's sales of various 

 varieties of onion, cabbage and tomato-seeds, we find that 

 they compare quite closely with sales on these sorts for 

 the past three years. There has been during last 

 season an unusual demand for yellow onion-seed, but 

 this we attribute largely to the scarcity of that article in 

 all directions, — D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



We have to report a strong demand for onion-seed, es- 

 pecially yellow sorts, and larger sales than in 1891, We 

 also sold more tomato-seed ; Acme is most popular with 

 our customers. There was a decrease in the sales of 

 seed-potatoes, but an increase in the sales of cabbage- 

 seeds— Jersey Wakefield and Flat Dutch being the lead- 

 ing sorts. — NoRTHRUP, Braslan & Goodwin, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



From the tenor of all these replies we may safely infer; 

 (i.) That the area planted in onions is much larger than 

 usual, and that, barring accidents, the crop will be one 

 of the largest ever raised, and prices probably low. Yel- 

 low onions will be especially abundant, and white ones 

 comparatively scarce, (2.) That tomatoes were not 

 planted as extensively in the north this year as in some 

 seasons, and a surplus in the crop should not be looked 

 for. (3,) That fewer potatoes, especially of the early 

 and fancy varieties, have been planted, and consequently 

 that the crop will sell for higher prices than in 1891. 



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NOTES ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



HE prospects for a fruit crop in Mis- 

 souri, with the exception of peaches, 

 is pretty fair. Peaches, with the ex- 

 ception of those from seedlings, will be 

 very scarce in this section. In an or- 

 chard protected on the north, east and 

 west my choice peach trees were well 

 set with blossoms in spring, while on low ground, unpro- 

 ected, none of the buds escaped frost. 



Not a peach of the improved varieties was left except 

 a Nix cling, the latest peach we have, which had a nice 

 sprinkling of blossoms. This tree has a large Norway 

 spruce at the eastern side of it, but whether this had any- 



thing to do with the escape of the blossoms from frost I 

 would not pretend to say. But the fact that healthy 

 fruit-blossoms were on the trees in the orchard protected 

 on three sides by forest on northern and western slope, 

 about 150 feet above the bottom where the same varieties 

 were frozen, may have a significance worth remembering. 



The Susquehanna peach, one of our very finest, had 

 but very few blossoms ; it is less hardy than the Others. 

 Six varieties of the improved Russian apricots, larg^ 

 enough to bear, showed no blossoms in the same orchard 

 where peaches were blooming and where two unnamed 

 seedling apricots set fruit. These seedlings are of ex- 

 cellent quality, but too small to become popular. 



