. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 30 The American Florist. fuly 2g, Amrrlcan Sred Trad* Aasoolallon. Leonard H. Vaughan. ChicaEO, Prcsidt-nt; Marshall H Diiryea New York First Vice- President: Edear GieEcry, Marblehead. Sccocd Vice President: C. E Ken- del, Cleveland Secretary and Treasurer. Next annual convention. June. 1912. S.\LSiFy as though it -n-ould be wanted. WiNTEK Vetch seed is in good de- )nand at advanced prices. OOKN crops in the west and north- west are in good condition to date. Gladiolus bulb crops in the United S


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 30 The American Florist. fuly 2g, Amrrlcan Sred Trad* Aasoolallon. Leonard H. Vaughan. ChicaEO, Prcsidt-nt; Marshall H Diiryea New York First Vice- President: Edear GieEcry, Marblehead. Sccocd Vice President: C. E Ken- del, Cleveland Secretary and Treasurer. Next annual convention. June. 1912. S.\LSiFy as though it -n-ould be wanted. WiNTEK Vetch seed is in good de- )nand at advanced prices. OOKN crops in the west and north- west are in good condition to date. Gladiolus bulb crops in the United States are suffering from heat and drought. Middle west onion seed, tl-iougli liurt to some extent by the hot weather, still looks better than ordinary. Every seedsman is trying to piclv up a little beet seed here and there, as it is evident this item -svill be scarce. Geo. C. Thomson, with Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, Minn., is in California looking over the seed crops. Howard M. Earl, of W. Atlee Bur- pee & Co., is making a western inspec- tion trip as far as Utah, and possibly to the coast. Chicago.—The heavy rain of July 21 came too late to help the onion set crops, the great bulk of which was already in the crates or ready to pull. Burning heat and drought call at- tention again to the great importance of some irrigation facilities for emer- gency use wherever valuable crops are grown. Seedsmen can advise farmer custom- ers, who have had their spring grass and clover sowings burned out, to disc their stubble land now and sow clover and timothy before August 15. The seed potato situation is critical. Some Michigan growers believe there is still time, with wet and cooler weather, to make good crops of late varieties, but no one knows where the early kinds will be found. The early plantings of garden beans in Michigan are very spotted, in many places poor stands, the result of the early rainy spell. The plants blos- somed in the hot weather and the pods are not


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