Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-04-25
Higll-Priccd Seeds.

In many Of the offices around
and in the big Produce Exchange
there are numerous little shallow
boxes piled on window stills, tables,
and desks. The boxes are general
ly filled with corn and wheat and
other grain, samples of tile stocks
held in the big elevators and stores
along the river fronts and in the
fleets OF canal boats in the Brook
lyn basins. A grain dealer WAS
running his hand through Il sample
of No. spring wheat when a
young man said:
"Good as gold"
Eyes, but unlike some other farm
products, it is not worth its weight
i'll gold"
..SquaShes, for instanceW
'.Perllaps You would like to know
something abont high priced farm
products. There is a new variety
of oats, called the ClydcSdale. a
measured bushel weighs tifty.one
pounds. While they will not re-
tain their full weight in this coun
try, they will double the market
value of the product of an oat field.
The enterprising farmer pays s. a
buShel for his seed. There is the
Fife spring wheat, which sells for
So buShel, and the new styles OF
field corn known as Chester Nam
moth and Golden Dent sell Tor
about the same.
SIN the matter Of garden seeds.
the farmer must pay prices that
make him Squeal. Last year New
ark man brought out what is known
as Hentlcrson's white plume celery.
Unlike common celery it does not
need to be banked up to Written
the leaves, and, what is more, these
leaves are so much like ostrich
feathers as anything You can I'M
asine. During the American In
stitutc Fair the plants on exhib-
ition were frequently torn ~
pieces by guests who used the
leaves for buttonhole bouquets
The scotsman who is introducing
the plant paid $3.50 for IA small
truck load of the plants, and he
now sells the seed at $40 a pound.
"a new French bean is selling
at so cents quart. The new
Eclipse beet seed sell for $3.50 a
pound, while the seed Of the new
lettuce called the Oak Leaf sells
for 81 an ounce. Even a new va
ricty of rarSly is high priced, the
seed of the style called Emerald
selling for 81 a pound.
s.You sarcaSticallv mentioned the
SQUASH. That VAS because you
didn't know all about squaShes.-
There was a specimen Of a new
squash on exhibition in this town
last fall for several weeks that
weighed 223 pounds. Its flavor
was an excellent as It's size was
enormous. The seeds obtained
from this big squash sell for 3 cents
apiece, or So an ounce.
but when You want to find
farm products that are really worth
their weight In gold you must take
the flower seeds raised by the
farmers wife. This year there are
great variety of new flowers. 1t
would bewildcr you to name them.
These seeds are always sold by the
packet, at from % to 80 cent a
packet. That sounds cheap, but
there are new styles in daiseS, la
dy's slippers, petunias, and pansleS
the seeds of which are worth in thc
market by The ounce a sum that
will takeyour breath away. The pet
unia grantliflora is Il sample. 1t is
an exceedingly beautiful flower
The packages Of seeds contain BOO
or 4OO seed each, but the seed is az
impalpable powder almost, it is sc
fine. The package retailS at Z;
cents, but by the ounce the seed Is
worth $500. An ounce will MAKE
5000 packages. You can sec what
the retail prices of flower seeds and
the retailers profits are from that
statement"