The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-19
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HlGH-PRiCED SEEDS.
Figures Which Astonish UnsOphisticated
CuItivatOrs of Country Garden Sass"
New York Sun

Figures Which Astonish Unsophisticated
CuItivatOrs of Country Garden Sass
New York SUM-
In many Offices around and in the big
produce exchange there are numerous lit
tie shallow boxes piled on window-sills,
tables, and desks. The boxes are gener-
ally filed with corn and wheat and other
grain, samples Of the stocks held IN the
big elevators and stores along the river
fronts and in the fleets Of canalboats IN the
Brooklyn basins a grain dealer was
running his hand through a sample OF
No. I spring wheat when man said:
GOOD as gold. F."
Eyes. but, unlike some other farm pro-
ducts, it is not worth its weight in gold "
"Squashes, for instances?"
"Perhaps you would like to know some
thing about high priced farm products.
There is a new variety Of oats called the
Cr7ti ,,csdele. A measured bushel weighs
fifty-one pounds. Whine they will not re
tain their full weight in this country, tGcy
will double the market value of the pro
duct of an oatfeld The enterprising
farmer pays So a bushel for the seed.
There is the new Fife spring wheat, which
sells for 50 a bushel, and the new style OF
field corn, known as Chester Mammoth
and Golden Dent sells for about the same
farmer must pay prices that make him
squeaL Last year a Newark man brought
out what is known as HenderSOn's white
plume celery. Unlike common celery it
does not need to be banked up to whiten
the leaves. and, what is more, these leaves
are as much like ostrich feathers as any
thing you can imagine During the
American Institute far the plants on ex-
hibition were frequently torn to pieces by
guests, who used the leaves for button
hole bouquets. The seedman who is in
PRODUCING the pint paid $3.50 for small
trucklOad of the plants. and he now sells
the seed at $40 pound.
"a new French bean is selling at 90
cents quart. The new Eclipse beet seed
sells for 50. 80 a pound, while the seed of
the new lettuce called the Oak Leaf sells
for So 90 an ounce. Even a new variety
of parsley is high priced, the seed OF the
style called Emerald selling for 81 90
pound.
You sarcastically mentioned the
squash. That was because you didn't
know all about squashes There was
specimen of a new squash on exhibition in
this town last fall for several weeks that
weighed 223 pounds. Its flavor was as
excellent as its size was enormous. The
seeds obtained from this big squash sell
for cents apiece, or So an ounce.
But when you want to find farm pro-
ducts that are really worth their weight in
gold you must take the flower seeds raised
by the farmers wife. This year there is
a great variety of new flowers 1t
would bewilder you to name them.
These seeds are always sold by the
packet at from % to 80 cents. That
sounds cheap, but there are new styles in
daisies, lady's slippers, petunias, and pan
sizes, the seeds of which are worth in the
market by the ounce a sum that will take
your breath away. The petunia gradi-
flora is a sample. 1t is an exceedingly
beautiful flower The packages of seed
contain 300 or 400 seeds each, but the
seed is an impalpable powder almost, it is
so fine. The package retails at 20 cents,
but by the ounce the seed is worth $500
An ounce win make 5000 packages You
can see what the retail price of flower
seeds and the retailers profits are from
that statement.