That's because the seedsmen sell to people all over the country--people living in all sorts of climates and with all sorts of soils.
I suppose these small ones must be the original pinks that the seedsmen have burbanked into the big double ones.
There are some new kinds that will blossom the first year, the seedsmen promise.
We would also say to seedsmen that it will probably be found to pay them to advertise the seeds of the new grasses, alfalfa, the special fertilizers, etc.
A comparatively few hills of horse-radish will be sufficient for family use, and the roots required for starting can be secured of seedsmen for 25 or 30 cents a dozen.
As a rule, hotbed sash can be purchased cheaper than they can be made locally, and are on sale by seedsmen and dealers in garden supplies.
Only reliable seedsmen should be trusted, or the seed should be procured from some neighbor who has the desired variety and has taken proper care in producing and saving the seed, if the first plan is to be followed.
Good roots may be secured from dealers and seedsmenat about $1.
I refer to the evident change in climate here from year to year, and its effect upon seeds purchased of florists and seedsmen generally.
For my own part, however, I am led to believe that our seedsmen put so much money into their catalogues that they do not have anything left to use in the purchase of seeds.
After its introduction into the United States, seedsmen sell California and Southern burr clover as two varieties, but the correctness of the distinction thus made has been questioned.
It has been highly commended by some European seedsmen for its hardihood, but it has been as yet grown to only a limited extent in America.
Seedsmen practise selecting a few fine, hard heads, from which to raise their seed stock.
There are several strains of it catalogued by different seedsmen under various names, such as Sure Head, &c.
The name "Large Late Drumhead" includes varieties raised by several seedsmen in this country, all of which resemble each other in the above characteristics, and differ in but minor points.
At Shenandoah the nurserymen and seedsmentook charge of the party and entertained all in a very hospitable manner.
I planted three years, and after getting the seeds from all the seedsmen I discovered in a book on plants that the seed would have to be in the ground two years in order to germinate.
Mr. Hawkins: All first class seedsmen have it from small packages of ten pounds to 100 pound sacks.
Only one variety is offered by most seedsmen in this country, though in France and Germany several varieties are grown.
If the reader is in doubt about any of these, or desires information concerning them, he will have to consult the catalogues of responsibleseedsmen and nurserymen or cyclopedic works, or go to some competent person for advice.
The measurements are based on the stock supplied by leading seedsmenunder the trade names here given.
Tubers large enough to flower the first year may be purchased from the seedsmen at moderate prices; and unless one has facilities for growing the seedlings for a year, purchase of the tubers will give the best satisfaction.
The exceptions are the "trade names," or those used by nurserymen and seedsmen in the sale of their stock.
The notes are given in the original trade names under which the seedsmen supplied the stock.
This variety was formerly sold by many seedsmen simply as Early Snowball, and it is the one now usually referred to when the name Early Snowball is used, (See Early Snowball.
These have frequently received the names of the seedsmen who first sent them out.
The variety known to English seedsmenas Large Asiatic, has established itself in the Northern Provinces, where a good head of cauliflower is procurable in December for one-half anna.
These seedsmen publish a work on Gardening, price five shillings, in which the subject of cauliflower culture in England is fully treated.
Seedsmen sometimes prefix their own name, to the variety or strain of Snowball which they sell.
Some ten years ago experiments were begun by one of our seedsmen in raising cauliflower and cabbage seed on the alluvial tide lands on the shore of Puget Sound.
During this time most of the varieties offered by American seedsmen were tested, and the best methods of cultivation sought.
It is catalogued by the leading American seedsmen without description.
But one of the Campanulas commonly listed by seedsmenis an annual,--C.
The annual flowers of the seedsmen are those which give their best bloom in the very year in which the seeds are sown.
Tubers large enough to flower the first year may be obtained from the seedsmen at moderate prices; and unless one has facilities for growing the seedlings for a year, purchase of the tubers will give the best satisfaction.
Aren't the plants we grow just as healthy as those of the seedsmen we patronize year after year?
I happen to know that our old and most reputable seedsmen make only a reasonable profit on the seed they sell.
There are so many kinds of flowers offered by the seedsmen that it is a difficult matter to decide between them, when all are so good.
The seedsmen grow theirs for their seed, and in order to secure the very best article they give their plants care and culture that ours are not likely to get.
The seedsmen alone are responsible for the change in nomenclature.
Many persons tell us that they cannot afford to pay the extra prices which the seedsmen put on unmixed seed.
On making inquiries from the leading seedsmen throughout Australia, and asking what varieties of salad plants are mostly in vogue, you find that the cabbage lettuce is almost the sole representative.
French writers describe the ripe seeds as exceeding the above dimensions; but specimens received from Paris seedsmen correspond in size, form, and color with the description before given.
They, however, rarely ripen well in this country, and seedsmenare generally supplied from abroad.
The term "Silver-skin," by which this onion is very generally though erroneously known throughout New England, has created great confusion between seedsmen and dealers.
We had hoped that our seedsmen might have been able to procure some through some of their friends.
Who among seedsmen does not profess to offer the seeds of swedes and turnips from selected bulbs?
Accordingly some wholesale seedsmenbuy large quantities in the “glut season,” as it is termed, and store them until the same articles fail in crop.
Under this denomination all seedsmen know it, and it can be procured by the trade at about 7s.
Latterly seedsmen honestly confess that they have not the seed, but can send T.
This, however, is a matter which we conceive depends more upon the soil and the kind of cultivation than upon the sort; for although all seedsmen supply two sorts, namely, Trifolium pratense and T.
There are numbers of excellent squashes now catalogued by the seedsmen which many farmers have never tried, but which are worthy of cultivation for market purposes.
The seedsmen import it from Europe every year along with their seeds.
Onion:--For some unknown reason, different seedsmen call the same onion by the same name.
And yet good seedsmen are more thoughtlessly and unjustly abused in the matter of seed vitality than in any other.
Many seedsmen predict that this is destined to become the leading standard--and where seedsmen agree let us prick up our ears!
So you can imagine what a revel of varieties the seedsmen may indulge in.
I suppose that seedsmen consider extravagance in catalogues, both in material and language, necessary, or they would not go to the limit in expense for printing and mailing, as they do.
Second, buy of seedsmen who make a point of growing and testing their own seed.
Some of our more careful seedsmen produce all the seed they use in this way; others buy of professional seed growers, who use more or less carefully grown stock seed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seedsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
