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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 31. 1003. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. F. WlUard, Wethersfleld, Conn.; Plrsl 

 Vlce-Pres.. J. Chas. McCullough, Cincinnati, O.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O, 

 The 22d annual meeting will be held at St. Loula 

 Mo., June. 19(U. 



L. L. Mat & Co., St. Paul, are mailing 

 their 190-1 catalogue. 



Vert few 1904 retail catalogues have 

 yet made their appearance. 



E. H. ViCK -nill start west shortly in 

 the interest of Wra. Hagemann, of New 

 York. 



The only thing that can be done is to 

 make the best of the short deliveries that 

 are being made. 



Sevekal sales of sweet corn are re- 

 ported from St. Paul at prices ranging 

 from $6 to $8 per bushel. 



It looks as though the difference be- 

 tween wholesale and retail prices will be 

 smaller than ever during 1904. 



The Haven Seed Co., of South Haven, 

 Mich., has been dissolved and will be 

 reincorporated at Arroyo Grande, Cal. 



The same trouble is being experienced 

 this year as last upon the appraisement of 

 foreign seeds. Vexatious delays are the 

 result. 



This season preference will be given 

 to the orders from market gardeners and 

 small consumers by many seedsmen who 

 issue catalogues to the trade. 



The seedsmen who deal in Christmas 

 goods report a fairly good trade. Some 

 over-purchases of Christmas trees have 

 lessened the profits in some instances. 



A Baltimore seed dealer writes that 

 the trade in general in that vicinity has 

 not anticipated its wants in anything 

 like as heavy quantities as a year ago. 



The Albert Dickinson Company will 

 proceed at once with an investment of 

 $80,000 in a seed warehouse on the tract 

 of land recently purchased between Min- 

 neapolis and St. Paul. 



Alfred Plant, of the Plant Seed Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, has passed his eighty- 

 second birthday and spends much of his 

 time at Webster Groves but he keeps well 

 up on what is going on in the trade. 



The large jobbers report a very lively 

 time at present. All customers are 

 clamoring for shipments. It is slow work 

 getting beans and peas in shape. Sweet 

 corn that has been purchased hangs back 

 remarkably. Foreign goods are being 

 held up at the ports of entry. The rail- 

 roads are wilUng to place cars on track 

 but to get carloads of stuff ready under 

 the circumstances taxes the facilities of 

 the best of them. 



Burpee's Farm Annual quotes Stowell's 

 Evergreen sweet corn at $6.50 per bushel, 

 but an insert states that ' ' some thousanas 

 of the ' form ' were printed, when an un- 

 expected and unusually severe freeze in- 

 jured a considerable portion of Stowell 's 

 Evergreen sweet corn, as it was not yet 

 thoroughly cured. This reduces the sup- 

 ply to such an extent that we are obliged 

 to advance prices to $2.00 per peck or 

 $7..50 per bushel. Prices on other varie- 

 ties remain unchanged. ' ' Cory is priced 



at^ -$6.50, Crosby's Early at $6.50 and 

 Country Gentleman at $9. Arlington 

 \\Tiite Spine cucumber is quoted at $2 

 per pound, and Jersey Pickle at $1.85, 

 Idvingstou 's Evergreen at $1.75. 



The St. Louis Seed Co., successor to 

 the retail department of the Plant Seed 

 Co., proposes to make florists' seeds and 

 bulbs an important department. They 

 had a big bnlb trade this fall, but have 

 a small stock of many varieties still on 

 hand. 



The business men of Dallas, Tex., are 

 organizing a corporation for the pur- 

 pose of distributing early maturing cot- 

 ton seed among the farmers of the 

 southwest. The belief is that in early 

 maturity comes immunity from weevil 

 and prosperity for the state. 



BUT THEY DO. 



The League of Wholesale Seedsmen 

 protests against the distribution of seeds 

 by the Agricultural Department to the 

 farmers. They needn't worry; the seeds 

 rarely come up. — New York Times. 



But they do; just there's the trouble. 

 So long as the Department was sending 

 out stuff that was no good, no one cared 

 very much, but now that as good seeds 

 as any are being sent out, it cuts a big 

 hole in the mail order and packet trade. 

 In the cool of the evening one day last 

 summer a well known seedsman not far 

 from Chicago dropped in upon a distin- 

 guished jurist, who had recently become 

 a relative by marriage, and found him 

 taking exercise at work in as well ordered 

 a little kitchen garden as one might ask, 

 "the seeds all sent me by my friend, the 

 congressman, you know. ' ' When the gov- 

 ernment gets to supplying seeds to the 

 seedsmen 's own relatives, what 's one to 

 do? 



We esteem the Eeview very highly for 

 its Seed Trade news. — Binghamton 

 Seed Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 



Here's another dollar for the Eeview, 

 which we certainly cannot do without. — 

 Gelven & Sox, Sedalia, Mo. 



NEBRASKA CITY, NEB. 



Trade in this city Christmas week 

 showed an increase of lifty per cent over 

 last year and a better understanding of 

 Christmas prices than heretofore. As 

 an afterthought the idea presents itself 

 as to whether a neatly printed slip or 

 card sent with each azalea, Lorraine or 

 poinsettia giving briefly some of the 

 things to do or not to do in order that 

 the plants may remain in good shape as 

 long as possible, would not be a practi- 

 cal and business proposition. Too often 

 the day after Christmas or Easter some 

 one will call up and complain that the 

 azalea is all wilted or the flowers are all 

 falling off, when a glance will show 

 that the ball of roots is as dry as pow- 

 der, or perhaps the plant is standing 

 in a jardiniere or saucer of water. My 

 trade is a trade which has not here- 

 tofore used much of this expensive stock 

 and it seems to me that as a business 

 policy the purchases should be made as 

 satisfactory to the customer as possible. 

 Would not this idea be as practical ap- 

 plied to the retail trade as to the whole- 

 saling of rooted cuttings? I would like 

 to hear what some of the older retailers 

 think of the proposition. 



H. H. Cottox. 



Elkhart, Ind. — Anna Schenk, of Gar- 

 land, Ohio, and Clara Seibel, of Polk, 

 Ohio, aged respectively 9 and 19 years, 

 who were risiting here were fatally 

 scalded by steam December 28, in a green- 

 house boiler room. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Otis B. M. Felton, 

 75 years old, a florist of 330 North Sixty- 

 third street, dropped dead in Odd Fel- 

 lows' Temple, Broad and Cherry streets, 

 December 23. Death came after he had 

 made a jocose remark to Grand Scribe 

 Hall, of Philadelphia Canton, No. 1, in 

 the latter 's oflice on the first floor. Heart 

 failure is believed to have been the 

 cause. 



We are great admirers of the Ee- 

 view. — H. O. Hannah, Sherman, Tex. 



SURPLUS BULBS MUST SELL QUICK! 



lES^ NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED "«!! 



ITiO Liliuin Harrisii, 7-'-' 



150 ■• ■■ '.1-11. 



250 ■■ Longiflorum (Japan) T-H 



;«)0 Dutch Miniatures, light blue. 



150 '• •• dark blue. 



Ull " '• red. 



NARCISSUS 

 2200 Dbl Von Sion. 1st size. 

 It;50 ■■ • Ordinary size. 



;iOO ■' ■■ Select size. 



150 Bicoloi Empress. 



n.') Golden Spur. 



h Bulbocodium- 



150 Henry Irving. 



250 Single Von Sion. 

 75 Trumpet Major. 



300 Princeps., 



125 Single mixed. 



175 Barri Conspicuus. 



250 Incomparabilis Flore Pleno. 



UiO •■ Orange Phoenix 



24ro Poeticus (Pheasant's Eye). 

 2200 •- Omatus. 



2('0 Grand Monarque. 



100 " '■ Soleil D'Or. 



loo White varieties, mixed. 



2(0 Double Yellow Jonquil. 



50U Single 

 170U Jonquils Campernelle Major. 



TULIPS 



1500 Crimson King. 

 2000 Artus. 

 SOO Keizerskroon. 



;i50 Proserpine. 

 125 Wouverman. 

 5UU Yellow Prince. 

 KO Pottebakkers Yellow. 

 150 Due Van Thoil Crimson. 

 75 •' ■' Gold Striped. 

 100 " '• White. 

 250 Bizard's Mixed. 

 7.50 Bybloom's MLxed Violets. 

 20J ■• Roses. 



200 Single Late Mixed. 



Double > arietles 



100 DucVanTholl Carmine Early 

 50 Imperator Rubrorum. 

 350 Rex Rubrorum. 

 400 Rose Blanche. 

 150 Toumesol Yellow. 

 500 Single Early Superfine MLxed 



l.'>0 Double Snowdrops- 

 75 ' Ixias. Mixed. 

 1500 Candidum Lily (large size). 



HYACINTHS, 2d Size (Single) 



2C0 Chas. Dickens. 

 4S Fabiola. 

 40 Mana Comelia. 

 4S Moreno. 

 71 Norma, 

 is Sultane Favorite. 

 2:i Gen. I'elissier. 

 M Von Schiller. 

 21 Grandeur a Mer\'eille. 



HYACINTHS, 1st Size(Single) 



Roses, Pinks, Etc. 

 100 Chas. Dickens (red). 

 44 Gigantea. 

 H2 Gertrude. 

 25 Maria Cornelia. 

 41 Moreno. 

 15 Norma. 

 53 SuUane Favorite. 



Reds 

 14 Lord Macauley. 

 ii5 Von Schiller. 



Pure Whites 



20 Alba Superbissima. 



24 La Grandesse. 



25 Mme- Van der Hoop. 

 2(; Mina. 



Blush Whites 



l44 Grandeur a Merveille. 

 n Li Franchise. 

 tu Voltaire. 



Blues 

 2;i Grand Maitre. 

 52 Chas. Dickens. 



Light Blue 



3;-! Grand Lilas. 

 32 Pieneman. 

 40 Regulus. 

 22 King of Blues- 

 Is Marie. 



ST. LOUS SEED CO. 



SUCCESSORS TO THE RETIIL OEPARTMEKT OF 

 PLANTSEED COMPANY. St Louis.lVlo. 



