370 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JaiNUari 14. 1904. 



FLOWER SEED for PRESENT PLaiNTING. 



pkt. 



35c... 

 25c... 

 15c... 



VERBENA, Mamniutli Mixed 



ALVIA Nana Comp., Itontlre 



PYKETHKUM Golden Feather 



PETUNIA, large tlowerlng, fringed, mixed 



PETUNIA, double, large flowering, fringed, mixed . . 



STOCK Imp. Giant Perfection, white Ph*. 



STOCK Snontlake, white 



Our Wholesale Catalogue mailed free January 1st 



'4 oz., 50<' 

 H oz., 75c. 

 H oe., 30c. 



. .07... 



pkt., 



a5c. 

 25c. 



.H o/.., 

 .\i oz.. 



»1.50. 

 3.50. 



»1.50 

 3.50 

 l.OO 

 .50 

 l.OO 

 5.00 

 9.00 



so Satc/m/ S/r®^^: 



Mention the Review when yon write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMLRICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



Pres., 9. P. Wlllard. Weibersfleld. Conn.: Plrsi 

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

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

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

 Mo., June. Iy04. 



Visited Chicago: — W. H. Grinnell, 

 Pjerpont Manor, N. Y. 



Visited St. Louis: — Frank J. Eies, 

 representing the Goodwin, Harries Co., 

 Chicago. 



W. E. French, dealer in hides ana 

 wool at Waterloo, la., is also a buyer 

 of seeds. 



W. E. Marshall, New York, was 

 thrown from a sleigh at Newport, E. I., 

 January 7 and dislocated his shoulder. 



Onion sets are quoted at $7.60 per 

 bushel in the 1904 catalogue of a promi- 

 nent seed house. This is evidently a 

 mistake. 



A SOUTHERN truckers ' guide to hand 

 this week quotes Stowell's Evergreen and 

 Country Gentleman sweet corn at $3.25 

 per bushel. 



This is likely to be a year when it 

 would have been well for the trade to 

 have adopted a uniform scale of prices 

 previous to printing their catalogues. 



The scarcity of some of the wax 

 podded varieties of beans is so great that 

 there will be a dithculty in getting 

 enough of them together for stock seed 

 purposes. 



Between $3.25 and $15 there is quite 

 a difference. These are the highest and 

 the lowest bushel prices noticed in the 

 1904 catalogues, for Country Gentleman 

 sweet corn. 



Gradus peas are quoted in some of 

 the retail catalogues at $9 per bushel. 

 This is $3 per bushel less than .iobbers 

 are offered for five to ten bushel lots of 

 this variety. 



Thb only shortages that seem to be 

 serious are beans, wax podded varieties; 

 sweet com, all late varieties; cucumbers, 

 all pickling varieties; egg plant, choice 

 stock; asparagus seed, most varieties; 

 beet, Edmand's; peas, Gradus; rhubarb. 



None of the prices asked for wax 

 beans in the 1904 catalogues are high 

 enough. If the dealer has to buy at 

 present values to complete filling his or- 

 ders he will pay the jobber as much nr 

 more than he asks in his retail cata- 

 logue. 



That current catalogue prices are not 

 the actual values of sweet corn will be 

 made plain by ordering the article from 

 any of the dealers who quote low. If 

 money is enclosed with the order the 

 chances are that it will be returned with 

 the statement that stock is all sold, , or 

 "we have some secured later at a higher 

 price that is available." 



All the important catalogues have 

 now been mailed and the general report 

 is that mail trade with the south is open- 

 ing satisfactorily, but that demand from 

 the north is slow in starting, possibly 

 due to severe weather, where it had been 

 expected that the well understood short- 

 age in many lines would result in early 

 orders. 



The one hundred and third annual 

 edition of the general catalogue of J. 

 M. Thorburn & Co., New Y'ork, is worthy 

 of the study of all catalogue makers. 

 The cover is rich without being gaudv 

 and the mechanical features of the book 

 are excellent. The type is clear, the 

 paper heavy and opaque, so that the 

 half-tones show up much better than on 

 most highly calendared stock. The bind- 

 ing, too, is noteworthy in that the book 

 is sewed with thread instead of being 

 stitched with wire staples, as is the case 

 in other catalogues. This permits the 

 catalogue to open flat. 



CORN BREEDING. 



Funk Bros. Seed Co., Bloomington, 

 111., has attracted much attention by the 

 success which has attended efforts at 

 up-breeding in corn. At the annual 

 meeting of the American Breeders' As- 

 sociation J. D. Funk gave an account of 

 the work, which is summarized as fol- 

 lows in the press report recently is- 

 sued : 



Commerciallv the corn breeder must have one 

 aim and only" one. that is utility. The acre 

 is the farmer's unit. There are three ways to 

 increase his profits per acre; improvement of 

 fertility, improvement of culture, and improve- 

 ment o't productiveness of seed. The commer- 

 cial breeder of corn must increase the number 

 of shelled bushels of grain per acre, and also 

 increase the feeding value of the bushel. On 

 farms aggregating 25,000 acres in area, Mr. 

 Punii and his partners breed a number of va- 

 rieties of corn. They have twenty or thirtv 

 isolated, small fields or com nurgerie». On 

 each are planted the seeds from each of titty 

 or sixty numbered ears of a certain .variety, 

 each ear being planted in a single toW which 

 is also numbered. Before tasseling, all plants 

 that are seemingly barren of an ear are de- 

 tasseled, and weak or objectionable rows are 

 entirely detasseled and thrown out. Each row 

 is husked separately and the corn weighed. 

 By this means is secured the yield per plant 

 of the progeny of each mother plant. From 

 each of the eight or ten rows giving the high- 

 est rate of production, thus showing their 

 mother ears to have had the highest breeding 

 power, are saved several of the best ears for 

 mothers of rows in the next year's nursery. 

 From these same best rows, seed is also saved 

 for larger plots, tlie yields of which the next 

 year are also recorded. The yields of the 

 rnother jDlants, their centgener yields in nur- 

 ^sery rows, and the yields of the field plots, 

 become performance records of the strains of 

 corn as the individual track record and the 

 record of numerous of his progeny, become the 

 performance r.r-cnrd.^ of tiie troflmg horse. 



EUROPEAN 



DEPARTMENT. 



In writing these advertisers please 

 mention the Review. 



A. LeCOQ & GO. 



DARMSTADT, GERMANY, 



Wtaoleaale Dealers in 



Grass, Clover, 



AGRICULTURAL 

 and FOREST TREE 

 SEEDS— ^- 



Prices and Samples on application. 



Mfntlnn RpTlfw whpti ynn wrltP. 



Ne^Chrysanthemums 



The best of the Novelties sbowD at New 



York this year are from my last year's set. 



Another g^reat set described in my special 

 list just out. Sent post free. Write for It. 



W. WELLS & CO., 



BAKtSWOOD. 



SURREY. ENGLAND. 



Write for prices 

 on quantities 

 wanted of 



Peas, Cabbage, Beet, etc. 



SURREY SEED CO., Ltd. 



REDHI!.!., i:irOI.AND. 



J. DIJKHUIS & CO. 



BOSKOOP-HOIJaA.ND. 

 QUALITY QUANTITY. 



Asl£ our prices for Azaleas, Rhododendrons. 



Peonies, Roses, Hardy Evergfreens, 



Clematis, Etc. 



Price List Free on Application. 



^ Northern Star 



THE TALK OF THE GARDENING WORLD. 



For lowest cash price address 



WM. DEAL, Jr., F. R. H. S. 



fEERING HILL, KtlVrOON, ESSEX, ENGLAND. 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



SEEDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



Timothy, Clovers, Flax, Hungarian, Millets. Red Top, Blue Grass, 

 Lawn Grass, Orchard Grass, Pasture Mixtures, Bird Seeds, 



Ensilage Corn, Pop Corn, Buckwheat, Beans, Peas, Etc. 

 COTTON GRAIN BAGS. CHICAGO ILL. 



