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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



.lAMAlIY lil. T.I04. 



FLOWER SEED for PRESENT PLaNTING. 



VEKBKSA, Mammoth Mixed pkt., a5c ...'4 07.., 50»-. . . .0/.., »1.50 



SALVIA Nana Comp., Konlire " aSc-M 07. . 75c.. ..<>/... a. 50 



PYKKTHKIIM Gohleu Feather " J Sc.-M oz., SOc 07.., l.OO 



PETl'M.A. large flowerlne. frIuBert, mixed.. pkt., .50 



PETUNIA, tiouble, large Howerlng, rrlnged, mixed " 1 OO 



STOCK Imp. Ulant Perfection, white pkt., a5c....'4 07.., Wl.SO.. ..oz.. 5.00 



STOCK Siiowllake. while " aSc-Moz., 3.50 oz., 9.O0 



Our Wholcaalo Catalogue mailed free January 1st. 



Mention the Review wben yog write. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TIUDE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. P. W-illard, Wethersfleld. Conn.: Plrsi 

 Vice-Pres., J. Chas. McCuiloxigh. Cincinnati, O 

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

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

 Mo., June. 19W. 



Visited Chicacio: .Tno. T. Biickbeo, 

 of Eoikford, 111. 



I/JKGFELLOAV bean is one of the si^arce 

 varieties of the green podiled sorts. 



Visited Om.\ha: Juo. F. Geary, rep- 

 resenting Leonard Seed Co., ('hieago. 



Visited Xew Orleans.- C. W. Smith, 

 representing Leonard Seed Co., Chicago. 



Oxiox sets are beginning to get a 

 move on. Several of the jobbers are 

 pushing ear lots forward. 



CoxsiDERiXG the pronounced sTiortage 

 in cucumber seed the prices are remark- 

 ably uniform in the spring catalogues. 



The cucumber and sweet corn prices 

 in the D. M. Ferry & Co. retail catalogue 

 are cited as good evidence of a shortage 

 in those items. 



The one who thinks sweet corn is not 

 scarce, also the one who thinks sweet 

 corn is scarce, can easily pick out a seed 

 catalogue to prove it. 



This is the season when a small urder 

 written on a large order sheet is a dis- 

 appointment, and quite at variance with 

 the eternal fitness of things. 



The hustle to cover shortages of lieans 

 and other staple seeds that is now epi- 

 demic at the south will likely spread to 

 other points as the planting season conies 

 around. 



Curbie's Black Wax at $7 per bushel 

 and .$10 per bushel for Wanhvell's, are 

 the prices at which orders have been 

 booked by wholesalers for immediate 

 shipment during the week. 



Flaxseed prices are moving upward. 

 May closing at $1.08 at Chicago Jaiiu 

 ary li). Timothy is slow; country lots 

 soid from $2.40 to $3.2.5. Clover seed 

 easy, spot lots .$8.50 to $11, according to 

 tjuality. 



It is safe, and perhaps it is good pol- 

 icy as well, to (|uote the bushel price of 

 sweet corn low where the greater propor- 

 tion of the orders looked for are for 

 quarts or less. This does not make the 

 prices of those who are calleil upon to 

 fill bushel orders look any more attract- 

 ive, however. 



There has as yet been no adjustment 

 of the loss on the Buckbee seed ware- 

 house loss at Rockford many mouths ago. 

 The proofs of loss claim $il8,(liU), while 

 the insurance is $77,000. The under- 

 writers' adjuster is insisting upon the 

 cost value of the seeds, while Mr. Buck- 



lice uiaiutains that he is entitled to ap- 

 jiraise them at market value at the time 

 of the fire. 



Wm. S. Gilbre.\th, for fifteen years 

 associated with the Illinois Seed Com- 

 ]iany. of Chicago, and one year with 

 the ,T. M. McCullough's Sons, Cincin- 

 nati, is about to open up a new seed 

 house in Indianapolis under the name of 

 the William S. Gilbreath Seed Company. 

 The concern will conduct a general grass 

 and tieM seed, grain and storage busi- 

 ness. 



W. T. Philipps, formerly president of 

 the Henry Philipps Seed and Implement 

 Co., Toledo, O., has sold his stock in the 

 corporation to his brothers and has or- 

 ganized a competing concern and opened 

 as the W. T, Philipps Co., at o]9 ilouroe 

 street. There are six brothers contin- 

 uing with the old firm. Herman, Henry 

 .1., Albert .!., Charles .1, S., Fred and 

 August J. 



Ax authority on the sweet corn situ- 

 ation says: There is a hitch at present 

 between the farmers who grow sweet 

 corn for the factories antl the cariners 

 for whom they grow regarding the price 

 that green corn shall be contracted at 

 for the coming year. He thinks that as 

 soon as a satisfactory rate can be agreed 

 upon a boom will take place in seed 

 sweet corn. 



JosiAH HooPEs, the well known horti- 

 culturist, of Westchester, Pa., died .lan- 

 uary 16, aged 72 years. 



K.^NSAS City, Mo. — C. & .1. Kreitz 

 say trade was very good for December, 

 but that January is not so good, the 

 weather being a little too warm for busi- 

 ness. 



The rose Mme, Abel Chatenay, which 

 has been so good a money-maker for sev- 

 eral growers in the middle west this sea- 

 son, and which will doubtless be largely 

 planted for next year, was introduced by 

 Pernet-Ducher, the French rosarian, in 

 1894. It is stated to be a seedling from 

 a cross of Docteur Crill and Victor Ver- 

 dier. 



GladiolusBulbs 



My .\X stuck in the bt;8t obtainable, liav*' been 

 selected from choice named varieties of Ganda- 

 Tlnsis, Lemolne, Nancelanus. Clilldsli and choice 

 seedlings. Send postal for account of ii. 



M. CRAWFORD, Cuyahoga Tails, Ohio. 



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The best of the Novelties shown at New 

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



Another great set described in my special 

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