Mauch 24, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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An Easter Idea 



The leading Florists all over the country say our Chickens and Ducks are one of the best things out. Sure to be 

 popular. They are life-like in appearance, exactly resembling the little fellows when small. Let us send you a flock of 

 them. They will attract customers. 

 • Our Celluloid Waterproof Accordeon Plaited Crepe Papers and Pot Covers are the finest made. They 



come in every variety of color and shade that will harmonize with flowers and foliage. Have you enough? 



Our China Swans are beautifully made. You should see them. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



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The Largest Florists' Supply House in America, n. 



50-56 

 Fourth Street, 



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Mention The Review wlien you write. 



of tlie newer ones will beat it murli ; it 

 eomes as near being the ideal fort'ing va- 

 riety as any we liave tried. 



Most seed, catalogues liave quite a list 

 of radishes, but though we have tried a 

 few we have found nothing better than 

 Nou Plus Ultra, the variety I recom- 

 mended in a former article. Earliness 

 and dwarfuess of top are its principal ad- 

 vantages, and it is quite equal to any of 

 the others in table qualities. 



W. S. Croydon. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. F. Wlllard. Wethersfleld, Conn.; First 

 Viee-Prea.. J. Cliaa. McCullougli. Cincinnati, O.; 

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

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

 Mo., June, 1901. 



The globe varieties of onion seed are 

 becoming quite scarce. The tendency 

 is toward the planting of the globes iu 

 preference to the flat or thick fiat sorts. 



Ch.\rles Sharpe & Co., Sleaford, 

 Knglaiiil, offer a new brussels sprout, 

 Cambridgeshire Champion, said to be 

 the best market variety they have ever 

 known. 



Ix many growing sections stock seed 

 for muskmelon, watermelon, squash, 

 pumpkin and cucumber is scarce, and the 

 chance of securing safe stock for plant- 

 ing purposes is seriously slim. 



Most of the wholesale pea growers 

 are well along with the contracting with 

 i'arnievs. Things move along smoothly 

 ;is a rule. The usual difficulty in plac- 

 ing the short-strawed wrinkled sorts is 

 c.-sperienced. 



Sever.il ears of a good stock of Ohio 

 seed potatoes arrived at Chicago the past 

 week but the price is just as stiff as 

 ever; $1.20 to $1.3.j per bushel, bags 

 weighed in, is the prevailing price foi' 

 large lots at the car. 



New Orleans, La. — Under date of 

 March IS, Joseph .Schindler & Co. write- 

 We had a fearful rain and hail storm 

 yesterday evening, the worst in years. 

 The market gardeners suffered severely ; 

 ruined most all the young spring crop, 

 tomatoes, lettuce, beans, spinach, etc. 



In the Ohio and Indiana marsh lands 

 where the onion does well, seed will be 

 sown in larger quantities than ever this 



spring. it has been demonstrated, 

 though, that marsh land is not suitable 

 for producing onion sets. 



The Nursery and Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion of Great Britain, with offices at 33 

 Wood street, Cheapside, London, has a 

 membership of 139 of the principal nur- 

 serymen and seed merchants of the 

 United Kingdom and forty-one abroad. 

 The association being a mutual one is 

 confined to members of the trades it rep- 

 resents and those allied therewith, and 

 they give to each other gratis, through 

 the secretary, private information re- 

 specting the stability and pu-nctnality in 

 payment of persons seeking credit. 



In the will of the late Edgar J. 

 Bowen, the San Francisco seedsman, 

 which was filed for probate March lU, 

 his emjiloyes are geneiously remem- 

 bered. To each one iu his employ at 

 the time of his death there is to be 

 paid out of the estate a percentage of 

 such employe 's yearly salary, varying 

 from fifty per cent, which is to be paid 

 to each employe who has been in de- 

 cedent's service for ten years or more, 

 to five per cent, to be paid to each one 

 who has worked for one year, with in- 

 termediate peieentages for those who 

 have been employed for other periods. 



The moisture wnich prevails in onion 

 sets at the break of cold weather has 

 been mucli more annoying this year than 

 usual. The long winter, with its un- 

 broken severity, gave little chance to air 

 up the stock until time for shipment 

 made it necessary to hustle sets out. 

 Shipment in damp condition, although 

 doing the set no hurt if it is spread out 

 promptly at destination, spoils its ap- 

 liearance lor the time being, and causes 

 the purchaser uneasiness. As a rule, 

 there are moderate periods during win- 

 ter which permits the airing and stir- 

 ring of sets in the ordinary warehouse, 

 but the past winter was the exception. 



If it is true, as reported, that a for- 

 eign seed house went into the market 

 and purchased goods at an advanced 

 pi-ice in order to fill "subject to crop" 

 crders in full, the circumstance is ex- 

 traordinary from the standpoint of the 

 American grower. 



For the past two or three years the 

 seeds of Gocos Weddeliana have been 

 scarce, but there seems likely to be a 

 plentiful supply this season. The first 

 con>i^nmpnls sold freely at 18s. per 

 1,11(111, but last week .some were sold at 

 Mill lilt l.'js. per 1,000. Good sjimplcs of 



Iventia Forsteriana have been selling at 

 about Os. per 1.000. K. Belmoreana has 

 been making rather higher prices. We 

 do not often see seeds of Oeonoma gra- 

 cilis at the auction rooms, but some were 

 sold last week. They made 20s. per 

 1,000. Messrs. W. BuU" & Sons have just 

 received a large consignment of seeds of 

 Phoenix ruijicola, the samples being very 

 good. — A. Hemsley in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 



The recent heavy rains did great dam- 

 age to the seed growing and experimental 

 grounds of the Cox Seed Co., at Termi- 

 nus, Cal. Many acres of valuable stock 

 were under several feet of water and the 

 loss will run into thousands of dollars. 



A SWEET CORN CONTRACT CASE. 



At Seward, Neb., March 14, the jury 

 in the case of the Sioux City Seed & 

 Nursery Company against A. H. Beniis 

 brought in a verdict iu fa\or of the de- 

 fendant. The case was tried in the coun- 

 ty court and lasted three days. The 

 nature of the case aroused considerable 

 interest, particularly among seedsmen and 

 growers. Tlie litigation arose over a 

 seed contract. The seed house replev- 

 ined 300 bushels of sweet corn, on Jan- 

 uary 15 of this year, raised by Mi. 

 Bemis on his farm near Seward, and 

 shipped the same to Sioux City, where 

 the corn was sold to the seed company'.s 

 customers. Mr. Bemis by way of answer 

 denied the eoutract under which the corn 

 was replevined and claimed damages for 

 conversion. The evidence brought out the 

 fact that an oral contract was made in 

 January, 1903, whereby Mr. Bemis was 

 to raise si.xty acres of sweet corn and re- 

 ceive from the seed company 7.5 cents 

 a bushel; that Mr. Bemis planted sixty 

 acres of sweet corn, but subsequently the 

 company had tendered Jlr. Bemis $1 a 

 bushel for the corn raised. ilr. Bemis 

 contended that both parties mutually had 

 broken the oral contract and that he was 

 entitled to the market price of his corn. 

 With that understanding he had sold 

 fifty bushels of the corn in the fall to 

 the Griswold Seed Company at Lincoln 

 at .$3 a bushel. Mr. Emer-on, of Fre- 

 mont, and ilr. Robinson, of Waterloo, 

 were used as expert witnes-es on the val- 

 ue of sweet coin. Their testimony showed 

 that GO per cent of the sweet corn raised 

 iu the United States for .seed purposes 

 was raised iu Nebraska. The jury 

 found that the defendant was entitled to 

 ■$1.7.") a bushel for his com and the 

 tosts should be taxed to the plaintiff. 



