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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Anni. 7, 1004. 



ASPARAGUS 



Plumosus Nanus, ?«' ?-o-^- '^sg 



Per 5000 



Sprengeri, Ji 



Per 100 seeds. 

 ~ r 1(100 '■ 

 Per 5000 " 



.40 

 S.OO 

 9.0O 



STUMPP & WALTER CO., 50 Barclay St, NEW YORK. 



Mention the Review wben yoa write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. F. WlUard. Wethersfleld. Conn.: First 

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

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

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

 Uo., June. ima. 



Ix the' London auction rooms Excelsior 

 Pearl tuberoses have sold iit about 20s. 

 per 1,000. 



The sale for dormant eaiira roots vvill 

 hardly begin this year until the usual 

 time for offering the potted article is well 

 advanced. 



The market gardener is beginning to 

 fear that his hotbed jjlants will be too 

 far advanced before a chance to set them 

 out will come. 



Seed potato orders at catalogue rates 

 are coming, in faster than the strawberry 

 crop, and it is money out if the seeds- 

 man tries to fill them. 



Field corn receipts are more plenti- 

 ful and the market is somewhat easier. 

 It looks as though enough safe growing 

 stock will be available. 



A>-. enterprising hardware dealer in a 

 Chicago suburb is trying to force things. 

 He has a sign in his window reading, 

 "Lawn Mowers Sharpened." 



The Venable Seed Company, of Owens- 

 boro, Ky., has been incorporated with 

 $6,500 capital stock. The incorporators 

 are T. S., S. Q. and J. A. Venable. 



Floor walkers in the Chicago depart- 

 ment stores are hopeful that spring is 

 Hearing, several inquiries for the seed 

 department having reached them the past 

 week. 



Free distribution by the government, 

 packets given away as inducements for 

 subscriptions to magazines, spring floods. 

 and late frosts are hard on the seeds- 

 man's nerves. 



Bermuda ' onions are not making ex- 

 penses for the importers. The stockin 

 Eome instances is poor, and in all cases 

 fails to come up to the expectations of 

 the trade, even with domestic onions 

 practically exhausted. 



Last spring was thought to be exceed- 

 ingly late at points as far north as Chi- 

 cago, but there were many thousands of 

 pounds of spinach seed planted before 

 April 1, while this year an opportunity 

 to sow any spinach up to April 5 has 

 been a rare occurrence. 



The twenty-second annual convention 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 is to be held at the Forest Park Univer- 

 sity Hotel, St. Louis, June 21 to 23, 

 1904. A preliminary notice is issued in 

 connection with a circular regarding the 

 hotel. The regular announcement, with 

 the program, will be sent in May. 



Lawrv Orsiss Seed '** tuik ana packages 



GOLF 

 MIXTURES. 



^ Special Prices 

 "^^ to dealers 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



BRAND Minneapolis. CKlce>.go. 



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A. T. BODDIKGTON lias withdrawn 

 fjom Clucas & Boddington Co., New 

 ^ ork, and has opened for himself at 3.5 

 \\'arren street, importing and exporting 

 seeds, bulbs and plants. Jas. W. Begbie, 

 until recently with Clucas & Boddington 

 Co., is now with Mr. Boddington. 



It is reported that 700 acres of Eocky 

 Ford melons will be' planted in the Ya- 

 kima Valley in Washington this year. 

 F.nthusiasts say that within two years 

 that district will produce more than the 

 Rocky, Ford district. It is asserted that 

 the character of the land is just as good 

 and that the quality of melons will equal 

 if not surpass those grown at Kocky 

 Ford. 



A SIMPLE test of the vitality of any 

 farm or garden seeds can be made as 

 follows: Place 100 seeds, taken at ran- 

 dom from the stock which is to be 

 planted, on a dish of sand, cover from 

 one-half to one inch with sand, moisten 

 and keep in a warm place, until the 

 sprouts appear. Care should be taken 

 that the seeds are kept moist, but not too 

 wet. It is advisable to make more than 

 one test, and be guided by the average 

 results. A test of this kind is more 

 valuable than one in which the seeds 

 are placed in blotting paper, for seeds 

 may sprout on paper which do not have 

 sufficient vitality to grow. 



DISCHARGED AS BANKRUPTS. 



Burnett and Leopold Landreth, of the 

 firm of D. Landreth & Sons, were dis- 

 charged as involuntary bankrupts in 

 the United States District Court at Phila- 

 delphia, March 30. Last Xovember, when 

 creditors filed a petition in the District 

 Court, the firm acknowledged its in- 

 solvency. The creditors were more than 

 100 in number, principally country banlcs. 

 The liabilities were- said to be about 

 $150,000, and the assets, as a going con- 

 cern, $134,197. The business was subse- 

 quently sold to Burnett Landreth, Jr.. 

 and Phillips Landreth, sons of Burnett 

 Landreth, senior member of the old firm. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. T. Eosenfisld, West Point, Xeb.. 

 peonies, etc.; Heinrich Henkel, Darm- 

 stadt, Germany, trees and plants; Crane 

 Bros., Westfield, Mass., price list of 

 linenoid trunks; J. H. H. Boyd, Gage, 

 Tenn., tree seeds ; H. A. Terry, Crescent, 

 Iowa, peonies; William Deal, Kelvedon, 

 Fssex, England, seeds and seed potatoes ; 

 Cottage Gardens. Queens, N. Y.. nur- 

 sery stock; V. Lemoine & Son, Nancy, 

 France, plants. 



Rees& Compere 



Growers and Wholesale Dealers in 



Hi^h-Class Flowering Bulbs. 



p. 0. Address : Long Beach, Cal., R. F. D. No. 1 



Ranch at Burnett, 3 miles north of 

 Lnii^ Beach. Cal. 



THE LARGEST PRODUCERS OE EREESU 

 BILBS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



SPECULTIFS— Frot'sias. Grand Duchess Oxalis, 

 all colors; Bermuda Buttercup Oxalis; Chinese 

 Narcissus. Hybrid Tigridias. Childanthus. Zephy- 

 ranthes, Ornithosalunis, Sternberfrias. AmarylUs 

 Johnsoni and Belladonna Major and Minor. 

 Prkes to the Wholesale Trade only on application. 

 Mi^ntion The Review when you write. 



LILY of the VALLEY 



Finest Pips from Cold Storage. 



Per 100 J1.50 



Per 1000 13.00 



Per case of 2,500 30.00 



H.N.BRUNS,MX:»'t7 CHICAGO, ILL. 



\tpntlon Th^ K>^vlew when vou write. 



^^^ RAWSON'S 



Arling^ton Tested 



xm^^JCi^g^gMc:^ FOR THE 



:9eeas florist 



Catalogrnes Mailed Free. 



W. W. RAWSON &. CO., Seedsmen, 



n and 13 Faneuil Hall Square. BOSTON. 



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BEGONIA VERNON. 



In reading over some back numbers of 

 the Review I ran across an item in 

 Brother Scott's Seasonable Hints of Jan- 

 uary 5, 1899. stating that he bad sown 

 some seed of Begonia Vernon the August 

 previous and that he was going to put 

 five or six in S-inch pans and expected 

 them to be in full bloom for Easter. I 

 would like to ask Brother Scott whether 

 or not he got them in full bloom for 

 Easter? S. F. P. 



Yes, they flowered and made nice pans. 

 If I remember we did the same thing the 

 following year, but we have so many 

 pretty as well as showy plants for Easter 

 that we let it drop. W. S. 



Elizabeth, N. J. — J. W. Blakely made 

 a very fine showing for Easter, and kept 

 a crowd in front of his window con- 

 stantly. 



Utica, N. Y. — Patrick Drugan, for 

 many years employed by Wm. Mathews, 

 the well-known orchid grower, died 

 March 24 as the result of a fall which 

 he sustained about two months ago. 



