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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



May 5, 1904. 



A FINE LOT 



Japanese Bamboo Plants 



IN FINE CONDITION. LARGE SIZE PLANTS 



Branch Store, 



404 East 34th Street, N. Y. 



Each Do7., Each Doz 



BAMBllSA HKtt\ 50c $5.00 I BAMBUSA ARGENTfO STRIATA. eOc $6.00 



PVGM^A 50c 5.00 •■ AlPHONSE K»RRI. . . 50c 5.00 



AtREA :45c 4.50| " \EIICHII 60c 6.00 



Collection of J plant each, 6 varieties, for $3.00 

 Collection of 6 plants each, 6 varieties (36 plants), for $15.00 



STIMPP & WALTER CO., 50 Barclay Sireel, NEW YORK. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



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

 Vlce-Pres., J. Cbas. MoCuUough, Cincinnati, O.; 

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

 The 23d annual meeting will be held at St. Loula, 

 Mo., June, 19M. 



Indiscriminate small lots of sweet 

 corn are offered at low rates. 



The weather of the past week has been 

 ideal, at Chicago, for onion set seeding 

 and the work is progressing rapidly. 



Contracting for seed beans is easier 

 just now and it looks as though the 

 growers will get what acreage they need. 



The Home Gardening Association at 

 Cleveland, O., has distributed 171,812 

 packets of flower seeds to school children. 



E.ARLY in the season there was a 



shortage of the genuine Carlson aster 



seed, but moderate quantities are now to 

 be had. 



Contract pea planting has been kept 

 back so much this season that it is sure 

 to have more or less of a_ bad effect on 

 the harvest. 



Frank E. Rue, formerly with Peter 

 Henderson & Co., New York, is now in 

 charge of J. C. Murray's seed store at 

 Peoria, 111. 



EOCHESTER, N. Y. — Spring here is 

 the most backward in years, no chance 

 for planting, the outlook very discourag- 

 ing, trade slow. 



The free seed distribution which be- 

 gan last fall has been completed. About 

 37,000,000 packages were sent out by 

 t^e government. 



B. T. HoYT, superintendent of the Hoyt 

 Plant and Seed Co., St. Paul, was mar- 

 ried April 7 to Miss Corinnie Bray, of 

 Pentwater, Mich. 



Thboughout the middle west planting 

 has begun in earnest. The effect is showii 

 in the increased "fill in" orders that are 

 being received at the jobbing centers. 



One of the largest jobbers of onion 

 sets is so well cleaned up that the retail 

 department even sold its last pint, some- 

 thing which has not happened in years. 



FROii Germany. France and England 

 come reports of business falling short of 

 anticipations from one cause or another, 

 with the result that there is a surplus on 

 a number of items. 



Vert heavy quantities of tomatoes 

 have been coming from southern Florida 

 for some weeks. One Clyde Line steamer 

 landed 12,000 crates at New York on 

 one trip about April 1. The tomato 

 section lies between Miami and Fort 

 Lauderdale, with Boynton and Delray 

 as heavy shipping points. At Cutler 

 Peters Bros, have 350 acres in tomatoes 

 and Easterling Bros, have 175 acres. 



Lawrv Grass Seed i«^ tuik and packages 





'<^ Special Prices OOL^f 



KtARK ,o dealers. 



MIXTURES, 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



BRAND Minneapolis. 



CKicoLtfo. 



Wm. Ewing & Co., seed dealers of 

 Montreal, Que., recently suffered $2,000 

 li.ss by fire in their warehouse. The fire 

 V, as confined to the lower floor, and the 

 damage was covered by insurance. 



W. H. SMALi, & Co., of Evansville, Ind., 

 have recently bought ground, 100x150 

 feet, on the principal wholesale street, 

 with side track facilities, and during the 

 summer will erect a four-story seed ware- 

 house. 



A. S. Begg entered peas at the port 

 of Port Huron,-Mich., and the appraiser 

 classed them as dutiable as seed peas. 

 Begg protested, claiming that they were 

 dutiable as dried peas, but the general 

 appraisers overruled. 



Reports in general for the week indi- 

 cate that local trade with most of the 

 retailers is much improved, and the 

 weather and soil conditions favorable for 

 a rush season of a week or two. They 

 all say that it is rather late in coniine. 

 however. 



CORN TO PLANT. 



The question as to whether tips and 

 butts of field corn should be discarded 

 when shelling for seed purposes is likelv 

 to come up again. The corn breeders' 

 associations throughout the west recom- 

 mend the planting of the grains from the 

 cob after the tip and butt grains have 

 been taken off. Seedsmen 'hold that this 

 recommendation is made simply for the 

 reason that evener planting results from 

 grains of equal size and not because of 

 anv superior producing quality inherent 

 in 'such grains. It seems, howevel-, that 

 some of the farmers believe that a better 

 and more uniform crop comes from such 

 grains, and contend that this is the the- 

 ory of the corn breeders. Information 

 from practical com growers upon this 

 point would be a good thing. 



AN EVERBEARING RHUBARB. 



The Everbearing Crimson Winter 

 rhubarb is one of the most valuable 

 plants that has been introduced in this 

 country. It is a precocious plant, bear- 

 ing stems for cutting in nine months 

 from seed, after which it is literally 

 everbearing, not requiring any season of 

 rest. It can be transplanted at any time 

 and immediately begins growing. The 

 «tems are a beautiful crimson color, lack- 

 ing the coarse fiber of the old variety, 

 so that it can be prepared for cookin'j 

 without stringing. 



It requires about half as much .sugar 

 as is usual for seasoning, and the flavor 

 is as delicate as that of strawberries. 



When cut and dropped into boiling wa- 

 ter, already sweetened, and slowly sim- 

 mered till tender, it makes a beautiful 

 dish, as tempting and as delicious as 

 strawberries and almost as handsome. 

 It has a clear, transparent, rich, pink 

 syrup, with the soft reddish unbroken 

 squares of the pulp, and one is not sat- 

 isfied with one dish, but finds himself, 

 like Oliver Twist, asking for "more."' 



People who have never cared for rhu- 

 barb, generally, are delighted with this 

 dainty and delicious new variety that can 

 be brought into market in September and 

 October and continued all through the 

 winter and spring months when other 

 fruit i^ scarce. 



We have grown it now for two years 

 and are more and more enthusiastic in 

 our appreciations of it^ merits and its 

 great value commercially. Luther Bur- 

 bank introduced it • in 1901, offering 

 plants at $1.50 each. We quote from 

 him: "For growing in California or 

 the southern states, for shipping north or 

 east it promises to be more profitable 

 than anything the soil produces. Its 

 fixed habit of winter growth makes it 

 especially adapted for growing in green- 

 houses and under glass." 



T. B. Shepherd. 



"GUARANTEED" VARIETIES. 



Assistant Postmaster Rogers has a 

 large quantity of government garden 

 seeds for free distribution. He has 

 given out a great quantity, and has 

 more for those who api^ly. The coun- 

 ty commissioners had a lot of pack- 

 ages of seed left over from the flood 

 contribution and they have been given 

 out. Mr. Rogers' garden seeds are the 

 guaranteed government varieties. — To- 

 peka, Kans., Journal. 



SEEDS IN THE PHILIPPINES. 



Nearly 22,000 packages of assort- 

 ed seeds have been distributed, reaching 

 almost every province in the archipelago. 

 These have included 137 varieties of 

 American grown field and garden seeds, 

 and it is pointed out that the requests 

 have come largely from native farmers. 

 It has been clearly demonstrated that 

 many garden vegetables of American ori- 

 gin may be grown to perfection in the 

 islands. A number of native fruits anO. 

 vegetables are thought to be promising 

 and worthy of experiment to determine 

 the cost of culture, possibility of Im- 

 provement by selection, etc. 



We esteem the Review very highly for 

 its Seed Trade news. — Binghamton 

 Seed Co., Binghamton, N. T. 



