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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mav 12, 1904. 



A FINE LOT 



Japanese Bamboo Plants 



IN FINE CONDITION. LARGE SIZE PLANTS. 



Branch Store, 



404 East 34th Street, N. Y. 



Earh Doz. EiK'h Doz. 



BAMBIISA N\IV* 50c $5.00 I BAMBIISA ARGEMFO STRIUA, 60c $6.00 



"*'".."' p»GM/iA50c 5.00 •• AlPHONSE K.RHI... 50C 5 00 



AUREA ; 45c 4.50 I " VEIICHII 60c 6.00 



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

 Collection of 6 plants each, 6 varieties (36 plants), for $55.00 



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



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



PrC9., S. F. WlUard. Wethersfleld. Conn.; First 

 Vlce-Pres., J. Cbas. McCuUougrh. Cincinnati, O.: 

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

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

 Mo., June. 19(M. 



It is reported that a Philadelphia 

 house paid $12.50 for a bushel of yellow 

 onion sets the past week. 



A KEPORT from Green Bay, Wis., says 

 that the Wm. Larsen Canning Co. will 

 probably plant between 2,800 and 3,000 

 acres of peas. A large part of this acre- 

 age is in. 



Sweet corn is bringing $6 to .$8 per 

 bushel and pickling cucumbers $1.3.5 to 

 $1.50 per pound. Dependable stock in 

 both cases is scarce and easilj- worth tlie 

 higher figure. 



Visited Chicago — C. L. Roadhouse, 

 representing J. JI. Kimberlin & Co., 

 Santa Clara, Cal. ; Harry Clair, repre- 

 senting the Planet, Jr., goods, Philadel- 

 phia ; Henry Field, Shenandoah, la. 



Seeding for onion sets is about com- 

 pleted at all of the growing points. The 

 finish will be later than usual this year, 

 but in most eases early enough to insure 

 a good harvest, provided the season is 

 favorable from now on. 



A Chicago seedsman received a pack- 

 age of seeds from his congressman a day 

 or two ago. It contained sweet peas, 

 nasturtiums, mignonette, petunia, and 

 .sweet alyssum. These being ' ' new and 

 rare varieties," the seedsman bought a 

 window box in order to give them a fair 

 trial. 



CORN TO PLANT. 



On the question as to whether ti])s and 

 butts of field corn should be discarded 

 when shelling for seeding purposes, W. 

 W. Tracy, Sr., Washington, D. C'.^ writes: 

 ' ' We are well convinced from our own 

 experience that there is practically no 

 choice in plants produced by the butt, 

 middle ami tip grains, and we think all 

 the careful experiments made at the sta- 

 tions confirm this, but cannot call to mind 

 any printed matter concerning it. There 

 is an advantage in re.iecting the tip and 

 butt grains of fiehl corn, because there- 

 by we get a more uniform sized grain, 

 which runs through the planter more 

 evenly, and this secures a more even 

 stand, but the advantage is, in my opin- 

 ion, wholly on account of size of grain 

 and while it holds in the case of any in- 

 dividual ear, we think it is small com- 

 pared with having a stock where the ears 

 are uniform in size of grain, etc." 



J. A. .Teffery, of the Jlichigan Agri- 

 cultural College, writes: 



' ' There is still a great deal of dis- 

 cus.sion among farmers, and especially 

 among corn breeders, as to whether tips 

 and butts should be planted. To my 

 mind the chief reason for shelling out 

 . the tips and butts is that more uniform 

 kernels may be had for planting with 



Plant 

 Now 



For 



JUNE 



WEDDINGS. 



I carry in cold storage nothing but the FINEST GRADE OF VALLEY. 

 MY STOCK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION and will do splendid. 

 $1.60 per hundred; $14.00 per thousand. 



Headquarters for FINEST CUT VaLLEY. 



H. N. BRUNS, 



1409-1411 

 W. Madison St. 



Mention Thp Rpvlew when yoo write. 



Chicago.1 



C. & C. CEED 



Calceolaria 



Hvbrida Grandiflora. C. Hybrida Grandiflora Oomcacta. 

 James' Superb Strain 60c per }i trade packet. $1 00 per trade 

 packet. C. Rugosa (Shrubb.v). 34c packet, small. 

 . • • Grandiflora prize, blue, crimson, white, dwarf, mixed, medium 



I nf^ 1*^1*1^ tall mixed. 60c K trade packet. $1 00 trade packet. James' Giant 

 ■■■'-'■ **■ M»* strain mixed, same price as above. Choice mixed Hybrids, 

 '/ trade packet. 30c : trade packet. 60c. Double mixed. H trade packet. 60c : trade packet, 

 $i.0O. Sutton's Stellata (Star Cineraria), original packet, 60c. Stellata hybrida, original 

 packet, $1.00. Maritiraa CandidiiBima. white leaved, trade packet. 10c: 1 ounce. 'iSc. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO., 



1018 

 Market St., 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Philadelphia. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. Cold Storage. 



Extra Selected Pips for delivery from now on through the Summer and Autumn, $15 UU per 1000. 



Asparasus Plumosus Nanus Seed— New crop, sound and plump greenhouse grown. 75c per 100; 

 $('..00 per 1000. Lorraine Begonias— Healthv stock, 214-lnch pots, immediate delivery, $3 00 per doz.; 

 $22 60 per 100; $200.00 per lOIJU. 2ki-inch poffi. June— August delivery. $2 00 per doz.; $15 00 per 100; $U0.00 

 per 1000. ORDERS BOOKED NOW for Lllium Harrisil, Lnneiflorum. Preesias, Callas, Hyacinths, 

 Narcissi, Tulips, etc. BEFORE PLAClNa YOUR ORDERS FOR FORCINQ BULBS send me 

 your list of requirements for prices. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINCTON, L:nflJufT5'*,?iRVt^-^s.^?t''^ NEW YORK. 



Mention The Review wbeo yoo wrltp. 



L/a>Vr\ OrSlSS Seed J«^ bulk and packages 



"^ Special Prices 



''^x to dealers 



GOLF 

 MIXTURES. 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



Minneapolis. CKic&.i(o. 



the horse planter. I think it is true 

 that the larger the kernel the more the 

 young plant may profit from the .supply 

 of food stared up in the seed. On the 

 other hand it is equally true, as shown by 

 experiments conducted by our students, 

 th;it the nearer the kernel lies to the tip 

 of the ear the more quickly it germinates 

 ami the more energetic the early gro^'th, 

 and I am inclined to believe that this 

 energy in early growth compensates fully 

 for the lack of food which it obtains 

 from tlie seed. We found the butt ker- 

 nels to give the slowest germination. 

 From the standpoint of yield we should 

 not hesitate to plant either butt or tip 

 kernels and it seems to us that there 

 may be a natural law demanding that 

 kernels from all parts of the ear should 

 be planted. I regret that we have no 

 data from our experiment station work 

 upon the sub,iect. T>. J. Crosby, now of 

 the office of experiment stations at Wash- 

 ington, found, in a line of investigation 

 carried on here in connection with his 



thesis work, that the size of kernel from 

 the same part of the ear made a weigha- 

 ble difference in the crops produced from 

 these kernels. The difference in the size 

 of the seed in the case of corn did not 

 appear in this case to make so great a 

 difference in the yield as did the differ- 

 ence in the size of seed in the case of 

 oats, peas and beans. ' ' 



DRYING SEEDS. 



The following is from the pen of Mar- 

 tin J. Sutton, of Sutton & Sons, Reading, 

 England : 



Some five-and-twenty years since I read a re- 

 port, written early in the nineteenth century, 

 from an Indian government official, calling at- 

 tention to the tact that he had had seeds raised 

 by his gardener in his English country home for 

 his use in India; that while some of these seeds 

 had proved excellent, others were ahsolntely 

 worthless. On inquiry he fonnd that in the one 

 case the pods containing the seeds had heen 

 hung up in the chimney corner of the kitchen 

 of the English mansion for some time and the 

 seeds placed while warm in bottles and sealed. 

 The seeds that had failed, although dried in a 

 similar wa.v. had not been bottled for a con- 



