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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Seed Trade News. 



AMtRICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



and Treas.. S. F. Wlllard, Wethersflt 

 Tin- twenty-first 

 at Philadelphia < 

 23. l'.K)3. 



City, June 



W. W. Barnard is on his farm at Le- 

 Roy, Ind. 



The demand for tuberose bulbs has 

 been rather lighl this season and dealers 

 are in no hurry to place contracts for 

 1003 crop. 



The railroads make a special rate of 

 one and one-third fare for the round 

 trip to the seed trade convention at At- 

 lantic City. 



California reports promise a full 

 crop of the yellow varieties of onion 

 seed, with white up to the average and 

 red somewhat short. 



Visited Chicago.— John T. Buekbee 

 and R. H. Shumway, of Roekford, 111.; 

 James B. Kidd, representing the Cox 

 Seed Co., San Francisco. 



Moderate rain has helped the cab- 

 bage seed crops on Long Island, but it 

 came too late to repair the serious re- 

 sults of the extended drought. 



H. B. Beattv, traveler for W. W. 

 Barnard & Co., has quit the seed busi- 

 ness and has taken a position with 

 Spink's Shoe Co., as head salesman. 



John Eldering. formerly partner of 

 Eldering Brothers and of late years 

 connected with different bulb houses in 

 New York, died May 27, in Newport, R. 

 I., aged 40 years. 



Bean planting in the Michigan dis- 

 tricts is well under way, two-thirds of 

 the total acreage being already sown. 

 The weather and soil conditions are 

 very favorable for a good starl 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, report 

 as follows: "It has been a most sat- 

 isfactory season to u-. Although prices 

 have been extremely high, we have ex- 

 perienced no difficulty on that account." 



The damage to the onion •' fields in 

 the flooded district is mote -eiioti- than 

 was at first anticipated. The difficulty 

 hi- been to get on the ground in time 

 to do anything toward saving the crop. 



The latest report from the California 

 bean growing district mentions some of 

 the pole varieties as having rotted in 

 the ground. Previous reports gave cerj 

 good accounts of all beans in the coasl 

 district. 



The summer wholesale lists of the 

 seedsmen so far received show that 

 prosperity may strike the seed trade. 

 The majority will agree that the in- 

 clination to advance wholesale prices is 

 quite proper. 



Cleveland. 0.— The linn of A. I Ken 

 del has ju-t purchased the site which 

 it has occupied for fifty-one yea 

 inallv by John Stair, then bv his son. 



B. H. Stair, and finally by the late A. 



C. Kendel, who came here as a small 

 boy shortly after the business was first 

 moved to this spot, and whose sons have 

 for the past ten or twelve years con- 

 ducted the business. 



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SO Sa/x /at/ S/^if^f: 



Hycas Stems. 



2 to 3 lbs. 4 to 5 lbs. 6 to 7 lbs. 

 100 lbs .. $l-bU 



Seed exports for the nine months 

 prior to April 1 amounted to 15,276,000 

 pounds of clover seed. lG.10o.000 

 pounds of timothy seed, O.SGG.OOO bush- 

 els of flaxseed and other grass seed val- 

 ued at $565,000. 



II. F. Henry sails for Bermuda in a 

 few days. He estimates the Harrisii 

 crop as*20 per cent under last year. Mr. 

 Stumpp, of Stumpp & Walter Co., sails 

 for Bermuda June 20, accompanied by 

 bis wife and son. 



There is a great lack of practical 

 seedsmen. Some of the large employers 

 of labor in this line say that the young 



ii graduating from the several agrieul- 



iinal colleges bee le good seedsmen in a 



shorter time than those taking up the 

 work with any other training. 



The Leonard Seed Company. Chicago. 

 is getting its trial ground in shape. It 

 is expected that several thousand dif- 

 ferent tests of garden vegetables will 

 show up in it. The aim is to make it 

 as complete a test ground for vege- 

 table varieties as is possible. 



Remittances from the June 1st 

 statements of the wholesale seedsmen 

 are coming in full and strong. There 

 seems to be a healthy tone to all letters 

 accompanying same. This speaks well for 

 the 1903 "campaign of the traveling seed 

 sellers; they are a cheerful lot and 

 ill the orders they get. 



SEED TESTING AT ST. LOUIS. 



One of the interesting seed exhibits 

 at the St. Louis Wot Id's Pair is to be a 

 live-acre tract given over to grass, the 

 |iiii|inse being to demonstrate the char- 

 acter and utility of the many lawn mix- 

 tures, ornamental and economic grasses. 

 The seed production section will occupy 



large area. Here the seeds grown in 

 all [ait- of the world are to lie tested 

 side in side by < fficials ol I lie Depart- 

 nienl of Agriculture. As an example, 

 seed wheat grown in Washing! < n. tin 

 Dakotas, Maine, Florida, and iti Europe, 

 \ .,a and An ica, are planted in adjoin- 

 ing sections.. Other experiments with 

 all the other important agricultural 

 products are similarly to be made. An- 

 "il.i i section west of that devoted to seed 

 production is one equally important and 

 interesting, illustrating tin- fibre plants, 

 then growth and the best approved 

 an i boils of handling. 



NEW CROP SEEDS! 



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Primula Sinenis Fimbriata. 



ngllsh Grown.) 



' Mixture, trade packet. M 



Calceolaria Hybrida Grandfl. 



Hunts import Mixture tr. pkt 11.50 



All the types, nieludine the self-colored, 

 tigrered, mottled, variegated, spotted. 



Gloxinia Grandiflora. 



Hunt's Extra Select Mixture, tr. pkt.. 50c 



including Fire King, Defiance. Frederic! 



E. H. HUNT, 



7678 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO. 



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0-XE thing in favor of the Review is 

 that it is not run in the interest of any 

 one florist. — F. W. Heckexkamp, Jr., 

 Quiney, 111. 



PRIMROSE -Chinese Fringed. 



Kermesina Splendens Trade Pkt.. 50c 



While Yellow HVe " 50C 



Bright Pink " 50e 



Brilliant Red " 50c 



Itosy Morn [\ 50c 



Flesh' Coior '.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '.'.'.'.' ".'.'.'.'.'.'. " 50c 



Mixtni falnjve " 50c 



Pi ru L.aveit Mixed 50c 



Olwonica Grandiflora. White " 50c 



Rosv Chamoise. " 50c 



Bright Rose ... . " 50c 



Fringed Mixed. " 50c 



W. C. BECKERT, - ALLEGHENY. PA. 



RAWSON 'S 



y aeeas florist 



Catalogues Mailed Free. 



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



12 and 13 Taneuil Hall Square, BOSTON. 



Calla Bulbs! 



I'o to 2 inches in diam. 



Choice grown for Florists' use, $5.00 

 per ICO. For delivery August 1. Ex- 

 press prepaid. 



California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cat. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



^CARNATIONS 



LEADING NOVELTIES OF 1903. 

 The Best Varieties of 1902. 

 All the Standard Varieties. 

 Send in your orders for Rooted Cuttings now. 



6E0. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. 



Mention the Review when you write. 



