The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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lliag BELOW Cosi. 



CMS STEMS. 



Only 10 cases unsold — speak 

 quick if you want one. 

 Price only $4.00 per hundred lbs. 



Write or telegraph. 



STUMPP & WALTER CO., 50 Barclay Street, New York City. 



than former estimate on earlies and 

 from fifteen to twenty-five per cent low- 

 er on late varieties. In the general sum- 

 ming up the bulletin advises that dwarf 

 peas, wax beans, late sweet corn, cucum- 

 bers and other vine seeds, should be ad- 

 vanced and prices held firm. 



Word was received at Chicago Sen- 

 tember 23 that the John H. Allen Com- 

 pany 's plant at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has 

 been destroyed by fire. Xo particulars 

 are at hand, but the loss, if total, may 

 have considerable effect on the prices of 

 peas, as quite a quantity of Alaskas and 

 early wrinkled sorts had been taken in 

 by them, and it is hardly likely that any 

 large shipments had been made at this 

 date. 



The cucumber situation has not im- 

 proved. Present reports from Nebraska, 

 New York and Michigan make things 

 look worse. Fields that two weeks ago 

 gave promise of fairly good yields are 

 now in such shape as to be almost fail- 

 ures. The reports at hand cover nearly 

 all the growing sections, and indicate 

 that the crop generally will be as short 

 as last year. With little or no surplus 

 carried over, the proposition is serious. 



Frank T. Emerson, Waterloo, Neb., 

 writes September 18 : " We beg to re- 

 port having experienced a rather severe 

 frost throughout the vine seed growing 

 section of Nebraska the night of Sep- 

 tember 15. We were in hopes the frost 

 would hold off until at least October 1, 

 thereby allowing a great many small, 

 undeveloped fruits on the vines to be- 

 come matured for seed purposes, but the 

 frost has checked all growth of small 

 fruit and it looks to us as though the 

 general crop will be much shorter than 

 heretofore estimated, as in making esti- 

 mates we have figured on the most favor- 

 able season possible. At the present 

 moment our estimates are all out of line 

 and it will be impossible to form any- 

 thing like a correct idea until we com- 

 plete another tour of inspection. The 

 early varieties of seed field and sweet 

 corn were practically out of danger from 

 frost, but second early and late varieties 

 were in a great many instances hard hit. 

 We cannot say until time has demon- 

 strated the matter how much these ero"s 

 have been damaged. A great deal will 

 depend upon the balance of the season. 

 If we have a number of heavy frosts in 

 the near future, quite a large percent- 

 age of the late varieties will be injured 

 beyond redemption. ' ' 



VALUES OF SEEDS. 



The New York Commercial of Sep- 

 tember 16 says: "Judge Waite, of the 

 Board of United States General Apprais- 

 ers, gave a hearing todav to representa- 

 tives of the D. M. Ferry Seed Co., of 

 Detroit, at which testimony was sub- 

 mitted purporting to show the values 

 upon which duties should be estimated by 

 the customs authorities. The Ferry Co. 

 imports large quantities of seeds, and 

 the collector at Detroit levied duties on 



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the basis of the contract price on seeds 

 shipped from France, though the market 

 price dropped before the time of ship- 

 ment. The questions at issue are of 

 much interest to the seed-importing 

 trade, and the outcome of the controversy 

 is being watched by importers. Judge 

 Waite took considerable testimony in 

 the case last spring and, with the addi- 

 tional testimony supplied today, it is 

 hoped a decision may be made soon. It 

 is reported that the Ferry protest in- 

 volves customs duties aggregating $-51 1,- 

 000. ' ' 



Buckley, III. — C. M. Hemala has just 

 returned from an extensive European 

 trip. 



Hot Springs, Va.-.I. H. Small & 

 Sons, of Washington, came here and put 

 up a very fine deeoration for the Gilpin- 

 Fuller wedding, September 15. 



Lima, N. Y. — During a recent storm 

 the wind blew off part of the wind mill 

 at Keating Brothers' greenhouses, drop- 

 ping it on the glass, with considerable 

 breakage. 



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Our Wholesale Catalogue of Bulbs and Flower 

 Seeds for Florists now ready. 



Lilium Harrisii 



Send for our prices before ordering elsewhere- 



Dutch Hyacinths, Narcissus, etc. 



Now Ready. 



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36 Cortlandt St., NEW YORK. 



Flowering SWEET PEAS 



Seed for forcing only. 

 ZVOLANEKS CH RISTM AS-PINK. 



FLORENCE DENZER-PURE WHITE. 



Price— One pkt., Toe; 1 lb.. $2 50. mailed free 

 Not less than 7oc worth will be sold. Sold only 

 m my original packet, with directions. 



Stuck seed of this variety is carefully selected 

 in my ^re.-nnouses from stems over 14 inehes 

 Ions;. These two varieiies. if sowed the first 

 part of September, will bloom for Christmas 

 When planted in December, after latest mums. 



left. Firs- 1 come, first served. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK, 



GRAND VIEW, N. J. 



Money Orders: Sommerville, N.J. 



PANSY. 



Superb mixed, unexcelled strain. 1 8 -oz.. 75 cts.: 



° CINERARIA. 



finest mixed, each 50 cts. and 



FERNS. 



Piersoni. doz.. $3.f0; per 100 $22X0 Boston 

 iensis doz , 60 cts.; per 100. $4 00. 

 Splendid stock out of 2V£ inch pots. 



W. C. BECKERT, - ALLEGHENY. PA. 



