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HORTICULTURE 



June 25, 1910 



Seed Trade 



Iowa Seed Dealers' Association. 



The fourih annual meeting ot the 

 Iowa Seed Dealers' Association was 

 held at Des Moines June 9. 



Addresses were given at the after- 

 noon session ,by Henry Wallace, Prof. 

 J. R. Campbell of Ames, W. B. Barney, 

 state seed commissioner; Prof. James 

 Atkinson, H. W. Graham of The Twen- 

 tieth Century Farmer, and Prof. L. H. 

 PamniPl of Ames, state botanist. 



C. N. Page of Des Moines was elect- 

 ed president for the fourth successive 

 term. Other officers were also re- 

 elected. They are as follows: Henry 

 Field of Shenandoah, vice-president; 

 John T. Hamilton of Cedar Rapids, 

 treasurer; B. H. Adams of Decorah, 

 secretary. 



About thirty members were present. 

 Mr. Wallace's address had for its topic 

 the necessity ot improvement in qual- 

 ity of seeds and reliability of goods 

 supplied to the public by the seed deal- 

 ers. He deplored the present condi- 

 tions oh the Iowa farms and urged the 

 seedsmen to assist in solving the prob- 

 lem of keeping the boys and girls on 

 the farms by furnishing seeds and 

 plants of such quality as will make 

 country life attractive. 



Notes. 



A rumor is in circulation to the 

 effect that two or three seed houses in 

 Boston are about to consolidate. 



Eyromviile, Ga. — The seed house of 

 the Byromville Co. was damaged by 

 fire to the extent of $3,000 June 5th. 

 The building was partially insured. 



W. Atlee Burpee and Mrs. Burpee 

 will sail from Quebec on the "British 

 Empress" for Europe July 1st. They 

 expect to return home to Philadelphia 

 by middle of August. Mr. Burpee's 

 trip this year is principally to inspect 

 the British sweet pea exhibitions and 

 will not extend as usual to the conti- 

 nent. 



St. Paul, Minn.— R. I. Gould & Co., 

 commission and seed merchants, Jack- 

 son St., between 9th and 10th, have 

 under construction a new brick build- 

 ing three stories and basement. It has 

 a ground space of 65 x 100 feet and 

 will be completed by September 1st. 

 The estimated cost of the building is 

 about $4,000. 



N. B. Keeney, Le Roy. N. Y.. in an 

 interview at the Bingham Hotel, Phila- 

 delphia, on the 21st inst., reported that 

 they had no novelties up their sleeves 

 in peas; but that they had a few new 

 selections in beans that were worthy 

 of consideration and would be heard 

 from. Mr. Keeney affirmed that while 

 hybridizing has done much, the great- 

 est advances have been made in selec- 

 tion from established types during the 

 past twenty-five years. Mr. Keeney is 

 a very modest man, but he is worthily 

 awarded by the trade a much higher 

 status than the above statement would 

 indicate. He likes to keep in the back- 

 ground — and let the seedsmen do the 

 shouting. 



I Orders Booked Now For Winter Flowering Sweet Peas i 



i ANT C. ZVOLANEK, ORIGINATOR * 



I NEW CROP SEED READY, AUGUST 1st. ! 



oz. )ilb lb I 



IChristinas Captiliu. Blue and purple $0.25 $0.75 $2 co 5 



" Pink. Pink and white .25 .75 2 00 i 



" White. (Florence Denier) .25 .75 2.00 | 



I Le Marquis. Large, dark blue 25 .75 2 00 j 



(Mrs. Alex. Wallace. Lavender. 25 .75 2.00 ■ 



♦' Edie Wild. Carmine red 25 .75 2 00 I 



i" Chas. H. Totty. Lavender 35 i.oo 3.00 f 



" William Sim. Salmon pink 25 100 2 00 I 



Walchung. Pure »hite 25 i.oo 200 I 



iSend for Summer Wholesale Price List of Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. S 



, Henry F. Michell Co., "'pi?.'°o^;r," { 



New York.— The U. S. Customs case 

 against Jacs Smits & Co. of Naarden, 

 Holland, concerning alleged underval- 

 uation on a shipment of plants per S. 

 S. Rotterdam, has been dismissed. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



H. Austin, Feltou. Del. — Wholesale 

 Price List of Vegetable Plants and 

 Seeds, season of 1910. 



E. Y. Teas, Ceutreville, lud.— Whole- 

 sale Price List of New Hydrangeas, 

 Irises, Peonies, Dahlias, etc. 



United States Nursery Co., Rose- 

 acres, Miss. — Advance list of herba- 

 ceous peonies for autumn, 1910. 

 Wholesale quotations. 



Watkins & Simpson, Ltd., Covent 

 Garden, London, Eng. — Trade Price 

 List of seeds of vegetables and flor- 

 ists' flowers, perennials, biennials, 

 etc., for summer sowing. 



King Construction Co., North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y. — Descriptive catalogue 

 of King Iron Frame Greenhouses. Il- 

 lustrated with diagrams and half-tones 

 of greenhouses from 21 ft. to 172 ft. 

 in width. 



LTnion Nurseries, Oudenbosch, Hol- 

 land. — Catalogue and trade price list 

 for 1910-1911, of ornamental decidu- 

 ous and evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 fruit stocks, etc. McHutchison & Co., 

 17 Murray street. New York City, are 

 sole agents for this nursery and can 

 siijiply copies of above list. 



Wm. Fromow & Sons, Windlesham, 

 England. Preliminary trade list and 

 special offer of fruit and ornamental 

 nursery stock to American buyers, sea- 

 son of 1910-1911. August Rolker & 

 Sons of New York City are the Amer- 

 ican representatives of this house and 

 will be pleased to supply copies of this 

 special list to all trade applicants. 



George Wittbold Co., Chicago, 111. — 

 Trade list of palms, dracenas, ferns, 

 bays, etc. When you send an order 

 ask for a copy of "The Laws of Finan- 

 cial Success." You get it free. The 

 retail catalogue of this firm is also 

 received and it is simply a beauty. If 

 you want to get ideas on how to pro- 

 duce a catalogue that will command 

 attention and shed lustre on your es- 

 tablishment send for a copy of this 

 publication. It will give you some- 

 thing to think about. * ■ 



Smith & Fetters. Cleveland, O.— 

 This elegant little pamphlet attrac- 

 tively sets forth the capabilities of 



this young concern in the art of dec- 

 orating and, in general, catering to 

 the requirements of a discriminating 

 class of flower buyers. There are full 

 page illustrations of views in their 

 store, church decorations, etc., lists ot 

 notable weddings and society events 

 in which they have figured prominent- 

 ly and other reading matter that will 

 be read with interest by those for 

 whom it is intended. Altogether it is 

 in line with advanced practice in the 

 retail florist industry. 



DUTCH BULBS 



We forward free to destination, collec- 

 tionj of Bulbs as grown here Irom $5.00 

 to $25.00. Terms — Cash with order. 

 Write for collection and you can see what 

 we send. 



Apply to 



The Dutch Bulb and Seed Growers Co. 



Haarlem (Holland) 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE— All Head Sue- Per 100 Per 1000 

 cession, Second Early, Early 

 Summer, Flat Dutch, Surehcad 

 Danish Round and Ball Head 2zc. $i.oo 



10,000 and over Sscts. per i oo i 



EGG PLANTS -Black 



Beauty a. d New York Improved 40c. 2.00 



P F P PE RS- Bull Nose, Ruby 

 King and Sweet Mountain 40:. 2,00 



CELERY— White Plum. 

 Golden Self Blanching, Giant 

 Pascal, Golden Heait and 

 Hoston Market 20c. i.ro 



ij'.ooo and over 85CIS. per 1,003 

 Cash with O.jders 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White Marsh, Md. 



CATALOGUE 



Designing and Illustrating 



For florists, seedsmen, etc. Pliotographs 

 and designs of all kinds carefully made 

 and promptly submitted. 



CEO. E. DOW 



_ 178 Washington St, Boston, Mass 



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