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March 30, 1918 



Dlroclor i;«'iuriil Uii Man li 19. 1918. 

 all till- RoKloniil DIrtilors were dlrei-t- 

 ed to Rive uppi'lal allt-nilon to the 

 movoment of less limn nir-lol ship- 

 invnls of seeds and ruirsi-ry stock. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Alex Kiirbos *ir ici, .Newiirk. N. J.— 

 Market Cardenors" CatuloKue. 



Wayshle Cardens Co. Mentor. Ohio. 

 Hard.v riants ami lUilbs; also Oah- 

 lla.s 



Harlan 1'. Kelsey. Sali'iii. Mass.— 

 List of Hardy American Plants. Rho- 

 dodendrons, .Azaleas and Specimen 

 Evergreens. 



F. & F. Nurseries, Sprinj;tleld, N. J. 

 — Trade List of Nursery Stock for 

 Spring. 1918. Department of the 

 American Nursery Co. 



Breck-Robinson Nursery Co.. l^x- 

 iuKton. Mass.— Wholesale Price List of 

 Trees. Shrubs. Herbaceous Border 

 Plants, etc., season of 1918. 



New England Nurseries Co., Hed- 

 ford, .Mass.--1918 Price List of "Hardy 

 Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Plants that 

 Satisfy." Close printed, pocket-width 

 form and useful. 



Framingham Nurseries. Framing- 

 ham. Mass. — Trade Price List. Spring. 

 1918. for Nurserymen, Dealers, Flor- 

 ists and Landscape Architects Only. 

 An excellent list of desirable ornamen- 

 tal deciduous and evergreen shrubs 

 and trees and small fruits. 



Stumpp & Walter Co., New York, 

 N. V. — Annual Seed, Bulb, Plant and 

 Implement Catalogue for 1918; 140 

 pages. A very complete and finely il- 

 lustrated publication. They offer a 

 tempting list of Specialties in Pedi- 

 greed Vegetable Seeds which the dis- 

 criminating buyer will find interesting. 

 A group of beautiful Scabiosas in 

 color adorns the title page. 



Elm City Nursery Co.. Edgewood. 

 New Haven. Conn. — Prico List of 

 Choice Trees. Shrubs. Rosp.s. Etc. This 

 establishment is preparing to move 

 its business to new nurseries at Wood- 

 mont and in the meantime is offering 

 stock at Edgewood at special reduced 

 rates. The list now published has. 

 therefore, a particular interest. The 

 system of giving the correct botanical 

 name in connection with plants listed 

 as here followed is very commendable. 



Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co.. Paris. 

 France. — General Catalogue for 1918 

 Messrs. Vilmorin apoligize to their 

 American friends for the paper and 

 make-up of this edition but call atten- 

 tion to the present and increasing 

 scarcity of paper there and for this 

 reason they have requested their cus- 

 tomers to keep this season's copy for 

 eventual use next season in case they 

 should not be able to procure paper 

 for a 1919 edition. They also state the 

 great difficulty experienced in having 

 seeds grown, the decreasing number 

 of growers who are able or willing to 

 do so and the unavoidable scarcity and 



Flower Seeds, Cannas, American 

 Grown Gladioli, Etc. 



WHOLESALE CATALOG NOW READY 



Hrthur C. jI3o^^inl3ton Co., line. 



128 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY 



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Send for our \Vholeffal« 

 FlorlHt CataJogue Now 

 Keadj. 



Lily of the Valley Pips 



FOR, EARLY FLOWERING 



ICverv llorlHt Hhould liave n few of tlH'Hc dainty IlowerH 

 "for tlii'lr i::iHi<-r truilc: 100. »:t.00i 1000, r^a.OO. 



^ E o or>j I .4V s 



l)oulile-Flo«erliiii~.Siilim>ii. Duip K118C, Scarlet, Crlm- 

 »ou. White, Vellow. Orange, Cupper- UroDze. Mixed: 

 101). »r,.:,u; iiHHi, yno.oo. 



81nKlr-Flowerinir DelU-nto Pink. Deep Rofle. Scarlet. 

 Crimson. \\'lilto. Vellow, Orange. S.-ilmoD. Mixed; 



KHI. SI :.'>: IIMMI. )(I.->.IN). 



FOTTLER, FISKE. RAWSON CO. 



The SmI Storp 1'^ and 13 Funrull Hall Kq.. BotloD 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Rayne* 



Park, London, Elngland. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc., c.»«K.Bidf..Bo'.tr.. m>u. 



higher price.s of this .season with pros- 

 pects of still further advances. We 

 shall all hope that the teriftic struggle 

 now going on in France may be hap- 

 pily ended and normal conditions be 

 restored before catalogue making for 

 1919 is in order. 



INSECT POWDER FROM JAPAN. 



Insect powder which is shipped from 

 .Japan is r>iade from ground pyrethrum 

 flowers, usually exported under that 

 name or as "pyrethrum insect powd- 

 er." As the seeds from which the 

 plants were originally grown came 

 from Dalmatia, it is probable that this 

 powder is. sometimes sold In the 

 United States under the name of "Dal- 

 matian powder." but neither the name 

 "Dalmatian pov/der" nor that of "Per- 

 sian insect powder" is ever used in 

 .Japan in connection with ground 

 pyrethrum flowers which are produced 

 within Ilia country. On account of the 

 difficulties of the language and the 

 fact that some firms do not have the 

 facilities for conducting an export 

 business, insect powder heretofore has 

 been shipped entirely ')y comniissio;) 

 houses in Kob6 and Osaka. 



The i<yrethrum-flower crop in 1917 

 has been estimated at more than 4.000 

 tons, an increase of 100 per cent, over 

 the crop cf 1916. In spite of the large 

 crop, however, the prices of both the 

 flowers and the powder have remained 



rather high, as the producers have 

 been holding on to their supplies in 

 the hope of a large demand from 

 America and Europe. The ruling 

 prices since September have been: 

 Flowers. ?25 per loo kin (133 pounds) ; 

 powder, X27.50 |)er HHJ pounds. While 

 these are market prices, some flower 

 srowers and powder manufacturers 

 recently have been forced to sell at 

 considerably lower prices in order to 

 obtain funds with which to meet their 

 obligations. Consequently deals have 

 been made lately at $17 per 100 kin for 

 flowers and $19.50 per 100 |>ounds for 

 powder. In view of the great increase 

 in the supply and the comparatively 

 lax demand from abroad, the powder 

 buyers have been waiting for still 

 better terms, expecting the price to 

 fall to $18.50 or $19 per 100 pounds 

 in the near future. These prices rep- 

 resent !he first cost only and do not 

 include ccmmissions or other charges. 

 Lists cf manufacturers of insect 

 powder and of exporters of that 

 product in Japan may be obtained 

 from the Bureau of Foreign and Do- 

 mestic Commerce, its district or co- 

 operative offices. Refer to file No. 

 96674. 



A recent letter from Paris states 

 that the son of Mr. Kugene Schaeftel 

 of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie.. who was 

 first to go to the army in Salonica 

 writes that he may have to go to Ar- 

 menia as cadet in an Armenian battal- 

 ion. Mr. Schaettel's son-in-law. Capt. 

 Nassoy is at the Officers' School at 

 St. Cyr. pending complete recovery 

 from his wounds. 



