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HORTICULTURE 



July 4, 1914 



Fansies in Separate Colors 



The KENILWORTH ^^i^sT 



seeds are all grown by myself and are offered in the follow- 

 ing mixtures and separate colors: 



KENILWORTH STRAIN— Tbe flowers are of perfect 

 form and substance; many of tbe immense flowers are from 

 3^^ to 4 inches; it is a striking collection of beautiful colors 

 and markings, rich with shades of red. brown, bronze, ma- 

 hogany and many others too numerous to mention. 



KENILWORTH SHOW — An extra fine strain of large 

 flowers; the immense flowers are of circular form and great 

 substance: a beautitnl collection of colors and markings. 



KENILWORTH CUT FLOWER »IIXTURE— Is a distinct 

 class by itself .surpassing all other strains as a cut flower 

 or for exhibition purposes, for inside or outside growing: 

 the large flowers are carried erect above the foliage on heavy 

 stems. 7 or 8 inches long, in the most graceful manner, and 

 stand the hot. dry weather well. 



MASTERPIECE— A remarkable type; the curled, wavy 

 petals giving the flower a double appearance, its large 

 flowers of great substance, on long, strong stems. 



ORCHID FLOWERED, Mixed— A dwarf free bloomer 

 with a range of delicate colors that do not exist in any other 

 pansies, a remarkable combination of light rose, shell 

 blush mauve, fawn, light brown, orange and chamois. 



NEW SEED NOW READY. 



1C00 seeds, 25c; 5000, $1.00; ' 4-oz., $1.25: 

 1 oz., $5.00. 



pink. 



1000 Seeds 

 Giant .lilonis, light blue with yel- 

 lowish white face, large dark 



blotch $0.25 



Giant Emperor William, ultra- 

 marine blue with purple violet eye .25 

 Giant King of the Black$>, coal 



black 25 



Giant Lord Beaconsfleid, violet up- 

 per petals shading to white 25 



Giant Yellow, pure golden yellow.. .25 



(liant Vellow with dark blotch 25 



Giant Wliite. satiny white 25 



Giant White with large violet center .25 

 Giant Red, a flne mixture of red 

 shades 25 



1000 Seeds 

 Giant, royal purple, fine large 



flower $0.25 



Giant, bronze and copper mixture. .25 



Giant, light blue, sky blue 25 



Giant, dark blue deep blue shades.. .25 

 Giant Zebra, mixed shades, striped .25 

 Giant McKinley. yellow, each petal 



blotched with a deep reddish brown .23 

 Giant Psyche, ruffled violet white 



margin 25 



Giant Mad. Ferret, red and wine 



shades 25 



The pre<-eiiinff 17 sorts mixed in 



eqnal proportions 25 



.\ny 5 pks., »1.00. 



Rainbow is a mixture of the 

 most beautiful, gorgeous colors; 

 blotched, striped, veined, 

 margined, etc. With 

 every |1.00 worth of 

 pansy seeds I will 

 send 1000 of Rain- 

 bow* free and with 

 other amounts 

 in like 

 propor- 

 tion. 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCI- 

 ATION. 



Concluding Notes on Annual Conven- 

 tion at Washington, D. C. 



Lester L. Jlorse, of San Francisco, 

 whose portrait appears lierewith, was 

 elected to the presidency of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association, which 

 closed its three-day convention in 

 Washington on Thursday of last week. 

 Other officers elected were William 

 Lupton, of Mattituck. New York, first 

 vice-president; E. C. Dungan, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., second vice-president, and 

 C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, Ohio, secre- 

 tary-treasurer. The final session was 

 an executive one and considerable busi- 

 ness was transacted. In addition to the 

 election a report was rendered by the 

 committee on experiment stations of 

 which L. L. Olds was chairman. In 

 the afternoon the members and their 

 wives visited the Arlington National 

 Cemetery. 



Perhaps the most important subject 

 brought before the convention was 

 that of postal rates. Chairman W. F. 

 Therkildson, of the committee on pos- 

 tal laws, who has given considerable 

 attention to this matter, in bringing it 

 before the meeting, said that seeds are 

 now being shipped in large quantities 

 by parcel post and that it was evident 

 that no two catalogues could have ap- 

 proximately the same price on any one 

 article with the difference in parcel 

 post rates as they prevail in the dif- 



ferent zones. Among the interesting 

 lectures during the convention were 

 those of Dr. W. W. Tracy, superinten- 

 dent of the testing grounds of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture; Edgar Brown 

 and Prof. F. W. Hillman, the latter 

 head of the seed laboratory of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture; Max Fisher, 

 and Charles C. MacKenzie, of Brandon, 

 Manitoba. Dr. Tracy speaking on 

 "Seedsmen's Trial Grounds — Their Ac- 

 tual and Possible Value," urged the 

 seedsmen to make a more thorough 

 study of the trial grounds. He said 

 he had in hundreds of cases selected 

 five to ten ideal plants of a desired 

 type, carefully saved their seed of each 

 separately, and planted samples in 

 trials and very rarely had the product 

 of the first or second choice plant 

 prove equal to that of some other one. 

 Ho said that it was considered a waste 

 of care and energy to try to develop 

 stock from even the most superlative 

 plant until it has been tested out in 

 trial plantings. He urged contined 

 study of these features. Mr. Brown, 

 in speaking on the selling of seeds at 

 retail, said that the seed business is an 

 important factor in our agricultural 

 system but that in so far as it is main- 

 tained on a strictly merchandising 

 basis, it is not fulfilling the function 



reasonably to be expected of it. vVhen 

 a farmer goes to one of the dealers to 

 buy seeds that are to be the basis of 

 his crop, Mr. Brown declared, he ex- 

 pe.?ts the same grade of information 

 about the seeds he is buying as the 

 dealers expect from an architect about 

 a building of their own. Continuing 

 he said the seed business of the fu- 

 ture is going to rest, first, on accurate 

 information furnished the purchaser, 

 and second, on efficiency in handling. 

 Mr. Mackenzie, who traveled 2100 

 miles to be present at the convention, 

 spoke on "Printer's Ink Advertising 

 Farm Journals" outlining the scope of 

 the advertising business from the in- 

 side. The address of Mr. Fisher on 

 the subject of overhead expenses and 

 their relation to business was given 

 considerable attention by the delegates 

 who were urged by him to always keep 

 in mind such considerations as a great 

 many men are liable to forget, the over- 

 head cost, despite the fact that it is 

 an almost threadbare subject in mod- 

 ern Industrial life. 



Among the entertainments provided 

 was the banquet given in the large 

 ball room of the Raleigh Hotel at 

 which Representative Mann was the 

 principal speaker. The tables were 

 profusely decorated with American 



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