HORTICULTURE 



July 18, 1914 



New Crop MICH ELL'S ^^^ Crop 



GIANT PANSY SEED 



GIANT EXHIBITION MINH^O. A Giant Strain which for sixe 

 of bloom, heavy texture anti varied colors and sliades cannot 



be surpassed. Half trade packet, 30c.; trade packet, 50c.; 



Vh oz., 75c. ; per oz., .$5.00. xr. pkt. Oz. 



GIANT PRIZE AZURE HLCE $0.40 $1.75 



GI4NT PRIZE BLACK BLUE 40 1.75 



GIANT PRIZE E.MPKHOU ^VILLIAM. Blue 40 1.75 



GIANT PRIZE HORTKXSIA RED 40 2.50 



GIANT PRIZE KING Ol' THE BLACKS 40 1.75 



GIANT PRIZE LORD BE.ACONSFIELD. Purple 



violet 40 1.75 



GI.\NT PRIZE PEACOCK. Blue, Claret and White .40 2.60 



GI.4NT PRIZE SNOW <(I EEN. Pure Wliite 40 2.50 



GI.4NT PRIZE STRIPED AND MOTTLED 40 2.50 



GliNT PRIZE WHITE WITH EYE 40 2.50 



GIANT PRIZE PURE YELLOW 40 2.50 



GIYNT PRIZE YELLOW WITH EYE 40 2.50 



Also all other Seasonable Seeds and Supplies which 

 are Described in our Wholesale Catalogue »n<J Price 

 List. .Send for one if you haven't recei\ed it. 



Micbell's Giant Prize Pansy 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Market St., PHILA., PA. 



SEED TRADE 



Those Foreign Seed Purchases. 



The widely disseminated news of the 

 44-ton purchase from Kelway & Son, 

 Langport. England, by the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture for free dis- 

 tribution, has been the occasion of 

 considerable comment and the, expres- 

 sion of varying views by the trade and 

 by the newspapers and magazines 

 throughout this country. We clip the 

 following from the Albany Journal as 

 showing that the explanation given for 

 the Department's course is regarded 

 as lacking frankness and needed de- 

 tail: 



"Naturally curious to know why the 

 Goverument of the United St.ites so gre.Ttly 

 favors foreigu producers of seeds, this 

 newspaper addressed a letter to Secretary 

 Houston of the Department of Agriculture, 

 quoting the essential facts from the above 

 article and uiaking this request : 



'Will you kindly inform us whether it is 

 necessary to favor foreign lirms, whether 

 it Is impossible to purchase these seeds in 

 the United States: or otherwise, why the 

 purchases are made abroad?' 



In reply to that communication Acting 

 Secretary Calloway says: 



•In placing its orders, the Department 

 has always followed the policy of favoring 

 American growers so far as is consistent 

 with good business practice. Many kinds 

 of vegetable and flower seeds are produced 

 almost exclusively in Europe, and where 

 such seeds are involved our purchases are 

 made with a view to serving the best in- 

 terests of the Department.' 



Answer to the question whether, these 

 seeds, that is, the forty-four tons bought 

 from Kelway & Son, and the unspccifled 

 quantities purchased from other European 

 firms, could not be purchased in the United 

 States, is omitted. 



Only the information Is vouchsafed that, 

 many kinds of such seeds are produced 

 almost exclusively in Europe: that Ameri- 

 can growers are favored so far as is con- 

 sistent with good business practice, and 

 that when seeds produced almost exclu- 

 sively in Europe, are involved, purchases 

 are made with a view to serving the best 

 interests of the department. 



There might be difference of opinion as 

 to the quality of the good liusiness practice 

 with which the favoring of American pro- 

 ducers is consistent only to a point beyond 

 which 88.000 pounds of seeds— and other 

 quantities not made publicly known tluis 

 far — remain to be purchased in foreign 

 countries. There will be those who will 

 contend that the purchase of every pound 



of seed in the United States would be the 

 best business practice. 



That purchases are made, when certain 

 kinds of seeds are involved, with a view to 

 serving the best interests of the Depart- 

 ment, is vague information. 



The acting secretary could have answered 

 the questions directly, plainly and fully, 

 with half the words that he used to give 

 a partly evasive reply. But perhaps the 

 view is taken in Secretary Houston's de- 

 partment that the public is not entitled to 

 be informed exactly why foreign producers 

 are so laregely favored when seeds are 

 bought for free distribution in the United 

 States." 



Forcing Bulbs in Fiber. 

 A. T. Boddington of New York is en- 

 couraging his customers to grow bulbs 

 in the house in fiber instead of soil. 

 With this end in view he has offered 

 in his catalogue special collections for 

 this purpose and prizes — five in all — 

 from $10 down to $2 for photographs 

 of bulbs grown and flowered in fiber. 

 The winning photographs in last sea- 

 son's contest show some very success- 

 ful entries and they will appear in the 

 1914 Fall Garden Guide, published 

 about September 1. 



New Crop Pansy Seed 

 Now Ready 



Vick's Superb Mixed, our own special 

 strain. Cannot be surpassed. Con- 

 vince yourself. 



l-:i2 oz., 25c.; 1-16 oz., 40e. ; 1-8 oz., 60c.; 

 1-4 oz., l(il.:)5; 1 oz., $6.00. 



M.VSTERPIECE MIXED. S:!.50 oz. 



I'EKRLESS MIXED, $3.00 oz. 



<;l.\NT FIXIWERING MIXED, $1.25 oz. 



All the leading colors of both Standard 

 anil (;iant variclies. Send for complete 



JAMES VICK'S SONS, ""^^^V"^^^ 



MY NEW LIST OF 



Winter Spencer Sweet Pea jSeed 



Has been mailed. If not In your hands 

 now, send a postal for it. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 

 Lompoc. CaL 



BEST TERMS. 



BEST PRICES. 



100,000 Galla Lily Bulbs 



Warranted to be free from any disease 

 Let us estimate that order 

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 CORP. OF CHAS. F. MEYER 



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New Crop Seeds 



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