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HORTICULTUEE 



July 25, 1914 



New Crop MICH ELL'S New Crop 



GIANT PANSY SEED 



OIAXT EXHIBITION MIXED. A Giant Strain which for size 

 of bloom, heavy texture and varied colors and shades cannot 

 be surpassed. Half trade packet. 3Dc.; trade packet, 50c.; 

 's oz., 75c.; per oz., $5.00. 



GIANT PRIZE VARIETIES IN SEPARATE COLORS 



Azure Blue 

 Black Blue 

 Emperor William 

 Kins of the Blacks 

 Lor^l Boaconsfleld 

 y of the above separate colors 

 per oz., $1.75. 



Hortensia Ke<I. Peacock. Trade pkt., 40c.; $2.50 per oz. 



Snow (iutH'n 

 Striped and Mottled 

 White AVith Eye 

 I'ure Yellow 

 Yellow With Eye 



40c. per trade pkt. ; 



MYOSOTIS SEED 



Alpestris Victoria 



Kliza Fanrobert 



Paliistris 



Palustris Semperflorens 



Tr. Pkt. 



. $0.25 



.15 



.30 



.25 



Oz. 



$0.75 



.75 



1.76 



1.50 



.Also all otiier Seasonable Seeds and Supplies wliich 

 are Described in our Wholesale Catalosue and Price 

 List. Send for one if you haven't re4'ei\cd it. 



M'oheVs Giant Prize Pansy 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Market St., PHILA., PA. 



The Ginger Jar 



Referring to the forty-four ton Kel- 

 way order for the Free Seed Depart- 

 ment, the congressmen seem to have 

 been as fiercely opposed to it as ^hey 

 were to the twenty-cents-a-mile trans- 

 portation graft. They favored both. 



to buy cheap seeds, it's because he 

 wants to save money — not that the 

 seed seller is a villian. You can make 

 seeds so clean that the price will be 

 prohibitory. George C. Watson. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 Waltham, Mass. — Mathison Green- 

 houses; capital $1,000. 



The Senate was against free seed. 

 About the twenty cents a mile, we 

 can't say but for ages they have al- 

 ways declared against the free-seed 

 ^raft. — and then agreed to allow it — 

 in committee, all for political effect. 

 Both houses in unison. 



St. Louis, Mo. — A. Brix Floral Co., 

 increasing stock from $15,000 to 

 $20.non. 



West Park, O. — West Park Green- 

 house Company, increasing capital 

 stock from $15,000 to $30,000. 



So between the two houses on these 

 two measures — their battledore and 

 shuttlecock — what can the plain folks 

 think? It looks like a case of "heads 

 1 win, tails you lose." 



Lexington, Ky. — John A. Keller Com- 

 pany, cut flowers and plants. Incor- 

 porators, John F., Mary, Josephine and 

 Lena Keller. 



So both grafts keep merrily on — the 

 twenty-cents a mile and the free seed. 

 If the Akoond of Swat can improve on 

 that let us hear from him. America 

 is a very highly civilized country — in 

 spots. 



Yankton, S. D. — Gurney Greenhouse 

 Company, capital stock, $2,500. Incor- 

 porators, E. R. and D. B. Gurney and 

 A. C. Topp. 



Here is a rich one from the New 

 York inspection literature; "If the 

 seed appears to contain considerable 

 of such rubbish the buyer should in- 

 sist that it be cleaned before he takes 

 it. secure a reduction in price propor- 

 tionate to the amount of impurity, or 

 look elsewhere for his supply." In 

 other words, according to the authori- 

 ties of the great State of New York, 

 the cleaner the seed the smaller the 

 price! The worst of it is. New York 

 is eminently fair compared with some 

 ■other states — and Washington. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Milwaukee Seed 

 Co.. capital stock, $1,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, E. L. and Edna Rosenberg and 

 Delia Delisle. 



Cortland, N. Y. — The Hike-Allen 

 Company, seeds, capital stock, $20,000. 

 Incorporators, C. V. and M. J. Hike 

 and C. D. Allen. 



West Islip, N. Y.— D. C. Arnold & 

 Co., florists and nurserymen, capital 

 stock, $100,000. Incorporators, D. C. 

 Arnold, H. W. Thomas and W. Win- 

 cott. 



The foregoing extract is from Bulle- 

 tin 378 of the Geneva Station. The 

 .same Bulletin enlarges on the law not 

 being drastic enough, — like the fertil- 

 izer and foodstuff laws. As if seeds 

 could comply with such conditions! 

 Seeds are not a manufactured product, 

 and attempts to apply such laws to 

 them are unjust and ridiculous; and 

 <Jo more harm than good to the farmer 

 and all concerned. If the farmer wants 



Columbus, 0. — Columbus Hothouse 

 Company, capital stock, $10,000. In- 

 corporators, J. F. and M. G. Sultz- 

 baugh, R. J. and Jennie Dunkey and 

 P. J. Eagleson. 



West Hartford, Conn. — W. W. Thom- 

 son Co. incorporated July 2, 1914, to 

 deal in flowers, plants, etc. Capital 

 stock, $50,000, divided into 500 shares, 

 of $100 each. Commence business with 

 $20,000. Incorporators; W. Wallace 

 Thomson, R. Roy Thomson, Herman J 

 Miller, all of West Hartford. 



New Crop Pansy Seed 

 Now Ready 



Vick's Superb Mixed, our own special 

 strain. Cannot be surpassed. Con- 

 vince yourself. 



1-3-3 oz., 25c.; l-IO oz., 40c.; 1-8 oz., 60c.i 

 1-4 oz., $1.35; 1 oz., $5.00. 



.M.4STEKPIECE MIXED, $.'i.50 oz. 



PEERLESS MIXED. .fS.OO oz. 



GIANT FLOWEUING MIXED, $1.25 oz. 



.\11 the le.iding colors of both Standard 

 and Giant varieties. Rend for complete 

 list. 



ROCHESTER 

 NEW YORK 



JAMES VICK'S SONS. 



MY NEW LIST OF 



Winter Spencer Sweet Pea Seed 



Has been mailed. If not in your bands 

 now, send a postal for it. 



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 Lomnoc. CaL 



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 Flowering 



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 BUNNTSLOPE, INDBPENDENCB, MO 



New Crop Seeds 



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