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HORTICULTURE 



September 2, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers— President, Klrby B. WUte, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

 W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, L. L. Olds, Madison, 

 Wis. ; Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port ot New York, 

 of horticultural material, for the week 

 ending Aug. 18th, were recorded as 

 follows: 



Bulbs— France, $2,698; Netherlands. 

 $592; England. $6; Bermuda, $811; 

 Japan, $2,403. , ^ 



Plants— Belgium. $107; England, 

 $255; Bermuda, $19. 



Clover seed — France, $208. 



Grass seed — Jamaica, $158. 



All other seeds — Denmark, $1,063; 

 France, $3,187; Spain, $320; England, 

 $495; Hongkong, $327; Canary Is- 

 lands, $3,756. 



Nitrate of potash— England, $120,- 

 637. 



Nitrate of soda— Chile, $53,651. 



Other fertilizers — England, $177; 

 Argentine, $406. 



To a Congressman. 



(After receiving a letter promising many 

 packets of free seeds.) 

 (From the New York Press.) 

 IJear Sir; 1 got your little note. 

 But if vou want to keep my vote. 

 Don't send the seeds you mention there. 

 But drop them in the empty air. 

 Last year you sent me quite a pack. 

 And. trusting fool, I broke my back 

 To plant them in the yawning ground 

 And make for each its little mound. 

 I watered them with tender care, 

 Protected them from crow and bear. 

 And plowed between the long, straight 



rows — 

 Oh, could I punch you in the nose. 

 Tobacco came where beans should be. 

 Now, as I never smoke, you see, 

 The crop was not a welcome one; 

 Tobacco Worms had lots of fun. 

 The tapioca wildly grew 

 Where I had looked for green peas new, 

 And rhubarb raised its horrid head 

 In what I thought a parsley bed. 

 While rank alfalfa made a muss 

 Where should have bloomed asparagus. 

 I stuck up frames to hold tomatoes, 

 And on them crept some sweet potatoes. 

 Worst of all, wild turnips popped 



Where I the melon seedlets dropped. 

 Please send your seeds to far Peru, 

 Or Mexico, or Timbuctoo ; 

 But kindly wipe me off your slate, 

 (_)r you won't be my candidate. 



Notes. 



Sheboygan, Wis.— The John H. Al- 

 lan Seed Co. has increased its capital 

 stock from $230,000 to $280,000. 



Louisville, Ky. — C. P. Wood, former- 

 1.V of Wood. Stubbs & Co.. has opened 

 a seed brokerage store in the Board of 

 Trade building. 



George Clark, of Dreer's, has just 

 returned from an extended trip to the 

 Pacific coast and in between. He is 

 not very enthusiastic about crops. 

 From an acre they used to get some 

 nine hundred pounds of sweet peas. 

 Now they are lucky it they get two 

 hundred. On being asked the why, 

 George, as usual, was non-committal. 

 He put it all on the green fly. It's a 

 queer thing about George that he does 

 not confine this to the Pacific coast. 

 If you ask him about the bad sweet 

 peas, bad asters, bad gladioli on the 

 Atlantic coast, he has the same an- 



When You Want to Buy Horticultural 

 Sundries From England 



You cannot do better than write for my Trade Price List 



and a quotation for just what you want from time to time 



Large stocks of the following are always on hand 



RAFFIA in 3 standard qualities and prices, extra prima long white 



broad Majunga, first quality Majunga and first quality Tamatave 



Samples Sent Post Free 



Bamboo Garden Canes, Mottled and Tapering Canes. 

 Best English and French Secateurs. XL ALL Budding 

 and Pruning Knives. Garden Trug Baskets. Mushroom 

 Spawn. All kinds of Fertilizers, XL ALL Insecticides, 

 Fumigators, etc., etc. Trade only supplied. 



G. H. RICHARDS, 234 Borough, London, S. E., ENGLAND 



14845 



Manufacturer and Shipper of all Sundries 



Cable Address : "VAPORIZING" LONDON 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Rayne» 



Park, London, Elngland. S^nd for Oitalogue 



CARTERS TESTlD SEEDS; Inc., coonMrcrBidirBTd^ m«m. 



Burpee's Seeds 



PHILADELPHIA 



BttTE tlST OF WHOLESALE FBICKS 



MAn^ED ONLY TO TH08E WHO PJJUn 



FOB FBOFII. 



BURRm BROTHTERS 



I»»«rtars amd Srcwan at 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, &c. 



98 Cbamlurs Street, New York 



swei-. Green fly! We would just like 

 to see him put himself in print once. 

 We dare him. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Framingham Nurseries, Framing- 

 ham, Mass.— Fall Trade Price List 

 for 1916. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago and 

 New York. — Autumn Catalogue, 1916, 

 illustrated. 



1916. A very attractive little cata- 

 logue of good things in roses, peonies, 

 herbaceous plants, bulbs and green- 

 liouse stock. Cover in colors. 



Terra Nova Nurseries, Aalsmeer, 

 Holland— Special Trade List of Nur- 

 sery Stock, July, 1916. A very con- 

 vincing catalogue, nicely illustrated. 

 The American agents for this house 

 are August Rolker & Sons, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 

 — Wheats, Grasses, Clovers, etc., etc., 

 for Fall Trade. 



Thos. J. Grey Co., Boston — Autumn 

 Catalogue, 1916. "Neat but not gaudy." 

 Devoted to bulbs and hardy plants 

 mainly. Fills the bill. 



Knight & Struck Co., 258 Fifth 

 Ave., New York — Bulbs for Fall Plant- 

 ing, 1916. Hardy Perennials for Fall 

 Planting, September Offer. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 

 Penna. — New Floral Guide for Autumn 



A. T. Boddington Company, Inc.,. 

 New York — Wholesale Price List for 

 Fall, 1916. Bulbs, Seeds, Plants and 

 Sundries are all well covered in this 

 practical, seasonable trade list of 

 things that everybody needs. Send 

 for a copy and study prices. 



F. Danker, Albany, N. Y. — Orna- 

 mental Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, 

 Roses, Bulbs and Plants for the Gar- 

 den. This is a very classy publica- 

 tion bound in Dresden blue and gold. 

 A "children's page" is a unique fea- 

 ture well worth copying by other 

 dealers. 



