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HORTICULTURE 



November 25, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMEKIGAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Offloers— President, Klrby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

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

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

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

 CleTeland, O. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York of 

 horticultural material, for the week 

 ending November 10, were recorded 

 as follows: 



Bulbs— France, $398; Netherlands, 

 $18,806: England, $783: Canada, $340: 

 Hongkong. $88; Japan. $12,873. 



Plants— Belgium, $74,491; France. 

 $96- Netherlands, $20,826: England. 

 $1,828: Bermuda. $99: Guatemala. 

 $133; Trinidad. $430: Colombia, $837. 



Red Clover Seed— France, $3.18.5. 



Grass Seed— Denmark. $13,000; Eng- 

 land, $15,051. 



Other Seeds — Denmark, 

 France, $10,651; England. 

 Japan, $1,056; Morocco, $595 

 $709. 



Nitrate of Soda— Chile. $320,400. 



Other Fertilizers— England. $2,149 

 Scotland. $163; Japan, $4,593. 



$1,596; 

 $2,275; 

 Spain, 



SEEDS for the FLORIST 



AQTFRS QUEEN of the 

 .^VO 1 i:<I\.0 MARKET. 



The best extra early variety, large, double flowers, OQ long 

 stems, in colors: Crimson. Darli Blue, Light Blue, Roac 

 Peach Blossom, White. 



Trade Packet, 20c., Oi., 75c. 



Sweet Peas, Cyclamen, Priraulaa, Lily of the Valley, from 



Oar Own Cold Storage Plant. 



Our Trade List Mailed on Application. 



THE SEED STORE DnCTnM 

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FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO., 



Douglas P. Laird, a gardener of the 

 Edinburgh. Scotland, seed trade, who 

 has held an important position with ] 

 Henrv A. Dreer, Philadelphia, for 1 

 some' time, goes to Thorbum's, New \ 

 York, commencing November 17, in 

 charge of the flower seed department. 

 Mr. Laird is but 24; but he has had 

 the right training and is bound to 

 make good. We wish him well, and 

 commend him to the kindly and cour- 

 teous coterie that make the seed trade 

 of New York. They will be nice to 

 him, as he deserves — which goes with- 

 out saying. 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynes 



Park, London, Elngland. Send for Ccitcdogue 



CARTERS TLSTED SEEDS, Inc., o^^^^^:^.t. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 J. L. Moore, Northboro, Mass. — 

 Wholesale Price IJst of Dahlias and 

 Gladoili. 



D. Hill Nursery Co.. Ind., Dundee. 

 111. — Wholesale Trade List of Choice 

 Stock for Florists. 



Carters Tested Seeds. Inc., Boston 

 — "Your Winter Flower Garden." 

 Folder of Bulb Collections for Outdoor 

 and Indoor Planting. 



A. H. & N. M. Lake, Marsbfleld. Wis. 

 —Price folder of Seeds of Hardy Or- 

 namental Shrubs, with plates 6f Vi- 

 burnum pubescens and Cornus alter- 

 nifolia. 



Hassall & Co.. Chase Side. Southgate. 

 London. N, Eng. — Catalogue of Or- 

 chids. A descriptive price list of 

 special plants under number, including 

 many rare pieces. 



Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co.. Pitts- 

 burgh. Pa. — Christmas Catalogue of 

 Flowers and Supplies for Florists. 

 Printed in colors, handsomely illus- 

 trated, comprehensive and progressive 

 in contents and style. Here is a cata- 

 logue worthy of careful reading by any 

 up-to-date retail florist. 



Westerbeek & Klyn. Sassenheim, 

 Holland. — Trade Price List of Peopies, 



Dahlias, Gladioli and Hardy Perennial 

 Plants for fall 1916 and spring— sum- 

 mer 1917. A good caUlogue of best 

 selected species and varieties. Wester- 

 beek & Klvn have an American ad- 

 dress, 14 Stone street. New York. 



Felix & Dykhuis, Boskoop, Holland 

 —Wholesale Trade List and Catalogue 

 of Nurserv Stock— Season of 1916-1917. 

 This publication presents a standard 

 in catalogue quality and usefulness 

 seldom reached in trade catalogues. It 

 is a model in its class, unique in 

 manv features and typographically ex- 

 cellent in its make-up and illustrations. 

 Much cultural information is conveyed 

 in its tabulated columns. The con- 

 tents are systematically arranged in 

 eleven parts, including a "magazine 

 section" information about import 

 duties, etc., and there is a very copious 

 index. 



ton. England: Harry O. May, Summit. 

 N. J.: Benjamin Hammond. Beacon. 

 N. Y.; Robert Pyle. West Grove, Pa.; 

 W. W. Wilraore. Jr., Wheatridge. 

 Col.; Raymond V. Kester. Williams- 

 port, Pa. 



Chicago — Mrs. Perry De Haven, 

 Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. M. E. Irby, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn.; J. T. Commandros, Golden 

 Rule Flower Shop, Minneapolis, Minn.; 

 Geo. C. McCallum. Pittsburgh. Pa.; P. 

 W. Peterson, Joliet, III.; Alois P. Frey, 

 Crown Point, Ind. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Amherst. Mass. - Jens Jensen, Chi- 

 cago. 



Boston — Maurice L. Glass. New 

 York; G. X. Amrhyn. New Haven. 

 Conn. 



Pittsburgh — Isaac Bayersdorfer, repr. 

 H. Bayersdorfer & Co.. Phila.; C. B. 

 Knickman, McHutchison & Co.. New 

 York: M. Adler, New York. 



Urbana. 111.— M. Bebb. E. A.. \'.f\,'<. W. 

 K. Palmer, G. C. Klehm, and C. Jez, all 

 X'niversity of Illinois graduates in 

 Floriculture, were Home-Coming visi- 

 tors on Saturday, Nov. 18. 



Philadelphia — Arthur J. Deal, rep- 

 resenting W. W. Johnson & Son, Bos- 



Washington:— James A. Brown, 

 Capitola. Cal.; W. R. Gray. Oakton, 

 Va.; Oscar Haase, New York; Robert 

 Craig. Charles E. Meehan. Robert 

 Shoch. S. Price, all of Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; W. J. Smart, Knight & Struck. 

 New York; Charles Wiemann, Meyer 

 & Co., New York; Mr and Mrs. Pat- 

 rick Welch. Boston, Mass. 



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