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CONTROL SERIES NO. 159 



Table 5 

 Flower Seed Inspection 



Wholesale Distributor, Dealer When 

 Lab. Kind of Other Than Wholesale Distributor, 



No. Seed Place Collected and Variety of Seed 



Labora- 

 tory 

 Germi- 

 nation 



% 



Field Tests 



Performance 



Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston, Mass. 

 Adams Hardware Co., Northboro 

 Orange King 6 6% single flowered 



Allen Hardware Co., Saugus 



Double Shirley Mixed 87 4% single ; 10 colors ; mix- 

 ture proportion satis- 

 factory 

 Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston 



Pink Queen 76 6% Lavender 



Breck's Cupped 64 50% single, non-cupped 



type ; 4 colors 



Single French, Flaming Type 25 Type satisfactory 



Canary Bird 80 3% White 



Peppermint Stick 91 10% show no striping 



Lowe Bros., Ipswich 

 Guinea Gold 89 3% Yellow 



W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Clinton Hdwe Co., Clinton 

 Double Camellia Flowered Mixed .. 82 50% single; 7 colors 



Herman Davis, Mefrimac 



Single & Double Mixed 92 100% single; 5 colors 



Floradale Scarlet 59 4% Yellow 



Thomas J. Grey Co., Abington 

 Little Gem 76 4% Tall White Type 



Jacque Hardware Co., Milford 



Giant Mixed 58 90% Mayflower Pink; 



Color mixture poor 



Comstock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfleld, Conn. 



Joseph Sordillo & Sons, Boston 



Double Camellia Flowered Mixed .. 11 30% single; 7 colors 

 Double Mixed 83 5% single ; 7 colors ; mix- 

 ture proportion good 



Crosman Seed Corp., Rochester, N. Y. 



S. S. Kresge & Co., Fitchburg 

 Red Boy 80 6% White 



S. S. Kresge & Co., Newburyport 

 Double Camellia Flowered Mixed .. 90 70% single; 5 colors 



J. T. Tepper & Co., Northampton 



Double Anemone Flowered or Crested 87 20% single; No petal de- 

 velopment or Anemone 

 or Crested Type 



Deerlngton Zinnia Gardens, Bargersville, Ind. 

 F. W. Woolworth & Co., Chicopee 

 Special Baby Bee Small Double Bloom 



Pink 80 Mixture of Red, Orange, 



Rose and Pink 



Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Detroit, Mich. 

 A. L. Holden & Co., Milton 

 American Legion 85 8% off color 



340 Calendula 

 249 Papaver 



401 Cleome 



403 Cosmos 



412 Tagetes 



414 Zinnia 



417 Zinnia 



269 Tagetes 



358 Impatiens 



278 Dianthus 

 280 Zinnia 



784 Alyssum 

 1038 Verbena 



668 Impatiens 



669 Portulaca 



355 Centaurea 



273 Impatiens 



880 Cosmos 



893 Zinnia 



381 Papaver 



