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The Florists' Review 



Febhcary 24, 1918. 



TURNIP SEED 



Alfred J. Brown Seed Co. 



Growers of 



Peas and 



Beans 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Mention The Review wlion you write. 



Seed Trade News 



AMEBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



President, John M. Liipton. Slattitucli. L. I.; 

 Secretav.v-Tr<asurer. C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



Thirty-fourth uunual convention, Chicago, June 

 20 to 22, 1!)10. 



The floods in Holland have done little 

 if any damage to seed, bulb or nursery 

 interests. 



Last week's boat from Copenhagen 

 landed 571 parcels of Danish seeds at 

 New Yori?. 



Captain Burnet Lanprkth, of the D. 

 Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, Pa., and sec- 

 retary of the Wholesale Seedsmen's 

 League, recently returned from a winter 

 Tacation in Cuba. 



]\r.UL orders, which were a bit back- 

 Avard during .January and tlie first part 

 •of Februftry because of the severely cold 

 weatlier, liegan to gather volume with 

 the arrival of the first spring-like days. 

 It promises to be a short season. 



The principal difficulty California 

 growers will have in ])rodHcing all the 

 flower seeds this country needs lies in 

 holding assistants long enough to bring 

 expert labor to bear on the development 

 of recognized and dependable high qual- 

 ity. 



The Horticultural Advertiser (British) 

 reprints items that have appeared in 

 America relative to the arrival of Ger- 

 man seeds via neutral countries and 

 says, "It would seem there is still great 

 need for our blockade to be made more 

 •effective." 



It is stated that in the vicinity of 

 Santa Cruz, Cal., there have been ])lant- 

 od sdnie twenty acres of Freesia Purity 

 and some three acres of Calla ^]thi- 

 opic.i for bulbs. The marketing of the 

 <rop is expected to be in the hands of 

 some half dozen growers and jobbers. 



H. G. Hastings, of Atlanta, enjoys a 

 chu( kle every time he thinks of the first 

 page ad in a little Arkansas jiaper that 

 <*ame to his attention recently, wherein 

 a candidate for congress assures the 

 voters that, if he can displace the ])res- 

 *nt incumbent, he will see they get their 

 free seeds regularly and not "on the 

 eve of election." 



The active head of the Blair-Harper 

 Seed Co., which is opening for business in 

 the mail order seed line at Aurora, 111., 

 is Donald Blair, a graduate of the Min- 

 nesota College of Agriculture, class of 

 1907. For a time he was a seed expert 

 for the state of Wisconsin, until he 

 formed a partnership with the Harper 



TURNIP SEED g g^ C O - 



L E O H AJJ 5,,. .?«r. CH.CA«0 



W ■-' aae-a*®^-'' GROWERS fOR THE TRADt 



• ONION SETS Write lor Prlc«» 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee*s "Seeds that Grow" 



Batter write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for new Complete Catalocueo 



■i 



Braslan 



Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only. Onion, Lkttuok, Cabbot, 

 Parsnip, Paksi.ky, Cklkht, Enbivk, Salsify, Named and Mixkd 

 Gbanduxoba and Spknckb Swkkt Pbas, and Sukflowkb. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Company 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, Com. 



ttrewlns Slatleaa at laat Jordan. Midi., Qrooa Bay, Wla.. St. Aathoay, Idaho 



Beans, Peas, Sweet Corn, Onion, Beet, Turnip, Tomato, Etc. Etc. 



97tb Year 



J. B0L8IAII0 & SON 



Wholoaalo Qardon aad Hold Soodo, 

 Onion Soto, Sood Potatooo. 



irt af fvttvm 

 TmatetMte 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



Water Melon 

 and Okra Seed 



Grown for Wholesale Trade. 



W. E. HAILE, 



Seedsman . MONTICELLO, FLA. 



Contract Seed Growers 



lAc* Pepper, E^KPIsat, Tomato, 

 '**• Vine 8«ed and Field Cora. 



Spedaltii 



Correspondence Solicited 



George R. Pedrick 9t Son 



PlDmCKTOWW, M. J. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, KSS?," NEB. 



Wholesale Growers of Hifh-grade Seeds 



Cacumber, Muskmelon, Squash and Pump* 

 kin. Sweet Flint and Dent Seed G>m 



— THK— 



J. C. Robinson Seed'Co. 



WATERLOO, NBB. 



ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



Contract growers of Cucumber. Cantaloupe, 

 Watermelon, Sauash and Pumpkin Seed. Sugar. 

 Clint and Field Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialtiei : Lettace, Onion, Sweet Peaa, Aster, 

 Cosmos. Mimonette, Verbena, In rariety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



eVEREnE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^<=s5cr>^ SETS 



4S1S Mllwaukao Avonuo. CHICASO 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



THE KINBERLIN SEED CO. 



Seed erowen SANTA CLARAi CALi 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE. RADISH, Etc. 



Correspondence Solicited 



Henry Fish Seed Co< 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA, -> CALn 



TOMATO SEED 



G r ow u for the 

 Wholeaaie Seed Trmde 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



SANTA ANA, 



CAUVORHIA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Egg Plant. Squash. Pumpkin, 

 Cucumber, Cantaloupe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Corn, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Correspondence Solicited. S^^edoaboro, N. J. 



