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52 



The Florists' Review 



AUGVST 10. 1916. 



Grass Mixtures for 

 Golf - Tennis - Polo 



Meet all requirements for all soils 



THE AI.BERT DICKINSON CO. 



CHICAGO, XIX.. 



Mention The RctIcw when yon wrtto. 



Western Seed & Irrigation Co. 



S*ed Growers and D««l«rs 



Specialties : 



Cucumber, Musk and Watermelon, 



Pumpkin, Squash, Sweet and Field Corn 



FREMONT, NEB. 



Mention Th» R«»Tt<»w when yoB write. 



Indies, as well as in this country. D. C. 

 Gillett, H. F. Eeils and A. L. Allen are 

 the officers of the company. 



Naham J. Greil, founder of the Greil 

 Bros. Co., of Montgomery, Ala. — grocer- 

 ies, liquors and seeds — died July 17 at his 

 home near the city. 



ENGLAND TO ADMIT JAP BULBS. 



It is announced that the English gov- 

 ernment has agreed to allow the trade 

 to import fifty per cent of the usual 

 quantity of Japanese lily bulbs under 

 . special license granted by the Board of 

 Trade. The details of the arrangement 

 have not yet been worked out and an- 

 nounced. If the quantity admitted is 

 half that of normal years it will be 

 about 3,500,000 bulbs, nearly if not 

 quite as many as the trade in England 

 used last year when under no restric- 

 tion. If half last year 's quantity is 

 admitted it will take about 1,750,000 

 to 2,000,000 bulbs off the market in 

 Japan. 



JAPANESE LILY BULBS. 



There is a feeling in the bulb trade 

 that the prices of lily bulbs must go 

 up in keeping with the rise of other 

 commodities, and especially with the 

 rise in price of other products of the 

 soil in Japan. 



It is true that the supply of Japanese 

 lily bulbs this season is ahead of what 

 at present appears to be market re- 

 quirements, due to the action of the 

 British government in closing the Eng- 

 lish market, but this does not necessar- 

 ily mean lower prices, for the simple 

 reason that those who wish to insure 

 the continuation of the industry know 

 that they will kill the goose that lays 

 the golden egg if they do not pay the 

 growers as much as they could make 

 from the land under some other crop. 



A few years ago it was considered 

 that a normal crop of longiflorum bulbs 

 in Japan was from 18,000,000 to 20,- 

 000,000, of which England took 9,000,- 

 000 and the United States 7,000,000. 

 The crop has not increased to any ap- 

 preciable extent, but recently America 

 has used 9,000,000 to Great Britain's 

 7,000,000. This was before the great 

 war. In the last two years the English 

 consumption of bulbs has been mate- 

 rially reduced, good authorities estimat- 

 ing last year's quantity at one-half the 

 normal. The Japanese knew this and 

 reduced their planting this season to in 

 some measure guard against an over- 

 supply. 



That England will take no Japanese 

 bulbs this year is not yet certain. That 

 the embargo was under consideration 

 was known to the Japanese months ago 



OUR MOTTO I THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS 



Valley 



Orders taken now for 1916 crop 



of 

 German — Swedish — Dutch Pips 



CHAS. SCHWAKE & CO., Inc., 90-92 W. Bnaiway, NEW YORK 



MEYER'S 



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BRAND 



FORMOSUMS - GIGANTEUMS- MULTIFLORUMS 

 THE LILY WITHOUT A PUR 

 Ord«r Now for FALL Poilvory Ix Now Crop 



CORP. OF CHAS. F. MEYER, 99 Warren St., NEW YORK 



JUST IN 



NEW STOCK 



BULBS 



Per 100 



L. Harrisii, 7- 9 $10.00 



L. Harrisii, 9-11 25.00 



Amaryllis Johnsonii, 9-11 27.50 



SEEDS 



SWEET PEAS, Winter-flowering 



Yarrawa. Rose-pink 



Light Wings 



Venus 



Pres. Wilson 



Mrs. Spanolin \ p^^ n, p«^ ik 



Lavender. Pink \ Per oz. Per lb. 



Blanche Ferry / $1 -00 $11 .00 



Mrs. Skach 



Mrs. Wm. Sim 



Red 



Lavender Nora 



PANSY 



Winterson** Combination Mixture 



Trade pkt., 50c; K oz., 75c; I4 oz., $1.50; 

 hi oz., $2.75; oz., $5.00 



10% Discount for Cash with Order 

 on Seeds. 



WINTERSON'S SEED STORE 



16 6 N. Wabath Avnu«, CHICAGO 



Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE. CAL. 



SWEET PEA ..d NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale srowers of full lists of FLOWKB 

 and GARDEN SEEDS 



CONTRACT GROWERS of 



Pepptr 



Okra 



Spinach 



Ege Plant 

 Radish 

 Turnip 

 Field Com 



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 Tomato 

 Sweet Com 



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STOKES SEED FARMS CO., Inc. 

 Moorestown, N. J. 



THE NUISANCE 



(Continued from last week) 

 Yes, trailing after me at noon and 

 in the evening; he surely "got on my 

 nerves." He was a widower with 

 three children and a terribly lonesome 

 life — that is, as he claimed, for he 

 worked the sympathy racket. I really 

 did feel sorry for him, and I tried to 

 be polite at least. He called at the 

 ffice five and sometimes six times a 

 week. Oh, my! What a bore! And 

 then I had a real sweetheart, the one 

 I really liked, and there was certainly 

 no room for the soft, mushy love talk 

 which The Nuisance was trying to pass 

 me free of charge. He wanted me to 

 marry him and made the most desper- 

 ate efforts to appeal to my sympathy. 

 I could not quite understand why 1 

 had such an aversion to this man, but 

 he was really disgusting to me. He 

 almost tortured me with his unwel- 

 come attentions. However, I do ad- 

 mire thtf man who makes a determined 

 effort to win the girl of his choice, 

 and does not take "No" until he is 

 positive she means it. I told him I 

 did not like him and I never would. 

 Then he turned the story completely 

 around, telling different parties how I 

 was in love with him, how he could 

 not escape my attentions and devo- 

 tions to him, and that he felt sorry for 

 me, but he just could not see his way 

 clear to reciprocate the love. Oh, rot! 

 What a joke! The story did not hold 

 good, but lie has a wild desire to make 

 all the men think he is popular with 

 the fair sex and that the women just 

 run after him awful. Well — 



Send for Price List of PALL BULBS 



M. M. CARROLL 



WOBWOOP (WW CInalnnatt) OHIO 



#% Wi ^ ■% J% B«Bt that rrow. W« Mil dl- 



^ L L 1 1 W i^«ct to eardanen and floriito at 

 J%F ■ llaV wholMale. Big beautifal cata- 

 WkkW losnefrM. Write today. 

 ABCHIA8 gSED STORE. B«x S4. 8EDALIA, ■#, 

 Mention Tbe Berlew when 70a writ*. 



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