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The Florists' Review 



Sbftbmbbb 14, 1916. 



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PAPER WHITE GRANDIFLORA and FORMOSUM LILIES 



NOW RKADY FOR SHIPMKNT 



Paper White Grandiflora (1250 to case) $11.00 per 1000 



Paper White Grandiflora (1000 to case) :. 14.00 per 1000 



LILIUM FORMOSUM 



7/ 9-inch (300 to case) $19.00 per case ^ 



9/1 l-inch (150 to case) 15.00 per case [ Write or wire for prices 



10/11-inch (140 to case) ...;....... 17.00 per case { in large quantities 



10/12-inch (120 to case). 20.00 per case J 



FREESIA PURITY, "h, to ^ $10.00 per 1000 



LILIUM GIGANTEUM (Dark Stem)... In all sizes. Write us for prices. 



American Bulb Co. 



WATCH US QRow 172 NoHh Wabash Avenue, 



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A shipment of flower seeds valued 

 at $50 was sent by parcel post to Santa 

 Bosa, Cal., from Deer Park, Ala., Sep- 

 tember 7. It seems like "carrying 

 coals to Newcastle" to be shipping 

 flower seeds to California. This seed 

 was Stokesia cyanea and this was about 

 fifteen per cent of the growers' crop 

 of this beautiful hardy perennial. 



By the way, southern Alabama is the 

 home of the stokesia and the many new 

 shades of this flower all originated 

 here. A few years ago only the blue 

 was known to the trade. Then the 

 white variety was brought out. There 

 now are being introduced pink, pur- 

 ple and yellow shades and some light 

 blue shades are promised as soon as 

 stock of them can be worked up. 



Another seed crop grown here is 

 vinca, or periwinkle, the crop of it last 

 season being about 170 pounds. Here- 

 tofore this seed has been almost wholly 

 imported from EHirope. The hurricane 

 of July 5 and the floods which lasted 

 for nearly a month afterward did much 

 damage to this and other seed crops in 

 this section and the crop will be much 

 less this season on that account. 



L. H. Read. 



SEED CBOPS IN HOLLAND. 



S. Listoe, U. S. Consul General at 

 Rotterdam, Holland, reports that the 

 Netherlands Department of Agriculture 

 has compiled statistics as to acreage 

 under seed crops, as follows: 



Seed Acreage 1914 1915 1916 



Canary 8,187 9,212 14,750 



Caraway 1.S.059 9.8as 12,4.S4 



Mustard, brown 1,594 1,554 2,679 



Mustard, yellow 2,234 4,K{1 12,217 



Onion 240 217 277 



Poppy, blue 1,226 2,034 5,130 



Rfidlsh 744 534 2.'59 



R*Pe 4,087 3.793 6,482 



Spinaoh 2,234 1,816 2,478 



SuKar-beet 432 447 484 



As a result of the cold and rainy 

 weather, crops in general are back- 

 ward. With some of them a sudden 

 change for the better in the weather 

 might do considerable good. For the 

 most part, however, that probability 

 is gone, and the crops will be below the 

 average. 



SEED IMPORT ACT AMENDED. 



The seed importation act of August 

 24, 1912, prohibits the importation into 

 the United States of those seeds sub- 

 ject to the act when they are adulter- 

 ated or contain three per cent or more 

 of weed seeds, or when clover and 

 alfalfa seed contains more than ap- 

 proximately ninety seeds of dodder per 

 pound. 



Araucaria Excelsa 



SEEPS 



Freshly Gathered — Just Received 



100 Seeds $ 1.25 



1000 Seeds 10.00 



5000 Seeds and over $9.50 per 1000 



30-32 Barclay St., New York 



(Foraiga Dept.) . 



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