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The Florists' Review 



February 1, 1917. 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Bge Plant, Saaash, Pumpkin, 

 Cuoumber, Cantaloupe and WatermeloD 

 Seed and Field Corn, on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



GorresDondence Solicited. 8^r«d«aboro,M. J. 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Seed Trade News 



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AMEKICAN SEED XKADE ASSOCIATION 

 President, Klrby B. White, Detroit, Mich.; 



Secretary-Treasurer, 0. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Contract prices on all seeds, and espe- 

 cially on beans and peas, are steadily ad- 

 vancing. 



Charles P. Guelf, of the Jerome B. 

 Rice Seed Co., is on a trip through the 

 northeast. 



The pioneer seedsman of Bismarck, S. 

 D., Oscar H. Will, has been seriously ill 

 at Bismarck hospital, but while still con- 

 fined to his bed at the hospital, is slowly 

 recovering. 



Paper and printing cost even more in 

 England than now is the case in the 

 United States and most British trade 

 catalogues for 1917 show a sharp re- 

 trenchment. 



Onion sets advanced sharply last week. 

 The supply is being steadily reduced by 

 shipment and present indications are that 

 it will be diflScult to obtain good stock by 

 the early part of March. 



The canners' convention will attract a 

 considerable number of seedsmen to Cleve- 

 land February 5 to 9. Conditions in the 

 canning trade arc nuch tliat the largest 

 convention on record is expected and 

 seedsmen 's representatives are looking 

 forward to an active week's business. 



The Holland salesmen came over this 

 season under instructions to get higher 

 prices, especially from the small buyers 

 out in the country, whose orders have been 

 costing too much. But it isn't proving 

 as easy as it would have been had there 

 not been so many cheap offers at the close 

 of last season. 



The Sweet Pea Annual, issued by the 

 National Sweet Pea Society of England, 

 makes America a conspicuous feature of 

 the 1917 issue, just to hand. It contains 

 full-page portraits of the late W. Atlee 

 Burpee and of George \V. Kerr, with an 

 appreciation of the former and an article 

 by the latter, with nuich other material 

 of American origin. 



The Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co., of 

 Sioux City,. la., "has been granted a re- 

 fund by the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion of' $.'563.68, to be paid by tlie Chicago, 

 Burlington & Quincy Eailroad Co., on ac- 

 count of an excessive rate charged on 

 three cars of clover seed from Cowley and 

 Lovell, Wyo., and Silesia, Mont., to Sioux 

 City, in December, 1915. 



A meeting of the Wholesale Grass Seed 

 Dealers' Association was held at Chi- 

 cago January 29, at which the matter of 

 trade rules and seed legislation were dis- 

 cussed. About fifteen firms were re]»re- 

 sented. E. Brown, botanist in charge of 

 the seed lalioratory of the bureau of ]>lant 

 industry of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C, uas among 

 those present. 



We have over and above our contract requirements for 1916 and 1917 



A Surplus of High-grade 

 Vegetable and Flower Seeds 



which we offer at attractive prices considering market conditions at 

 home and abroad. Our contracts were placed with the largest and 

 most reliable growers in the world, and their names will be furnished 

 upon request. 



Send us list of your requirements 

 THE H. R. WILBER CORP., 56 Steele St., JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



Braslan 



Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only, Onion, Zjcttuok, Oabbot, 



PaBBNIF, PABSIiKY, CKI.EBT, ENDIVX, SALBIFT, NAMXD AND Mrym 



Gbandibxoba and Sfsnoxb Svkst Pkas, and Sunixowkb. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Company 



ONION SETS 



LEO 



an SEED 



CO. 



22C-X30 w. •««" GROWERS fOR THE TRADE 



EAHS, PEAS AND COBH w,it. t.r Pnc 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



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



•rewkic StaltoM at Bast l erdea. MMk. Olreea Bay. ¥n8..St. Aatboay, Maha 



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



Grass Mixtures for 

 Golf - Tennis - Polo 



Meet all reauirements for all soils 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 

 CHICAGO, IIX. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GELROY. CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



SpedaltiM: Lettaoe, Onion. Sweet Pbm, Astez, 

 Cosmoa, Mlmonette, Verbenfte in ruisty^ 

 CorrnMDondenoe loUeited 



Pieters-Wheeler Seed Company 



ailroy. 



California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Onion, Radish, Lettuce, 

 Sweet Peas, Etc. :: :: 



Correspondence Solicited. 

 CONTRACT GROWER 



of 



Cucumber and Nuskmelon Seed 



I ofifer Pure Stock, Personal Service, Intimate 

 Knowledge of Stocks and Local Conditions, 

 Good Deliveries and Moderate Prices. 



R. H. JANES, Rocky Ford, Colo. 



EVERETTE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^<^ssn-^ SETS 



ONION 



40ia Mllwaak 



:ee Avenue, 



SEED 

 CNicaao 



THE KINBERLIN SEED C0< 



SeedGrow«*ri SANTA CLARAi CALc 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE, RADISH, Etc 



CorresDondence Solicited 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA 



