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The Florists' Review 



February 15, 1917, 



NICHELL'S NEW CROP FLOWER SEEDS 



ASPARAGUS Plnmosas Nanus (Noi-tli- 

 ern Oreenhouse Grown). 



1000 seeds $ 3.50 I 10.000 seeds $30.no 



5t00 seeds 15.50 | 25,009 seeds 72.50 



ASPARAGC8 Hatcheri-. 



100 seeds tO.75 1 500 seeds $3.C0 



1000 seeds $5.U0 



ASPARAGUS Sprengeri, 



1000 seeds $0,75 1 10,000 seeds $ 5..'51 



5000 seeds 3.00 I 25,r0 ) seeds 12.50 



Special |)rlccs on laiRer quantities. 



Oz. 



$1.50 

 1.50 

 1.50 

 1.60 

 1..50 

 1.25 



AftTKR. MICHKLT.'S 1MPROVRD 



ASTER. CUKGO. Tr. pkt. 



"White $0.30 



Shell Pink St 



Rose Pink :« 



■ Purple :«) 



Liavender 30 



Mixed 30 



. t)7.. 



$1.00 



1.00 



l.no 



i.no 



1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



2.2i> 



2.25 

 2.25 



Also all other Seasonable Seeds. 

 Bnlbs and Supplies. Send for Ke\r 

 Wholesalt^ Catalogue. 



HENRY r. mCHELL CO., S18 Nirket St., PHILADELrHIA, PA. 



Mention The IUt1»w whan yon write. 



LOSS BY ST. LOUIS SEED CO. 



With insurance of $31,500 on stock, in 

 thirteen companies, and $3,000 on fix- 

 tures, the St. Louis Seed Co., St. Louis, 

 Mo., was fully covered on the loss sus- 

 tained February 4, when the roof of its 

 4-story building at 411-13 Washington 

 avenue was broken through by the fall- 

 ing chimney of a burning building next 



door. About one-eighth of the roof area 

 collapsed. The damage to stock was 

 principally by water, the fire, which dam- 

 aged nearly a dozen buildings in the 

 vicinity, being stopped before it did 

 much injury to the seed store. That the 

 loss from water was not larger was due 

 to the seed stock being covered with tar- 

 paulins by the salvage corps. Mail order 

 business was interrupted for only a few 



TOTAL SEED IMPOSTS FOR LAST FISCAL YEAR. 



The Review of August 24, page 62, contained a tabulated statement of the im- 

 ports of seeds, with the duties paid, during the first three quarters of the fiscal year 

 beginning July 1, 1915. The Eeview of November 9, page 58, continued the data 

 to the end of the fiscal year. The records for each quarter were given separately, as 

 compiled by the United States Department of Commerce. In the following table 

 the amounts in the quarterly reports are combined, so as to show the total imports 

 of each kind of seed for the entire fiscal year, July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916: 



Articles. Rates 



Seeds: of Duty. 



Anise (pounds) ., 2c lb. 



Do. (reciprocltj- treaty with Cuba) 2c lb.— 207o 



Beet: 



.Sugar (pounds) Free 



All other (pounds) .Sc lb. 



Cabbage (pounds) Oc lb. 



Canary (pounds) %c lb. 



Caraway (pounds) Ic lb. 



Cardamom (pounds) Free 



Carrot (pounds) 3c lb. 



Castor beans or seeds (bushels) 15c bush. 



Cauliflower (pounds) Free 



Celery (pounds) Free 



CoUard (pounds) 6c lb. 



Coriander (pounds) Free 



Corn salad (pounds) 3c lb. 



Cotton (pounds) Free 



Cummin Xpounds) Free 



Eggplant (pounds) 10c lb. 



Fennel (pounds) Free 



Fenugreek (pounds) Free 



Flaxseed or linseed (bnshols) 20c bush. 



Screenings 10% 



Flower Free 



-July 1, 1915. to June 30. 191G- 



Qunntity. 



711,512 



70,977 



9,047,902 



785,807 



277, 88G 



5,368,551 



2,978,581 



225,687 



38,024 



1,071,969 



8,849 



C07.581 



35 



1,587,92.'? 



5,109 



30,113,684 



1,446,006 



1,695 



.•?12,927 



811,270 



14,637,543 



Grass: 



Alfalfa (pounds) Free 3,179,650 



Clover : 



Alsike (pounds) Free 1,157,884 



Crimson (pounds) Free i .1,767,870 



Red (pounds) Free ' 33,566,881 



AVhlte (pounds) Free 189,167 



All other (pounds) Free 2,077,288 



Vetch: 



Hairy (pounds) Free 44,785 



Spring (pounds) Free 92,250 



All other (pounds) Free 6,093,286 



Total grass seed (pounds) Free 50,169,106 



Hemp (pounds) Free 4,036,614 



Kale (pounds) 6c lb. 40,148 



Kohl-rabI (pounds) Oc lb. 10,430 



Mushroom spawn (pounds) Ic lb. 65,547 



Mustard (pounds) Free 16,402,112 



Parsley (pounds) 3c lb. 70,229 



Parsnip (pounds) .'?c lb. 100,301 



Pepper (pounds) 10c lb. 14,900 



Poppy (bushels) 15c bush. 26,648 



Radish (pounds) 3c lb. 309,417 



Rape (pounds) Free 9,977,353 



Sova beans (pounds) Free 3,003,065 



Spinach (pounds) le lb. 838.235 



Turnip and rutabaga (pounds) 3c lb. 1,816,055 



Other oilseeds (bushels) 20c bush. 18,958 



All other, free, Including bulbs and bulbous 



roots, not edible, coniferous evergreen 



seedlings, hoarhound, mangel-wurzel, St. • 



John's bread or bean, and sorghum or 



sugar cane for seed Free 



All other, n. s. p. f. (pounds) 5c lb. 



Do. (reciprocity treaty with Cuba) 5c lb.— 20% 



285,000 

 1,216 



Vulue. 



$ 03,759 



4,054 



1,031,180 



99,494 



117,271 



181,898 



280,146 



119,162 



13,203 



1,555,465 



46,355 



161,839 



6 



54,870 



771 



251,568 



225,672 



1,461 



20,751 



20,672 



20,151,633 



4,500 



182,628 



389,100 



154,482 



.330,655 



4,931,853 



53,790 



206,730 



4,837 



4,383 



356,879 



0,439,709 



63,163 



6,975 



2,970 



1,839 



1,070,567 



8,631 



8,135 



6,202 



176,776 



41,063 



311,212 



78,963 



67,521 



163,1.35 



39,359 



253,411 



102,175 



64 



Duty 

 14,230.24 

 1,247.03 



23,574.21 

 16,673.12 

 26,842.80 

 29,785.81 



'1,140.72 

 100,795.35 



1.50 

 153.27 



100.50 



2,027 



,508.00 

 450.00 



2.438.88 

 625.80 

 655.47 



2,i'oe'.87 



3,009.03 

 1,400.00 

 3,997.20 

 9,282.51 



8,382.35 



54.481. a-) 



3,701.60 



14,250 ("I 

 48.04 



Total seeds 



(Free 

 i Dutiable 



$10,.^30,818 



23,009,412 $3,307,103,35 



J.BOLGIANOSSON 



Careful Seed Growers for 09 years. 



Send for our 1917 wholesale prices 

 to Florists and Market Qardeners 



BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 



Mention The Review, when yon write. 



ROCHELLE 



Paper Pots and 'Dirt Bands. See pase 96 

 Mention Tb« R«t1«w whit yon wrif . 



hours and counter trade was resumed 

 aftor two or three days. 



This is the second time within three 

 years the St. Louis Seed Co. has suf- 

 fered from its neighbors, several lives 

 having beon lost when the walls of an 

 adjoining burning building collapsed in 

 1914, burying the seed store with .sev- 

 eral of its employees and many other 

 persons. 



CAN USE OPAQUE ENVELOPES. 



Seeds put up in opaque sealed en- 

 velopes, properly labeled, would appear 

 to constitute "proprietary articles of 

 merchandise and be mailable at fourth- 

 class rates," as set forth in Sec. 469, 

 Par. 5, instead of requiring transparent 

 envelopes (Par. 4). This is a new rul- 

 ing obtained December 20, 1916, from 

 the Third Assistant Postmaster Gener- 

 al's office by Howard M. Earl, of W. At- 

 lee Burpee & Co., member of the execu- 

 tive committee of the American Seed 

 Trade Association. 



C. E. Kendel, Sec 'y. 



MANN KILLS MISBRANDING BILL. 



Seedsmen and nurserymen who were 

 opposed to the Barkley Misbranding Bill 

 need have no fear of its adoption at this 

 session of Congress. On the objection of 

 Congressman Mann, of Illinois, the 

 measure was stricken from the Unani- 

 mous Consent calendar. This action ef- 

 fectively kills it so far as the present 

 session of Congress is concerned, al- 

 though Congressman Barkley contem- 

 plates its reintroduction early during 

 the next session. 



The objection against the bill on the 

 part of the nursery and seed interests 

 arose when it was found that they would 

 be likely to get into difficulties in mark- 

 ing packets of seeds, bundles of trees, 

 etc., because of the fact that it would 

 be easy to innocently misbrand where 

 varieties so closely resemble each other. 



