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The Florists' Review 



March 22, 1917. 



GARDEN SEEDS 



We have many of the short iteiuH tocrether with all 

 the plentiful items in seed to oflei^beans. sweet 

 corn, carrot, onion sets, dwarf nasturtium. Send 

 for our wholesale price list. Shipments from here 

 or New York city go quickly everywhere. Contract 

 RrowlnfT price list 1917 seeds on request. 



S. D. WOODRUFF & SONS 



Horn* Office: ORANG£. CONN. 

 New York Citj Store. 8% Der Street 

 Mention The BtTlew when ypo writ*. 



Seed Trade News 



AMEKIOAN BEES TRADE ASSOOZATXOH. 



Prealdent, Kirby B. White, Detroit. Mich.; 

 BecreUry-Treasurer. O. B. Kendel, Oteveland. O. 



Thirty-flftb annual conTention, Detroit, JniM 18 

 to 21. 1817. 



Taking it by and large, the seed busi- 

 ness n^ver was better than it is today. 

 That it will be a big season is certain. 



Seedsmen find it difficult to supply 

 mdny of their wants, but the great body 

 of planters has no trouble — there is 

 ' ' something just as good. ' ' 



It is estimated by a well informed Hol- 

 lander that the failure to receive the 

 spring importations will keep about 8,- 

 000,000 gladiolus bulbs off the American 

 market this season. 



Everybody has planted or plans to 

 plant potatoes this season. In the south- 

 ern states the acreage is estimated by the 

 Department of Agriculture to have m- 

 creased seventeen per cent. 



One man 's guess is as good as another 's, 

 but the opinion seems to prevail in New 

 York that there not only will be no spring 

 importations from Holland but that there 

 will be no Dutch bulbs this year. 



No shipments of gladiolus bulbs or nur- 

 sery stock have left Holland since those 

 packed at the middle of January, for the 

 Nieuw Amsterdam January 28. If these 

 finally reach their destinations one can 

 imagine the condition bulbs, boxwoods, 

 etc., will be in. 



The prices of Holland bulbs have be- 

 gun to waver. Begardless of the size of 

 tiie crop, the United States is the only 

 country in which it is possible to book ad- 

 vance orders and some of the salesmen 

 have found the pickings so poor they are 

 willing to talk price. 



The home garden movement, and the 

 vacant-lot, community-gardening agita- 

 tion as an offset to the high cost of liv- 

 ing, has brought such increased demands 

 for free seeds that the share of the gov- 

 ernment purchases available to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture has been ex- 

 hausted. 



There is a strong demand for canners ' 

 kinds of peas and many canners are or- 

 dering the seed to be shipped by express. 

 Probably the largest express order for 

 seeds sent out in some time was received 

 by the Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, last 

 week, from an eastern canner who or- 

 dered an entire carload of peas to be 

 sent by express, the charges on which 

 amounted to over $600. 



Chicago is the great onion set center 

 and the approach of a new crop year is 

 sending the operators into the country to 

 arrange for acreage. They find the grow- 

 ers reluctant to close, even at prices con- 

 siderably above those of other years. 

 Last year 's small crop paid little profit to 

 the growers, but the operators have made 

 large profits, with the result that many 

 men who plant for the crop think they 



Braslan 



Grower for the Wholesale Trade Only. Onion, Lxttuox, Oarbot. 



PAB8RIP, PABSI.KT, CXI:.BBT, ENDrvX, SAL8IF7, NAIOCD Ain> BIIZXD 



Obahduxoha Ain> Sfkhobb Svtkbt Pkas, and Suitflowkb. 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE. CALIFORNIA 



.Company 



ONION SETS 



LEON Aj?wS«...S«-tl. 



CO 



GROWERS rOR THE IRADE 



BEANS, PEAS AND CORN writ, for PricM 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for n^w (jomplete CataJ^gne. 





The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milfonl, Comi 



■AVTA AMA, 



CAUrORVXA 



TOMATO SEED 



Pepper, Etf£ Plant, Squash, Pumpkin, 

 Cuonmber, Cantalonpe and Watermelon 

 Seed and Field Com. on contract. 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Cerresvondenoe Solicited, awsdaaboro, ■. J. 



He C. flerbert Coy Seed Co. 



VAllEY, Jr&V? NEB. 



Wholesale Growers of High-grade Seeds 



Cucumber, Muskmelon, Squash and Pump- 

 kin. Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Corn. 



- THE - 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO, NEB. 

 ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



Contract growers of Cucumber. Canteloupe, 

 Watermelon, Squash and Pumpkin Seed. Sugar, 

 Flint and Field Seed Corn. 



EVEREnE R. PEACOCK CO. 



ONION ^<s3sr^ SETS 



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



Grass Mixtures for 

 Golf - Tennis - Polo 



Meet all requirements for all soils 



THE AliBERT DICKINSON CO. 

 CHICAOO, ILL. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



SpeoUltlM: Lottooe. Onion. Bwest Peu. Aatai, < 

 Cosmoi. Mlcnonetto. Verbena, in rarietr. 

 OoTT— t>o " «<f on aoIlAited 



TOMATO SEED 



Ghrown for the 

 Wholesale Seed Trade 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



ONION 



40tSIII 



niE KIHBERLIN SEED C0< 



sSenwen SANTA CLARAi CALc 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE. RADISH, BtCc 



Correspondence Solicited 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTERIA. CALIFORNIA 



Contract Seed Growers 



Cn»nilH*C* KPPER. ES8 PUWT. TOMATO. 



apeouuei. ^m seed mo helo corn. 



Correspondence Solicited. 



George R. Pedrick & Son 



PEORICKTOWN. N I 



J.BOLGIANOSSON 



Careful Seed Growers for 99 years. 



Send for our 1917 wholesale prices 

 to Florists and Market Qardeners 



BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 



Mention The Rerlew when 7on write. 



