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The Florists^ Review 



December 21, 1916. 



LILY BULBS 



OUR MOTTO: "Your doUar's value.' 



Those who know will grow Reburn & Co. lily bulbs, for they are fertilized (the truth without fear or favor), and 

 feeding the bulbs at growing stage positively produces the best results, maturing a healthy, sound bulb; three times 

 rogued and cultivated by the oldest and best experienced growers in Japan. GIGANTEUM of superb quality. 



MULTIFLORUM for early Easter, true Kiota type, as you knew 

 Multifloruni twelve to fifteen years ago. Easter. 1918. is March 31. 

 Try a few cases. Supply limited. 



FORMOSUM, black and green stem. The best Oshimo ev^r 

 produced. Write for prices on all sizes and Quantities. 



Let us figure on your French and Dutch order for fall, 1917. Our connections are reliable. Read our motto. 

 Cold storage GIGANTEUM BULBS all the year. All sizes. Ask for prices. See offer of Gladioli in Classified Department. 



G. M. REBURN & CO., 160 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Afentlon The Review when you write. 



squash crops are short on account of the 

 crops being late and not fully matured, 

 also being harvested under unfavorable 

 conditions, and there are a number of 

 vine seed crops which have not yet been 

 received from the growers. It therefore 

 is impossible as yet to tell just what de- 

 livery will be made on last year's con- 

 tracts. 



FREE SEEDS. 



As required by the act appropriating 

 money for the congressional seed dis- 

 tribution, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 has transmitted to Congress a detailed 

 statement showing the place, quantity 

 and price of seeds purchased for the 1916 

 distribution, now a year old. The de- 

 tailed figures are interesting only as 

 showing what a considerable part of the 

 seeds needed the Department now is 

 compelled to buy on the open market 

 for lack of offers at the time the annual 

 bids are received. The quantities of 

 vegetable and flower seeds purchased 

 and the cost for the 1916 distribution 

 were as follows: 



Vegetable Pounds Cost 



Beans, dwarf 12,000 $ 650.00 



Beans, pole 40,050 2,317.77 



BePt 25,200 4,194.80 



Carrot 0,250 1,387.50 



CoUards 4,000 600.00 



Corn, sweet 154,600 4,447.50 



Cucumber 32,355 6,824.29 



Endive 15,503 3,745.72 



Lettuce 135,215 24,985.62 



Muskmelon 37,511 5,5i>2.07 



Okra 7,915 673.82 



Onion 40,444 15,149.98 



Parsley 2,399 287.88 



Parsnip 10,015 1,001.50 



Peas 266,196 10,357.00 



Radish 77,093V4 9,948.94 



Squash 10,940 2,1.31.55 



Tomato 10,94C 2,588.12 



Turnip 12,000 1,320.00 



Watermelon 3,939 464.51 



Total 907,471ii! .$98,528.57 



Flower Pounds Cost 



Antirrhinum 555 $ 570.95 



Balsam 1 .400 2,025.00 



Candytuft 2,188 903.35 



Calendula 5,797 1,501.81 



Centaurca 125 7.'>.0O 



Chrysanthemum 760 4.30.75 



Coreopsis 2.272 1,006.45 



Cosmos 1.000 650.00 



Delphinium 150 !I7.50 



DianthiJS, double 627 711.50 



Dianthns, sinplc 829 74.3.. TO 



Esehscholtzia 1,492 1,020.80 



avpsophilu .300 1.50.00 



Koohia 3,208 587.44 



Mignonette 2,682 962.70 



Morninpr Glorv, dwnrf 2,500 3,37.40 



Morning Glc rv, tall 2,000 349.00 



Nasturtium, dwarf 1.025 205.00 



■ Nasturtium, tall 7,000 957.90 



Petunia 385 820.00 



Poppy, double 694 173.50 



Poppv, single 2,991 1,322.75 



Portulaca 20 25.00 



Schizanthns 215 161.25 



Sweet Alvssum 1,525 1,451.70 



Sweet Peas 163 .32.60 



Virginian Stocks 800 292.00 



Zinnia, dwarf 906 846.00 



Zinnia, tail 1,250 1,017.00 



Total 44,859 $19,528.85 



The 1917 distribution has been begun 

 and the Department has invited tenders 

 of stock for the 1918 distribution, sub- 



JAP LILY BULBS 



At Import Prices — Including Storage Charges to Date 



F. O. B. CHICAGO F. O. B. LONDON, ONT. 



Lilium Giganteum 7-9, 8-10, 9-10 Liliuni Giganteum 7-9, 8-10, 'i-io 



F. O. B. NEW YORK 



Lilium Album 9-11 



Lilium Rubrum 7-9, 8-10, it-11 



Liliuni Melpomene D-ii 



Write for prices and details, stating quantity desired. 



McHutchison & Co. 



Lilium Giganteum 7-9, 8-10. 9-10, 10-11 



Lilium Multifloruni 7- 9, 8-10 



Lilium Auratuni 7- 9, 9-11 



The Import 

 House 



95 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK 



Mention The Bevle'w when yon write. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



GLADIOLI 



New Catalogue Ready 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Inc. 



Flowerf ield, L. I., N. Y. 



Mention The BeTlew_ when you wrlte^^^ 



jcct to the usual appropriation being 

 made. 



MOTT-LY GLEANINGS. 



The enforcement of the Pharmacy 

 Act in the District of Columbia is caus- 

 ing much inconvenience in the seed 

 trade. G. E. Schultz, of the Schultz 

 Seed Co., Washington, expressed the 

 general opinion of the trade when he 

 described the act as a big nuisance. 

 This is the first instance where the act 

 is being enforced, although it has been 

 threatened in several other cities. A 

 stiff fight is loolted for. Said M. 

 Schultz: "First the bugs, then the 

 emissaries of the agricultural depart- 



Suzuki Bros. Co. 



Growers and Exporters of 

 JAPANESE LILY BULBS 



YOKOHAMA, AOMORIKEN, JAPAN 



Special Trade Offer of Lilium Giganteum 



(over 100,000 bulbs of superior quality) for 

 1917, fall shipment direct from our firm. 



Our endeavor is to grow for high-class 

 trade. Our aim is to merit your per- 

 manent trade. Give us a trial on youv 

 next orders and see for yourself. 



Prices and inquiries from our Ameri- 

 can representative, 



PAUL S. SUZUKI. OAKLEY, WYO. 



A p *■ ■% A Best that srow. We leU dl- 

 m^LLIIft^ rect to gardeners and flori><tf»> 

 J% ■ ■ m% wholesale. Big beautiful -«<•- 

 WkkW loguefree. Write today. 

 &BCKIA8 SEED 8T0BE, Box 14. 8EDALIA, I0< 



BULBS I! 



BULBS!! BULBS!!! ^^ci"^ 



your list for prices. 

 CHEAPER THAN BUYING AT AUCTION. Tsaksswwhat>aiiiet 



J. J. WILSON BEKD CO., NKWARE, >«•'• 

 Mention The Bevlew when yog write. ^ 



ment— it is one constant fight." ^'US'' 

 ness generally has been good. 



J. Bolgiano & Son, of Baltimore, Mdj 

 have again added plants to their retail 

 department, after omitting them f"" * 

 while. The sales are good. The }"<'^ 

 list, which has a wide circulation an ong 

 the seed and poultry supply tradc-i, i' 



