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The Florists^ Review 



June 5, 1919. 



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AUo all other •easonable Seeds, Bulb* 



and Supplies. 



Send for Wholesale Price List. 



^MICHELL'S FLOWER SEEDS * 



Pansy Seed 



Michell's Giant Exhibition. Mixad. A 



giant strain, which for size of bloom, 

 heavy texture and varied colors and 

 shades cannot be surpassed. Half tr. 

 pkt. 30c; SOc per tr. pkt.; 'A oz., $1.25; 

 $7.00 per oz. 



Giant Trimardeau, Mixed. Large flow- 

 ering and choice colors. Tr. pkt., 30c; 

 $1.25 per oz. 



Giant Sorts in Separate Colors 



Tr. Pkt Oz. 



Arure Blue $0.40 $2.75 



Black Blue 40 2.75 



Emperor William, blue 40 



Hortensia Red 



Kins of the Blacks 



Lord Beaconsfield, purple 



violet 40 2.75 



Peacock, blue, claret and 



white 40 2.75 



Snow Queen, pure white 40 2.75 



Striped and mottled 40 2.75 



White with Eye 40 2.75 



Pure Yellow 40 2.75 



2.75 



2.75 

 .40 2.75 

 40 2.75 



Yellow with Eye. 



.40 



Deiey, Double English 



Tr. Pkt Oz. 

 Monstrosa Pink, 14 oz.. $1.50 $0.50 .... 

 Monstrosa White, ^ oz.. 1.50 .50 .... 

 Monstrosa Mixed, K oz.. 1.25 .50 .... 



Longfellow Fink 40 $2.00 



Snowball White 40 2.00 



Mixed .30 1.50 



Cineraria 



% Tr. Tr. 

 Pkt Pkt 



Grandiflora Prize, Dwarf $0.60 $1.00 



Grandiflora Med. Tall 60 1 .00 



Primula Chinensis 



Alba Magnifica 



Chiswick Red 



Duchess 



Holbom Blue 



Kermesina Splendens 



Rosy Mom 



Prize Mixture 



.$0.60 $1.00 

 . .60 1.00 



.60 

 .60 

 .60 

 .60 

 .60 



1.00 

 1.06 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



Myosotis 



Alpestris Victoria 25 1.00 



Eliza Fanrobert 25 l.jX) 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO, 



Primula Obconica Gigantea 



Lilacina. Lilac $0.50 



Kermesina. Crimson 50 



Rosea. Pink 50 



Alba. White 50 



Hybrida Mixed 50 



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Announcement 



We beg to announce to our friends and patrons that we have removed from 1004 Lincoln Bldg. , = 



Philadelphia, to 5 



50 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK CITY I 



Where we will be located in the future. E 



5 This important change in our business has been necessitated by conditions which we could no longer = 



E ignore. E 



E Our increased importations of foreign stock, such as Japanese, French and Holland bulbs-, etc. , impel E 



S us to be at the port of entry. Other reasons, more or less of a private nature, likewise served to bring E 



E about this change. E 



E We take the opportunity at this time to announce that our representative, Mr. E. F. Hoehl, has se- E 



S cured an interest in our business, and will continue traveling as heretofore. E 



s We thank you for all past favors and confidently believe that, with improved facilities, we shall be E 



S enabled to serve you more promptly and efficiently than ever before. ' S 



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bership committee is: C. O. Wilcox, of 

 Louisville, Ky.; D, R. Mayo, of Knox- 

 ville, Tenn.; H, G. Rheney, of Charles- 

 ton, S. C; R, S. Lee, of Fort Smith, Ark., 

 and H. D. McMichael, of Tampa, Fla. 



TO PAT FOR FBEE SEEDS! 



The publishers of nationally circu- 

 lated papers and magazines have a prob- 

 lem on their hands in the matter of the 

 annual increases in postage under the 

 present zone system. It had been fig- 

 ured that the zone system would be 

 killed as soon as the war ended, but the 

 second jump in the rates comes July 1, 

 with no present indication that the ob- 

 noxious law will be repealed or amend- 

 ed before the third and fourth annual 

 increases go into effect, in 1920 and 1921. 

 For the first year nearly all publishers 

 stood the increase as best they could, 

 but many of those in the large eastern 

 centers feel they have reached their 

 limit and, one by one, are announcing 

 special charges to some of their sub- 

 scribers to meet the tax. The beginning 



seems to be, in most cases, to add $1 to 

 the subscription price of the eastern pa- 

 pers for subscriptions west of the Mis- 

 sissippi river. In announcing the in- 

 crease most of the publishers state their 

 disapproval of the zone system in un- 

 mistakable language, but the best one 

 The Review has seen is by the American 

 Machinist, New York, which said: 



We are indeed ashamed that in this enlight- 

 ened age of free schools and education it is pos- 

 sible to find men able and willing to sectionalize 

 tills country, to discriminate against the man 

 who must get his education through reading and 

 to mal<e the mechanic and the engineer pay, in 

 the form of postage on his technical paper, for 

 the distribution of the farmer's congressional 

 free seeds. 



The inevitable result, unless this leg- 

 islation is repealed, will be to put the 

 distribution of all periodicals on the 

 basis that existed fifty years ago, when 

 readers paid a flat subscription price 

 "plus the postage," but it iis possible 

 that when the members of congress west 

 of the Mississippi begin to hear from 

 their constituents they may not think 

 so well of the zone system as they seem 

 to have thought so far. 



niFOBTS OF aRASS SEED. 



The following table, prepared in the 

 seed laboratory of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, shows the amount of the 

 various kinds of forage-plant seeds sub- 

 ject to the seed-importation act per- 

 mitted entry into the United States 

 during the month of April, 1919, as com- 

 pared with April, 1918: 



1919. 

 pounds 

 • 700 



Kind of seed 



Alfalfa 



Bluegrass: 



Canada 105,400 



Kentucky 



CloTer: 



Alsllie 651,100 



Red 341,900 



Clover mixtures: 



Alslke and timothy 7,500 



Grass mixtares 



Orchard grass 77.500 



Rape 



Redtop 700 



Ryegrass: 



English 



Italian 



Timothy 200 



Vetch : 



Spring 56,300 



1918. 

 pound* 

 19.500 



324,000 

 800 



257,700 

 135,300 



29,400 

 5,600 



351,700 



211,100 



11.100 



3.400 



