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The Florists^ Review 



Jandabx 29, 1920 



— Wholesale catalogue of vegetable, flower and 

 farm seeds; a particularly well made book, com- 

 prising ninety-two large pages, clearly printed 

 on enameU'd paper and well illustrated. The 

 newer and rarer varieties of stock are conspic- 

 uously featured in the first fifty or more pages, 

 on cream-tinted paper; then follow the stand- 

 ard varieties, listed on white paper. A- pink 

 insert at the beginning bears the announcement 

 that the company is celebrating its centenary- 

 its hundredth year as a business bouse. 



W. H. Bofferdingr Co., Minneapolis, Minn.— 

 Illustrated catalogue of seeds, bulbs, plants, 

 roots, shrubs and garden requisites; thirty-six 

 pages and .cover. I'receding the lists of va- 

 rieties, in each section, are brief, explicit cul- 

 tural directions. 



Stata Nursery & Seed Co., Helena, Mont. — Gen- 

 eral catalogue, "covering everything for the 

 farm and garden," illustrated; 128 large pages 

 !ind colored cover. The stock is listed in sub- 

 stantially the following order: Flowering plants, 

 shrubs, ornamental trees, fruit trees, bush 

 fruits, vegetable plants and roots; flower, veg- 

 etable and field seeds. The prices of vegetable 

 imd field seeds are princd in red on a 4-page 

 insert. 



Charle* H. Totty Co., Madison, N. J. — Seven- 

 teenth annual catalogue of chr.vsnnthemums, 

 roses, carnations and hardy perennials; 100 pages. 

 The book is of the regular, well known, tasteful 

 Totty style In cover and general arrangement, 

 but is somewhat larger and is even finer than 

 former editions. Several of the illustrations are 

 colored, giving a lifelike representation of Mr. 

 Totty's new lavender-pink chrysanthemum, new 

 roses and other interesting varieties of stock. 



Alexander Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. — "Alex- 

 ander's Garden and Field Seed Catalogue No. 

 92," illustrated; forty pages and colored cover. 

 First in order are vegetable seeds; then follow 

 three pages of flower seeds, bulbs and plants, 

 and at the end are field seeds, among which cot- 

 ton seeds have a prominent place. 



J. M. Thorbum & Co., New York, N. Y. — One 

 hundred and nineteenth annual seed catalogue; 

 132 pages, well illustrated, clearly printed, ac- 

 curately edited, and bound in a brown cover of 

 tasteful design. Besides large stocks of tbe 

 more ordinary lines of seeds, over a score of 

 .varieties of tobacco seed are listed. Tree, shrub 

 and fruit seeds form a prominent department in 

 the book. Bulbs, roots, tools and garden recjui- 

 •ites also are offered. An 8-page order sheet is 

 englosed. 



Oriawold Seed & Nursery Co., Lincoln, Neb. — 

 Thirtieth annual catalogue of seeds, bulbs, 

 plants, general nursery stock, poultry supplies, 

 implements and sundries; illustrated; eighty- 

 eight pages "and cover. A gardeners' price list, 

 in condensed form, appears on pages 26 and 27. 

 A note in the introductory pages draws atten- 

 tion to the fact that the cental system of pricing 

 has l>een fully adopted. 



W. E. MarihaU & Oo„ Inc., New York, N. Y. 

 — Illustrated catalogue of s»'eds, bulbs, vege- 

 table plant* and roots, strawberry plants, green- 

 house and outdoor flowering plants, horticul 

 tural tools and requisites; ninety-six pages, in 

 an embossed cover of artistic and most dis- 

 tinctive design. The implement and supply de- 

 partment !• especially well represented, occu- 

 pying thirty-four pages, which are freely illus- 

 trated. 



J. K, Alexander, East Brideewater, Mass. — 

 "Cultural Guide and Catalogue for 1920," clearly 

 printed and well illustrated. Four pages at the 

 beginning are occupied by Instructions on the 

 culture of dahlias, and thirty-eight of the total 

 sixty-four pages in the book are devoted to 

 that one genus of plants, Mr. Alexander's spe- 

 cialty. The dahlias are followed by gladioli, 

 plants, nursery stock, flower seeds, etc. The 

 peonies, irises, cannas, phloxes and other hardy 

 Alexander wholesale catalogue has also l)oen re- 

 ceived, at announced in The Review of Jan 

 nary 22. 



IMPOETS OF PLAirrS AND BULBS. 



In the national government's last 

 quarterly report of horticultural im- 

 ports, the total receipts of plants, bulbs, 

 trees, shrubs and vines for the months 

 of July, August and September, 1919, 

 are valued at $1,295,597. The greater 

 part of the stock represented in that 

 total is of a bulbous character, intended 

 to be cultivated for flowers or foliage, 

 and is classified in four groups as fol- 

 lows: Hyacinth bulbs, astilbe, dielytra 

 and lilv of the valley clumps, to the 

 number of 5,784,000, at $187,770; lily 

 bulbs and calla bulbs or corms, 840,000, 

 $82,338; lily of the valley pips, tulips, 

 narcissus, begonia and gloxinia bulbs, 

 39,933,000, $653,386; all other bulbs, 

 roots, root stocks, corms and tubers 

 which are cultivated for their flowers 

 or foliage, 19,770,000, $364,492. 



Aside from the foregoing four groupa, 

 the only items of importance in the re- 

 port are these: Bulbs, mature mother 



Specy Prepared Hyacinths for Christmas Flowering 



Order your next year's supply now, from 



Segers Brothers, la.. Wholesale Bulb Growen, Liue, Holland . 



Prices on application 



Snapdragons 



are playing a leading role with every live florist. 

 Qet your share of this business. Plants may be 

 started any time from seed. 



Seed of our famous Silver Pink, $1.00 per pkt.; 

 8 for S2aK>: 7 for SS.OO. 



Seed of our new Hybrid Pink and of our new 

 Golden Pink Queen, same price. 



Seed of Keystone, Nelrose, Garnet, White. 

 Yellow. Light Pink. Buxton and Fancy Mixed. 

 86c per pkt.; 8 for $1.00. 



Free culttiral directions. All orders cash. 



G. S.RANSBURG,SONERSWORTH,N.H. 



HentloB Tbe BeTlew when yoa write. 



CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS 



FOR POT CULTURE AND FOR CUT FLOWERS 



Asters 



Stock* 



Wallflower, double. 

 Balsam .... 



.$0.75 

 . 1.50 

 . 1.76 

 . .50 



Althaea $0.75 



Antirrhinum 30 



Reseda 70 



Pansles in sep. colors 5Cc to 1.00 



All above seeds are put up in lO-gram packages (1 gram eauals 1/28 oz.) 

 I offer all otter Flower Seeds In lO-tfram lots or less: 



Begonia semperflorens, $1.50 to $3.00 per 



gram; 1 gr. aboul 30.000 seeds. 

 Primula obconica gig., krrmesioa, rosea, 



lilacina, $5.00 per gram; 1 gr. about 3000 



seeds. 

 Dianthus, all sorts, per gram or per 1000 seeds. 



Cintrarias, sep. colors, $1.00 to $3.00 per 1000 



Petunias, single, sep. colors, 40c to 75c per 

 1000 seeds; double, $1.20 to $2.00 per 1000 seeds. 



Primula chinensls, in sep. colors, $5.00 to $6.00 

 per 1000 seeds. 



Please give your order early enough in Cinerarias, Primula chinensis and Pansies. 



Cash with order, please. 



FERD. FISCHER, ^r'""""" 



Specialist. 



Wiesbaden -Aukamm, Germany 



GLADIOLI 



Send for our "Special Ofifer" of new and exquisite hybrids and varieties recently introduced 



to the trade. _ _ « _ 



P. VOS & SON, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 



Oar varieties are the cream of Holland Btoek. From last spring on, grown in America. 



GIGANTEUM UUES 



Inch To case Per case 



7 to 9 800 $56.00 



8 to 9 250 56.00 



9 to 10 200 56.00 



10% discount on five-case lots 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO.. Nilwaokee. Wis. 



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30-32 Barday SL, New York City 



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