The Florists' Review 



Fbbbgaby 12, 1920 



BUY BOOT'S BULBS 



Boot's Bulbs, Dutch and French, bring best business to buyers. Book 'Bout 

 Boot's Bulbs being mailed to all who ask for it. Write for yours today. 



Specialists in growing Single Narcissi, Bicolor, Victoria, 



BOOT & CO., Voorhout, Holland | 



Address care G. W. HAMPTON CO., 17 Battery Place, New York, N. Y. 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



what constitutes wholesale lots, con- 

 trary to the well-established principle 

 in these seed laws of limiting the label- 

 ing to amounts of ten pounds or more, 

 a principle found in the Texas law from 

 which this bill is taken. It requires 

 the correct weight in pounds and ounces 

 and the year grown. It seems an un- 

 reasonable duty to state the year when 

 grown, because the Mississippi retailer 

 has no means of ascertaining this fact, 

 as he does not grow the seed himself. 

 The requirement is unnecessary, because 

 the germinating quality of the seed, 

 which this specification is supposed to 

 indicate, is taken care of under the pro- 

 vision requiring the percentage of ger- 

 mination and the date and year when 

 tested. The bill omits the exemption 

 of prosecution on account of labeling as 

 to germination, as provided in the uni- 

 form bill. 



Two separate provisions require stat- 

 ing the approximate percentage of weed 

 seeds or other foreign matter. This 

 confusion of weed seeds and foreign 

 matter is unfortunate and acts as a dis- 

 tinct disadvantage to the purchaser, 

 because he cannot ascertain from this 

 percentage what are weed seeds and 

 what is foreign matter. The words ' ' or 

 foreign matter" should be stricken out 

 from this provision for this reason and 

 for the further reason that it is com- 

 pletely taken care of by the provision 

 requiring the percentage of purity, 

 which defines purity and expressly re- 

 fers to foreign matter. 



Practically Prohibits Packets. 



Section 11 is subject to the most serious 

 objections, for it is so indefinite that 

 it is difficult to understand the meaning 

 of the law. It requires, among other 

 things, that all seeds, whether garden 

 or field seeds, sold in papers or packages, 

 shall show the kind of seed, the year 

 grown, name of the state grown in and 

 approximate percentage of germination, 

 except that this shall not apply to retail 

 merchants who retail seed that is prop- 

 erly labeled. So far as packeted seeds 

 are concerned, this is practically pro- 

 hibitive of their sale, for, under the 

 perfectly proper methods of packeting 

 seeds, it would be impossible to state 

 this information and, moreover, the me- 

 chanical difficulties in the way of such 

 labeling would make it unprofitable to 

 packet seeds for Mississippi customers. 

 As this provision would affect even 

 small 5-cent packets, concerning which 

 there is no complaint and in which the 

 amount of any possible natural deterior- 

 ation is too small to be important, it is 

 fair to ask that these small packets be 

 eliminated from consideration in the 

 law. It is equally reasonable to ask 

 that the entire section be stricken out. 



TROMP BROS. 



SUCCESSORS TO OERRIT SEGERS 



WHOLESALE BULB GROWERS 



LIS8E, HOLLAND 



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NONE BUT THE BEST" 



FRENCH BULBS 

 CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION 



REPRESENTATIVE. G. OVERDUIN 

 116 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



WAIT FOR JvtiLi^W Al S WHOLESALE 



SEED CATALOGUE FOR 1920 



BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER. 



The most favorable prices of the year. 

 If not received, wire or write. 



KELWAY & SON, s^^^ 



Langport, England 



M«bM<wi Th* B«t1«w wh»a yon wrtf . 



Watkins & Simpson, Ltd. 



Have mailed tjifeir new illustrated catalogue of Gar- 

 den and Flower Seeds to all their customers in the 

 United States. Should any of them not receive a 

 copy, they are requested to kindly notify the fact to 



27-29 Drury Lane LONDON, W. C. 2, England 



llentloB TlM B«tWw wtea ron write. 



P. Vos & Son 



Mt. Clemens, Mich. GLADIOLI 



Growers of 

 New and Choice 



Men tlon The RcTlew yhen you write.' 



Drevon, Tegelaar &Co. 



Whol0»ale 



French Bulb Growers 



1 1 33 Braidwiy. Cor. 26di St. NEW YORK 



Mention Tbe Beriew when yoa write. 



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