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The Florists' Review 



March 25, 1920 



IF YOU NEED 



FRENCH BULBS 



for your fall planting, why won't you buy them from a FRENCH FIRM? 



A. & L. BREMOND FRERES 



(SONS OF LOUIS BREMOND) 



Wholesale Bulb Growers, OLLIOULES (VAR), FRANCE 



are the oldest and most reliable French Firm in this line. Ask them 

 for their quotations either by letter or by cable. 



A. B. C Code, 5th Edition. Cable Address, Albremond, Ollioules 



ing a little more, in spite of the prospect 

 of a larger supply. 



Two Japanese bulb merchants, H. 

 Suzuki, of the Yokohama Nursery Co., 

 and E. Yamamoto, vice-president of the 

 Satsuma Trading Co., recently have ar- 

 rived in the United States to study the 

 situation. 



Mr. Yamamoto 'a visit represents a 

 development which had been foreseen 

 by some observers of last year's bulb 

 market in Japan. It was then suggested 

 that the bulbs rose in value so rapidly 

 after they passed out of the producers' 

 hands that it would be likely to cause 

 the growers to want to get into closer 

 touch with the dealer and consumer in 

 America. It has done just that. The 

 Satsuma Trading Co., which Mr. Yama- 

 moto represents, has been organized at 

 the Chamber of Commerce at Kagoshima, 

 its members representing a large part of 

 the annual production of lily bulbs, to 

 deal direct with the jobbers in America, 

 instead of through brokers and export- 

 ers in Japan. On his trip, which began 

 at Seattle, Mr. Yamamoto will call on 

 the principal lily bulb dealers all the 

 way to Philadelphia, New York and Bos- 

 ton. He speaks little English and is 

 piloted by S. Osaka, of the Dai-Fuku 

 Trading Co., Seattle. 



NAPIEB GRASS SEED. 



Packets of Napier grass seed and 

 Merker grass seed are being distributed 

 through portions of the extreme south 

 and California by the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture for the purpose 

 of widely introducing tliese closely 

 related plnnts, whose value, especially 

 as green fodder for dairy cattle, is now 

 well established. Accompanying the al- 

 lotments of seed are instructions for 

 planting and the making of cuttings in 

 order that the growers can take care 

 of their own and their neighbors' future 

 needs. Napier grass was first introduced 

 by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture in 1913 from Africa and 

 Merker grass somewhat later. Experi- 

 mental plantings have shown that they 

 will thrive south of a line drawn from 

 Charleston, S. C, to Shreveport, La., 

 also in the southern portions of Texas, 

 Arizona and New Mexico and in por- 

 tions of California. 



lily of the Valley Pips 



Elxtra Selected German Type 



Just a few cases left which we offer at reduced price 



to clean up 



2500 Pips to the Case, per 1000, $30.00 



DUTCH BULBS 



Write us for our special prices 



VAN MEEUWEN & TEGELAAR 



1133 Broadway NEW YORK 



Nurseries: Lisse, Holland 



Mention Tbe Berlew when roa write. 



BULBS 



Holland 



BULBS 



R. A. VANDERSCHOOT 



Wholesale Bulb Grower 



HILLEGOM, HOLLAND 

 Vanderschoot Products are Trade Builders 



BULBS 



299 BROADWAY 

 NEW YORK 



BULBS 



