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The Florists^ Review 



.Tanuarv 6. Iftlil 



^v!? 



Aug. Lagarde 



LIVE WIRE 



Competition is Life 



Again — 



Buy Your French Bulbs 



— Now 



FROM 



Lagarde & Vandervoort 



OLLIOULES, FRANCE 



Mail address: Care MALTUS & WARE 

 116 Broad Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Our representative will be calling on you ll i 



J. A. Vandervoort 



breaking of the seed coat by the pres- 

 suj'C witliiii, and possibly the digestion 

 \)y cn/.ynis of sonic of the food sub- 

 stances witliin the seed. Germination 

 appears to liavo c-eased at this jioint and 

 roiiaiiis incomplete, leaving a swollen 

 and softened seed with the bulb-like 

 globule of li(juid in the region of the 

 seed sear. 



in conclusion it seems safe to say 

 that the water sprout, which leaves open 

 ample o])iiortunity for further study 

 and observation, is not a normal growth 

 jirocess of any kind, l)ut occurs on dead 

 (ir greatly weakeneil seeds. The excit- 

 ing causes of the water sprout in many 

 cases appear to be bacteria and fungi 

 of one or more kinds or species which 

 liaxe been stimulated to activity by the 

 ))lacing of the infested seed under con- 

 ditions of moisture and heat in the proc- 

 ess of "icrmination testing. 



IMPORTS OF GRASS SEEDS. 



The seed laboratory of the bureau of 

 )jlant industry of the United States Dc- 

 jiartment of Agriculture reports the fol- 

 lowing imports of forage plant seeds 

 jiermitted entry into the t'nited States 

 under the seed im])ortatiou act during 

 the first lialf of December and during 

 tlie fiscal vear to Decembi-r l."i: 



Doc. i-m 



IMimids 

 . .'.'I.'.IIMI 

 . . 3S.ii0n 



Kinil C'l' sf'tMl 



Ainilfii 



t'.Mtiiidii ljlii('Kr:i«'< 



Aw nU'sa lirome-t^rass 



Alsikc cloviT IT.aoo 



riiiiisoii clover 44,000 



I!c(l cidvcr 



licil and alsike clovi'i- mix 



tiircs !l(Ki 



r.i-'ioiM-cniii millet 



Kdxijiil millet 



I;.-,|M. .-iCil.lHHI 



Kiifilish ije Brass TS.IUKt 



Itjilinu rye ;:,'rass .">">. 700 



Hair.v vetch 



SpriiiK vetch iili.OOO 



.Tilly 1- 

 Dec. 15, 

 pounds 

 4iM!.(iO0 



i:.>s,4()0 

 1,200 



.S04.L'(KI 



L',li4,-),()00 



4:)>J,400 



1,100 



14,700 



IJ.ImS.IIOO 



4.-ILM00 



i;<i'j,7(K) 



400,700 

 L'3,IIOt) 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Vendel & Van GInhoven, New Veik. N, V., 

 care of .Malfus & Ware; Iieac|.|iiarler'i at Hevcr 

 wvk, Holland. — A clearl.v printed, well illns 

 (rated wliolesale c.at,-ilii;:iie of liulbs; si.xtyfour 

 pafjes, ill a tasteful limwn cover. 



Barter & Co., Sassenlieini, Holland. — .\merican 

 .ditinn nf wliolesale Imlli catalogue: about lliirtv 

 paces, well printed on a line cpiality of paper 

 iind attractively lioiiiid in a (larl< t'leen cover 

 A speciiilty is made of "prepared" hyacinths. 



M. G. Tyler, Torlland, Ore, — ".^rastick Dah- 

 lias," a 20-pnKe catalognc. Tlie first three pases 

 are occupied liy varieties oricinated by ('. Ij. 

 Mastick; then follows a Beneral list. 



W. Atlee Burpee Co., rhiladelphia, I'a - "I'.nr 

 pee'.s Annual." another of the ch.iractcristic 

 Itiirpep oatalognes — compact, accurate, well ar- 

 ran,''pd and finely illustrated. The hook is of the 



Flower Seeds for Florists 



SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



1 oz. 1 lb- 



Atta Ohn Spencer $0. 35 $5. 00 



Blanche Ferry 35 5.00 



Countesf Spencer 30 4.00 



Illuminator 35 5.00 



King Edward 30 4.00 



King White 40 5.50 



White Spencer 40 5.50 



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Dwarf Habit, light and dark shades of Pink 



Guaranteed fresh seed, select strain 

 Packet of 1500 seeds - - $1.50, cash 



ERNEST OECHSLIN r;ve°r'7orest,"*ill: 



same size as last year's — 104 payes — and contains 

 alioiit tlie same number of colored plates. Tlie 

 conip.iiiy <lraws attention to the fint tliat il is 



listui).' .1 new cactiis-flonereil zinnia and two new 

 dahlias: also a consideralile number of novelties 

 ill sweet peas, ineludinK two new Spencers of 



