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The Rorists" Review 



NOTBMBEH 11. 1920 



Competition Is Life 



Autf. Lagarde 



Again — 



Buy Your French Bulbs 



— Now 



FROM 



Lagarde & Vandervoort 



OLLIOULES, FRANCE 



Mail address: Care MALTUS & WARE 

 116 Broad Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Oar r«pre»entative will be calling on you 



tion of orders taken, caused by circum- 

 stances over which we have no control," 

 is not invalid as lacking obligation on 

 the part of the seller to deliver. So 

 holds the Massachusetts Supreme Judi- 

 cial court in a late case. Construing 

 such a provision, the court says: 



"It means that performance of the 

 agreement by the sellers was not left 

 optional with them, but was an absolute 

 binding obligation to make deliveries to 

 the best of their ability at the time 

 specified in the agreement unless they 

 were prevented from making such deliv- 

 eries by causes for which the sellers 

 were not responsible and over which 

 they had no control." S. 



IMPORTS OF GRASS SEEDS. 



The seed laboratory of the bureau of 

 plant industry of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture reports the fol- 

 lowing imports of forage plant seeds 

 permitted entry into the United States 

 under the seed importation act: 



Kind of 

 Seed 



— October-- 



1920 

 Pounds 



Alfalfa 



Canada blue- 



grass 16,800 



Alslke clover.. 44.,2O0 

 Crimson clovor.198,100 



Red clover 121,900 



White clover 



White and al- 



slke clover 



mixtures 



Red and alslke 



clover mix- 

 tures 



Broom-corn 



millet 



Foxtail mlllot 



Orchard grass 



Rape 732,000 



English rye 



grass 124.700 



Italian rye 



1919 

 Pounds 

 1,092,700 



25,200 



1.337.400 



478,000 



510.400 



11.200 



6.300 



-.July to Oct.. Incl.- 



1920 

 Pounds 

 171.500 



16.800 



153.900 



2.156,900 



427,100 



1919 



Pounds 



4.003,700 



219.100 

 2.446.200 

 4.550.200 

 3.008.300 



700 



Timothy 



Hairy vetch . . 

 Spring vetch. 



33.000 



317.300 

 184.800 



47.400 



26.400 



' 26,366 

 4.300 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



F. E. Froiue Co., Brampton, Ont. — "Wholesale 

 Florists' Supplies and Decorative Novelties," 

 illustrated; sixteen good-sized pages, in a neat 

 gray cover. Though a general stock of supplies 

 is offered, the specialties, says the company, are 

 wreaths and baskets. Other lines that are 

 conspicuous in the catalogue are prepared fo- 

 liages, artificial flowers and electrically welded 

 wire designs. 



E. A. Hyde Co., Watsonville, Cal. — Three 

 folders, representing as many different depart- 

 ments of the business. The largest of the lists 

 is entitled "Strawberry Plants, Bush Frulte. 

 Vegetable Plants and Boots." The other two 

 folders treat, respectively, of fruit trees and 

 seed potatoes. 



Slnit Bros., Ltd., Enkhulzen, Holland. — Whole- 

 sale catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds; 



J. A. Vandervoort 



SUPREME 



British Seeds 



Get our prices for delivery from 1920 Harvest on all lines of 



Garden and Farm Root Seeds 



KELWAY & SON, s^'oksi-^,. "-tS^ro^U:^?. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



WHOLESALE 



RETAIL 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



WE ARE NOW BOOKING FOR NOVEMBER DELIVERY 

 Price List for Asking. Clean Stock at Right Prices 



HIGHLAND VIEW GladioU Gardens, "^k^i'^^f^^t?^ Cuyahoga Falls, 0. 



Van Neeuwen & Tegelaar, Inc. 



Wholesale 



Dutch Bulb Groovers 



1133 Broadway, New York. 



Nurseries at LISSE. HOLLAND. 



FRENCH and DUTCH 



BULBS 



Now ready. Write for prices. 



HOGEWONING & SONS, 



Incorporated 

 299 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



DREVON.TEGCLAAR & CO. 



Wholesale French Bulb Growers 



1133 BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



Nurseries at OLLIOULES, FRANCE 



flfty-nine pages, with as concise descriptions 

 as possible; a compactly printed booii, in a neat 

 and substantial cover. An enclosed leaflet an- 

 nounces a "considerable" reduction In ocean 

 freight rates. 



Barteldes Seed Co., Lawrence, Kan. — "Fall 

 Planting Guide," an attractive, well designed 



THE KENILWORTH 



Giant Pansy Seed 



For 



prices 

 description, see my ad i 

 The Review, Sept. 9th. 



M. Veldhnyzen Van Zanten & Sons 



Established 1870. 



Wbeleiale Bulb Growers Lisse, Holland 



Catalogue Free on Application 



Dutch and French Bnlbs 



C.J.Speelinii&Sni|LMarde & Speebu 



SASSENREIM. HOUMD | OLLIOULES, VAR. FRANCE 

 NEW YORK OFFICE 



470 GREENWICH ST. 



16-page catalogue, with many colored illus- 

 trations. In addition to bulbs, the lists contain 

 offers of peonies; also seeds of vegetables and 

 perennials, with suggestions on the fall plant- 

 ing of nursery stock and the sowing of some 

 farm crops. "Clipper" fanning mills also are 

 Usted. 



