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The Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBEH 2.J. 1920 



Competition Is Life 



Aug. Lagarde 



Again — 



Buy Your French Bulbs 



— Now 



FROM 



Lagarde & Vandervoort 



OLLIOULES, FRANCE 



Mail address: Care MALTUS & WARE 

 116 Broad Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Our repre99ntatwe will be calling on you 



3. A. Vandervoort 



over $400,000, tlie entire building being 

 gutted as a result of the blaze. Six fire- 

 men were seriously hurt when a ladder 

 collapsed, one of them falling four sto- 

 ries to the cement pavement. 



BULB IMPORTS CONTINUE. 



Thirty-one cases of bulbs arrived in 

 New York November 20 on the steamer 

 Nieuw Amsterdam, consigned from Rot- 

 terdam, as follows: 



Consigns Cases 



Ringk. A. H., & Oo 9 



InternationnI ForwHrding Co 2 



Van Waveren, M.. & Sons 8 



Punch, Edye & Co 2 



r^ng, R. F 1 



Bracher. A. J., & Co 5 



Hogewoning & Son 4 



Total 31 



The total bulbs imported tlus season 



now approximate 36,400 cases. 



Two consignments of garden seed 



were on the same steamer, forty one 



bags for W. Van Doom and sixty-three 



bags for Maltus & Ware. 



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Garden and Farm Root Seeds 



KELWAY & SON, 



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 SEED GROWERS, 



LANGPORT. ENG. 



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Mention The Brrlew when joa write. 



NOT IN FIiANDERS' FIELDS. 



The poppies that you see in the illus- 

 tration on this page are not growing in 

 the immortal fields of Flanders — they are 



not that kind of poppy, either. These 

 were Shirley poppies at the seed farms 

 of James Vick's Sons, in the vicinity 

 of Eochester, N. Y. This was one of 

 several good fields of poppies which the 

 firm had this season. To the left of the 

 field of poppies are annual larkspurs 

 and just beyond the latter can be had a 

 glimpse of a field of pansy violet. This 

 year, according to its own report, the 

 firm had good crops of candytuft, lark- 

 spur, pansy violet. Phlox Drummondii, 



Gaillardia grandiflora, calendula and 

 sweet William. James Vick 's Sons have 

 been growing these crops for a number 

 of years in addition to their aster crops 

 and have good success with them. They 

 believe that the seeds grown at Eoches- 

 ter produce better crops than those 

 grown in an entirely different climate. 

 The photograph of the fields was taken 

 a few weeks ago by James A. Wiebens, 

 manager of the wholesale department. 

 At a distance, in the illustration, can 

 be seen a dry house, with a barn at its 

 right, and at the left the superinten- 

 dent's house. 



SEED PRICES HIGHER? 



Field of Shirley Poppies at the Seed Farms of James Vick's Sons. 



Danish Firm Tlilnks So. 



As was stated in an article in The Be- 

 view last week, the seed crop this year 

 in Denmark is much smaller than usual. 

 Hjalmar Hartmann & Co., of Copenha- 

 gen, prophesy that this reduction in 

 production will result in increased prices 

 for seed for the new crop of 1920. They 

 claim that, as the culture has been re- 

 duced on account of the decline in seed 

 prices, so the reduction of crop will re- 

 sult in a remarkable advance in prices. 

 The remaining acreages under cultiva- 

 tion, even when in good shape and prom- 

 ising comparatively large yields, cannot 

 make up for the shortage. 



The following is a summary of the 

 garden seed situation in Denmark: 



Beans, Peas — Small acreage planted. The sum- 

 mer was unfavorable; the harvest will be small. 



Cauliflower — The planting was dIfficuU, as the 

 spring weather hindered cultivation of soil. 

 Planting, therefore, was considerably delayed. 

 Nevertheless, the plants developoil amazingly 



