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The Florists' Review 



July 7, 1921 



LIVE WIRE 



Competition is Life 



Aga 

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Aug. Lagarde 



Your French Bulbs 

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Lagarde & Vandervoort 



OLLIOULES, FRANCE 



Mail address: Care MALTUS & WARE 

 116 Broad Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Oar represmntattve will be calling on yoa 



J. A. Vandervoort 



to practically 100 per cent, but if the 

 quality is gone, of what advantage is 

 the quantity? 



Quality, Not Quantity. 



"As an illustration, let us take 

 Ailsa Craig onion. A home-grown stock 

 of what I will call the bluest of blue 

 blood will probably show to great dis- 

 advantage in a germination test beside 

 a sample of rough-grown Calif ornian 

 stock, but grown to maturity, the 

 former would produce grand bulbs of 

 rich and even quality, true in all re- 

 spects, and give capital weight for area. 

 The latter would likely enough have 

 lost character almost to the point of 

 baffling identification. Is it not in- 

 finitely more satisfactory to the cus- 

 tomer and creditable to the seedsman 

 to handle seed as low as even fifty per 

 cent germination, but right in quality, 

 than a ninety-eight per cent stock that 

 produces an inferior crop? 



"Let it not for a moment be thought 

 that I am straining after an excuse for 

 sending out seeds that grow badly, or 

 belittling the importance of properly 

 conducted tests, but what I am anxious 

 to impress is the need for even seeds- 

 men to realize more fully the need for 

 studying points other than simple ger- 

 mination. 



Source of Seeds Important. 



"We know that certain seeds come 

 from certain countries, but it is fre- 

 quently apparent that a seedsman fails 

 to place sufficient importance upon the 

 precise source of his seeds. I believe 

 it is far less realized tlian it should be 

 that seeds of a vegetable grown in one 

 country ]>roiluce vastly different crops 

 than seed of similar stock grown in 

 another country. Has it ever occurred 

 to the reader that Italian cauliflower 

 seed, although of pleasing appearance 

 and weight, will frequently throw an 

 inordinate proportion of blind plants, 

 while Danish seed, much less attractive, 

 will scarcely produce an abortive plant f 



"Calif ornian celery will germinate 

 n]uch more readily than French, but the 

 quality is decidedly on the side of the 

 latter." We have in the country at the 

 present time various stocks of Cana- 

 dian Wonder beans. Already, in the 

 germination tests, a wide disparity in 

 germinating power has been revealed. 

 We cannot, this season, attribute this 



Kelway 's Pedigree Strains of 



FLORISTS* PLOWER SEEDS 



300 Medals^ieK^ Flowers, etc. Hundreds of First-Class Certificates 



Write for prices to 



KELWAY & SON, sEE5"i?io-,lrERs, 4Si?!S.«'^,L™.«- 



MwiOoB Tbm ItoTUw wli— job wrlto. 



P. Vos & Son 



Growers of 

 New and Choice 

 P.O. Box, 555 Tv».^N.w w 



Grand Rapids, Mich. GLADIOLI 



YOUR CATALOGUE 



"Rudy Made" Seed, Nancrr ud FaU Balb CaUlagnn, 

 witk Toar aanc and address ea the IroBi cover. Beaa- 

 tifallr illnstrated wJUi aataral colors oa coTcr paf es. 

 We keep them ia slock tor proapl shipmeat. Ask for 

 saaple. Ther will treatly iacrease roar sales— aad 

 they doa't coet ■nch. 



CAMPBELL PRINTING COMPANY 

 917 Walnut St. Des Moines, Iowa 



XXX SEEDS 



Ohlneae Prlmroae, mixed, 400 sdi., $1.00; 'a, sec. 

 Calceolarln, finest Riant, spatted, mixed, pkt.,50c. 

 Cineraria, large flowerlDK Dwf., pkt., SOc; 'n, !26e. 

 Oynlamen, Olaotg, mixed, pkt., tl.O«; Hi-pkt.,50c. 

 PrioiiilaObconlca, rinestGlants, pkt.,60o. 

 Primula MaiacoideH. Giant Baby, pkt., 2Sc. 

 Primula KeweiisU, New Dwarf, yellow, 2Sc. 

 Olant PniiHy. mixed iiOOO seeds, 11.00: Hi pkt. KOo. 

 Bellis Moimtrosa (Daisy), mixed mongtere, 20c. 

 JOHN P. RUPP. Sbiremanstown. Pa 



to a great amount of old seed, for the 

 demand of the last year or two has 

 tiurely absorbed that -which was becom- 

 ing ancient. The real secret is to be 

 looked for in the country of produc- 

 tion. 



"I wish to refrain from making 

 mere dogmatic assertions, but would in- 

 vite any interested seedsman to grow 

 for test side by side, honie-grown, com- 

 tinental and American-grown beans and 

 watch, first, the germination and, ulti- 

 mately, the cropping of each. I fancy 

 the results will correspond with the 

 order in which I have named the three 

 stocks. When such points as these are 

 considered, we are drawn to the con- 

 clusion that the man who studies the 



SEEDS 



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30-32 Bwdar Street, NEW YORK CITY 



The Wayside Gardens Co. 



GROWERS OF HARDY PLANTS 

 Skrubt, Bulba and Seed* 



MENTOR, OHIO 



DANISH SEED IMPORT 



Import of all kinds of Seeds direct from aeed 

 growers in Denmark. Please send for price list. 



CHR. MOSBJERG, 216 7th St. N., MinneapoUs, Mno. 



intricacies of the seed business with 

 greatest zeal may place himself in a 

 position of advaatage over the competi- 

 tor whose principal guide in buying is 

 the relative price of different samples. 



Seeds Carry Disease. 



"It should be one of our greatest 

 concerns to avoid handling any seeds 

 that are tainted with disease. It has 

 been established that certain plant dis- 

 eases can be and are transmitted 

 through the seed from one generation 



[Conclutled on \ti\gf 121.] 



