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The Florists' Review 



DXCEMBKR 1, 1921 



SLUIS & GROOT, Ltd. 



Enkhuizen, Holland 



Growers of Vegetable and Flower Seeds 



SPECIALTIES:— Beet, Swiss Chard, Cabbage, 

 Cauliflower, Kale, Cornsalad, Cress, Radish, 

 Spinach, Turnip, Rutabaga; Nasturtium, Pan- 

 sies. Phlox and many other Vegetable and 

 Flower Seeds. 



Our New Price List is now ready and will be 

 sent to WHOLESALERS on request 



Cabbage, White, Enkhuizen' s Glory. 

 Introduced by our firm. 



slightly lower average prices than were 

 offered at a corresponding time last year. 



The purchase of the assets of J. M. 

 Thorburn & Co. by Carter 's Tested Seeds, 

 Inc., unites one of the oldest British with 

 one of the oldest Ainerican firms. Grant 

 Thorburn opened his seed store in New 

 York in 1805, while James Carter started 

 business at the sign of the Orange Tree, 

 in Holborn, England, in 1836. About ten 

 years ago James Carter & Co., of Eaynes 

 Park, England, established a branch busi- 

 ness in the United States with offices at 

 Boston. From its commencement this 

 venture proved a success, and in due course 

 oflSces were opened in New York, Boston, 

 Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto 

 and Montreal. The business in the United 

 States and Canada is conducted under 

 the title of Carter's Tested Seeds, Inc. 



GERMAN VALI.EY PIPS. 



The British steamer Oropesa, which 

 arrived at New York from Hamburg 

 November 23, and the American steamer 

 Mongolia, which arrived at New York 

 from Hamburg November 25, carried a 

 total of 1,729 cases of lily of the valley 

 pips, consigned as follows: 



Conslgnpe Cases 



Mover, C. V 318 



Schwake & Co.. C 260 



T'. .S. Forwarding Co 8 



State Uank 150 



Maltiis & Ware 99 



Irwin. U. J l-'O 



Kernarrt. Judae & Co - 



International Forwiirdiiit; Co 457 



Van Waveren & Sous, JI 55 



Koure Merchants 200 



Total 1.729 



SEED SAMPLING IN MARYLAND. 



The Objective. 



The Maryland seed law provides, in 

 effect, that .seed dealers may offer agri- 

 cultural seeds of any quality for sale 

 provided they are tagged as required. 

 The chief work of the seed inspection 

 laboratory of the University of Mary- 

 land is to determine how closely the 

 various dealers selling seeds in the state 

 live up to the statements on the tags of 

 the seeds they sell. F. S. Holmes, of 

 that university, has written the report 

 of the work of the laboratory for the 

 year 1920 in Bulletin 243. 



It is unfair to pass judgment on a 

 dealer on the showing of one lot of seeds 

 and in order to avoid this error general 

 summaries covering a large number of 

 samples are prepared. The more sam- 

 ples, then, the greater the chance of ac- 

 curacy. Previous to 1920 too many 

 samples were collected for the labora- 



LIVE WIRE 



J. A. Vandervoort & Co. 



Wholesale Bulb Growers 



NOORDWYK, - HOLLAND 



Also NnrKerlesnt Sassenheim 



Absolutely the largest growers in Holland of 



Bic. Victoria, Golden Spur and Von Sion 



Also laige (rrowers of 



HYACINTHS, TULIPS, ETC. 



Permanent American Addres*: 



P. O. Hamilton Grange Station 

 Box 38, New York City 



•J, A. VANDEBVOORT 



Our representatives ^vill be 

 calling on you. 



Lily of the Valley Pips 



GERMAN GROWN. 1921 CROP JUST ARRIVED. 



Great Reduction in Price 



Wire or mail your order to 



C. J. SPEELMAN &5S0NS 



470 Greenwich St. NEW YORK CITY 



tory to handle. So in 1920 the number 

 was limited, so that only eighty per cent 

 of the samples inspected in 1919 were 

 attempted in 1920, about 1,200 samples. 

 Lots of seed held by 203 retailers were 

 inspected at 116 points in the state. 

 Samples collected over most of the state 

 were representative of the seeds on the 

 market in the spring and fall. Some 

 interesting comparisons of years fol- 

 low: Of the lots of seeds, not mixtures, 

 inspected in 1920, ninety-four per cent 

 were tagged in accordance with the law 

 and in 1919 ninety-two per cent were 

 properly tagged. In 1919 only thirty- 

 live per cent of the wholesalers whose 

 seeds were inspected had every lot prop- 

 erly tagged, while forty-eight per cent 

 met all the tagging requirements in 

 1920. Not one of the specified mixtures 



Chas. Schwake & Co., Inc. 



LILY or THE VALLEY 



Japanese Lilies, French and Dutch Bulbs 

 90-92 West Broadway NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yon Trrite. 



We are the largest growert in the world 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus Seeds 



We mtkI over any miantilv of s<-<(l, for $1 00 

 per 1000. Send m iiKjiuy oiiliT or llank draft 

 for your needs. 



O. P. M.VZZKO & CO.. 

 Casella P »3« MESSINA. ITALY 



Mention The Review when you write. 



