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The Florists' Review 



Januabt 12. 1922 



average American crop was advanced on 

 account of the dry spell, especially in 

 California, where they have had on the 

 average a much more satisfactory sweet 

 pea crop than in the last few years. 



"The financial and economical condi- 

 tion of the United States is similar to 

 that at home, and in the seed trade one 

 finds merchants are still carrying larger 

 stocks than they would like to see, and 

 the purchasing power of their customers 

 has been reduced owing to restricted 

 credits. 



' ' Generally speaking, one gets the im- 

 pression in America that buyers and 

 sellers alikfe have gone to perhaps 

 greater extremes in the last few years 

 than has been the case over here, and 

 this makes the return to normal condi- 

 tions a little more difficult, but with the 

 vast resources of a nation like the 

 United States, with some 115,000,000 

 people, it is to be expected that a return 

 to more prosperous times will come to 

 them sooner than to us, as their home 

 markets are capable of absorbing most 

 of their own products, and they are not 

 dependent on the outside world for trade 

 to the same extent as we are. 



"These remarks cover generally the 

 industrial position, but can be applied in 

 many respects to the seed trade. With 

 lower prices, and now that the seed 

 growing centers of Europe are again 

 producing their selected strains of seeds, 

 the demand from the United States 

 should increase and ultimately be about 

 the same as before the war. It must not, 

 however, be forgotten that the United 

 States is producing more seed within 

 its own borders than in pre-war days, 

 and if the proposed new import duties 

 are levied on seeds, they will have the 

 effect of making it more difficult for 

 European seed growers to sell to Amer- 

 ica. 



"I think the American seedsman is 

 more troubled with legislation and gov- 

 ernment rulings than is the case with 

 us. This is due to the system of state 

 government, under which each state 

 makes its own laws, and so if a seeds- 

 man in Illinois sends seeds to a customer 

 in Missouri he must comply with the 

 seed laws of Missouri, which may be 

 quite different from those in his own 

 state. 



"The seed trade in Canada and the 

 United States expects a much better 

 season this spring than last, as stocks 

 carried over are not so large. A large 

 trade is done in packet seeds, which are 

 packed neatly in cases and sent to all 

 parts of the American continent. Owing 

 to the great distances, this packet trade, 

 as well as the mail-order catalogue trade, 

 is of larger dimension than is the case 

 in Europe, where distances are short and 

 the retail seedsman is close at hand." 



BOWE'S BAMSLES. 



Among the Seedsmen. 



At the end of the year everybody 

 wants to know what the business out- 

 look is for the youngster whose birth- 

 day comes on January 1. A few days 

 ago the rambler asked this question of 

 H. G. Hastings, Atlanta, Ga., formerly 

 president of the American Seed Trade 

 Association. Mr. Hastings said some- 

 thing like this: "I am looking for- 

 ward to the 1922 spring business with a 

 great measure of optimism, and I be- 

 lieve that the situation as indicated by 

 the trend of the fall business is quite I 

 favorable toward at least a fair sale | 



Flower Seeds for Florists 



Tr. Pkt. 

 AOEBATUM 



Imperial Swarf Bine... $0.10 

 Imperial Dwarf White.. .10 



Blue Perfection 15 



Bine Star 25 



jU;T8ST7M 



Carpet of Snow. 



Ulao Qneen 

 Sazatile . . . . 



.10 

 .10 

 .15 

 .15 



lOz. 



$0.50 

 .50 

 .50 



.25 

 .35 

 .50 



AlTTIRBRXlTiniS, HAI^F 

 DWABF 



The Bride, White 



Defiance, Orange or rus- 

 set red 



Crimson Klngr, Deep red 

 Oolden Qneen, Pure yel- 

 low 



Daphne, Soft bluish pink 

 Bose Queen, Hich rose.. 



BsaoniA 



OraclUs l^nminosa 



Scarlet 



Oracllli Prima Donna, 



Light rose 



Semperflorens Brfordla, 



Carmine rose 



CAIiBNDTTI^ 



Meteorv orange striped . . 

 Oransre XlngTt deep 



orange 



Prince of Oransre, golden 



CBXTTAXTBBA 



CandldlBBlma, Dusty 

 MUIer 



Oymnocarpa 



HBUOTBOPE 



St. x;. S. Co.'s aiant 

 Mixed 



.20 .75 



.20 

 .20 



.20 



.20 

 .20 



.50 

 .50 

 .50 



.10 



.15 

 .10 



.25 

 .15 



.25 



.75 

 .75 



.75 

 .75 

 .75 



.25 



.50 

 .35 



.50 

 1.50 



Tr. Pkt. 

 PBTXTITIA 



Howard Star $0.25 



Snowball, Dwarf 25 



Bosy Mom, Dwarf e:x- 



tra 50 



Oeneral Dodds 26 



Dwarf Mixed 25 



Giants of CaUfomla 50 



Buffied Mixed 60 



Choice Mixed 20 



Double PrlnjTed, Mixed. 1.00 



SAI.VIA 



Splendens, Scarlet . . . 



Splendens, Zurich .... 



Splendens, Bonfire . . . 



Splendens, Fireball . . 



Splendens, St. Louis.. 



Splendens, America .. 



.25 

 .50 

 .50 

 .50 

 .50 

 .50 



lOz. 



$1.25 

 1.26 



2.00 

 1.25 

 1.00 



.76 



1.50 

 3.76 

 2.50 

 3.60 

 2.50 

 4.00 



THUNBEBaiA 



Mixed 15 .60 



VBBBENA 



Manuuoth White 



Mammoth Pnrple Man- 

 tle 



Mammoth Mayflower 

 Pink 



Mammoth Scarlet 



Mammoth Blue Shades. 



Mammoth Mixed 



Ploral Clock Mixture, 

 Ex. largre 



Fine Mixed 



vnrcA 



Bosea 



Bosea Alba 



Alba Pnra 



Mixed 



.30 1.26 



.30 1.26 



30. 1.26 



.30 1.26 



.30 1.25 



.30 1.00 



.40 

 .15 



.15 

 .15 

 .15 

 .16 



1.50 

 .50 



.76 

 .76 

 .76 

 .66 



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41 1-413 Washington Avenue ST. LOUIS, MO. 



Not PHcc^ 



But Quality ^ 



Office : No. 1 

 ITCHOMB 



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 YOKOHAMA 



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have mailed their new illustrated catalogue of Vegetable and 



Flower Seeds to all their customers in the United States. 



Should any of them not receive a copy, they are requested to 



kindly notify the fact to 



27-29 Drory Lane, LONDON, w.c. z, ENGLAND 



FLOWER SEEDS 



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 Bamboo Stakes 



TREE SEEDS 

 T. SAKATA & CO. 



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 Gebr. DIPPEIy A. G.. Quedlinburar, Germany 



Flower and Vegetable Seeds 

 72 years old, now the largest seed srowinir orsaniza- 

 tion in Europe. WHY? 



See Page 3, Dippe Catalogue 



Headquarters U. S. and Canada 



DETROIT INTERNATIONAL, SALES CO. 



Free Preu Building. Detroit, Mich. 



Catalogue with descrip' Ions. Dollar prices 



of seed in the spring. I don't expect 

 to see anything like the volume of profit 



A New Florists' Aster 



EARLY AMERICAN BEAUTY 



Blooms with the BoyaU 



SEND FOR FLORISTS' CATALOGUE 



HART & VICK 



55 Ston* St.. ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



that attended the 1917 and 1918 busi* 

 ness, but I do believe that in. the south- 



