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The Florists^ Review 



January 19, 1922 



permitted entry into the United States 

 under the seed importation act for the 

 six months beginning July 1 and end- 

 ing December 31, 1921, as compared with 

 the same period a year previously: 



July 1- 



Dec. 31, 



1921, 



Kind of seed povinds 



Alfalfa 3,067,600 



Canada bluegrass 469,000 



Awnlesa bromegrass 12,700 



AlBlke clover 3,452.200 



Crimson clover 2,261,700 



Red clover 2,618,900 



White clover 1,165,800 



AUlke clover and timothy 



mixtures 



Alsike clover and Canada 



bluegrass mixtures 



Alsike clover, white clover 



and Canada bluegrass 



mixtures 



Bed and alsike clover mix- 

 tures .• 



White and alsike clover 



mixtures 



Grass mixtures 



Broom-corn millet 759,300 



Foxtail millet 78,600 



Orchard grass 2,677,900 



Rape 2,837,700 



Bedtop 1,500 



English rye grass 1,373,600 



Italian rye grass 3.38,100 



Timothy 95.100 



Hairy vetch 1,016,300 



Spring vetch 174,000 



July 1- 



Dec. 81, 



1920. 



pounds 



496.600 



237.500 



4,500 



504,800 



2,289.000 



459,400 



44,100 



1,400 

 5,900 



800 



2.100 



34,300 

 40,100 



2,300 



1.100 

 44.900 



2,'6'89,666 



519,300 

 303,900 



444".766 

 23,000 



CATAIiOGUES RECEIVED. 



W. E. Kirohhoff, Jr., Albion, N. Y.— "Trade 

 Price List of Gladioli of Unusual Merit." The 

 stock is divided into two lots — the more common 

 standard varieties, the prices of which are 

 quoted by the thousand, and the scarcer sorts, 

 which are priced by the hundred. 



May Seed & Nursery Co,, Shenandoah, la. — 

 "May's Special Money-saving Bulletin." a com- 

 pactly printed 16-page list of seeds and nursery 

 stock. "We have," says Mr. May, "a larger 

 catalogue than this bulletin, full of descriptions 

 and pictures, with the covers in colors." 



Arthur G. Leo, Fort Smith, Ark. — Illustrated 

 64-page catalogue of seeds, bulbs, roots, plants, 

 roses, flowering shrubs, insecticides and sundries. 

 Seeds of cotton and some other southern prod- 

 ucts are Included. All four pages of the cover 

 are richly colored in the offset style. 



a. J). 91ack & Son, Independence, la. — A neat 

 booklet cwntaining a list of gladioli, in which 

 the compftny specializes. First In order are 

 three novelties originated by the company; next 

 are a score or so of comparatively new sorts and 

 these are followed by an alphabetical list of 

 standard varieties. 



George S, Woodruff, Independence, la. — "The 

 Modern Gladiolus." eight good-sized pages. Brief 

 cultural directions are followed by a general list 

 of varieties. Then some of the Diener and Kun- 

 derd varieties are offered, in two separate 

 groups. Enclosed is a wholesale list, for the 

 trade only. 



Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. T. — "Bul- 

 letin No. 2." offering, says the company, "per- 

 haps the best balanced assortment of stock we 

 have ever had available at this season." Roses, 

 hardy perennials and general nursery stock are 

 listed, with current wholesale prices which "ap- 

 ply only on wholesale quantities." 



M. O. Tyler, Portland, Ore. — A tasteful, well 

 printed 34-page catalogue of dahlias. Mr. Ty- 

 ler specializes in Mnstick varieties, which, be 

 says, "are the results of many years of hybrid- 

 izing experiments by C. L. Mastlck, of Port- 

 land," but a general stock of dahlias also Is 

 handled. The duhlins shown In the illustrations, 

 he says, "are all Mastlck creations." 



L. E. Williams, Exeter. N. H. — A neat, brown- 

 covered 16-pnge booklet, containing a list of 

 "collected native trees, shrubs and plants," in 

 many varieties, both rare and common. The 

 nursery stock comprises both small plants for 

 lining out and larger specimens for landscape 

 work. Mr. Williams also states that he makes 

 a specialty of collecting native tree and plant 

 seeds. 



Barteldes Seed Co., Lawrence, Kan., and Den- 

 ver, Colo. — An illustrated catalogue of seeds, 

 bulbs, outdoor and greenhouse plants, imple- 

 ments and supplies; 128 pages, in a colored cover 

 of distinctive and artistic design, for which a 

 representation of vine-covered latticework forms 

 the background. The list of seeds is especially 

 comprehensive. Tree seeds are included. The 

 prices of many of the farm seeds are not quoted 

 in the catalogue, but a pink list, which "carries 

 the current prices of all field seeds," is enclosed. 



Haz Schling Seedsmen. Inc., New York, N. Y. 

 — "A Book for Garden-Lovers," a 104-page cat- 

 alogue which in all particulars — in excellence of 

 typography and illustrations, in Invariable accu- 

 racy of editing, in tastefulness and orderliness 

 of arrangement— is fully in accord with the high 

 character and undoubted effectiveness of Mr. 

 Schling's customary methods of publicity. Though 

 the appeal of the book is directed primarily to 

 the general public, the trade also will give atten- 

 tion. The year's work of the gardener is out- 

 lined under the heading, "The Garden Month by 



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