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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 4, 1922 



SNAPDRAGON 



Begin to sow seed for •pring blooms and 



for oarly spring sales of plants. Use the 



best seed and be snre of results. 



SEED of ovir famous Silver Pink. Sl.OO per pkt.; 



S for $2.60: 7 for SS.OO. 



SEED of Hybrid Pink and of our new Gk)lden 



Pink Queen, same price. 



SEED of Keystone, Nelrose. Gamet.Whi ' e, Tel- 



k>w. Scarlet. Light Pink. Buxton and Fancy 



Mixed, sec per pkt.; 8 for tl.OO. 



Free cultural directions. All orders cash. 



G. S. RANSBURG, SONERSWORTH. N. H. 



IVHCHELL'S 



FLOWER SEEDS 



V, Tr. Tr. 



CINERARIA Pkt. Pkt. 



Grandiflora Prize, dwarf $0.60 $1.00 



Grandiflora Prize, med. tall 60 1.00 



PRIMULA CHINENSIS 



Alba magnifica 60 1.00 



Chiswick Red 60 1.00 



Duchess 60 1.00 



Holborn Blue 60 1.00 



Kertnesina splendens 60 1.00 



Rosy Mom 60 1.00 



Prize Mixture 60 1.00 



PRIMULA OBCONICA GIGANTEA 



Tr. Pkt. ^ Oz. 



Lilacina, white $0.50 $2.00 



Kermesina, crimson 50 2.00 



Rosea, pink 50 2.00 



Alba, white 50 2.00 



Hybrida Mixed 50 1.50 



PRIMULA OBCONICA GIGANTEA 

 Monster Strain 



Extra large flowering Tr. Pkt. 



Apple Blossom, soft pink $1.00 



Kermesina, deep crimson 1.00 



Plathii, deep rose 1.00 



Rosea, pink 1.00 



NICHELL'S SEED HOUSE 



S18SI6 Hnket St., FHIU. 



BULBS 



PIONEER GROWERS 

 AND EXPORTERS of 



N. Veldhayzen van Zanten & Sons 



LISSE. HOLLAND 



Kstabllshcd IHTO-Still f,'oln(,' stroiip 

 Csbl« AJdreM - VELDZANTEN, LISSE, HOLLAND. 



ALKEMADE & SON 



Wholetde Bulb Growers 



Send as your list of wants for aootatlons 



Noordwyk, Holland 



packing, as they will not have early 

 offerings. If the weather in May and 

 June is ideal, canners fear that they 

 will be up against it at packing time, 

 as there will be a rush of raw stock all 

 at once, and the capacity of the facto- 

 ries will not be sufficient to absorb it. 

 One canner fears that only a normal 

 pack will occur, with the average qual- 

 ity lower than last year. Indiana grow- 

 ers have no seeds planted, and the crop 

 up-state is equally late. It was thought 

 that southern sections would profit at 

 the expense of less favored competing 

 points by producing an early pack 

 which would relieve the shortage of old 

 goods, but the weather in the south has 

 been unfavorable also. 



"POLITIC All PETTY LARCENY." 



"Political petty larceny" is the way 

 a headline in the Chicago Tribune de- 

 scribed the action of Congress in voting 

 for free seeds. The headline appeared 

 over the following editorial: 



Tlie United States Senate's approval of an ap- 

 propriation of $350,000 to buy free seeds for con- 

 gressmen to send to their constituents recalls 

 the fact that the measure has already been 

 adopted by tlie house, where It originated. Such 

 an appropriation obviously is for political pur- 

 I«)8ps. We do not know who gets the seeds or 

 what the recipient does with them. Certainly a 

 farmer has little use for a small packet of gar- 

 den seeds. Perhaps it is the human trait of ac- 

 (piisitiveness — especially of getting something 

 or anything for nothing — to which the congress- 

 men are catering. Perhaps the back-yard gar- 

 dener gets most of the seeds, and the congress- 

 man who sends them gets most of the votes. No 

 doubt it is a good thing to encourage gardening, 

 but to encourage it with public funds for private 

 proflt is not good. Politically, it Is petty lar- 

 ceu'. It is a «mU Item For sacta recipient of 

 seeds, but it is $.350,000 out of the federal treas 

 ury. Members of the T'nitod States Congress 

 sliould be above such action. 



TWO SEED BILLS IN CONGRESS. 



Subjects Seeds to Police Powers. 



Two important seed bills were intro- 

 duced in Congress last week. One is de- 

 signed "to promote the sale of pure 

 seeds" and the other is "to prohibit 

 the transportation and sale of field seeds 

 in ])ackages not properly branded." 



The first of these provides that all 

 seeds transported in interstate and for- 

 eign commerce shall be subject to the 

 laws of the state, territory or the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, wherein they may re- 

 main for seeding purposes. In other 

 words, under the terms of this measure, 

 such seeds become divested of their in- 

 terstate commerce character and become 

 subject to the police powers of the in- 

 dividual jurisdiction into which they 

 may enter. 



Any person, firm, corporation or 

 (Ic.'iler in seeds who knowingly violated 

 the ))r()pose(l law by carrying, trans- 

 ]>ortiiig or m;iiliiig into any state, terri- 

 tory or the District of Columbia, seed 

 for use therein for seeding purposes 

 which was not in conformity witli the 

 seed laws of such state, territory or the 

 District of Columbia, would be liable to 

 a fine of not to exceed .$.')Ofl, to be re- 

 covered at the suit of the United States 

 in any court of the United States having 

 jurisdiction. 



Regulates Branding of Field Seeds. 



The other bill, requiring the branding 

 of field seeds, does not cover garden 

 seeds or grain not shipped or sold as 

 seed, but otlierwise covers all grass and 

 field seeds. It is provided that a pack- 

 age or other container of such seeds 

 shall be deemed to be misbranded (1) 

 unless it be plainly and conspicuously 



Spring 



Flowering 



Bulbs 



READY FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT 

 CANNAS — 2 to 3 eye roots 



Austria, 100 1000 



yellow $2.50 $20.00 



Florence Vaughan, 



yellow 2.75 25.00 



King Humbert 4.50 40.00 



Wintzer's Colossal, 



scarlet 5.00 40.00 



Yellow Humbert, 



bronze leaf 3.50 30.00 



HARDY ULIES 



Album, 8 to 9-in. Case Doz. 100 



Case of 200 



bulbs $27.00 $2.00 $15.00 



Auratum, 8 to 9- 



in. Case of 180 



bulbs 26.00 2.15 16.00 



Magniiicum, 8 to 



Q_ii'i Cssp or 



200 bulbs 25.00 1.85 14.00 



9 to 11-in. Case 



of 150 bulbs. .. 25.00 2.40 18.00 

 Rubrum, 8 to 9-in. 



Case of 200 



bulbs 25.00 1.85 14.00 



9 to 11-in. Case 



of 150 bulbs... 25.00 2.40 18.00 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



100 1000 

 America, V/i, to li/S-in..$1.80 $16.00 

 Chicago White, 1^ to 



2-in 3.75 35.00 



VA to VA-m 2.85 26.00 



Francis King, V/j. to 2-in. 2.50 22.00 



Halley, 1 Yz to 2-in 3.75 35.00 



1J4 to V/i-m 2.00 18.00 



Pendleton, 1^ to 2-in.. 5.00 45.00 



1J4 to IJ^-in 3.75 35.00 



Primulinus Hybrids, 1^ 



to 2-in 2.75 25.00 



TUBEROSES 



Doz. 100 1000 

 Excelsior Dwarf 



Pearl (First 



Size), 4 to 6-in. 



circumference ..$0.50 $3.50 $30.00 

 E'.celsior Dwarf 



Pearl (Jumbo 



Size). These are 



the finest bulbs 



that are pro- 

 duced 75 5.50 50.00 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS SEED 



Greenhouse grown. . .$4.00 per 1000 

 5000 for $18.00. 



Outdoor grown 2.50 per 1000 



5000 for $10.00. 



A. HENDERSON & CO 



166 N. Wabash Avenae, CHICAGO 



