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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBEB 16, 1013. 



Our Motto: Tho BEST tho Markot Affords. 



CHAS. SCHWAKE & CO., inc. 



Horticultural 

 Importors and Exportors 



90-92 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



Japanese and Chinese Lilies 

 HOHMANN'S LILY OF THE VALLEY 

 French and Dutch Bulbs 

 Holland and Belgium Plants, etc. 



Write for Quotations. 

 M«iitlon Th« RtTlew wtien you wrlf . 



road overseer off with a hose and heavy 

 water pressure. 



There are quite a few small lots of 

 cold storage lilies that are beginning to 

 bother the owners. 



A SEED store will be opened soon by 

 Everett Scott at Weatherford, Tex. Mr. 

 Scott will run this concern separate from 

 his present produce business. 



The officers of the Archias Seed Store 

 corporation, Sedalia, Mo., are: President, 

 L. H. Archias; vice-president, L. A. 

 Kipping; secretary, L. Archias. 



r ANOTHER FIGHT IS ON. 



The seed trade, figuratively speaking, 

 is taking off its coat for another bat- 

 tle to save itself from the handicap of 

 the parcel post. This time it is the 

 rate of postage on catalogues that is 

 to be enormously increased unless a 

 fight is made. 



October 9, acting under the authority 

 given him in the parcel post law, Post- 

 master General Burleson submitted to 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 a proposal to change the regulations 

 in such a way as to bring books and 

 printed matter within the parcel post 

 and submit them to the same zone sys- 

 tem and rates as apply to other par- 

 cel post matter. The law gives the 

 Postmaster General the authority to 

 change regulations and rates subject to 

 the approval of the commission. The 

 commission has given until October 20 

 for the filing of statements or requests 

 bearing on the question. Washington 

 advices are that it is not improbable 

 the commission will hold a public hear- 

 ing before approving the changes. 



Immediately upon receiving infor- 

 mation regarding the proposed changes 

 W. F. Therkildson, Painesville, O., who 

 is chairman of the American Seed Trade 

 Association's committee on postal laws, 

 prepared a protest which he filed with 

 Third Assistant Postmaster General A. 

 M. Dockery, Mr. Therkildson believes 

 that the protest of the catalogue houses 

 of the country will be sufficiently 

 strong so that, even if books are in- 

 cluded under the zone system and 

 rates, an exception will be made of 

 books issued for advertising purposes. 



A good many people think the pres- 

 ent flat rate of postage on printed 

 matter, 1 cent for each two ounces 

 without regard to distance, is higher 

 than the parcel post rates, but the 

 seed trade knows it stands to lose 

 thousands upon thousands of dollars if 

 the zone rates are applied to seed cat- 

 alogues. To begin with, a catalogue 

 weighing four ounces now goes any- 

 where for 2 cents, while under the 

 parcel post rates it will cost 4 cents. 

 The increase on heavier books will 

 not be so great as 100 per cent, but in 

 actual practice in the seed trade the 

 increase will run from thirty-three to 

 fifty per cent. A book weighing six 

 ounces will pay the pound rate, from 

 5 to 12 cents according to distance. 

 Millions of seed catalogues weigh under 



BEANS, PEAS. RADISH 



AND ALL GARDEN SEEDS 



ueoNA,?E«s«- 



GO 



CHICAOO 



GROWERS FOR THE TRADE 



ONION SETS wriffrPric. 



PEBS/BEfllS 



GROWERS 



IMPORTERS and 

 EXPORTERS 



Alfred J.BrownSeed Go. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MCI 

 Pieters-Wheder Seed Company 



Palo AltOp :: California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Onion, Radish, Lettuce, 

 Sweet Peas, etc. :: :: 



Corr«Bpondanoe 8oUolt««l. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties : Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. 



Correspondence solicited. 



Western Seed & Irrigation Co. 



S*ed Growars and Dealers 



Specialties: 



Cqcumber, Musk and Watermelon, 



Pumpkin, Squash, Sweet and Field Corn, 



FREMONT. NEB. 



Plants, Bulbs and Ssads 



It Is our business to have what you want. 

 Try us and see. 



S. S. Skldsisky S Co. 



1218 Botz BIdg., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Catalogue for the asking. 

 M«»nt1nn Thp RptIpw when von wr1t> 



FALL BULBS 



NarcisBuB Paper White, 13 ctm. op, $1.25 per 



100: $8.50 per 1000; $40.00 per 6000. 

 Chinese Sacred L.i lies, per basket (30), $1.10; 



per mat (4 baskets). $4.20. 

 Keiserskroon Talips, fancy bulbs, $1.25 per 1(J0: 



$11.00 per 1000. 

 All Other Seasonable BalbB. Write for our 

 complete catalOKue. Free. 



G. H. HUNKEL CO., Seedsmen, Milwaakee, Wis 



Mention Tbe Review when yop write. 



four ounces and the great bulk of them 

 are under the pound. A pound book 

 would go for 500 miles at the pres- 



MR. FLORIST, 



You Want High-grade Stock 



if you want the profits. Oar stock is FIRST 

 CLASS and is grown especially for ns. 



100 1000 

 Narcissus Paper White. 12 to 15c. . .$0.90 $ 8.00 

 Roman Hyacinths, white, 11 to 12c. 2.50 23.00 



Roman Hyacinths, single blue 2.00 



Roman Hyacinths, light pink 2.25 



Single Tulips. 



Chrysolora, yellow 80 



Cottage Maid, rose * 90 



Couleur de Cardinal, scarlet 1.65 



La Reine, white 70 



Thomas Moore, orange 1.00 



Vermilion Brilliant 2.00 



Yellow Prince 85 



White Hawk 1.50 



Bedding Tulips, red, white, pink or 

 yellow 85 



Freesla Refracta Alha 1.25 



Spanish Iris in separate varieties.. .75 



6.50 

 7.60 



15.50 

 6.00 

 8.00 



17.00 

 7.00 



12.50 



7.00 



10.00 

 5.00 



Send for List of 

 First-class Bulbs 



Walter r. Stokes 



Seedsman 



219 Market St., PHIUDELPHiA 



FOTTLER 

 FISKE 



RAWSON CO. 



BOSTON 



Paper White Grandifiora 



Koman Hyacinths 



Freesias CaUas 



Lilium Candidum 



Chinese Sacred Lilies 



Now Ready for Delivery 



Watch for oar Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Culture Nushroom Spawn 



Snbetltntlon of cheaper grades is thus 



easily exposed. Fresh sample brick, 



^X'^V^^ with illostrated book, mailed postpaid 



^p, cT^ ^y manufacturers upon receipt of 40 



^^^.^^^^ cents in postage. Addreea 



Trade Mark. Aoicricaa Spawfl Co., St Paul, MlM. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



New Shipmanta Just Racalvsd 

 ENGLISH, finest quality ... $ 8 00 per 100 lbs. 

 AMERICAN, pure culture . . 12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Weeber A Don,^d'S?ow.*^*' 



114 Chambara Straat. NEW YORK 



BURNETT BROS. 



SEEDS :: BULBS :: PLANTS 



•8 Chambara StM NEW YORK CITY 



