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The Florists^ Review 



Febkuaby 4, 1915. 



I^rowers and Specialists 



CROP CONTRACT 



Peas, Begins and Sweet Corn 



Peas and Beans, Michig^an Grown 



Sweet Corn, Iowa Grown 



Correspondence solicited. 



BUcUsan Olflce: MIIXINGTON 



Home Office: SIOUX CITT, IOWA 



Ask for prices now, 1915 crop. 



SIOUX CITY SEED & NURSERY CO. 



SstabUshed 1888 



Seed Trade News 



AMEBICAN SEES TBADE ASSOOIATION. 

 President, Lester L. Morse, San Franciaco, Oal. ; 

 Becretary-Treasurer, 0. E. Kendel, Clereland, O. 



Thirty-third annual convention, San Francisco. 

 Cal., 1016. 



Word from Ollioules leads to the be- 

 lief that the 1916 crop of Eomans will 

 not be smaller than in recent years. 



I. S. Hendrickson, representing John 

 Lewis Childs, has returned to Floral 

 Park after a swing around the circuit of 

 larger cities as far west as Chicago, call- 

 ing on large buyers of gladiolus bulbs. 



Of Chicago seedsmen, S. F. Leonard 

 and John C. Leonard, of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., and Arnold Ringier, of the 

 W. W. Barnard Co., will be in New 

 York next week, attending the canners' 

 convention. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission 

 has directed the Southern Pacific rail- 

 road to refund $5.75 to the C. C. Morse 

 Co., San Francisco, on account of over- 

 charges on seeds shipped from San Fran- 

 cisco to Oklahoma. 



Oke of a series of leaflets on culture 

 published by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 

 Philadelphia, contains "The Story and 

 Culture of the Red Sunflower," by Wil- 

 matte P. Cockerell, of Boulder, Colo., 

 originator of the variety. 



One result of the conflict in Europe 

 will be to encourage other countries to 

 increase their production of seeds here- 

 tofore principally obtained from Ger- 

 many, with the effect, no doubt, of turn- 

 ing a larger part of the German crop 

 to America. 



E. L. Page, president of the Page 

 Seed Co., Greene, N. Y., has purchased 

 the entire business established in 1852 

 by the Henry Philipps Seed & Imple- 

 ment Co., which, owing to financial diffi- 

 culties, was obliged to make an assign- 

 ment. A new company will be organ- 

 ized with a capital stock of $50,000 and 

 the business carried on under the name 

 of Page-Philipps Seed Co. 



In their joint report to Congress on 

 the ocean freights situation, Secretaries 

 McAdoo and Redfield quoted a letter 

 from H. Frank Darrow, of New York, 

 stating that in his exportation of grass 

 seed he was compelled this year to pay 

 $1.50 per hundred pounds, while in for- 

 mer years he paid from 35 to 50 cents 

 per hundred pounds, on the French line, 

 sailing from New York to Havre. 



Gladiolus bulb market — there is none, 

 according to some of the large producers, 

 and it is about the same way with canna 

 roots. Of course there is some small 

 business going on, but the buyers of 

 quantities to sell again are holding off. 

 Low prices do not tempt them; quite the 

 contrary, it is the cutting of prices that 



Braslan 



Whaltule Grtwirt of tha follawing California Soociiltios ooly : 



ONION. LEnUCE, C/WROT, R«9ISIL PARSNIP. P«RSLE|, /CCURT. 

 ENDIVE. LEEK. S«LSIFttatf SWEET mS/T 



Seed Growers 



SAN JOSE. CALIFORNIA 



Company 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Phlladelphla.^for new Complete Catalogue: 



BEANS, PEAS, RADISH 



AND ALL QARDEN SEEDS 



UEONJ&.?B«."«- 



CO 



^HICAOO 



GROWERS FOR THE TRAD! 



ONION SETS Writ* for pricM 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., Milford, Conn. 



arowlns Stations at East lordan, Mich., Orson Bay. Wis.. St. Anthony, Idaho 



Beans, Peas, Sweet Corn, Onion. Beet, Turnip, Tomato, Etc. Etc 



THE L D.WALLER SEED CO. 



Spoelallsts In 

 SWEET PEAS-NASTURTIUM SEEDS 



Prices on Application 



GUADALODFE. CAUFORIM 



Contract Seed Growers 



.^ilMialflM' ^*VV9r, EgTKPUBt, Tomato, 

 OpCUOlUH. vine Seed and Field Cora. 



Correspondence Solicited 



George R. Pedrick & Son 



PEORICKTOWN, N. J. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, K^SK." NEB. 



Wholesale Growers of Hifh-grade Seeds 



Gictsmber, Muskmelon, Squash and Pump> 

 kin, Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Corn 



—THE- 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO, NEB. 



ROCKY FORD, COLO. 



(Contract growers of Cucumber. Cantaloupe, 

 Watermelon, Squash and Pumpkin Seed, Sugar, 

 Flint ard Fi'ld Seed Com. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas. Aster, 

 Cosmos. Mignonette. Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



CONTRACT 



SEED GROWERS 



Btrlctly Miehlifan Oro^rn Beana, Oaeiimber, 

 Tomato. Moakmalon, Squash, Watermalon, Radish. 

 Sweet Oom. Oorreapondenoe aoUdted. 



S. E IS6ELL & CO., Jidom, IcL 



Onion Seed Onion Sets 



Both the seed and set crop is short 

 this season throughout the country. 

 It will be to the purchaser's advan- 

 tage to buy early. Write for prices. 



SCmiDER BROS., CluIlicoth^ 0. 



Mantlwi Th. R«t1»w when yon write. 



THE KINBERLIN SEED CO. 



SMde'rowera SANTA CLARA* CALa 



Growers of 

 ONION, LETTUCE, RADISH, Etc. 



Correspondence Solicited 



Pieters-Wheeler Seed Company 



Gllroy, :; :; California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Onion, Radish, Lettuce, 

 Sweet Peas, etc. :: :: 



Corroapondenoo SoUoltod. 



TOMATO SEED 



Grown for the Wholesale Seed Trade 



Contract orders now being booked for 

 delivery after harvest. 1915. 



HAVEN SEED CO. 



SANTA ANA, 



CALIFORNIA 



Contract Seed Grower 



SPECIALTIES: P«pp«r, Egg Plant, 

 Tomato, Vino Seod and Fiold Com 



EDGAR F. HURFF 



Oarrtwsadeiice Solicat* SWEDESBORO. ». J. 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade. 

 CARPINTBRIA, -> CAL. 



