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The Wcddy Florists' Review. 



JrxB 16. 1904. 



Seed Trade News, 



AMERICAN SCa» TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



JPree., 8. P. Wlllard, Wetherefleld, Conn.; First 

 yioe-Prea., X Chas. McCuUouph, Cincinnati, O.; 

 Seo'y and Treaa., C. B. Kendel, CleveUnd, ol 

 mie na annual meetln* wUl be held at St. Louis. 

 HO., Jane. 19M. 



The Wholesale *- Seedsmen 's League 

 holds its annual meeting at St. Louis 

 June 24. 



JOHS. Telkamp, bulb grower, of Hille- 

 gom, Holland, is at New York to remain 

 until September. 



Burpee & Co. mailed their annual 

 wiolesale price list on turnip, winter rad - 

 ish and spinach seed June 10. 



Bean planting is under way in the 

 Michigan regions. Favorable weather is 

 reported and the ground in good shape. 



Cucumber seed for pickles is being 

 hurried into the ground. Conditions are 

 reported very favorable for a good start. 



T. E. Buckbee, of Rockford, 111., father 

 of H. W, and John T. Buckbee and him- 

 self well known in the seed trade, died 

 June 7, aged 70 years. 



Max Wilhelmi, of Barteldes & Co., 

 Lawrence, Kas., was a visitor at Chicago 

 the past week. He spent two days 

 looking over the onion set fields. 



Louisville, Ky., June 13.— The dry 

 weather hejre 48 doing much injury to the 

 growiBgJbBojisij .If. rain doeis not ^oome 

 soon the damage to the onion set. crop 

 will be very serious. " ^ 



Berg & Smalley are successors to E. 

 Annahil & Co., seed growers and deal- 

 ers, McPherson, Kas. Jas. Smalley was 

 the junior partner of the old firm and 

 active in it for years. 



Seed for replanting squash, cucumber 

 and pumpkin is being called for. The 

 cut worm is working in several of the 

 seed growing sections. Musk melon 

 seems to be freer from the trouble than 

 the other vine crops. 



At Chicago a brisk demand for stockv 

 tomato plants was a feature of the 

 week. Market garden trade for Juno 

 so far has been lemarkably large. Home; 

 grown produce is cutting something of 

 a figure now and the market gardener 

 can afford to purchase needed supplies. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle (English) 

 gives a lengthy obituary of Thomas 

 Smith, the head of the Scottish seed 

 house of T. Smith & Sons, who died 

 May 18, aged 84 years. Archibald 

 Smith, another son, has for eighteen 

 years been connectcid with Joseph Bre<>k 

 & Sons, Boston. 



Visited Chicaoo. — A. Kirsche, of Ap- 

 olda, Germany, grower of oats and beets, 

 who has an exhibit at the St. Louis ex- 

 position ; Mr. Walter, of Stumpp & Wal- 

 ter Co., New York, on his way east with 

 his family from the St. Louis "fair ; E. F, 

 Crossland, of Steele Briggs Co., To- 

 ronto. 



A NEW GARDEN BEAN. 



Van Namen Bros., the well-known 

 Holland seedsmen, will shortly distribute 

 in this country, through C. H. Joosten, 

 a new white-flowering garden bean of 

 which they say in a Dutch circular: 

 * ' They are very suitable for preserving 

 and retain their natural white color 



after being cooked, also in tins, which 

 cannot be said of any other garden 

 bean variety and it cannot be too highly 

 recommended to canners. When iu 

 bloom it is distinct from any other bean ; 

 they do not show any black spots and 

 the plant bears pure white flowers." 



SEED TRADE CONVENTION. 



The American Seed Trade Association 

 will come to order at the Forest Park 

 University Hotel, St. Louis, at 10 a. m. 

 next Tuesday, June 21, for its twenty- 

 second annual convention. The program 

 is one of the most interesting ever pre- 

 pared for the association and the proxim- 

 ity of the World's Fair, with much of 

 interest to the trade, will aid in mak- 

 ing thi» the most successful of the tis-. 

 sociation's regularly successful gather- 

 ings. 



SEASON AT BOSTON. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. report that the 

 seed season now closing opened later than 

 last year, much of the usual March bus- 

 iness having been put off to April. The 

 pressure in April was very great and the 

 season was prolonged to almost the end 

 of May. Fewer extra early peas than 

 usual were sold, owing to the lateness of 

 the season and lack of opportunity to 

 ])lant them. When the season opened 

 Gradus and other wrinkled peas were 

 planted. Sweet corn, cucumbers and wax 

 beans have been scarce, owing to unfavor- 

 able harvesting weather. Other vegetable 

 seeds have sold well and surpluses are 

 ^all. The trade in flower seedb, bulbs, 

 and plants has been quite up to the av- 

 erage, but shrubs and trees havd^ sold 

 less freely than last year, the planting 

 season for the latter being practically 

 crowded into two weeks. Although short 

 the reason has been a busy one and the 

 volume of business quite up to the aver- 

 age. 



HIGH PRICES NO BAR. 



The one lesson to be learned from this 

 season's business is that high prices do 

 not reduce trade. While, of course, 

 from the difference in the. weather, we 

 did not have quite as large a trade dur. 

 ing the month of March as last year, yet 

 our total business up to the last day of 

 March was a little ahead of a year ago 

 while the gains in April and May have 

 been phenomenal, making in all the 

 largest year's trade that we have ever 

 handled. "w^, Atlee Burpee. . 



BULB PRICES. 



The French syndicate of hulb growers 

 is endeavoring to profit by laSlf year 's ex- 

 perience and has issued a price list on 

 French Romans which is an advance of 

 about $1 per 1,000 on the last year's 

 market. Latest cable advices are to the 

 effect that French Romans are quoted is 

 follows: 11-12 c^timeters, 65 francs; 11- 

 15, 75 francs; 12-15, 821,4 to 85 francs; 

 13-15, 95 to 100 francs. These prices are 

 f. 0. b. Ollioules. One of the largest 

 growers reports that his crop will be 

 about two-thirds that of last year and 

 thinks this is a fair average for the dis- 

 trict. 



Prices on Paper Whites are quoted at 

 18 francs for the 12 centimeters and up. 

 On 13 centimeters and up the quotation 

 is 25 francs. 



Recent advices from Japan are to the 

 effect that Lilium longiflorum multi- 

 fljorum in the large sizes will be veiv ! 

 scarce, not more -than ten per cent ;is 

 many 9-108 being harvested as 7-98. Of 

 giganteiuns twenty per cent as many 9- 

 10s as 7-9s are expected. 



The harvesting in Bermuda will be un- 

 derway in a few days. A scarcity of 

 large sizes of Harrisii is predicted there. 



1 wm Harden [§|eans. iM | 



WHITE FLOWERING GARDEN BEANS 



Which remdn ENTIRELY WHITE after being conaerved. Above named 

 HIGHLY VALUED Novelty, which finds abroad its consumption on aristocratic 

 boirds, we offer to the American Seed Trade and conservinf^ industry. 



For prices on contract orders apply to Mr. C. H. JOOSTEN, 801 West 

 Street, New York. 



.SAMPLE, OF THE BEANS wiU be mailed to those interested. 



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Van Namen Bros^ seedsmen, 



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ZWYNDRECHT, near Rotterdam, HOLLAND 

 ENGLAND'S PRIZE STRAINS 



CINERARIA and CHINESE PRIMROSE 



WmZVAXiBD BTKAUrS FBOK BVOXiISH BPBGZA&X8T8. 



CINERARIA 



Bng'llsh Prlie OlMit Tlowerlng', mixed. Half Trade Packet, 60c; Trade 

 Packet. »1. 00. 

 PRIMIil A (^1^'°^^ Primrose) Bullish Prli» Frlnffcd, mixed, per 100 seeds, 25c: 500 

 rilllTILiL/1 seeds, $1.00: lOCO seeds, $1.60. 



10c per lb.: 10 lbs.. 80c: 25 lbs.. $1.75; 100 lbs.. 

 $6.60: per case. (300 lbs.) $18.00. Stems range In weiKht from 1 lb. to 10 lbs" 

 Wrlt« for Prices on French and Datoh Bulbs. 



seeds, $1.00; lOCO seeds, $1.60. 



CYCAS STEMS '•«'•"•*''"»"'■ 



JOHNSON & STOKES, mar'k'2t"'sVIeet. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



