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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 7, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., C. N. Patre, Des Moines, la ; First Vlce- 

 Pres., L. It. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas., C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 33rd annual meeting 

 will be held on the St. Lawrence, June, 1906. 



Tee Bermuda lilies, first shipments, 

 are due at New York next week. 



A. T. BoDDiNGTON has removed to 342 

 W. Fourteenth street, New York. 



J. W. Eatekin, Shenandoah, la., re- 

 ports the past season the best in the 

 history of the house, covering twenty 

 years. The 1905 catsdogue will be sev- 

 enty-two pages with an edition close to 

 250,000 copies. 



J. Mabtbins, lily of the valley ex- 

 porter, of Hamburg, Germany, while in 

 Chicago July 2 received the sad news 

 of the sudden death of his wife aud im- 

 mediately started for home. He has the 

 sympathy of his many friends in the 

 seed trade. 



A CANNER at Chicago says that "no 

 matter how the crop reports may read, 

 it is too early to take it for granted 

 that the small corn pack of 1903 is going 

 to be repeated this year. The year is too 

 young for anybody to say to what extent 

 the crop will be affected by the low vi- 

 tality of the seed and the lateness of the 

 season. ' ' 



It has been suggested that seedsmen 

 might add much to the efficiency of their 

 clerks by establishing a noonday class 

 for the discussion of important point? 

 bearing upon the method of growth and 

 distinguishing characteristics of the dif- 

 ferent vegetables and flowers, some posted 

 member of the firm or head clerk acting 

 as leader. 



Visited Chicago: Ernest Hermes, 

 representing A. Le Coq & Co., Darm- 

 stadt, Germany, has been calling on the 

 seed trade throughout the United States 

 for the past month, visiting the St. Louis 

 Exposition, where his house has an exhibit 

 of grass and field seeds. He reports latest 

 advices from Germany to the effect that 

 good crops are in prospect again this 

 year, with prices likely to be on a level 

 with last year except on a few unim- 

 portant items. 



CONDITIONS IN KENTUCKY. 



Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, Ky., 

 write as follows under date of June 28: 



The outlook for trade conditions at tho 

 present time is fair for the coming sea- 

 son, and crops of grass seeds generally 

 promise good yields. Kentucky blue 

 grass is considerably larger crop than 

 has been made for several years and 

 prices will be lower. Concerning orchard 

 grass, there are conflicting reports by 

 growers, but on the whole a fair crop 

 may be expected. We anticipate prices 

 to be somewhat lower than last year. Red 

 Top is looking well and from the present 

 indications there will be a good, full 

 crop; prices about the same as last year, 

 possibly a little less. 



Onion sets have not done well up to tho 

 present time and are suffering severely 

 with dry weather. We do not anticipate 

 a good crop of these, but favorable 

 weather will bring them out considerably. 

 Crops of wheat have turned out better 

 than for several years. 



Garden seed crops generally have done 

 fairly well, though lack of rain will en- 

 tail shortage in the potato crop. There 

 has been a large acreage of tobacco 

 planted over the state, due to the high 

 prices obtained for last year's crop, and 

 the crop at the present writing is re- 

 ported in good growing condition. 



The crop of omon seed grown in this 

 locality is very large, though we do not 

 anticipate such low prices as last year, 

 as the indications are that the sets will 

 move off freely and it will stimulate the 

 production of this crop to some extent. 



Louisville onion sets are recognized as 

 very superior quality, especially for late 

 keeping in the spring, and we ship an- 

 nually large quantities of sets through- 

 out all parts of the United States from 

 Maine to California. This is true of all 

 seeds, as this point is fast being recog- 

 nized by important dealers of other sec- 

 tions as one of the sources of supply for 

 seed crops. 



We are growing large quantities of se- 

 lected seed corn, both field and sugar, 

 selected seed wheat, winter turf oats, 

 millets and cow peas, while Louisville 

 being situated in the center of produc- 

 tion for nearly all grass seeds and red 

 clover, supplies enormous quantities of 

 these items. 



SEEDLESS VEGETABLES. 



The following extract fronj a publica- 

 tion of the D. Landreth Seed Company, 

 serves to point to the intense scientific 

 development of horticultural practice of 

 the present day: 



To Indicate the Intensive watchfulness, men- 

 tal application and persistent physical effort 

 of thoughtful students of vegetable science to 

 develop additional types, attention Is called to 

 the Introduction of seedless fruits and vegeta- 

 bles. Every one Is familiar with the seedless 

 orange, introduced In 1880, and now very gen- 

 erally on the market. To this Is to be added 

 tbe seedless apple, plum, grape, currant, stocks 

 of all of which are about ready to be Intro- 

 duced, but all of which affect the nuserymen 

 rather than the seedsmen. 



The active promoter In new things will not 

 be happy till the seedless development, at 

 present bearing only on hard-wooded plants. Is 

 carried Into the soft-wooded class. In fact. It 

 has already been successful In that direction, 

 there benig already a seedless watermelon and 

 a seedless tomato. It would seem that In the 

 order of cncurbltacea the greatest opportunities 

 are presented, but it will be accomplished In 

 other families. Efforts will not cease until we 

 have not only seedless watermelons and toma- 

 toes, but seedless cantaloupes, cucumbers, 

 squashes, peppers, pumpkins and egg plants. 



Of course, seedless vegetables will have to 

 be propagated by cuttings, the race kept alive 

 by continuously carrying over in glass houses 

 the successive parent plants throughout the year, 

 each generation affording slips for the next. 



Indeed, if seedless vegetables ever become of 

 much value, their place will be found In the 

 forcing house, rather than In the field, as 

 all culture of seedless plants will have to be 

 done with the slips or cuttings started under 

 glass, and this, fortunately, saves the seeds- 

 man from being shut out entirely, otherwise his 

 occupation will be half gone, provided always 

 that tbe seedless fruit were better than the old 

 types. 



NEW CROP 



PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA 



(English Grown.) 



"The Grand" Mixture trade pkt., 50o 



Primula Forbesi trade pkt., 26o 



CINERARIA HYBRIDA GRANDiaORA 



(English Grown.) 

 Hunt's "Special" Mixture, trade pkt, 60c 



CALCEOURIA HYBRIDA GRANDiaORA 



Hunt's Import Mixture trade pkt.. 



All tbe types, ineludlng the self-colbred, 

 tigered, mottled, variegated, spotted. 



GLOXINIA GRANDiaORA 



Hunt's Extra Select Mixture, tr. pkt.. 60c 

 A mixture of exclusive French hybrids, 



including Fire King, Defiance. Frederic, 



etc. 



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,60c A 



ORA \ 



$160 f 



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E. H. HUNT, 



76-78 Wabash An., CHICAGO 



M*ntlom Tbe Bevlew when yon writs. 



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For Sale. 



Having separated our wholesale and 

 retail seed business, I now wisli to sell 

 my iaterest in the retail. This business, 

 knows under the name of St. Louis Seed 

 Company, is one of the finest retail and 

 mail order chances in its line in the West. 

 This offer will stand close investiaation 

 and is only made through a lack of time 

 on my part to attend to both branches 

 of the trade. 



For further particulars, address 



FBED. S. PIiAWT, 

 814 North 4th SUeet. ST. LOUIS, MO. 



LILY jI valley pips 



FROM COLD STORAGE 



In original cases of 500. 1,000 and 2,500. Prices 

 on application. 



CHAS.F. MEYER, .»!§,T. NEW YORK 



Mention Tlie Bevlew when yon write. 



Florists' Bulbs. 



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Import orders booked VOW. 

 Write for prices. 



W. C. Bcckcrt, Allegheny, Pa. 



Always mentioa the Florists' Review wben 

 writing advertisers. 



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EMOVAL NOTICE 



Increasing bttsiness compels my removal to larger quarters. 

 MY ^DRESS AFTER JULY 1st WILL BE 



342 West 14th 



Street, NEW YORK. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON. 



LeiWn GrSlSS Seed '^ bulk ana packages 



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