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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Decembeb 8, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEIICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTHW. 



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

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

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meetln* 

 mm be held on the St. lAwrence, June, 1906. 



Onion sets are again moving and at 

 advanced prices. 



The Keok Floral Co., Washington, 

 la., will put in a full line of seeds for 

 the spring of 1905, 



Ego PLANT seed is still hard to get 

 hold of. Scarcity of good stock seems 

 to be more than just a notion. 



Savoy leaf spinach will be in de- 

 mand later. Very short deliveries are be- 

 ing made, and no surplus was carried 

 over. 



Adding Valentines to the very scarce 

 stocks the bean situation at present is 

 just as it was at this time last year. 



Repoets from Iowa and Nebraska 

 apeak of the very fine quality of the 

 seed Bweet com now in the drying houses. 



Alfred Emerich, of Vilmorin-Andri- 

 eux & Co., Paris, sailed from New York 

 for home December 1 on the La Savoie. 



Canadian-grown seed peas are not 

 any freer of bags that usual; otherwise 

 the samples being received from that 

 section are all right. 



The Western Seedsmen's Association 

 is endeavoring to get the trade together 

 on the line of uniform prices. Its man- 

 agement thinks that the sooner this can 

 be done the better. 



Beans are still being received from 



the farmers. The unfavorable weather 



of early October is accountable for th^ 



late threshing, as well as for the unusual 



shrinkage owing to spoiled stock. . . 



**NO VAEEANTY.'* 



In the Wandsworth County Court 

 (England) on October 26, an action was 

 brought by Van Til-Hartman, bulb grow- 

 ers, Hillegom, Holland, to recover the 

 sum of £26 from K- Drost, nurseryman, 

 Bichmond, for tulip bulbs supplied. 

 Mr. Drost raised a counterclaim for £15 

 for labor, etc., wasted on bulbi that 

 failed. Counsel for plaintiffs stated 

 that the bulbs had been supplied Tinder 

 their "terms of business," as printed 

 in their catalogue, and which are those 

 of the Dutch Bulb Exporters' Associa- 

 tion. These include the following condi- 

 tions: 



Claims as to the qaalltj of the goods cannot 

 be entertained unleoa made Immediately on re- 

 ceipt of aame. The members of the association 

 rlTe no warranty, express or Implied, and will 

 Dot be in any way responsible for the results 

 of planting or forcing of any bulbs or roots 

 sent ont. 



Defendant refused payment on the 



ground that the bulbs had all failed 



through an attack of tulip-mold (Botry- 



tis parasitica), the germs of which must 



have been present in the bulbs before 



they were planted, from the fact that no 



tulips had previously been grown in the 



soil, and that other tulips planted in 



ground near those supplied by plaintiffs 



were not diseased. Mr. Watson, curator. 



Royal Oardens, Kew, gave evidence in 



support of defendant's contention. 



His Honor ruled, however, that even if 



the bulbs supplied by plaintiffs had been 



diseased when received by defendant, 



as he had failed to detect it and did not 



D. Landreth Seed Company 



BLOOMSDALE SEED FAflM 



BRISTOL. PA. 



WHOLESALE ORDERS SOLICITED 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS 



ONION SETS ^---«.-^^ 

 79 and 81 East Kinzie Street, CtllCAGO 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



LONG ISLAND CABBAGE SEED 

 AMERICAN CAULIFLOWER SEED 



And other Bpeolal Se«d Stocks. 



Francis Brill - Grower, 



Hempstead, L I., New York. 



Men Hon The B^ylew when yo« wrtf. 



RALPH M. WARD & CO. 



Exporters and Importers 

 17 BaHery Place. NEW YORK 



WIS >«M Bulbs, Plants. 



viitoj our spMiiiir "°'iKsjf:/a:.d. 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



complain at once to plaintiffs, the terms 

 of business on which this firm stated 

 that the bulbs were supplied entitled 

 them to payment. 



BOSTON. 



The seed stores report a satisfactory 

 bulb season, with stocks tolerably well 

 cleared out ere freezing weather came. 



J. P. Guerineau, of the Schlegel & 

 Fottler Co., is quite sick with sciatic 

 rheumatism. 



James Farquhar leaves on December 8 

 for Porto Rico, where he will spend tne 

 winter. He will incidentally study the 

 suitability of Porto Rico for growing 

 various bulbs and plants needed by his 

 firm and will probably establish a nur- 

 sery there. 



Schlegel & Fottler C!o. will com- 

 plete the extensive changes in their 

 seed store in a few days. They 

 will have one of the best appointed 

 stores in the city, ei^ht floors being util- 

 ized. The street floor will be used ex- 

 clusively for counter trade, the oflSces 

 and mail order department being on the 

 second floor. 



W. E. CiUiill is president and secre- 

 tary of the^ Boston Seed Trade Bowling 

 League, J. P. Guerineau is captain of 

 the Schlegel & Fottler team, Harry Jen- 

 ner, of Farquhar & Co., Everett Whea- 



Two Grand 

 New Asters ^ 



Benthey's White 

 Benthe/s Piok 



The Seed ol the Two Vwrieties 

 will be ready- for diatribation Janu- 

 ary 1, 1906. 



PRICE LIST 



TBADB VAOKAQM #100 



yi OVVOB. Whit* or Mak • SO 



KOVVOB. " 4 SO 



1 OWOB. " " 9 00 



For farther informstlon write 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



36 Randolph St., Chlcego. 



Mention Tbe Rerlew when you write. 



touj of Joseph Breck & Sons and Morris 

 Field of W. W. Rawson & Co. The 

 scores of games are attracting a good 

 deal of interest locally. 



ERFUET SEED CROPS, 



The following is supplied by the Er- 

 furt, Germany, correspondent of the Hor- 

 ticultural Trade Journal, under date of 

 November 18: 



Nearly all the seed of this year's harreatlnf 

 Is now In warehouse and the <^peratlon of clean- 

 Incr and getting It ready for dellrery Is also 

 well advanced. Oversea orders are beginning 

 to come In and some early shipments an 

 already leaving for America, Anstralla, etc. 



Certain onions have turned out worse than 

 expected, Strasbnrg, straw-colored and the red 

 kinds, for instance, being decidedly shM't. In 

 carrots, the long garden varieties have yielded 

 under the expectations, some sorts, such ax 

 Brunswick (Long Surrey) being scarce, and the 

 same may be said of some of the half-long va- 

 rtetles. Leek seed is always late In being 

 delivered, bat we still expect a good pro- 

 vision. The large stocks of radish seed will 

 prevent this season's poor yield from being felt, 

 but the new Crimson Giant variety is very 

 short. Beans, as expected, are much nnder 

 average on the whole. Runners, scarlet, white 

 and Painted Lady, are all short, while many 

 of the dwarf sorts have yielded badly alao. 



