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Januabt 12, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



421 



J.M.THORBURN&CO. 



HAVE BBBN AWARDED 



Prizes 



rAT THE= 



St. Louis Exposition 



We have been officially notified that we have 

 been awarded the 



GRAND PRIZE 



;^' (THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE HONOR) 

 for the collection of 



VEGETABLES 



Grown from our seeds and another GRAND PRIZE 

 for our colleetioB of 



SEEPS 



Our Special Price List for Florists 



is now ready, and will be mailed on application. It contains the finest selected 

 stocks of Flower Seeds for Florists, such as Asparagus Plumosus Nanus, Cin- 

 erarias, Calceolarias, Cobaea Scandens, Cyclamen Giganteum, Double Daisy, 

 Myosotis Alpestris, Lobelia, Nasturtium, Pansy, Primula Chinensis, Primula 

 Stellata, Salvia Splendens, Stocks, Sweet Peas; also 



NICOTIANA SANDERAE 



"-- In original packets, $1.75 per dozen) $1 1.00 per 100. 



BULBS for Spring Planting 



Tuberous Begonias, Amaryllis, new large-flowered Japan Iris, Lilium Auratum 

 and Melpomene, etc. We are offerings this year the 



Grand New Potato, NOROTON BEAUTY 



the most valuable ever introduced. Full description and the opinions of emi- 

 nent authorities who have tested it are given in our catalogue. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



Seed Growers and Merchants, 



36 Cortlandt St. - New Yoric 



Over 100 Years in the Business. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATMN. 



PreB., C. N. Pare, Des Moines, la ; First Vlc«- 

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

 Eendel, Clereland. The 23rd annual meetlnf 

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



For beans, $11 and $12 per bushel is 

 aaked. Bather startling prices. 



The Christmas rain at Santa Clara, 

 Cal., was worth a great deal to the seed 

 growers. 



A GOOD strain of greenhouse radish 

 seed is in brisk demand at Chicago at 

 present. 



It is reported that quite a few mail 

 orders are coming from the catalogues 

 that have been mailed. 



Geo. A. Bxjbnett has left Weeber & 

 Don, New York, and will engage in busi- 

 ness on his own account. 



The Pacific Coast growers now think 

 they can produce a stock of radish seed 

 equal to the best French strains. 



A NEW departure is a seed catalogue 

 issued by Sears, Roebuck & Co., large 

 general mail order people, of Chicago. 



The mqTinfiiini prlco at which market 

 gardeners will buy beans freely has been 

 exceeded in most of the current retail 

 catalogues. 



The government's free seeds and the 

 seedsmen's expensive catalogues are 

 reaching a good many people in the 

 same mail. 



Visited Chicago: — Joe L. Ullathome, 

 of the Ullathome Seed Co., Memphis, 

 Tenn.; Edward H. Morrison, Fairfield, 

 Washington. 



Few seedsmen are taking advantage 

 of the method by which catalogues may 

 be mailed in bulk. The game doesn't 

 appear to be worth the eandle. 



It is a question in the minds of some 

 of the leading seedsmen whether a very 

 early or a belated issue of a retail cata- 

 logue brings the most business. 



Worcester, Mass. — ^W. W. Bawson, 

 the Boston seedsman and market gardener, 

 wiU address the Worcester County Hor- ' 

 ticultural Society on February 2, subject, 

 "Fertilizers." 



The executive committee of the Seed 

 Trade Association was in session at Cin- 

 cinnati on Tuesday of this week, making 

 plans for the June convention on the 

 St. Lawrence. 



Says W. Atlee Burpee: "No one 

 house should attempt to reach all classes 

 of customers. So long as the world 

 endures there will be both 'quality 

 buyers' and 'price buyers.' " 



The Thorbum catalogfue is never ex- 

 celled for typographical excellence, and 

 the one hundred and fourth annual issue, 

 dated 1905, is up to the best of its prede- 

 cessors. The cover is a model. 



J. M. KIMBERLIN DEAD. 



James Monroe Kimberlin, head of the 

 important seed growing firm of J. M. 

 Kimberlin & Co., Santa Clara, CaL, 



