

Januaky 26. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Harvesting Red Weathersf ield Onions for Seed at Kimberlin & G>.'s, Santa Clara, CaL 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATMN. 



Pres., C. N. Paere, Des Moines, la : S'ltai^Tlo^ 

 Pres., L. L. May. St. Paul; Sec'y and Trea«^ C. E. 

 Eendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meetinc 

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



Creditors of the Missouri Valley Seed 

 Co., St. Joseph, Mo., hare »ske« fot a 

 receiver. 



The canner's convention will call 

 many seedsmen to Columbus, O., Febru- 

 ary 7 to 10. 



In a number of sections weather condi- 

 tions have been unfavorable to the cor- 

 ing of sweet corn. 



The Dutch Bulb Growers 'Association 

 invites all interested Americans to visit 

 the quinquennial exhibition at Haarlem, 

 March 17 to 21. 



The Dutch bulb salesmen were abroad 

 in the land much earlier than usual this 

 season and it looks as though their in- 

 tention is to go through the country with 

 a fine-toothed comb. 



An eastern seed house is reported to 

 he about to introduce a new amaryllis 

 raised by Luther Burbank. 



With the government supplying the 

 demand for free seeds and the depart- 

 ment stores and the big general mail- 

 order houses catering to the "price" 

 buyers, it looks as though the "quality" 

 ft.ilBtomer will soon be the only one left 

 fo^ the legitimate seedsman. 



J tP«OF. John T. Stimson, who was Su- 

 peVihitendent of Horticulture at the St. 

 Lioms World's Fair, is now president of 

 the Planter«i' Seed Co., Springfield, Mo. 

 F. W. Meas, secretary of the company 

 spent the exposition period in charge of 

 the Deming Company's exhibit of 

 sprayers. 



BULB STORAGE. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the new bulb storage house recently com- 

 pleted by Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., 

 and, as the capacity is 18,000 bushels, 

 gives some idea of the development in 

 the gladiolus industry. ;Mr. Cowee has 

 two other storage houses, bringing his 

 total warehousing capacity up to 26,000 

 bushels. 



Arthur G)wee's New House for Gladiolus Storage. 



It is, indeed, an exceptional catalogue 

 that does not list a dozen or «o "nov- 

 elties" this year. May they all prove 

 their claims to distinction. 



In addition to the many industries at 

 Zion City, 111., John Alexander Dowie 

 lias gone into the seed business, the 

 Horticultural Supply Department hav- 

 ing just issued a very neat catalogue of 

 thirty-two pages. 



It is reported that Geo. Weston, for- 

 merly in charge of the poultry depart- 

 ment of Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, 

 has taken a position with Sears, Boe- 

 buck & Co. to help manage their new 

 seed department. 



EtJGENE Funk, of Funk Bros. Seed 

 Co., Bloomington, 111., is chairman of the 

 membership committee of the American 

 Breeders' Association and will have a 

 good report to make at the meeting at 

 Champaign, 111., February 1 to 3. 



W. H. Metson, one of the growers of 

 the Braslan Seed Growers' Co., has been 

 appointed San Francisco park commis- 

 sioner by Mayor Smitz. The appoint- 

 ment is considered a good one, as Mr. 

 Metson has been a commissioner of Yo- 

 semite park for some years past. 



Preparations are being made to have 

 the coming annual convention of the 

 canners and packers at Columbus, O., 

 the best ever. The seedsmen are called 

 upon to do their part and the canners 

 promise to buy seed peas without ex- 

 pecting a quart of wax beans as a pre- 

 mium. 



A WELL known seed salesman explains 

 that the right way to get business from 

 the eastern buyer is to pretend that you 

 are on a pleasure trip and call simply 

 out of courtesy. A different method 

 succeeds best with the western buver, the 

 right way in his case being to wire in 

 advance the time your train will reach 

 his town and advise him that he can 

 hand his order into lower six of the 

 Pullman sleeper. 



It seems hard for the average farmer 

 to realize that seeds have any value. 

 If he sends in an order for 100 pounds 

 of timothy seed from which the seeds- 



