Fbbrdabt 9, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



659 



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Chartier Radish, Seed Farm of Waldo Rohnert, Gilroy, Gd, 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., C. N. Paye, Des Moines. la ; FlrBt Vlce- 

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

 Eendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

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



Boston seedsmen report a satisfactory 

 mail order trade up to date. 



Visited Cincinnati: — Wm. A. Pros- 

 eer, representing Ralph M. Ward, New 

 York. 



Visited Chicago:— Will A. Eshbach, 

 manager for J. A. Everitt Seed Co., In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. 



Many seedsmen are finding poultry 

 supplies an increasingly important 

 branch of their business. 



Seedsmen who smoke are not welcome 

 in Zion City, III. There is no tobacco 

 seed listed in the Zion catalogue. 



Each season sees increased production 

 of Asparagus plumosus seed, but the use 

 of the plant also continues to widen. 



The way the season's catalogues show 

 up is an indication of a growing appre- 

 ciation of the value of good printing. 



The seedsmen at the canners' conven- 

 tion at Columbus this week are not book- 

 ing much business but they are having a 

 good time. 



The weather is much against the mail 

 order business. It retards also the for- 

 warding of onion sets and puts things 

 generally m a rather depressed condi- 

 tion. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co. are intro- 



. ducing a new early potato, Quick Lunch, 



originated by Gideon T. Saflford, North 



Bennington, Vt., who produced Vermont 



Gold Coin. 



Philippe de Vilmorin, head of the 

 French seed house, journeyed from Paris 

 to London January 14 to preside at the 

 annual banquet of the French gardeners 

 resident in England. 



Springfield, Mo.— The Planters Seed 

 Co. filed articles of incorporation Febru- 

 ary 1, capital stock $14,000, fifty per 

 cent paid up. B. R. Davidson, forty 

 shares; John F. Woodruff, ten shares; 

 Henry Scholten, ten shares; F. W. Maas, 

 fourteen shares; John T. Stinson, sixty 

 shares. 



The agricultural appropriation bill as 

 passed by the lower house of Congress 

 sets aside $240,000 for the seed dis- 

 tribution of 1906. 



It is intimated by some of the seeds- 

 men that some of the bean growers 

 might have made better deliveries of 

 wax beans if they had tried hard. It is 

 hard to please everybody, 



Mathxas Kuktzweil, president of the 

 Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, Iowa, who 

 has been very ill since the last of De- 

 cember, is slowly recovering and it is 

 hoped will be at business again in a 

 few weeks. 



The New Year's number of the Gar- 

 deners' Magazine (British) contains a 

 very interesting story of "The Evolu- 

 tion of the Cabbage," by George Gordon, 

 illustrated from photographs supplied 

 by Sutton & Sons. 



It is reported that the Vilmorin me- 

 morial fund on January 1 amounted to 

 30,439 francs ($6,000) contributed by 

 2,710 subscribers. The English horti- 

 cultural papers report that ' * a large pro- 

 portion of the subscribers hail from the 

 United States." 



LONDON WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN. 



Watkins & Simpson* 



This firm was founded in 1876, by 

 Alfred Watkins and James Simpson, both 

 of whom had considerable experience of 

 the seed trade. They were content to 

 start in a modest way in the Savoy. The 



business soon began to increase, and a 

 removal became necessary to the premises 

 in 13 Exeter street, Strand, at present oc- 

 cupied by the firm, and where its growth 

 continued. Mr. Simpson died in 1893, 

 having retired from the business about 

 three months previously. Mr. McKay, 

 who had been with the firm for a consid- 

 erable time as traveler and manager, was 

 then taken into partnership. The prem- 

 ises now occupied by the firm are exten- 

 sive. The offices and vegetable depart- 

 ment are situated at 12 Tavistock street, 

 and they communicate with the flower 

 seed department in Exeter street. There 

 are also spacious warehouses in Long- 



STOP! 



NEW ASTER 

 KATE LOCK 



Been Grown 48 in. High. 



Finest aster in existence. Blooms 5 to 6 Inches 

 in diameter, full centers, stems 86 to 43 inches. 

 Shown at all largest exhibitions in Canada and 

 talcen everything; before it. Has never been 

 beat. Colors:— White Daybreak and mixed. 

 $2.00 per 1000 seeds. No agents. 



Oxigi- I U I nnV 41 Manchester Av: 

 nator, Ji lli LUuNf TOBOHTO, OVT. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Two Grand 

 Ne w Asters 



Beothey's White 

 Benthey's Pink 



The Seed of the Two Varieties 

 is ready- lor distribution now. 



PRICE LIST 



TBADB FAOKAOB 91 OO 



% OUVCB, Whit* or Pink a BO 



^OUVOB. '• " 4 50 



1 OUHOB, " " 8 00 



For further information write 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



35 Randolph St., Chicago. 



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^Carlson Improved — 



ASTER SEED 



Pure Strain. ^^fZ^'^^J^ ^^ J^^ ^®**S? ^^^' ***» 



— Cut Stock. No disease. N*'o yello'ws. 



EARLY WHITE Trade pkt, 25c; X ounce,, 50c; oonce.,$J.50 



LATE WHITE " 25c " 50c " J.50 



SHELL PINK " 25c " 50c " 1.50 



LAVENDER " 25c " 50c " J.50 



Order early to insure g^etting^ all colors. 



E. H. Hunt, 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



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