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The Weekly Florists^ Reviev^i? 



February 16, 1905. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEtlCAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION. 



Pres., C. M. Pare, Dea Jfolnes, la ; First Vice- 

 Pr«a.. Li. L. Hay, St. Paul; Secy and Treas.. C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

 «rUl b« held on the St. lAwranoe, June. 1906. 



The season la backward, 



The cold Is Intense; 

 The new man Is wonderlnjc 



When trade will commence. 

 The wax bean Is higb. 



While the check stub is low. 

 And the boss tells the buyer 



'Tls safe to go slow. 



Newell Mix opens a seed store at Car- 

 thage, Mo., each spring for the season. 



Memphis, Tenn. — Joe L. Ullathome 

 is kept from business with a fractured 

 ankle, the result of a recent accident. 



The canners' convention held at Col- 

 umbus, Ohio, the past week has caused 

 no marked advance in the prices of 

 seeds nsed by canners. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co. say that 

 their wholesale business is increasing at 

 even a more rapid rate than the retail, 

 and without travelers. 



Chicago. — S. F. Leonard, \tho has 

 been ill for the past two weeks, is some- 

 what better and is expected back at his 

 desk in a day or two. 



The present cold snap has tested the 

 Chicago onion set warehouses pretty 

 thoroughly. Reports are that the frost 

 has not as yet worked in. 



Visited Chicago.— B. Zuzuki, of 

 Zuzuki & lida, New York and Yoko- 

 homa; F. H. Henry and Robert Fulton, 

 cf Henry & Lee, New York. 



Th» frosty weather now prevailing 

 at the fouth will give the northern mar- 

 ket gardener a chance to get something 

 worth while for his 6arly crops. 



Seedsmen at Shenandoah, la., report 

 business for the first half of February as 

 heavy compared with previous years, and 

 the outlook better than ever before at this 

 season. 



Thb announcement is at hand of a 

 weekly journal to be published at Kan- 

 sas City exclusively for the seed tl-ade. 

 The printed matter bears no names of 

 individuals. 



The earnestness with which the sales- 

 men approach the subject of orders would 

 indicate that the war scare is over and 

 that there are reasonable prospects for 

 enough lily bulbs from Japan next sea- 

 son. 



The customs appraisers manifest a 

 disposition to advance invoice values on 

 many items. Cases to come up for hear- 

 iog at Chicago February 15 were con- 

 tinued until the next sitting of the 

 board. 



In Henry Field 's corn tests at Shenan- 

 doah, la., one of the striking points 

 brought out was the diflference in be- 

 havior of seed corn from the east and 

 fl-om the west in the matter of stand- 

 ing up and resisting wind storms. The 

 western corn accustomed for generations 

 to prairie winds, stood up well even in 

 a considerable storm, while the eastern 

 com of the same or similar varieties went 

 down easily. 



The Chicago Tribune says that to de- 

 prive the statesmen in Washington of the 

 privilege of sending garden seeds to their 

 constituents would be to take away the 

 only opportunity some of them ever have 

 of being useful. 



The quinquennial exhibition of the 

 Royal Dutch Bulb Growers' Society at 

 Haarlem, Holland, March 17 to 21, will 

 aflford a fine opportunity to those espe- 

 cially interested with recent progress in 

 this branch of the trade. 



It is advisable at this season of the 

 year to remind buyers of onion sets that 

 freezing while in transit does not hurt 

 them. When onion sets arrive in a froz- 

 en condition all that is needed is to 

 open up the packages, let the sets thaw 

 gradually, and handle them as little as 

 possible until they dry out. 



The general catalogue of Sears, Roe- 

 buck & Co., Chicago, weighs forty-six 

 ounces and L. E. Asher, the advertising 

 manager, says that "when space costs 

 us $1,000 per page for a season it be- 

 hooves us strongly to use that page 

 every inch and line and hair's breadth 

 to the illustrating and describing plain- 

 ly and clearly the merchandise we have 

 to sell and crowd on the page as much 

 as we can and do. it justice." With 

 space in the general book at that price 

 naturally.- they have many special cata- 

 logues, and seeds will be one of them. 



CHICAGO ONION SET INDUSTRY. 



A man from Missouri coming into 

 Chicago a few days ago observed from 

 the car window at several different points 

 along the railroad, buildings that were 

 stenciled "Onion set warehouse." The 

 fize of the buildings aroused his curiosity 

 and he asked his seat mate for informa- 

 tion on the subject of onion sets. He 

 was given a figure *that was estimated as 

 being the quantity of bushels raised in 

 the vicinity of Chicago and was invited 

 to inspect one of the warehotises, where a 

 good bunch of the goods could be shown 

 him. He could not accept the invita- 

 tion because his ticket was limited. He 

 seemed satisfied, however, that there must 

 be something in the warehouses and ad- 

 mitted that the chances favored its being 

 onion sets. He intimated that if a short 

 statement of the history of the industry 

 in so far as it applied to Chicago could 

 be given him he would be pleased to 

 make a note of it for future investiga- 

 lion. The person with whom he was con- 



versing seemed to be in a position ta 

 give the desired information and pro- 

 teeued to do it as follows: 



"The beginning of the Chicago onion 

 set industry dates back to 1886, when a 

 seedsman who had just completed his 

 second season in that line of trade- 

 planted a four-acre patch for onion sets 

 on Diversey street, near Milwaukee ave- 

 nue. The product of the four acres was 

 in the neighborhood of 1,600 bushels. 



"For some years previous to this a 

 large pickle man at Bowmanville had 

 been growing what were termed 'pickle 



Quality First 



NEW ASTER 

 KATE LOCK 



Has Been Grown 48 in. High. 



Finest aster in existence. Blooms 5 to 6 ioches 

 in diameter, full centera. stems 36 to 4 1 inches. 

 Sbown »t all largest exhibitions in Canada and 

 taken everything before it Has never been 

 beat. Colors:— White Daybreak and mixed. 

 S2.00 per 1000 seeds. No BRents. 



aSor. Ji III LUuKf TOBOVTO. OWT, 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



Two Grand 

 Ne w Asters 



Benthe/s White 

 Benthey's Pink 



The Seed of the Two Varietie# 

 is ready lor distribution now. 



PRICE LIST 



VBABS FAOXAOB 01 oa 



H OUBOB. Whit* or Mnk 9 60 



KOUBOB. " 4 SO 



1 OVBOB. " " 8 0» 



For farther information write 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



36 Randolph St., Chicago. 



Mention The Review when joa write. 



MXwvr* mcntioa th* norlsts' B«Ti«w 

 wb«i writtaff •ArmrXlmmtu. 



Carlson Improved 



ASTER SEED 



Pure Strain. Recogrnised MM the leading Aster lor 

 - ^ .^!!!. c„t Stock. No disease. IT'o yeUows." 



EARLY WHITE Trade pkt, 25c; X ooncc, 50c; ounce., $1.50 



LATE WHITE " 25c " 50c " 1.50 



SHELL PINK " 25c " 50c " J 50 



LAVENDER " 25c " 50c " J.50 



Order early to insure getting^ all colors. 



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



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