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Fkbbuaby 16, 1906. 



The Wccklv iFIorists^ Review* 



7J5 



onions,' and some of the market garden- 

 ers were doing the same thing on a 

 smaller scale. These were all white 

 onipns, however, and were grown for 

 the pickling vats of factories in the 

 neighborhood; they were not onion sets, 

 nor were they grown as such. 



"In 1885 Chicago needed but a limited 

 quantity of onion sets for home consump- 

 tion and, aside from a few barrels of 

 velJows shipped in from eastern points 

 and stored in a seed house on La Salle 

 rtreet, and a hundred or so bushels of 

 whites spread out on a floor over John- 

 son's 'Silver Brand' sauerkraut em- 

 porium on- South "Water street, all the 

 visible supply of onion sets as far as 

 ('hicp.go was concerned could be put into 

 a quart measure. 



' ' The venture of the seedsman who 

 harvfsted the 1,600 bushels in 1886, and 

 to whom the credit of starting the onion 

 set business at Chicago belongs, panned 

 out first rate — so well in fact, that the 

 next year he increased his plantings and 

 encouraged the gardeners to grow small 

 patches, taking their product from them 

 after harvest at an agreed price. The 

 soil and climate proved favorable and 

 the price realized for the product at that 

 time made the business a paying one. 

 Jn 1888 mutual interests drew the Bow- 

 manville pickle man and the Chicago 

 seedsman together and an arrangement 

 Mas made between them, the one to grow 

 the sets because he had the land, and the 

 ether to sell the sets because he had a 

 .store which was known to be Chicago 

 headquarters for supplying the onion set. 

 ' Tn union there is strength, ' and for the 

 next few years there was a continued in- 

 crease in the production of onion sets at 

 Chicago, 50,000 bushels being the esti- 

 mated crop of 1892. 



"Up to 1894 the seedsman to whom 

 the credit of starting the thing has been 

 given, was practically the sole distributor 

 ana owner of the onion set product of 

 Chicago. It chanced that 1893 was a 

 banner year. The prices realized for 

 onion sets in the fall of that year and 

 into the spring of 1894 were such as to 

 make the growers feel that with olentv of 

 land all that was needed to bring them 

 wealth was plenty of onion seed to throw 

 into it, and in the fall dig out the sets. 

 TI-, "orRenuenee was that a new era was 

 established, a scattering took place, new 

 outlets had to be searched for and the 

 new operators who took hold, finding 

 themselves in it, had to push the thing 

 «long out of sheer necessity. The pickle 

 man and the seedsman, who up to thi.s 

 time had been the main factors in the 

 production of onion sets at Chicago, 

 disagreed on a question of policy. The 

 foTiuer wanted to double the qua r tit v 

 thj.t they had heretofore produced <^" 

 push the newcomers out of it, but the 

 latter, being more conversant with the 

 obstacles in the wav of forcine a market, 

 objected to this. The outcome was that 

 the pickle man decided to go in as a dis- 

 tributor as well as a grower, and the 

 seedsman, being originally both grower 

 and distributor, resumed the growing 

 for himself on a scale proportionate to 

 the increased needs of his business. The 

 Chicago onion set production for the 

 next two years was more than double 

 what it was in 1893 amd 1894. 



"Sinee 1896 and up to the present, the 

 ranks of those erowing and distributing 

 onion sets at Chicago has been much in- 



B Antirrhinum (Snap<'''agon] 



Tan srcwlnff sort, finest brillUnt colors mixed t.lO t.80 



Antlnlilaiua, dwarf sorts mixed 10 .80 



%OZ. OK 



$1.0» 

 1.0» 



ASTERS. The finest imported seed. Try it. 

 QVSB V OF MAXZBT, separate, white, carmine, crimBon, deep scarlet, rose, purple, 



ligtat or dark blue, reddish lilac or mixed 15 .20 .6*- 



OXAVT OOMBT, pure wbite, white changInK to rose, liarbt yellow, rose, crimson 



lavender, li^bt or dark blue, separate or mixed 20 .80 1.0(V 



Branehlnff Autmt, &ate, white, roie edged wbite, shell pink, crimsoD, dark rose, 



light or dark blue, separate or mixed 15 .20 .60 



Daybrckk. finest shell pink 25 .60 2.0O 



Fvrlty flnestwhlte 25 ,60 20O 



Bxtz» Barly HohanBollazn. white or rose. : , 25 .50 1.50 



BelllB ParMinls Daisy, double rose 20 .60 2.0O 



double white 25 .75 2.6ft 



Molilalia Oryatal Falaoa Oompaota 15 .60 



Emperor William, dark blue 15 .50 



Klffnonetta, Allen's Defiance 15 .25 



Giant Market 10 .20 



VBTUBXA, ruffled and fiinxed Kianta. sinRle 25 



ThB BBBT double large flowering extra, 100 leeda, 26c; 600 seeds. 

 85c: 1000 seeds. tl.60. Trade pkt. Oz. 



Vjrrathmm aaraniii. Golden Feather $.10 t .30 



Salvia Bonflr* Ji oz . 60c .26 2.26- 



Plata Bsflman, flneat dwarf ^oz.60c .25 226. 



■mUaz per lb., $2 60; « lb., 70c .10 .25 



Btoeka. choicest German, ten weeks, all colors ^ oz., 50c .25 2.31^ 



Bwaat Paaa, send for our Floriste' List. 



▼•xbana Kammotli, pure white, scarlet, purple, separate colors or mixed 15 l.Olk 



NOVELTIES IN SEEDS. 



OiantDalalcs Alaska, We«tralia. California pkt., 10c: trade pkt., 260 



lobelia WBITB XiADT. pu-^e wbite pkt. 10c: trade pkt., 26c 



Forir*t-B'«>Bot BZXiVBB QVBBV, will commence flowering 8 to 10 weeks after sowing. Planta 

 have a stout bushy habit, attain a height of 7 to 8 inches and a diameter of 7 to 8 inches when 

 full grown, plant is globular in shape, literally covered with large pure wbite fliwers, doable 

 center petala. Placed in the house in the fall it will continue flowering tbrouKh the winter and 

 be most valuable for cutting. Vary bast sort for fotolng'. 26 seedB, 10c: 100 seeds, 30c; lOOft 

 aeeda, 82 00. 

 BA^TZA BP&CVDBVI TBZVItPH, immense apikea of dazzUng scarlet, pkt., 15c: trade pkt., 50& 



Biootlana BaaAaxss the carmine red ever blooming Tobacco plant pkt., 26e 



Aapaxaffus Plumoana Banna, ^••nltonBe fresb seed 100 seeds. 60c: 1000 aeeda, 94.60^ 



Uprmtftm 103 seeds, I6c; 1000 aeeda, 75c., 



FOR E/LSTER FORCING-MONET MAKERS. 



Wistaria fllaanaia, pot grown, plants 2 ft. high, will bear 20 to 80 long racemes of flowers, each tt.. 



" " pure wbite or purple per doz , tl2.00- 



DOUB&B P]«OWBBfZVO Panoy Xwlatad Japan Oharrias each, 76c: doz., 98.00 



Japan Txaa P«oai*«, in all leading colors, your choice. 3 to 4 flowers each. 50c; doz., 96.09 



V«w Bwaat Boantad Herbaceous Peonies. 4 to 6 eyes force well each, 80c; doz.. 98.00' 



" MnltiaraftadlfapltB, many grafts, of diverse colored foliage, onl stem.ea., 50c; doz., 96.00 



Japan Haw Blydxanffaaa, blue, rose, wbite each. 40c; doz.. $tM 



Vaw Bydranffaa Bosaa, large bead of rosy flowers, reddish atema each, 91.00; doz., 910.<M. 



BULBS FOR FORCING. 



Amanrllls Belladonna, rose large bulba 91.00 per doz.; 97.00 per lOT 



Pormoslaaima, acarlet. large boiba 60 per doz.; 4.00 per 10» 



MaraHybrida of Vittata each. 50c 5 00 per doz. 



Baironlaa, ttlberouB rooted in aeparate colora. white, roae, scarlet, crimson, yellow, orange, apricot 



or mixed, large bulbs single giant flowering 40c per doz ; 92.60 per lOft- 



Btffoaia Bonbla Oiaat Plvtrarinr, in separate dolors, white, scarlet crimson, rose, yellow 



orange or mixed 00c per doz.; 94.60 per 10ft 



If ordered mixed we put ap aqnal proportion* of above. 

 Oaladinm Esculeotum (Elephant's Bar) witb sound center shoota: 6 to 8 inches, 30c per doz.: 92.0ft 

 per 100. 8 to 10 inches, 50c per doz: $8 50 per 103. 10 to 12 inches, 75c per doz.; 95.50 per 100. 



Panoy Ztaavad OiOadlnnis. in choice named aorta 91.25 per doz.; 98.00 per 10ft 



The SABBBT BOBTB of these produce mostly small bolba. 12 100 100ft 



Oladioli, all white and light 9.40 92.09 916.09 



choicest mixed 50 per cent wbite and light .30 1.50 10.0ft 



Anjnata, pure white 60 8JW 99.99 



Kay. wbite and rose 25 1.75 16.0ft 



All olaan, first siia stook. 

 Olozinlas, wbite. scarlet, blae, purple, red with white border, violet witb wbite 



border, tigered 60 4 Oft 



Mizad Olosiaiaa 50 8.0ft 



Tnbarosas, Donble Excelaior Pearl extra fine stock, 4 to 6H-iDCb l.iO 7.5) 



If our new Bprinff Ust has not been mailed to you, send for it at one*. Address 



H. H. DERGER it CO., 47 BARCLAY ST., NEW YORK. 



M»iit1oa Tbe Bevlew wWa yw wiita. 



e; cased by men who have pulled out as 

 j>ri;duates, or from other connection of 

 some sort with the original growers, until 

 tl;e product of Chicago in a good year 

 cnunot be far from 3.50,000 bushels." 



The informant of the man from Mis- 

 souri then ended up by saying: "That 

 is a short history of the set industry as 

 it applies to Chicago, and you are wel- 

 come to it. ' ' Being pressed for the nam'» 

 of the see<lsman to whom the credit of 

 starting the business was due, he said: 

 "It is S. F. Leonard, now president of 

 the Leonard Seed Co." "And of the 

 pickleman ? " " It is L. A. Budlong. 

 president of the L. A. Budlong Co." 

 "And who may you be?" insisted the 

 man from Missouri. "Me? Oh, that 

 don't matter; but I helped weigh in 

 nv<] take care of quite a bunch of onion 

 sets at Philadelphia in the fall of 1884." 



"We esteem the Review \-erv highly for 

 its Seed Trade News. — Binchamton 

 Seed Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 



LONDON WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN. 



Qx>pcr, Taber & G>. 



Of the existing Loudon seed houses^ 

 the oldest is that of Cooper, Taber is 

 Co. It was founded by John Mason, 

 who, about 1781, established himself in 

 business at the "Sign of the Orange 

 Tree," 152 Fleet streei ; and in the 

 catalogue issued by tlie present house ii* 

 1900-1 they gave photographs and page» 

 of the catalogue of .lohii Ma.<w>n for 

 1793. Eventually .John Mason took his 

 son into partnership, and up to 1827 the 

 firm was known as .John Mason & Son. 

 In the latter year, Mr. Noble, a nephew 

 of Mason, and a Mr. Goude, took over 

 the business, and the same existed for 

 three years as Mason & Goude. In 183ft 

 the brothert* W. & J. Nobb becaine sole 

 proprietors, and continued the business 

 till they died of cholera in 1848. la 

 1849, the surviving son of W. Noble ad- 

 mitted to partnership Robert Cooper and 



