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The Weekly Florists' RevieC"; 



S^BRUART 23, 1906. 



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Bermuda Harrisii Bulbs 



THE "SEMPER IDEM" BRAND ' 



I am now booking orders for July and August delivery. 



Prices on application. 



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CHAS. A. V. FRITH, HAMILTON, BERMUDA 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



Bidered venture into that field by the 

 conviction that the future of this de- 

 partment of the trade would not war- 

 rant the investment necessary to get rec- 

 ognition for a new house. 



This is fine weather for the onion set 

 shipper and it pleases the buyer at the 

 other end. 



A BILL providing for the inspection of 

 the sale of seeds is being actively op- 

 posed by Canadian . seedsmen. 



There is a brisk demand for gladioli 

 in Holland and all sorts will clear nicely 

 despite the very good crop last year. 



The Globe varieties of onion seed are 

 thought scarce enough to warrant ad- 

 vanced prices, judging from late quota- 

 tions. 



The agricultural appropriation bill, 

 with Its provision for free seed distribu- 

 tion in 1906, is held up by a dispute 

 between the House and Senate. 



The Dutch bulb growers fear injury 

 to crops by the partial uncovering of the 

 fiplds by high winds before the time for 

 thinning the winter cover had arrived. 



Thb total value of seeds imported in 

 the year 1904 was $3,394,084 accordinff 

 to figures of the United States Depart 

 ment of Commerce. In the same period 

 we exported seeds to the value of $9. 

 257,085. '^"' 



The general magazines are not carry- 

 ing so much space in seed advertise- 

 ments as in past seasons. One house 

 tound, after considerable study of re- 

 sults, that requests for catalogues cost, 

 from advertising in the monthlies of 

 gei>eTal circulation, about 50 cents each, 

 to which was to be added cost of book 

 and postage. First orders from names 

 so obtained averaged about $1.25 each 

 and only a fraction of the inquiries re- 

 siitted in orders, evidence that the par- 

 ties had written at the same time for 

 <'atalogue8 from several houses, mani- 

 festly unprofitable all around. This 

 house now gets its new names principally 

 by a circular to customers oflFering to 

 send a packet of sweet peas free in re- 

 turn for the addresses of ten neighbors 

 who have gardens. The value of these 

 names will probably be determined with- 

 in the next ninety days. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, Ky., 

 Success with ^wns; Henry A. Dreer, 

 Philadelphia, Suggestions for the Gar- 



Velvet Beans! 



WE ARE HEADQUARTERS 



STATE NUMBER OF BUSHELS M^^l/ f 

 WANTED. WRITE US fSF" 1^ VT VW • 



CRENSHAW BROS., Tampa, Tla. 



LEONARD 



t WRITE FOR PRICES 

 WE ARE 

 HEAOQLARTERS 

 FOR 



ONION SETS 



WHOLESALE 



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Bulks 



Seed! for present requirements ready to snip. 

 OoDtract orders for delivery after harvest 1905 

 are being booked now. 

 BUNS, PCAS AND GARDEN SEEDS. Write for Prices. 



CO. CHICAGO 



Lawn 



GrSlSS Seed ^>^ bulk and packages 



i!^^±^^ Special Prices GOLF 



'"'-"^ MIXTURES. 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



■RAND Mlnnoapolls. CKIo«LgOk 



Mention The Itcvlew when you write. 



den; Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, 

 Mich., chrysanthemums, etc.; Adolphus 

 Wysong, Lebanon, Ind., seeds. 



LONDON WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN 



Nutting & Sons. -I^T ^. 



This house is one of long standing. 

 A. M. Flanagan who established the 

 house was a traveler for a firm known 

 as Warner & Warner, and he took into 

 partnership Messrs. Chubb and Nutting. 

 Mr. Chubb presently retired and the 

 firm became known as Flanagan & Nut- 

 ting. A separation took place in 1842. 

 The present partner, W. J. Nutting, 

 joined his father in 1852, and his broth- 

 er, H. C. Nutting, a year later. The 

 business was taken to the Barbican in 

 1855; it remaining there for twenty- 

 five years, when it was transferred to 

 106 Southward street, the premises hav- 

 ing previously been occupied by 

 the London branch of the seed business 

 of Peter Lawson & Sons, of Edinburgh. 



Hurst Sc SonsJ ^^^ 

 This firm was founded in 1843 by 



SEED GROWERS 



Field, 8we«t and Pop Oom, Ononm- 

 bor, Xalon and flKmaali B—A. Write 

 OS before placiPK contracts. We have 

 superior stock Seed and can furnish you 

 Rood Seed at reasonable prices. Address 



A. A. BERRY SEED COMPANY, Clarinda, la. 



Mention Tte Review when yon write. 



William Hurst and William G. Mullen, 

 who, for many years previously had been 

 assistants in the house of Warner & 

 Warner, Comhill. In a few years Mr. 

 McMuUen withdrew, and set up in busi- 

 ness in St. Martin's Lane, W. C. Then 

 Mr. William Hurst joined his father, 

 the business becoming known as Hurst 

 & Son; and subsequently N. Sherwood, 

 so well known in the seed trade, be- 

 came the head of the firm, in the ad- 

 ministration of which, he is assisted by 

 his sons, William and Edward Sherwood. 

 The headquarters of' the firm now are at 

 152 Houndsditch, where a very extensive 

 bosiness has been built up, says Rich- 

 ard Dean in the Horticultural Trade 

 Journal. 



