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March 2, 190S, 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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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 j 



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SEED GROWERS 



Field, Sweet and Fop Oozn, Ononin- 

 l>er, Melon and Sanaah Seed. Write 

 us before placing contracts. We have 

 superior stoclc Seed and can furnish you 

 Kood Seed at reasonable prices. Address 



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



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filadiolos Balbs 



Our bnlbi are not better than 

 tbe beat, bat better than the rest 

 TRT THKIE. „ 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



■TXiTAVXA, OXXO. 



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since she has received their catalogue 

 under a three-cent stamp. The first was 

 the only order. Evidently that house 

 makes no effort to determine the value 

 of a name. But when the 1905 cata- 

 logue came to hand the woman sent a 

 postal card asking them to make better 

 use of the book in 1906. 



There are many ways of adding new 

 iiames to a mailing list, but the means 

 of disposing of dead names are far less 

 numerous. The most general one, that 

 of advising the postmaster to send for 

 return postage on undeliverable pieces, 

 is rendered of little value by the failure 

 of the great majority, it must be, of 

 postmasters to comply with the law. It 

 is sometimes argued that with general 

 seed catalogues there is a recompense in 

 that few such books are destroyed; that 

 they find their way to someone who is 

 as likely to order as would be the ad- 

 dressee. But how about the next season, 

 when the ' * someone ' ' gets both the 

 other fellow's and his own bookf 



SEEDSMAN INTERVENES. 



The daily papers have for weeks been 

 full of the struggle for the control of 

 the great Equitable Life Assurance So- 

 ciety. Hundreds of those in the trade 

 are policy-holders and as such are vitally 

 interested in the integrity of the surplus 

 of $81,000,000 out of which one faction 

 of the board of directors proposes to 

 reimburse James H. Hyde for the sur- 

 render of the shares of stock which en- 

 able him to control the company. 



It has remained for Herbert G. Tull, 

 treasurer of the H. A. Dreer Co., Phila- 

 delphia, to precipitate proceedings 

 which «ill bring the whole matter into 



AT ST. LOUIS A 



AWARDED ON VEGETABLES, 

 THE PRODUCTS OF 



GRAND PRIZE was 

 BURPEE'S SEEDSI 



IF you garden you want the BBST,— and we shall be pleased to mall you Bubpeb's Fabm 

 Annual for 1906, an elecrant new book of 178 pagea, which tells the plain truth, with 

 hundreds of illustrations, beautiful colored plates, and describes superb NoTelties of 

 unusual merit. Ifyou trarden for profit or are a florist, you should also have Bitbpke's 

 " Blub List " or wholesale Piuce List fob Mabket Oabsbnbrs and Flobists. 



Write TODAY! A postal card will do, while it is suffioient to 

 address simply BURPEE, PHILADELPHIA 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., The World's Largest Mail -Order Seed Trade 



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LEONARD 



WHOLESALE 



WRITE FOR PRICES 



WE ARE 



HEADQUARTERS 



FOR 



ONION SETS 



SEED 

 CO. 



FlMwr tNdi 

 aid 

 talks 



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Seeds for present requirements ready to ship. 

 Oontract orders for delivery after harvest 1906 

 are being booked now. 

 BUNS, PEAS AND GARDEN SEEDS. Write for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



Law^n 



GrSLSS Seed ^a bulk and packages 



Special Prices IwCll ^F^ 



,o^„. MIXTURES. 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



BRAND MlnneApells. CKlo».ga. 



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HAVING BEEN AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE 



For Ny |>| Anifll I ^^ ^^^ 



Exhibition of ULMl^lwLl World's Fair 



it is with increased coofldence in my ability to supply superior stock that I solicit a continuance^! 

 patronage, and new customers. OrolTs Hybrids »ad other sorts the hest obtalnahle. 



Write for 

 Catalogue. 



ARTHUR COWEE, Gladiolus Specialist, Meadowvale Farm, Berlin, N.Y. 



W% t I C^ C^ I IT 1^ LILY OF THE (^er looo • 15 oo 



KLISSlAN VALLEY lj::;,r j:~ 



THE BK8T FOB BABI.'r OB liATE FOBCINO. 

 Branch, 404 E. 34th St. 



8c XV-A^I^TTE:!^ oo. 



60 BARCLAY ST., NEW YORK. 



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VALLEY PIPS 



Best German forcing and forcing &X£AOS, SPZBASA 

 O&miPB in sorts, selected iOVOmOSVM BVXiBB. 

 OBZXBOV JLAiaiMUm, ABA&BAB and other KMter 

 forcing nsats and BiUhs imported to order. Fall delivery. 



/ddress: AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, l'.iSf%:^^7S?: NEW YORK 



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