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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Afkil 13, 1905. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., C. N. Page, Des Moines, la ; Plret Vlee- 

 Pre«., I.. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas.. C. E. 

 Eendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

 will be held on the St. Ijawrence. June, 1906. 



Prices on Paper Whites in France are 

 expected to be a shade easier this fall. 



Caliix)rnia has not in years been so 

 well cleaned up on reed stocks as at 

 present. 



Caladiums have moved out at a great 

 rate the past fortnight and many stocks 

 are well cleaned up. 



Arnold Ringier, of W. W. Barnard & 

 Co., Chicago, has returned from a trip 

 to the Pacific coast. 



The Vegetable Growers' Association 

 of Ontario was organized March 25. 

 W. C. Emory, of Aldershot, is president. 



The mail order seed houses report 

 business to date well ahead of last year, 

 but the season is fully three weeks early. 



The Vilmorins of Paris, and Jas. H. 

 Veitch, of London, were elected honorary 

 members of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society April 1. 



Stock seed of peas and beans are 

 now being forwarded to the growing 

 points. Contracting with the farmers is 

 about completed and the sowing of peas 

 •will soon begin. 



In Great Britain the pharmacy act 

 against the sale of poisons is held to ap- 

 ply to insecticides containing nicotine or 

 other poisons and leading seed houses 

 have recently been fined for violations. 



There is no end to the sale of onion 

 Beed^ and no beginning to the sale of 

 seed potatoes. Onions will be low next 

 year and potatoes high. There is yet 

 time for the wise grower to get in line. 



Seed for onion sets is going into the 

 ground rapidly in the vicinity of Chi- 

 cago. It looks at present as though 

 the work of sowing will be finished this 

 year earlier than the date at which it 

 was begun last season. 



It is said that Sears, Roebuck & Co., 

 Chicago, a general mail order house, 

 contemplate securing properly equipped 

 greenhouses and grounds in order to 

 add plants and nursery stock to their 

 seed department the coming year. 



The Leonard Seed Co. reports the 

 market garden trade at Chicago far 

 ahead of last year. It oegan with a 

 rush about the middle of January and 

 has continued unusually brisk up to the 

 present, with no apparent falling off 

 in sight. 



A SEEDSMAN wlio reads books during 

 his vacation says: "Counter trade suf- 

 fers during the cool days that work 

 themselves in between the bright warm 

 ones in the springtime, but the lull oc- 

 casioned by this is to the seedsman as 

 the oasis is to the traveler in the 

 desert. ' ' 



A GROWING field for the seedsman 

 catering to market gardeners is in south- 

 ern Texas. J. K. Robertson says it is a 

 safe prophesy that within a season or 

 two the Beeville section alone will ship 

 north during the season solid cars of 

 onions, radishes, beets, lettuce, turnips, 

 spinach and other "bunch" crops. 



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\ a4awic& Benthey's White 

 >%^Tt?r3 Benthey's Pink 



FINEST COMMERCIAL ASTERS ON EARTH 



Very large flowers^ 3 to 6 inches in diameter^ with full 

 centers. Extra long stem, 36 to 48 inches, with a heavy 

 dark green foliage. Will produce more first-class salable 

 flowers than any Aster ever introduced. We especially 

 recommend BCNTHEY'S WHITE. Seed ready for 

 distribution. 



f Trade packet, White or Pink, $J.OO 

 PRICE I Quarter ounce, ** ** 2.50 



LIST 1 Half ounce ** ** 4.50 



I One ounce ** ** 8.00 



Ten per cent discount for cash with orders of 

 quarter ounce lots or over until April 19th if in reply to 

 this adv. For further information address 



L 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



Wholesale Horists, 35 Randolph St., Chicago. 



Carlson Improved 



ASTER SEED 



Pure Strain. ^«fSP*"* *■ "»* ***^«.^",^' *^, 



■ Cut Stock. No disease. No "yellows." 



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



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



SHELL PINK " 25c " 50c " J.50 



LAVENDER " 25c " 50c " 1.50 



Order early to insure g^ttingf all colors. 



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



Michell's Superior Branchuig Asters 



Our telected strain of SEKFIiE'S IiATE ABTESB Is k money-maker. Seed saved 

 from the finest and largest doable flowers, solid colors, with long, stiff stems, wbicli com- 

 mand top notch prices. Try tbem with foUowlnK colors: Lavender, Pink, Parple, Red, White 

 and mixed, per trade packet. SOc; per oz., fl.OO. 



For select list of F&OWZS SEEDS, BULBS, SVFPLXBS and everytbinK for the 

 florist see our Wholesale List— mailed on request. 



HENRY F. MIGRELL CO., 1018 Market St., PHIUDELPHU, PA. 



Reports from all sections up to date 

 show business considerably ahead of last 

 year. The phenomenal trade during the 

 last half of March is given credit for 

 this. 



The onion set jobbers report sales at 

 the tail end of the season as active as 

 at the beginning. Two weeks ago we in- 

 timated in this column that the effort to 

 clean up at the more southern centers 

 had a tendency to lower prices some- 

 what. The steady demand, however, 

 kept the bottom from falling out and 

 the prices have rested at $2 per bushel 

 for red and yellow, and $2.50 for whites. 



A NOTICEABLE feature ifi the trade this 

 year is the great increase in the Cana- 

 dian demand for onion sets. 



De Giorgi Brothers, 81 Dearborn ave- 

 nue, Chicago, is a new seed firm. They 

 aim to reach the Bohemian farmers of 

 the central and northwestern states. 

 They issue their catalogue in the Bohe- 

 mian language and report that the ven- 

 ture is meeting with much success, the 

 only drawback being inability to keep 

 up with the orders, many of which call 

 for seed miscellanies not usually car- 

 ried in quantity on this side of the 

 ocean. 



