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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 6. 1905. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICA SEED TRADE ASSOaAIION. 



Pres., W. H. Grenell. Saginaw, W. S., Mich.; 

 First Vlce-Pres., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

 Treaa., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. The 24th annual 

 meetlngr will be held at San Jose, Cal., June, 1006. 



It is announced that Leonard H. 

 Vaughan, of Chicago, is to be married 

 July 17. 



The first Harrisii are due this week 

 but the main early shipment is expected 

 on the boat leaving Bermuda July 14. 



E. J. Eeifel, of the Kocky Ford Hard- 

 ware Co., Eocky Ford, Colo., was a re- 

 cent visitor at Chicago. He reports that 

 the melon crops of Eocky Ford look well 

 and that a good crop of seed is ex- 

 pected by the Eocky Ford seed ' growers. 



Fort Worth, Tex.— The American 

 Seed Co. is a new corporation here. The 

 company intends to do a wholesale seed 

 business. The capital stock is $10,000. 

 The incorporators are A. E. Bell, F. M. 

 Bell, M. A. Benton, T. W. Sabatt, all of 

 Fort Worth. 



The onion set harvest at all points 

 will be begun two weeks earlier this year 

 than last. This is owing to the earlier 

 spring this year. The fact that an early 

 harvest insures a good, sound, long-keep- 

 ing bulb will be good news to those who 

 buy in the fall and sell in the spring. 



The week's reports show no improve- 

 ment in the bean situation. Quite a 

 number of farmers have sent in word 

 that their ground was not in shape to 

 plant at the time beans should have gone 

 in and many acres that were to have been 

 sown to beans will be taken up with some 

 other crop. 



THE LONDON LETTER. 



Bright, sunny and warm weather is 

 causing a rise in the spirits of the Eng- 

 lish seed growers. Many flowers are now 

 rapidly making for harvesting, while the 

 larger crops, peas, beans, turnips, cab- 

 bages, onions, mangels and beets, are 

 all improving under the changes in the 

 weather. There should be good yields of 

 wallflower seeds, Honesty, oriental and 

 Iceland poppies, etc., while the rosy 

 tinted aubrietias, such as Leichtlini, 

 which gave but poor crops during the 

 past two years, certainly show greater 

 promise. 



Those who, as a precaution against 

 the weather and other causes which lead 

 to failure, grow their blue primroses for 

 seed in cold frames, are now harvesting 

 the seed, though the harvest is, as is 

 customary, a small one. On slightly 

 raised and rather dry lands the blue 

 primrose will succeed in the open. On 

 heavy lands, especially if retentive of 

 moisture, many of the plants die in the 

 winter. There is a certain delicacy of 

 constitution about it, and yet, in semi- 

 wild places, where there is a good deal 

 of coolness and shade and helped by a 

 surfacing of decaying leaves which fall 

 from trees and shrubs, the blue prim- 

 rose will flourish as freely as the com- 

 mon yellow. But there is always dan- 

 ger of degeneration. A collection of 

 plants for seeds must be kept up to date. 



June and July bring a period of quiet 

 in the wholesale seed trade, though or- 

 ders will soon be brisk for cabbages, 

 onions and especially the Tripoli sec- 

 tion; cauliflower, lettuce, etc., which are | 



LEONARD 



SEED 

 CO. 



ONlOa SETS. 



Our plantiDKB for the 

 new crop are about 

 ready to harvest. 



We take orders now for deliv- 

 ery this fall or next spring:. 

 Writ* for Prioas. 



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WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS. 



Seeds for present requirements ready to ship 

 Contract orders for delivery after harvest 1905 

 are being booked now. 

 BEANS, PEAS AND 6AIDEN SEEDS. Write for Prices. 



TDRNIP SEED. "KI2,"«.:f 



CHICAGO 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



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VALLEY PIPS 



Beat German forcing and forcing IiX&AOS, 8VISASA 

 O&miPB. in aorta, aelected rOVOirXOBUX BVZiBB, 

 OBZaCBOV BAXB&EBS, AZA&BAS and other Saater 

 forcing Plants and Balba imported to order. Fall dellTery. 



Address: AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, I* S^ifS^^T;?: NEW YORK 



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MUSHBOOM SPAWN, PDRE CULTURE 



Being the Eastern Distnbuting 

 Agents for the American Manufact- 

 urers of Pure Culture Spawn, we can 

 ship Fresh Spawn on short oobce at 

 the following prices: 16c per lb ; tl 25 

 per 10 lbs.; 110.00 per ICO lbs. We 

 nave also the best make of English 

 Virgin Mushroom Spawn, fresh im- 

 portation, 8c. per lb.; 76c per 10 lbs.; 

 t6.00 per 100 lbs. ; $56.00 per 1000 lbs. 



CLUCAS & B0DDIN6TON CO. 



Tsliphont, 1013 Chtltii. 131 W. 23rd St.. NEW YORK CIH. 



SEED GROWERS 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn, Cnonm- 

 ber, Melon and Sqnaali Seed. Write 

 ua before placing contracts We have 

 superior atock Seed and can furnish you 

 good Seed at reasonable pricea. Address 



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



sown in July and August. At this 

 period of the year contract seeds of 

 mangel, swede and common field 

 turnips, etc., are prepared. Some of the 

 older of the permanent hands make 

 paper bags and such of the women as 

 are retained make canvas bags. The 

 young men are sent to the trial 

 grounds and find a beneficial change; 

 besides, if willing to learn, they can 

 pick up many scraps of useful infor- 

 mation and so fit themselves for higher 

 services. 



The premature bolting of cabbages 

 is a subject which is just now occupy- 

 ing a good deal of the attention 

 of seed growers and gardeners. It 

 comes as a disappointment to both. to 

 have the plants bolting when they 

 should be forming compact hearts. It 

 is to be feared that some seed grow- 

 ers, fearing a scarcity, allow the bolters 

 to seed, and in this way encourage the 

 tendency. Much can be done in the 

 way of selecting the proper sorts, sow- 

 ing at the proper time and seeding 

 from the long standing types. Seed 

 growers sometimes institute trials and 

 have the results made public, but it can 

 be noticed that their own specialties 

 are invariably to the fore. The Boyal 

 Horticultural Society, at the new gar- 

 den at Wisley, should enter upon a 

 comprehensive trial of cabbages, but it 

 should extend at least over three years. 

 It is to be hoped the society may bo 

 induced to carry out such a trial in the 

 near future. V. M. H. 



XXX SEEDS 



CHINESE PRIMROSE 



Flneat grown, large flowering, fringed, single 

 and double, 15 varletlea. mixed, 500 aeeda, 11.00; 

 half pkt., 60c. Have the varletlea separate, also. 



GIANT DAISY KlfSS*"'* 



aiu p D A D I A ^nest large flowering, 

 IN triMniM dwarf, mixed. 1000 

 seeds, 6O0. 



GIANT PANQV'^^^ ^^^^ ^"t'^ 

 I M IN I r^M IN a T flowering varie- 

 ties, critically selected. 6000 seeds, $1.00: half pkt., 

 60c. 500 seeds of Oiant Mm*. Parret panay 

 aeed added to every 91.00 pkt. of Oiant Panay. 

 Oaali. Liberal extra count of aeeda in all packets. 



JOHN r. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



THE HOMB OF PRIMROSES. 



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FISCHER'S GRAND FREESIA 



"PURITY" 



The flneat in exiatence. A magnificent white 

 of largest size, very fragrant, very strong, long 

 stems, can be cut two feet long: flowers of great 

 substance; very prolific in both flower and bulbs, 

 producing bulbs of immense size when well 

 grown. Price, S4.00 per 100; S30.00 per 1000. 600 

 at 1000 rate. Discount on 5000 lots. Ready now. 

 Oaah with order, please. 



R.FISCHER, Great Neck, L I., N.Y, 



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NARCISSUS 



Surplus stock. 60,000 strong, blooming bulb.*;. 

 Fine for Decoration Day (grown north of 

 Chicago). In four hardy sorts, double and 

 single. 60c per 100 ; $5.00 per 1000. 



F. A. BALLER, BL00MIN6T0N, ILL. 



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It Is Now Ready! 



Our catalogue of Guernsey-grown bulba. Let us 

 send you it, before you order elsewhere. 



HUBERT & CO., 



M. lie PAQB, Bep. MT. VBBgOBr, H. T. 



RALPH M. WARD & CO. 



Exporters and Importers 

 12 West Broadway, New Yorb 



Bulbs, Plants. 



Vailiy Vur Speclalt) '^JSJ^j^SS:, 



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NomslMS Iraad, 



