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September 14, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



939 



^» ^_^_ -^«^JLl^^^-^^-««^,^^ We will have the largest and best assort- 

 ^>Iil ySoillOdllUlliS ment of Chrysanthemums in Chicago this 



season and can supjJy your wants after Oct. K 



j^^^^^f^^^ We can supply you with clean, fine stock, large flowers, fine foliage; 

 ■CUSt^ strictly fancy stock. 



Tuberoses, Asf ers. Valley, Carnations 



H. L. RANDALL CO., 



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 CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMERICA SEED TRADE ASSOavtlON. 



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

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

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

 meetlngr will be held at San Jose, Cal., June, 1906. 



The government report estimates the 

 corn crop at 2,625,000,000 bushels, a 

 new record. 



The Louisiana crop of Creole onion 

 seed is reported considerably below that 

 of last year. 



Steamer manifests show considerable 

 quantities of German clover and alfalfa 

 seeds arriving at New York. 



Sweet peas and onion seed are likely 

 to be the scarcest crops, proportionately, 

 of all the California seed products. 



Crops of both peas and beans are 

 reported to be getting shorter the longer 

 experts continue to investigate the con- 

 ditions prevailing. 



There were only five cases of bulbs 

 on the last boat from Bermuda. A few 

 French bulbs are still arriving, but 

 Dutch bulbs are the principal item now. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has issued as Bulletin No. 83 "The 

 Vitality of Buried Seeds," by J. W. T. 

 Duvel, which will be of interest to seeds- 

 men. 



Carrot seed is to be delivered in full 

 this year, according to reports. Carrot 

 goes farther than some other seeds and 

 this intelligence may not be very impor- 

 tant. 



Visited Chicago: H, W. Johns, of 

 Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co., on his 

 way to the company's bean growing sta- 

 tion in Michigan; Harry Claire, of S. 

 L. Allen, Philadelphia. 



The shortness of the onion set crop 

 will show up after the deliveries from 

 the fields to winter onarters have been 

 made. The crop at Chicago is far below 

 last year's product from an equal acre- 

 age. 



M. J. Henry, of Vancouver, says that 

 "Probably very few eastern people ap- 

 preciate that British Columbia can and 

 does grow quite a few varieties of seeds 

 as good or better than some other lo- 

 calities. British Columbia has the rec- 

 ord of the cleanest timothy seed in Can- 



ada and garden peas are free from the 

 pea weevil or beetle. We grow good 

 plump radish, carrot, parsnip and cab- 

 bage seed and orders for native tree 

 seeds, such as Douglas fir, mammoth 

 cedar and blue spruce, are continually 

 coming in from all over the world." 



CLUCAS CO. ASSIGNS. 



The Clucas & Boddington Co., whole- 

 sale dealers in seeds, bulbs, nursery 

 stock and garden requisites at 131 W. 

 Twenty-third street. New York, with a 

 nursery at Sparkill, N. Y., made an as- 

 signment September 7, to Frank H. 

 Henry, of Henry & Lee. The business 

 was started in 1895 by Eobert W. Clu- 

 cas, and incorporated January 26, 1897, 

 with capital stock of $3,000, which was 

 increased May 3, 1905, to $50,000. Robert 

 W. Clucas is president. Arthur T. Bod- 

 dington withdrew from the company 

 some years ago and is not affected in 

 any way. In 1902 the company purchased 

 nursery property at Sparkill for $11,500, 

 and has since spent considerable on its 

 improvement. The assignee has not yet 

 given out a statement of assets and lia- 

 bilities, but says he will be ready to do 

 so in a few days. 



mundson, who is to be superintendent 

 and inspector of crops. In announcing 

 that these two young men had joined 

 the company, C. P. Braslan said to the 

 San Jose Mercury that : ' ' The demands 

 of business in this line are increasing 

 so rapidly that I find it expedient to 

 make arrangements to meet the situa- 

 tion. For the year 1906 we will materi- 

 ally enlarge the acreages in various lines 

 of s«eds that we are now growing. This 

 arises from the increased demand made 

 upon us, not only by the United States, 

 but by Europe. It is perhaps not amiss 

 to say that the acreage of this company 

 next season will be the largest of any 

 seed concern in the world, comprising 

 about 4,000 acres." 



BRASLAN'S PLANS. 



The forces of the Braslan Seed Grow- 

 ers ' Co., San Jose, Cal., have been 

 strengthened by the accession of Bussell 

 L. Woldenberg, who is to be assistant 

 general manager, and Joseph W. Ed- 



DEATH OF S. P. REES. 



Word has been received from Long 

 Beach, Cal., of the death of Sam P. 

 Bees, of the firm of Rees & Compere. 

 He went to Los Angeles on August 30 

 and transacted his business. He then 

 went to a hotel and said that as he did 

 not feel well he would like to lie down 

 for a few minutes before starting for 

 home. A brief while afterward he was 

 found dead of heart failure in the room 

 assigned him. 



Mr. Rees was born in Wales more than 

 sixty years ago. Coming to America he 

 drifted Avestward and located at Los 

 Angeles in 1885, in the real estate busi- 

 ness. A few years ago he formed a 

 partnership with Mr. Compere in the 

 bulb and seed business and subsequently 



Mr. Compere Mr. Rees. 



Messrs. Rees and Q>mpere in their Freesia Fields at Lone Beach, CaL 



