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SspxBMBEa 28, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1053 



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NOW IS THE TIME 



to buy your season's stock of 



WIRE WORK 



Lay in a complete stock — get the quantity price — and have 

 the frame on hand when you get a hurry-up call for a cer- 

 tain design. Write to us for prices, stating how much you 

 can use. We can quote discounts that **can't be beat." 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 

 40-42-44 Randolph Street, CHICAGO. 



PRICE LIST 



AMBBZOJJr BBAUTIBS— Per dos. 



Lone 94.00 to 96.00 



Fair lengtb 2.00 to 8.00 



Per 100 



Bridea SS.00 to 96.00 



Brideamaida 8.00 to 



Liberty S.OOto 



Kalaerin S.OOto 



Obatenay S.OOto 



QoldenOate S.OOto 



Gar aationa, cbolce 1.26 to 



common 60 to 



Muma, per dos., 94.00 



Harriaii doz., 92.00 to $2.60 



Valley, our specialty, beat 



Dalaiea 



Smilaz per doz., 91-60 



Adiantum 



SpreoKeri 2.00 to 



AaparaEus..per string. 26c to 50c 



Galax 9100 to 91.60 per 1000 



Common Ferns ... per lOOO, 91 60 

 Leucotboe per 1000, 96.00 



6.00 

 7.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 1.60 

 .76 



400 



1.00 



10.00 



.76 



4.00 



.16 

 .20 



.76 



Snbjeot to olianffa wlthont notice. 

 Packing and delivery at cost. 



Mention The Keylew when you write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOaATION. 



Pree., 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 

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



No change in the bean situation is re- 

 ported. The weather is favorable and 

 harvesting is progressing in good shape. 



The Texas Seed and Floral Co., Dal- 

 las, Texas, will erect a four-story brick 

 building at 311 and 313 Pacific avenue, 

 to cost $14,465. 



Good weather is reported from Ne- 

 braska, with the added information that 

 it is aiding the vine seed and sweet corn 

 crops very much. 



SevekaIj California shipments have 

 been received at Chicago the past week. 

 The invoices cover onion seed, sweet 

 peas, celery, etc. The samples look good. 



A SHORT crop of onions and a short 

 crop of onion seed is a combination of 

 circumstances that ought to satisfy the 

 seedsmen who have been carrying too 

 much onion seed. 



A REPORT from Washington Island, 

 Wis., says the potato crop is going to 

 turn out a poor one, possibly one-third 

 of a crop or less, caused by a disease in 

 the tubers, a good many rotting in the 

 ground. 



The shortage of the pea crop is be- 

 coming well understood. Every delivery 

 from the regular growers at the diflfer- 

 ent stations proves it and the situation 

 does not seem to be confined to any one 

 or two varieties, but covers all of them, 

 both of wrinkled and round sorts. 



Wm. Henry Maule, Philadelphia, has 

 been in the seed business twenty-eight 

 years and says he has spent over a mil- 

 lion dollars in newspaper and catalogue 

 advertising. He says that the high ad- 

 vertising rate general publications do 

 not pay, but that the gardening and 

 agricultural papers do. Still he thinks 

 the catalogue the mainstay of every suc- 

 cessful seed business in this country. 



The seed business in the south is de- 

 veloping rapidly, particularly at New 

 Orleans. 



Visited Chicago: — ^Watson S. Wood- 

 ruff, of S. D. Woodruff & Sons, Orange, 

 Conn.; Henry Flaspoller, representing 

 Jos. Schindler & Co., New Orleans, La.; 

 James Barrett, representing Jos. Steck- 

 ler Seed Co., New Orleans, La. 



The following clipping from a local 

 paper is a good indication of the scarcity 

 of the pea crop in Door county, Wiscon- 

 sin: "We are in the market for all 

 varieties of peas. Prices right. Terms 

 cash. Call at our new warehouse, foot 

 of Portage street. The John H. Allan 

 Seed Co." 



Eugene Schaettel, representing Vil- 

 morin-Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, 

 after an absence of five years, will ar- 

 rive in New York, on S. S. La Lorraine, 

 about September 30, for a tour of the 

 seed trade. His address, while in this 

 country, will be care of Aug. Khotert, 26 

 Barclay street, ,New York. 



FRENCH SEED CROPS. 



Hasslach & Boumanille send out the 

 following notes on the condition of seed 



crops in the south of France about 

 September 5: 



Artichoke and asparagus, condition 

 fair. Beet and mangold, partly de- 

 stroyed by cold, now attacked by in- 

 sects; poor crops. Cauliflower, broccoli, 

 are in a fair state and will ripen soon. 

 Cabbage and savoy have suffered much 

 and are now attacked by insects; in 

 every case the crop will be insignifi- 

 cant. Carrots have suffered by cold 

 and continuous rain in May; crop not 

 very important, caterpillars are attack- 

 ing the umbels, thus spoiling the 

 greater part of the crop; we cannot yet 

 give any idea as to the probable crop. 

 Celery, celeriac, nearly an entire fail- 

 ure. Chicory, endive, are secured and 

 will give a satisfactory crop. Cucum- 

 ber, large areas are in growth, more 

 than last spring; a very satisfac- 

 tory business was done and all stock 

 sold out in th© town of Saint-Remy; 

 crop very small. Kohl rabi, fully fifty 

 per cent destroyed. Leek, plantations 

 are of little importance; prices will be 

 high. Lettuces, large areas planted, 

 promise well both in quality and quan- 

 tity. Onion, red and white sorts, 

 rather good; yellow sorts less abun- 

 dant, prices probably high. Pumpkin, 



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