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OCTOBKB 12, 1905. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



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WILD SNILSX 



NOW ON HAND 



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Now is the time to buy your season's stock of 



WIRE WORK 



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Get our discounts before you place the order 

 for your season's supply. Nobody ever 

 claimed to undersell us on wire work. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 



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40-42-44 Randolph Street, 



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CHICAGO. 



PRICE LIST 



▲MBBZOAV BBA.UTZS8- Per doz. 



iMnts W.OO to $5.00 



Pair leiiKth 2.00 to 3.00 



Per 100 



Brides $3.00 to $6.00 



Bridesmaids 3.00 to 6.00 



Liberty 3.00 to 7.00 



Kaiserin 4.00 to 7.00 



Chatenay. . . :■." 3.80 *o > 6.00 



Golden Gate 3.00 to 5.00 



Carnations, choice 1.50 to 2.00 



Carnations, common 80 to 1,00 



Per doz. 



Mums, medium $1.50 to $2.00 



Mums, fancy 2.50 to 4.00 



Harrisii 2.50 



Valley— our specialty— best, per 

 100. $:i.00 to $4.00. 



Daisies per 100, $1.00. 



Sniilax 1.50 



Adlantum per 100. $0.7.'>. 



SprengerL.per 100. $2.00to 4.00. 



Asparagus 25c to 50c per string. 



Galax, green 15c per 100; $1.25 per 1000. 



Galax, bronze . . . .'iOc per 100; 1.50 per 1000. 

 Common Ferns . . .20c per 100; 1.50 per 1000. 

 Leucothoe 75c per 100; OXX) per 1000. 



Sn1]j«ot to obMiff* without notio*. 

 Packing »nd delivery at cost. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMCnCAN SEED TRADE ASSOaATMN. 



Free., W. H. Grenell. Sagrinaw, W. S., Mich.; 

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

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

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



Theke were several cases of Harrisii 

 on the last boat from Bermuda. Those 

 who fear unripe bulbs should be satisfied 

 with these. 



The Braslan Seed Growers' Co., San 

 Jose, Cal., has leased the famous Alisal 

 ranch of 855 acres at Salinas. They will 

 have it in seed crops next year. 



Boss Bros., Wichita, Kan., have be- 

 gun work on a two-story and basement 

 brick seed warehouse 50x140. The firm 

 has been in business twenty-one years. 



Onion seed received of the new crop 

 shows a variation in percentage' of ger- 

 mination. Other garden seeds so far 

 tested from the "same sources show 

 greater uniformity. 



Five car-loads of peas have been re- 

 ceived this week by the Leonard Seed 

 Co., Chicago, this being a first shipment 

 of the crop from their northern Mich- 

 igan growing station. 



Visited Chicago: Max Wilhelmi, of 

 F. Barteldes Jc Co., Lawrence, Kan.; F. 

 H. Hunter, manager of the seed depart- 

 ment of the Germain Fruit and Seed 

 Co., Los Angeles, Cal. 



The wholesale growers report an ac- 

 tive demand for early shipments. They 

 are kept busy in the effort to meet this 

 requirement of their customers and pres- 

 ent indications point to another good 

 year. 



J. W. T. Duvel, of the seed labora- 

 tory of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, says carefully conducted experi- 

 ments, extending over a period of nearly 

 two years, have shown that cowpeas 

 oan be kept free from weevils if stored 

 at a temperature of 32 to 34 degrees. 

 It is understood that this method is 

 practiced to a limited extent by seeds- 



men, who find it far more satisfactory 

 than the methods of fumigation which 

 have been so generally used. The cost of 

 storage is from 15 to 25 cents per bushel 

 for the season. 



Eepobts from all the growing sta- 

 tions are to the effect that the weather 

 has been satisfactory for threshing; that 

 the operations along all lines are mov- 

 ing smoothly and that deliveries are be- 

 ing made in good shape. 



From the sweet com and cucumber 

 growers come reports of favorable 

 conditions. The good weather has had 

 a beneficial effect on all the crops still 

 standing, adding considerably to the 

 crop, and the outlook for a good harvest 

 was never better. 



These are a number of ways of at- 

 tracting visitors to a seed store in the 

 off season, but none is probably more 

 unique or effective than the flower and 

 baby show annually held in the store of 

 Arthur G. Lee, Fort Smith, Ark., by the' 

 lady managers of Belle Point hospital. 



F. H. Henry, assignee for the Gucas 

 & Boddington Co., New York, has de- 

 cided that it is not possible to reorgan- 

 ize the concern so that the business may 

 be continued. The assets are being sold, 

 Marshall & Co. having purchased the 

 store fixtures for the purpose of adding 

 a retail department to their wholesale 

 and catalogue trade. The Clacas So Bod- 

 dington Co. 's liabilities approximate 

 $24,000 with nominal assets of $16,000, 

 but it is stated the actual assets will 

 prove not more than one-third this sum. 



A LARGE ORDER. 



The St. Louis Seed Co., St. Louis, Mo., 



has an advertisement in a publication 



supposed to circulate largely among 



publishers, reading as follows: 



Has your paper a buying circulation? If so, 

 we want sample copy and rates. We are now 

 making up our advertising list for the coming 

 season and we want to appear in every paper 

 in the world whose readers are interested in 

 seeds. 



Note that the advertisement says 

 "every paper in the world." That looks 

 like a pretty large order. It has been 

 reported that several western seedhouses 

 contemplate branching out next season, 



but this has every appearance of being 

 "the biggest yet." 



AMERICAN VS. BRITISH SEEDS. 



A representative of the Jamaica Agri- 

 cultural Society recently prepared a re- 

 port for that organization suggesting 

 that the society arrange to import Eng- 

 lish vegetable seeds and sell them in small 

 quantities to members. He spoke rather 

 strongly against American seeds, which 

 he said had proved to be bad. The sec- 

 retary of the society has taken excep- 

 tion to this stand and strongly defends 

 the American product, which, he says, 

 is much cheaper than the British article 

 and perfectly reliable. — New York Com- 

 mercial. 



BULB TRADE IN GUERNSEY. 



There has been a brisk trade in Isle 

 of Guernsey bulbs this season, says the 

 Horticultural Advertiser. Some of the 

 varieties of narcissi, even of the com- 

 moner sorts, have had quite a run made 

 upon them. The first size for forcing 

 have nearly all been bought up, so that 

 it is difficult to purchase a few thou- 

 sands of N. princeps, Golden Spur, or 

 Irving. Freesia refracta alba is another 

 bulb which has been greatly sought af- 

 ter, and the great demand seems to sug- 

 gest that growers were generally 

 satisfied with the cut flower trade of 

 early spring. It will be remembered, 

 however, that if the flower trade was 

 good, it was in no small part owing to 

 the action of a very disastrous frost 

 upon the French flower fields along the 

 Biviera, and such a visitation is not 

 likely to occur two years in succession. 

 There may be a further reason for an 

 increase in the flower trade locally and 

 that may be found in the fact that the 

 ordinary Guernsey fruit crops have be- 

 come less profitable than they used to 

 be, and the grower who finds his profits 

 growing less, has to look around him 

 for whatever catch-crops are within his 

 reach, and as narcissi only occupy the 

 houses for about a month, he finds th«m 

 about the most convenient and quickest 

 catch-crop of any. English firms, too, 

 have turned their eyes Channel Island- 

 wards for narcissi, and to the writer's 



