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November 2, 1905. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review^ 



1341 



They Will Win the Prize 



Our $4.00 Chrysanthemums, Extra Select 



Fancy Chrysanthemums, $2.50 to $3«00 per doz* 

 Good large Chrysanthemums, - $15«00 per 100. 



Try our selection, - $10.00 to $12.50 per lOO. 



These include many really high price Chrysanthemums. 



LONGIFLORUN Fine stock, $2.00 per dozen. 



FANCY MAIDS, VIOLETS, VALLEY 



A. L. RANDALL CO.^Kio 



Mt'iitloii I hf KhvIi" )• ri. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOQATION. 



Prea., W. H. Grenell, Sa«rlnaw, 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. 



James Dobbie, founder of the great 

 English seed house of Dobbie & Co., from 

 which he retired in 1887, is dead, aged 

 88 years. 



Toledo, O., Nov. 1. — December clover- 

 seed, $8.20; January, $8.25; February, 

 $8.30; March, $8.35. Alsike, $8. Timo- 

 thy, $1.55. 



Visited Chicago. — T. M. Landrum, of 

 C. C. Morse & Co., San Francisco, Cal.; 

 A. £. McKenzie, of A. E. McKenzie & 

 Co., Brandon, Man. 



From Nebraska it is reported that the 

 weather is against the sweet com har- 

 vest. It is generally conceded, however, 

 that the early varieties are safe. 



A BURSTING water main at Clark and 

 Sixteenth streets, Chicago, October 28, 

 cost three lives and $200,000 in property. 

 The Albert Dickinson Co. lost $2,500 on 

 grass seeds. 



Chicago. — Several car-loads of onion 

 sets leave for distant points this week. 

 November 1 to 10 is about the limit for 

 what is termed fall shipment. After 

 that date few sets are shipped until 

 January. 



The California growers are now busy 

 cleailing up cucumber and tomato, which 

 are the last crops to come off. In about 

 two weeks everything will be quiet on the 

 Seed farms, except planting for next 

 season. There have been no early rains 

 ^s yet and the farmers are badly in need 

 of them. 



One of the best posted California 

 growers says, relative to cucumber as 

 giown in California, that he thinks in 

 ai; there is about 200 acres produced, 

 ^"ich, compai'ed with the Nebraska and 

 Colorado growers, is insignificant. Cu- 

 f lumber does well in California, but. the 

 ^- 'P this year is rather light. 



W. Atlee Bxtrpee is now in the midst 

 of his busy season, getting up catalogues 

 for 1906. 



James Curbie, father of the Currie 

 brothers, seedsmen, is dead at Milwau- 

 kee, aged 78 years. 



The Planters' Seed Co., Spring- 

 field, Mo., is erecting a warehouse 36x60 

 with power cleaning machinery. They 

 confine their efforts to the southwestern 

 jobbing trade in garden and field seeds 

 and, although only ten months estab- 

 lished, already have worked up a consid- 

 erable business. 



The "good old times" are about to 

 return. Alaska peas and other canners' 

 varieties are sold at $3 per bushel and 

 over, in quantities. The Globe varieties 

 of onions are bringing $2 per pound with 

 higher prices in sight. Bean prices are 

 likely to go to the market gardeners' 

 limit before spring and altogether it 

 looks good for the seedsman. 



In the southern section of Chicago, 

 where a considerable quantity of onion 

 sets are grown, it is reported that the 

 child labor law will interfere with and 

 cut down operations considerably the 

 coming year. In vacation time boys of 

 14 to 16 years do considerable harvest- 

 ing of onion sets and if the law pre- 

 vents the grower from employing them 

 other available help will be insufficient 

 to meet the emergency. 



Beans are reported to be arriving at 

 the growing stations very slowly. This 

 adds to the annoyance of the growers, 

 who cannot give proper replies to in- 

 quiries as to what percentage they will 

 deliver until they know how many they 

 will receive. 



MONTGOMERY VAHD, SEEDSMAN. 



Last season Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chi- 

 cago, one of the largest general mail 

 order houses in the country, established 

 a seed department, now in charge of 8. 

 D. Dysinger, formerly with L. L. May 

 & Co., St. Paul. They issued a special 

 seed catalogue, which they advertised 

 widely, offering to send with it, free, a 

 packet of sweet pea seeds to each one 

 who answered. The extent to which the 

 catalogue was distributed may be judged 

 from the fact that they required over 

 four tons of sweet pea seed. The cata- 

 logue brought satisfactory results and 

 the firm is preparing to go into the busi- 

 ness on a still larger scale next season. 

 They have gone to the original sources 



Crop 1905. RAWSON'S ROYAL STRAIN 

 _CVCLAMEN is ready for deliTery. 



This Btraln has no equal or better. 

 Perfect flowers of giant type are 

 borne on long, erect stems In such 

 profusion that they almost hide the 

 foliage and pot We can ofter the 

 following colors: Pure White, Deep 

 Red, Delicate Pink, Christmas Red, 

 White with Claret Base, Mauve, Salmon, Pink and 

 a mixture of unsurpassable variety at 11.00 per 

 100 seeds; W.OO per 1000 seeds. 



W. W. RAW80N & CO., Seedsmen, 



12 and ISFanenll Hall 8qoare, - BOSTON 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



HAVING BEEN AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE 

 Exhibition off GLADIOLI World's Fair 



it is with increased confidence In myjibillty to rapply superior stock that I solicit « contlDusnce of 

 patronaKe, and new customers. OroiTa Kybrids and other ■orts the beat o1>teixial>l«. m, 



^^ISi^e. ARTHUR OOWEE, Gladiolus Specialist,Mea(lowYaleFarin,Berlin,tl.Y. 



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