Decbicbbb 14, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



257 



The first general seed catalogue to 

 come to hand is that of J. W. Ii^tekin, 

 which arrived December 9. 



J. M, Claek, secretary of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., is putting in his spare time 

 talking market gardening to the farm- 

 ers' granges in northern Illinois. 



A SAFE and sane farmer says : ' ' Viewed 

 from any standpoint, the free distribu- 

 tion of seeds by the government is a 

 very outrageous and ridiculous proceed- 

 ing." Will the Congressional Record 

 please copy. 



PECULIAR POSTAL LAWS. 



With last week's Review readers 

 found a very pretty colored picture of 

 sweet peas, and thereby hangs a tale. 

 Evelyn Byatt is the sweet pea of the 

 year in England. It is being introduced 

 by Watkins & Simpson, the well known 

 sweet pea specialists of London. They 

 wished to put a colored plate of the nov- 

 elty in the hands of the American trade 

 and, of course, selected circulation with 

 the Review as the best means of accom- 

 plishing that end. They were advised 

 that the U. S. postal regulations require 

 such a plate, if it bears anything in the 

 nature of advertising, to be the exact 

 size of the page of the publication to 

 which it is aitached for mailing. Through 

 error the lithographers made the sheets 

 the same size as others manu- 

 factured for Watkins & Simpson, and 

 when they reached the Review office they 

 were found to carry a reference to an 

 advertisement in the Review, the name 

 of Watkins & Simpson, and to be an 

 even three-quarters of an inch shorter 

 than the page of the Review. The post- 

 oflfice officials construed even the orig- 

 inator's name as advertising and, be- 

 cause of the short size, refused to per- 

 mit them to be mailed with the Re- 

 view as second-class matter. But by cut- 

 ting an inch from the bottom of the 

 sheets, thereby eliminating the "adver- 

 tising" feature, and printing at the 

 top the words, "Supplement to the 

 Florists' Review," etc., the sheets 

 then became mailable without the neces- 

 sity for attachment to the copy. 



Doubtless our English friends, and 

 others who are not familiar with the 

 vagaries of American postal regulations, 

 will find it hard to understand how a 

 sheet which is unmailable because too 

 short becomes mailable by making it 

 another inch shorter. 



DANISH CROPS. 



The harvest of Erfurt Dwarf cauli- 

 flower seed (Snowball) is this year a 

 fairly good one and large enough to fill 

 all contract orders. Of the Danish Giant 

 cauliflower, which A. Hansen says has 

 again proved to be the best one to with- 

 stand hot and dry weather, the harvest is 

 also good, but with the increased de- 

 mand, late orders will very likely not be 

 executed in full. Of the Danish Ball- 

 head or Hollander cabbage seed, the har- 

 vest is not very large, owing to the fail- 

 ure of crop of 1904. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Ratekin Seed House, Shenandoah, la., 

 Batekin's Farm Annual for 1906; 

 Weigelt & Co., Erfurt, Germany, seed 

 specialties for 1906; R. H. Comey Co., 

 Camden, N. J., booklet on raffia; Chas. 

 H. Totty, Madison, N. J., catalogue of 

 chrysanthemum, carnation and rose 



SEED 

 GROWERS 

 and 

 MERCHANTS 



12 Tavistock Street, Govent Garden, LONOGN, EN6. 



Specialists in selecting Market Gardeners' Stocks 



of Peas and Vegetable Seeds for 



the English Markets. 



WHY NOT TRY THEM IN THE STATES? 



WHOT.TCHAT.K CATALOGtTES ON AFPUCATION. 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



LEONARD SEED growers 



We are among the largest growers of Peas, 

 Beans and Garden Seeds in the trade. 



Leading SEED 



"o"r.^' -ogg. CO. 



Write for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



Mention The Review when you write. 



GLADIOLI 



ARTHUR COWEE, 



IiASOBST STOCK IN THE WOBI.D. 



Qnallty, the best obtainable. GBOFF'S HTBBID8 

 and other strains of merit. 



Write for catalogue. 



OladioluB SpeoiallBt, 

 KBAOOWVAXE FABM, 



BERUN, N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



S.D.Woodruff&Sons 



SPKCIALTIXS: 



Garden Seeds In Variety. 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Main Office and Seed Farms, ORANGE, CONN. 



New York City Store. 82-84 Dey Street. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



TROPICAL, SEEDS AND PLANTS OF 

 COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. 



HEVEA BRAZILIENSIS (Para Rubber) seeds 

 and stumps. On receiving- a supply of 36,000 para 

 rubber stumps a rubber planting company, Hon- 

 olulu, wired us on tho 19th of Aug. 1906: "Send 

 60,000 para stumps, 26,000 ends, remittance fol- 

 lows." Manihot Glazlovll Castelloa Elastlca and 

 other rubber seeds and plants. Six different de- 

 scriptive catalogues, post free, on application, 

 with circulars and special offers, and on view at 

 the office of this paper. J. P. WILLIAM & BROS., 

 Tropical Seed Merchants. Honeratgoda. Ceylon. 

 ^Mention The Review when yoa write. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 



<•■ Seeds 

 Cuitiva- 



tion. 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. a 



WHOI^EBAXiE 8EBD OBOWEBB 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



novelties; William Bros., Henaratoga, 

 Ceylon, catalogues of seeds, plants, nur- 

 sery stock, etc.; C. S. Harrison, York, 

 Neb., price list of hardy stock; Sluis & 

 Groot, Enkhuizen, Holland, general cata- 

 logue of vegetable, flower and agricul- 

 tural seeds; R. Vincent, Jr., & Son, 

 White Marsh, Md., catalogue of vege- 

 t.ible, greenhouse and bedding plants. 



SEED GROWERS 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn, Cncnm- 

 ber, Melon and Squash Seed. Write 

 us before placing contracts. We have 

 superior stock Seed and can furnish you 

 good Seed at reasonable prices. Address 



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



Mention The Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Growers 



815-817 Sansome Street, 



SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. 



Oareftil in^owers of California specialties. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Gladiolus Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



TBT THEM. 



Gushman Gladiolus Co. 



:STLVANIA, OHIO. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. 



What I want to point out, says a writer 

 in the Horticultural Advertiser, is the 

 fact that so many of our best plants get 

 condemned simply because growers who 

 try them do not give them a fair trial 

 before rejecting them. Many of our beet 

 plants have been in danger of being lost 

 before they have had a proper trial. I 



