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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 11, 1906. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOaATION. 



Pres., W. H. Grenell, Sagrinaw, W. S., Mien.; 

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

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

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



Visited Chicago: — Mr. Peycke, of 

 Peycke Bros., Kansas City, Mo. 



Hugh M. Taylor, melon seed grower, 

 Lloyd, Fla., is spending the winter at Sil- 

 ver City, X. M. 



The seed traveler seeking to book or- 

 ders now for delivery after harvest 1906 

 is reported on hand at almost any town 

 shown on the map. 



Considerable activity has developed in 

 the onion set market since January 1. A 

 sharp advance in price is reported at 

 Louisville, where, during the preceding 

 month, a marked bearish feeling pre- 

 vailed. 



Good weather generally throughout the 

 country is causing peremptory demands 

 that §hip)B^nt of^booked orders be made. 

 The wholesalers are hoping that a storm 

 may arrive somewhere to assist them in 

 catching' up. 



There is a delay in foreign shipments 

 of import seeds which makes the seeds- 

 man's row harder to hoe than is usual. 

 It is admitted, however, that they foreign 

 brother may also have good reasons for 

 the delay in pushing things forward. 



The virtue of the seed trade dis- 

 claimer is to have another test; this time 

 in the casf of W. W. Barnard Co., of 

 Chicago, versus a customer who claims 

 he received a wrong kind of seed from 

 that firm. The hearing of the case is 

 booked for an early date. 



Oniok seed prices have become steady 

 after a good swing both ways. The 

 Globe varieties will easily bring the 

 highest price named for them in any of 

 the catalogues, while the flat sorts would 

 stand a considerable advance over cata- 

 logue rates and no harm come from it. 



Northwest of Chicago is a great 

 market gardening section in which the 

 consumption of seeds is as heavy as in 

 any single neighborhood in the country. 

 It remained for Knud Gundestrup, then 

 an employee in a Chicago seed store, to 

 see the possibilities for a seed house in 

 this district. With Peter S. Peterson 

 he established a store at 4273 Milwau- 

 kee avenue and has been steadily build- 

 ing up a business in market gardeners ' 

 specialties. 



The president of the Dutch Bulb 

 Growers ' Association, at a recent meet- 

 ing, stated that during July, August and 

 September, 1905, the export of bulbs 

 from Holland amounted to 8,754,600 

 kilograms, twenty-one per cent more 

 than the corresponding months in 1904, 

 and 100 per cent more than in 1897. 

 The increased demands since 1897 were 

 as follows: America, 24.6 per cent; 

 Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 24.5 per 

 cent; Germany, 18.5 per cent; Bussia, 

 13.5 per cent; Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, 12.9 per cent; Belgium and France, 

 6 per cent. — Horticultural Trade Jour- 

 nal. 



NEW SWEET PEAS 



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EVELYN BYATT 



A GORGEOUS 

 NOVELTY 



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The most RorReous colored Sweet Pea'yet Introduced. It may be termed a self OorMona, 

 having a rich orange salmon standard, and falls or wings still a trifle deeper color, gmng a 

 rich, fiery orange or deep sunset color to the whole flower, very striking and unique. It has 

 caused quite a sensation wherever shown during the past year. 



PHYLLIS UN WIN ao°v'E*L^; 



Color a deep rosy carmine self, the same form as GLADYS DNWIN, with the prettily waved 

 ' and bold standard of that variety, but a little larger, producing 3 to 4 flowers on a stem. It 

 is quite sunproof and perfectly flxed. The stems are long and stout, and it may be described 

 as A OIAVT IH BVBBT WAT. 



Each of above novelties, $14.60 per 100 packets; 

 $1.75 per dos. (Retail* 26 cents). 



GLADYS UNWIN 



LAST YEAR'S 

 NOVELTY 



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This finest ot all Pink Sweet Peas we introduced last season. It is a striking- 



and sterling' improTement, qnlte flxed and dietinot, and a 



great acanisition for Out Blooms. 



0:LADTB UBWIB has a very large and bold flower, not hooded, but with a very strikins 

 upright crinkled or wavy standard, and broad wings. Color, a pale rosy pink. A strik- 

 ing feature is that about 75 per cent of the long flower stems are with four blooms, which 

 is a most unusual thing in Sweet Peas. It was first raised four years ago, viz., in 1901, and 

 has kept pSsfectl^ true and flsed in character each year since and we have no hesitation 

 in saying it is A bona-fide departure in pinks. For market growers especially it canoot be 

 surpassed, and is just the lovely pink color which is so much in demand. 94.60 per pound. 



Vegetable and Plower Seed catalogues ftree on application. 



WATKINS & SIMPSON, 



SEED MERCHANTS 



g 12 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London, England ^ 



^^i^lHIHBHi a^BHMBB MBBIHHBB MHI^BiBB MmHBBB M^HHIBB i^^ 



Mention TTie Review when yon write. 



TROPICAL. SEEDS AND PLANTS OF 

 COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. 



HEVEA BBAZILIENSIS (Para Rubber) seeds 

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

 rubber stumps a ruober plantinir company, Hon- 

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

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

 lows.'*^ Manlhot Glazlovli Castelloa Elastica and 

 otber rubber seeds and plants. Six different de- 

 scriptive cataloffues, 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, Heneratgoda, Ceylon. 



Mention The Review when yog write. 



SEED GROWERS 



Field, Sweet and Pop Com, Cucum- 

 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. 



The J. M. Thorburn & Co. catalogue 

 prices Southport White Globe onion seed 

 at $3 a pound. 



The Templin Co., Calla, O., has South- 

 port White Globe onion seed priced at 

 $1.25 per pound postpaid in its 1906 cat- 

 alogue. 



The M. G. Madson Seed Co., Manito- 

 woc, Wis., is sending the trade a strik- 

 ing calendar, a reprodijction of a paint- 

 ing by Asti. 



The Thorburn catalogue for 1906 is 

 the 105th successive annual issue. It 

 does not look much like the first of its 

 line, several of which are shown in it 

 by photographic reproduction. Few of 

 the general catalogues use as heavy paper 

 as Thorburn 's and most of the illustra- 

 tions are half-tones. The book of 148 

 pages weighs slightly over ten ounces. 



Gladiolus Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



TSY TKEM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



STLVANLA, OHIO. 



3700 

 Acres 

 ofGer* 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. ^^- 



WBO&BSAZiB 8BBD OXOWBRS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Chas. p. Guelf, of the Jerome B. 

 Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y., who 

 has been making headquarters at Chi- 

 cago for the past two months, is working 

 homeward through Ohio and New York. 



The Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dallas, 

 Tex., say that they believe that their new 

 warehouse is the first building erected in 

 their big agricultural state, and proba- 

 bly in the south, especially planned and 

 equipped for the seed business. 



The seed advertising in general pub- 

 lications was begun earlier than usual 

 this season and promises to be excep- 

 tionally heavy. The effort is each year 

 for early orders. All the leading houses 

 have about all the business they can 

 handle in the height of the season, and 

 the possibilities of increase lie largely in 

 their ability to get and execute orders 

 before the rush begins. 



