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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 18, 190G. 



letin will be sure to make trouble for 

 more than one wholesaler. Copies will 

 be sent to anyone who addresses the 

 Maryland Agricultural College, College 

 Park, Md. 



It is reported that in a recent pickle 

 seed suit the ruling was made that in- 

 asmuch as the plaintiff resold the seed 

 at a profit he had sustained no loss by 

 buying it from the defendant and had 

 no claim for damages against him. 



TOLEDO MEETING. 



The Review of last week contained 

 our correspondent 's telegram from Phil- 

 adelphia, the first published information 

 of the action of the executive committee 

 in choosing Toledo, O., as the next meet- 

 ing place for the American Seed Trade 

 Association. The following is Secretary 

 Kendel's notice of the meeting: 



' ' The executive committee of the 

 American Seed Trade Association held 

 a meeting at Dooner's hotel, Philadel- 

 phia, January 10, and decided that be- 

 cause so few of the members Avere able 

 to go to California, it Avould be better 

 to postpone that trip and accept the 

 invitation to hold the next convention at 

 Toledo, O. There were present Pres- 

 ident W. H. Grenell, Secretary C. E. 

 Kendel, C. N. Page, S. F. Millard, M. 

 H. Duryea and F. W. Bolgiano. Of 

 the Philadelphia seedsmen there were 

 present W. Atlee Burpee, H. M. Earle, 

 W. P. Stokes, H. W. Johnson, Burnett 

 Landreth, and Chas. H. Breck, of Bos- 

 ton. ' ' 



EUROPEAN SEED NOTES. 



It is a matter of considerable com- 

 ment and some surprise to not a few 

 seed buyers, on receipt of the various 

 wholesale catalogues from European 

 seed exporting firms, to notice the very 

 great difference in prices quoted by the 

 leading German growers and the best 

 Italian houses, for some of the principal 

 articles contained in their lists. The 

 difference is especially noticeable in 

 asters, an article which is particularly a 

 German specialty. Some of the leading 

 German houses are quoting three times 

 the quotation for Italian Dwarf Bou- 

 quet, and twice as much for the Comet 

 section. In Victoria aster the variation 

 is still more pronounced, and it is the 

 same through practically all the varieties 

 of asters and also with many other lead- 

 ing sorts of flower seeds. With vegetable 

 seeds the difference is almost as marked. 

 There can hardly be all this great differ- 

 ence in quality; in fact, many buyers 

 will tell you the one is as good as the 

 other and the mere fact of the Italian 

 firms keeping their old customers and 

 continually increasing their business 

 proves the quality of their seeds is up 

 to the mark. There may be some few 

 lines which are not improved, even if 

 not deteriorated, by warmer climatic 

 conditions, but in the growing of the 

 great majority of seeds for seed pur- 

 poses only, especially flower seeds, suc- 

 cess and failure usually depend on good 

 weather conditions for the proper ripen- 

 ing and harvesting. It should also be 

 noted the leading Italian firms particu- 

 larly guarantee their asters to be in no 

 way inferior to the German strains. It 

 may be imagined that the wholesale seed 

 buyer who has not already done so will 

 not be slow to make some seed trials and 

 see for himself which quotation is actu- 

 ally the best value for the money. 



B. J. 



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LANDRETH'S SEEDS 



131 years they have been before the PUBXilC and acknowledged as the Stand- 

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PUBLICATION OF SEED TESTS. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has ob- 

 tained the opinion of the Attorney Gen- 

 eral on the legality of the Act of Con- 

 gress which directs the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture to purchase and test grass seeds 

 and to publish the results where adultera- 

 tion or misbranding is found. A part 

 of the opinion, dated January 12, 1906, 

 is as follows: 



You say that "it lins been suKgested that the 

 Congress did not have the power to authorize 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to go into the 

 open marltet and purchase samples of seeds, to 

 tost the same and to publish the names of the 

 p«'rsons liy wlioni the seeds were offered for 



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sale, regardless of the fact that the seed* 

 may have been sold in the state In which 

 they were raised, and were never, at any time, 

 8hipi)ed from one state or territory to another." 

 If the provision in questiim were a regulation 

 of commerce or jiolioe, there would be some 

 force in this suggestion. Kut the statute can- 

 not, I thinlf, properly l)e regarded us a com- 



