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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 15, 1906. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

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

 meeUnr will be held at Toledo, G., June 26-28, 1906. 



Eaely-flowering cosmos seed is in 

 short supply. 



W. H. Barret, Adrian, Mich., has 

 been at Chicago this week. 



Spinach seed is reported short and 

 the demand for it on the increase. 



Several of the large onion set jobbers 

 report that they are cleaned out of 

 stock. 



American groAvn nasturtium seed of 

 the dwarf and tall mixed is short. The 

 foreign supply is also limited. 



Chicago — S. F. Leonard accompanied 

 by Mrs. Leonard is in attendance at the 

 cauners' convention at Atlantic City. 



Reports from the mail order seed 

 houses are very encouraging. It is 

 statetl that even in the poultry depart- 

 ments the force has to work overtime to 

 keep up. 



It is reported that Gradus peas will 

 hardly go around. The Thos. Laxton is 

 more plentiful and is growing in favor. 

 Some of the market gardeners prefer it 

 to Gradus. 



Belated shipments from foreign parts 

 are badly needed by some of the seed 

 houses. Considerable complaint at the 

 slow clearances of goods upon arrival at 

 the ports of entry is registered. 



H. F. Hexry, receiver for the Clucas 

 & Boddington Co., New York, is rapidly 

 winding up the affairs of that concern. 

 There will be an early dividend to credi- 

 tors, but not one to relieve the failure of 

 any of its disastrous features. 



Twelve million six hundred thousand 

 is the estimate of the number of Eocky 

 Ford cantaloupes shipped from the 

 Rocky Ford district, in Colorado, last 

 season. Seven hundred cars were sent 

 out, as against o^^^ car loads the previous 

 year. 



Atlantic City, N. J. — The canners 

 and packers of America are holding 

 their annual convention here this week. 

 The seed trade is well represented, look- 

 ing after the seed needs of the canners 

 and the interests of their respective 

 houses. 



It is reported that good stock of the 

 Country Gentleman sweet corn is not 

 plentiful. The wet fall was against a 

 good drying out of the deep-kerneled 

 varieties and that the Country Gentleman 

 is the hardest to cure of any of these 

 is said to be the cause of a considerable 

 quantity of it being of low germinating 

 power. 



The variety of prices on supposedly 

 the same type of onion seed in the retail 

 catalogues is causing the retail buyer to 

 think that the high-priced man is mak- 

 ing more money than he should. In real- 

 ity, however, the buyer usually gets his 

 money's worth and no more, or less, 

 whether he takes the high priced stock 

 or the low. The name is not every- 

 thing. 



Any One Who Sells Seeds 



Is invited to consider the MEBITS and PBOFITS of 



LANDRETH'S SEEDS 



121 years they have been before the PUBLIC and acknowledged as the Stand- 

 ard of Sxcellence. A large portion are the product of the celebrated 



BLOOMSDALE EARNS 



Drop a postal card for Wholesale Gatalosrue. 



D. LANDRETH SEED COMPANY, Bristol, Pa. 



Establishment Founded 1784. Incorporated 1904. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



LEONARD 



Leading SEED 

 Onion Set p.^^p- ^>^-w 

 Growers ^kwEni CO. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



SEED GROWERS 



Largest growers of Peas^ Beans and 

 Garden Seed in the Central West. 



Write tor Prices. 



CHICAGO 



GUDIOLI 



ARTHUR COWEE, 



United States representative and 

 grower of Groff s Hybrids; also other 

 strains of merit. Write for catalogue. 



Oladiolns Specialist 

 KBADOWVAIiB PABM, 



BERUN, N. Y. 



Mention Thp Review when you write. 



SEED GROWERS 



Field, Sweet and Pop Com, Cnctun- 

 ber, Welon 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, Glarinda, la. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. ^^' 



WBOl^BSA^B SBBD OBOWBB8 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



A NOTICEABLE feature of the season's 

 seed advertising is that so many of the 

 leading catalogue houses have diverted a 

 considerable part of their expenditure 

 from the general publications to those 

 devoted to farm and outdoor interests, 

 these classes of publications having a 

 larger amount of seed advertising than 

 ever before. Eeturns thus far are said 

 to have in most cases justified the move, 

 but at least a part of the increased 

 calls for catalogues may be due to the 

 weather conditions, which started the sea- 

 son earlier and heavier than usual. 



The story of "Seeds that Grow" is 

 a 68-page thirtieth anniversary supple- 

 ment to W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 's cata- 

 logue for 1906, with descriptions of the 

 trials at Fordhook, the seed growing 

 operations, the packing, filling of orders 

 and shipping, all fully illustrated, even 

 down to a picture of the adding machine 

 for finding out how much money is com- 

 ing in. It is stated that in 1905 there 

 were 7,161 trials at Fordhook and the 

 new farm at Sunnybrook, N. J., 4,549 



S. D.Woodruff ft Sons 



SPECIALTIES: 



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 Rerlew wben you write. 



C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Growers 



815-817 Sansome Street, 



SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. 



Oaxeftil growers of California epeoialties. 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. ' 



To the Wholesale Seed Trade; 



Write us for growing prices in car-lots on 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn 



Healy Bros., Belle Center, 0. 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



of vegetables and 2,612 of flowers. A 

 number of pages are given to announce- 

 ments concerning the Burpee annual 

 premiums. 



Visited Chicago. — Eobert Fulton, of 

 Henry & Lee, New \ork, who states that 

 the demand for both Harrisii and longi- 

 florum appears at this date to be larger 

 than ever before. He looks for a brisk 

 market this summer and predicts a short- 

 age, especially of longiflorum giganteum; 

 B. Suzuki, of Suzuki & lida, and H. 

 A. Bunvard, with A. T. Boddington, New 

 York. 



