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JcKB 28, 1906. 



ThcWcckly Florists' Review. 



357 



NEW CATALOGUE 



Colorei SbbJ Bags 



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stating quantity you wish 



to purchase. 



Herndon, Lester & Ivey Go. 



BAG DEPT., RICHMOND, VA. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AlIEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

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

 meeting will be held at Toledo, O. , June 26-28, 1906. 



Storms on Long Island June 23 did 

 quite some damage to crops. 



Turnips are lagging. The prospect is 

 not favorable for a good clean-up. 



The latest word from California is' 

 not reassuring on the question of onion 

 seed. 



Heavy rains in Michigan have added 

 to the worries of the bean and pea 

 growers. 



Rain June 27 was very welcome to 

 some of the growers of onion sets in 

 the Chicago territory. 



Thus far, which is not a great way 

 in the season, everything is lovely with 

 the Nebraska vine-seed growers. 



The Connecticut growers of sweet 

 corn and onion report themselves as well 

 pleased with present conditions. 



E. L. Hess has charge of a Chicago 

 branch recently established by the Pure 

 Culture Spawn Co., Pacific, Mo. 



The radish crops for seed in southern 

 Michigan are looking well and give prom- 

 ise of good yields. The acreage slowly 

 increases. 



Spinach seed for midseason planting 

 promises to be equal to all demands of 

 the gardeners in spite of last autumn's 

 reports of a probable scarcity. 



J. M. Thokburn & Co., New York, list 

 Watsonia Ardemei in their 1906 cata- 

 logue and, referring to the article on this 

 plant in the Eeview of June 14, say 

 they expect to make a considerable re- 

 duction in price for 1907. 



By act of the French minister of jus- 

 tice, on May 26, Jacques Hasslach, 

 native of Switzerland, was appointed a 

 French citizen. Mr. Hasslach, founder 

 and partner in the firm of Hasslach & 

 Roumanille, has, during his twenty-three 

 years I residence in France, constantly 

 occupied his time with the growing and 

 improvement of seeds, and has taken an 

 active part in developing the exports of 

 southern grown products to other coun- 

 tries and to the expansion of the culti- 

 vation of vegetable and agricultural 

 seeds in the south of France. 



TURNIP SEED 



SEVEN TOP 



VERY SCARCE THIS SEASON 



We offer hardy Northern-Krown, all the produce of BloomBdale Seed Farms: 



WHOLESALE f J«0 P0"°^8 at 20C per lb. 

 __,^«_^ -< 600 pounds at I9c per lb. 

 PRICES (lOOO pounds at 18c per lb. 



Fifteen dollars for one hundred pounds of other leading sorts. 



Write for New Wholesale Priced Card of Seeds for Mid-Summer Sowing:. 



Bristol, Pa. 



D. LANDRETH SEED COMPANY 



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PACIFIC SBED GROWERS' 

 411-415 sansome: strkbt 



SA.N FRANCISCO, CALr. 

 Specialties t 



Onion, Carrot, Lettuce, Siveet 



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LEONARD SEED growers 



Larsfest growers of Pe^ Beansand 

 Gatuen deed 



Leading SEED 

 r^^ell* -OW« CO. 



in the Central West. 



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CHICAGO 



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[ Burpee's Seeds Grow | 



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C. C. MORSE ft CO. Waldo Rohnert 



On account of fire which destroyed 

 our store at San Francisco, head- 

 quarters are removed to old address 

 at SANTA CLARA, CAL. 



Careful sroveers of California speolaltlea 



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Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 tion. 

 WHOT.KHAT.1C SEED GROWERS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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"How MUCH sweet corn did you have 

 leftt" is the friendly greeting. 



The first of this year's Harrisii are 

 expected on this week's boat from Ber- 

 muda. 



W. W. Bawson & Co., Boston, on 

 July 1 will remove to 5 Union street, 

 only a few steps from the old location, 

 burned out a few weeks ago. 



Referring to the matter of the in- 

 creased weight to be allowed on foreign 

 letters, as previously reported, all the 

 changes adopted at the Postal Union 

 Congress at Rome, are to take effect 

 October 1, 1907. 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peai, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena in variety. Oor* 

 respondence solicited. 



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Gladiolos Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 



TBT 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



STLVANIA. OHIO. 



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J. L. Devalon, proprietor of the 

 Haines Seed Co., Denver, has been visit- 

 ing the past fortnight at Chicago, De- 

 troit and Bloomington, 111. He reports 

 a good season in the Rocky Mountain 

 country. 



Des Moines, Ia. — About 125 em- 

 ployees of the Iowa Seed Co. went out 

 to Altoona on special cars June 12, at 

 5 o'clock, and held their annual picnic 

 at the company's seed farm north of 

 town. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtzweil enter- 

 tained them with ice cream, straw- 

 berries, and other refreshments. The 

 special cars bearing the picnickers re- 

 turned to the city at 9 o'clock. 



