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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JUNB 28, 1906. 



Six Thousand Pounds of Lettuce Seed from Waldo Rohnert's. 



by some weeks of drought and east wind, 

 with occasional frosts, and now when at 

 last the rains have descended and milder 

 weather has supervened we have had 

 such an overdose that the work has been 

 rather hindered than helped thereby. 



Of biennial vegetable crops, cabbages 

 are looking well, but kohl rabi has suf- 

 fered considerably from frost and dry 

 weather in early spring. Carrots and 

 beets are standing well in some parts 

 and in others only middling. Leeks look 

 healthy so far, but onions are not up to 

 the mark, owing to the imperfect ripen- 

 ing of the bulbs last summer. Of 

 mangels many of the young plants were 

 frozen and the plantations will be much 

 more limited than was expected. 



Among spring sown articles peas, 

 spinach and lettuce are coming along 

 all right, while French beans are only 

 just pushing through. Eadishes have suf- 

 fered a good deal through drought and 



SEEDSMEN'S CONVENTION. 



Toledo, O., June 27. — The twenty- 

 fourth annual convention of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association opened in the 

 Boody House yesterday morning. The 

 meeting was called to order by President 

 W. H. Grenell, of Saginaw, who compli- 

 mented the association on the unusually 

 large attendance. More than 100 mem- 

 bers were present. Besides these there 

 are several present whose business is 

 allied in some way to the seed trade. 

 Many of the members have their families 

 and the number of visitors present 

 ranges from 175 to 225. 



The opening session, after an address 

 of welcome by Mayor Whitlock, was de- 

 voted to routine matters, the hearing of 

 reports of officers and committees. A 

 number of new members were elected. 

 The members enrolled with Stenographer 

 Brown and were each given numbered 

 badges. By referring to the roster one 

 can ascertain the identity of the wearer 

 of any number. The scheme works so 

 well that doubtless a numbered badge 

 book will be published, similar to that 

 of the nurserymen. The S. A. F. is to 

 try the same plan in August. 



"The convention promises to be a 

 most successful affair," said Secretary 

 C. E. Kendel. ' ' There are more dele- 

 gates present on the opening day than 

 at any previous gathering." 



On Tuesday W. W. Tracy, of the de- 

 partment of agriculture, read his paper 

 on "Varietal Description of Garden 

 Vegetables. ' ' The afternoon session was 

 held on the floor of the Produce Ex- 

 change, adjournment having been taken 

 from the Boody House, where the parlor 

 was too small. 



The entertainment committee, consist- 

 ing of C. S. Burge, W. T. Phillips and 

 F. W. Jeager, took the visitors for a 

 ride on the steamer Greyhound Tuesday 

 evening. Refreshments were served. Th« 

 entertainment, in fact, began on Monday 

 evening, when an informal reception was 

 held for the early arrivals. 



Today's program consists of a paper 

 by Burnet Landreth, one by Henry Nun- 

 gesser, and one by J. H. McFarland. 

 The press agent of the National Coun- 

 cil of Horticulture has a report, in brief 

 that which was recently published in the 

 Beview. Finley Acker, of Philadelphia, 

 is not present, but sent his paper, one 

 originally delivered before the retail 

 branch of the Cleveland Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



This evening there is to be a banquet 

 at the Zenobia. Thursday afternoon the 



Japanese Thinning Black Seeded Tennis Ball Lettuce. 



(From a snap Bhot made at Waldo Rohnert's, GUroy, Cal.) 



delegates will attend the Louisville-To- 

 ledo baseball game and Thursday even- 

 ing the vaudevillt performance at the 

 Farm theater. 



Next year will be celebrated the twen- 

 ty-fifth anniversary of the organizing of 

 the association, and as New York was 

 the birthplace of the society, it is pro- 

 posed to have the quarter-centennial cele- 

 bration held there. 



GERMAN SEED CROP. 



Notes from Erfurt. 



There is nothing of a phenomenal 

 nature to report from this section. The 

 snowy weather of March was followed 



XXX SEEDS 



CHINESE PRIMROSE 



Finest g-rown, largre flowering, fringed, single 

 and double, 15 varieties, mixed, 600 seeds, 11.00; 

 half pkt., Mc. Have the varieties separate, also. 



^ IS I mil II A Obconlca Grand., finest 

 f m IVI ii l_M large flowering mixed, 1000 



seeds, 50c. 

 ^||^e*BAD|A Finest large fiowerlnf ^ 



seeds, 60c. 



dwarf, mixed, 1000 



r> A I ^ %/ Double Giant, mixed, 

 l^MlOY 1000 seeds, 35c. 



GIANT PANSY L'^e'rf^* VVrfe? 

 ties, critically selected,5000seed8, 11.00; half pkt., 

 50c; 500 seeds of plant Mme. Ferret pansy seed 

 added to every tl.OO pkt. of Giant Pansy. 



CASH. Liberal extra count of seeds in all 

 packets. 



JOHN r. RUPP, Shiremanstowa, Pa. 



THE HOMB or PBIMBOSKS. 



insect pests, but the present rainfall, 

 if not excessive, will it is hoped work 

 a considerable improvement in this crop. 

 It is too early to say anything about 

 cauliflowers. 

 As regards biennial flower seeds, the 



NSW CROP OF MT 



Christmas Flowering 



SWEET PEA SEED 



Christmas Pink and Florence Denzer (pure 

 white), will be ready August 1. These two 

 well-known varieticB are raised by over 2,000 

 florists all over the world. Here is one of 

 many letters I received: 



Dkar Sik: My Sweet Peas, which I raised 

 from your seed, received the HIGHEST 

 AWARD in Boston, by the Carnation Ex- 

 hibit, being over 18 inches long. 



JOHN T. GALE, Tewksbury, Mass. 



Price: H lb., 76e; 1 lb., $8.00, mailed free. 



NEW Christmas flowering Hybrids, 20 to 

 30 colors, mostly blue, salmon, purple, laven- 

 der, in mixture. 



Mrs. Edie Wild, carmine, 1 trade pkt., $1.00; 

 6 trade pkts, $4.00. No order for more than 

 5 pkts. taken from each customer just now. 



These new Hybrids are just as free bloom- 

 ers as Cbri.stmas Pink and Florence Denzer, 

 some much larger, and received first-class 

 Certificate of Merit by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, Boston. March 24. 



All seed originated with me is sold in my 

 original sealed pkts. with cultural directions, 

 to growers, for raising cut flowers, but none 

 for seedsnien for propagating. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 



BOUND BROOK, N. J. 



