Adoust 16, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



777 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN 8EED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Henry W. Wood, Klchmoud, Va. ; First 

 Vlce-PreB^0harl«8 Bur^re, Toledo,© ; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. K. Keodel, Cleveland. The 2btb annual 

 meeting will be held at New York City, June, 1907. 



"A poor man at a seed store tried 



For work — for he was needy. 

 •You can't work here,' the owner cried, 



'Because you look so seedy.' " 



From all reports radish seed will be 

 radish seed next spring. 



In the Toledo market last week clos- 

 ing prices for clover seed were: Cash, 

 $7.15; October and December, $7.27%'. 

 Prime alsike, $6.95; prime timothy, $2. 



Franklin Ely, manager of the flower 

 seed department of the Henry F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, is on a trip through 

 New York state, inspecting flower seed 

 crops. 



Visitors to the seed farm of Watkins 

 & Simpson, near London, speak of the 

 breadth of Eschscholtzia Mandarin as 

 being especially noticeable for its vivid 

 color. 



The continued wet weather is doing 

 much damage in the eastern districts 

 where tomatoes are grown extensively. 

 Both quantity and quality of the seed 

 harvest are likely to be affected. 



H. H. Groff, Simcoe, Ont., sends out 

 handsomely printed copies of an address 

 entitled "Practical Plant Breeding," 

 sent to the international plant breeders' 

 conference now in session in London. 



Beaulieu, the seedsman of Wood- 

 haven, N. Y., says that a few days ago 

 he happened into a place at Woodside, 

 N. Y., just as they were burning at least 

 10,000 packets of government free seeds. 



Arthur T. Boddington, New York, has 

 been appointed sole agent in the United 

 States and Canada for the Edwards cy- 

 anide machine, manufactured in Eng- 

 land. This simple contrivance makes the 

 use of cyanic acid gas possible without 

 the danger which prevents its general 

 use. 



As indicating the large things likely 

 to be accomplished by the seed depart- 

 ments of the big general mail-order 

 houses attention is called to the state- 

 ment of total sales made by Sears, Roe- 

 buck & Co., Chicago. In seven months 

 of 1906 the * volume of business was 

 $27,754,370. 



Charles Treichlinger, Chicago, ques- 

 tioned the validity of a reappraisement 

 on millet seed because made by a single 

 general appraiser, but was overruled be- 

 cause he filed a "protest" when he 

 should have "appealed" under section 

 13 of the customs administrative act. 

 The treasury department can split some 

 fine hairs upon occasion. 



The firm of F. Barteldes & Co., Law- 

 rence, Ean., recently has incorporated, 

 and will be known as the Barteldes 

 Seed Co. It hat, a fully paid-up capital 

 stock of $300,000. F, W. Barteldes is 

 president. Max Wilhelmi vice-president 

 and J. Uhrlach secretary-treasurer. 

 The managers of the Denver branch will 

 be the same as before — C. K. Root, H. 

 Warnecke and J. Wiesel. C. F. Eltz- 

 holtz will continue in charge of the 

 Oklahoma City house. 



PACIFIC SEED GROWERS' CO. 



109 MARKCT STRCKT 



SAN FRA.NCISCO. CALr. 



Specialties > 



Onion, Carrot, Lettuce, Street Peas 



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LEONARD 



Leading SEED 



SEED GROWERS 



Largest 

 Garaen 



wers of Peast Beans and 

 in the Central West 



WHte tor Prices. 



CHICAGO 



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[ Burpee's Seeds Grow ) 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peat, Astei, 

 Oosmos, MiRnonette, Verbena In variety. Oor 

 reepondence solicited. 



Mention The Kevlew when yoa write. 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 tion. 



WHOLKSALB SKKD GEIGWKBS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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A HAIR LINE ON BULBS. 



There has been considerable change of 

 conditions in many of our productions in 

 the last few years, but one quite no- 

 ticeable at this time is the Harrisii lily, 

 or Bermuda bulbs. The cry of diseased 

 bulbs resulted in considerable damage 

 to the islands' products, although many 

 florists who had varied success with them 

 continued to grow them. 



This year in particular, on account of 

 Easter being early, the demand exceeded 

 that of the last two years. A shortage 

 of crop is likely to occur in any growing 

 product, but nevertheless that should 

 never cause the change of measurement. 

 Crop conditions may be beyond control, 

 but the making of the measure is not. 

 It is not many years since the present 

 7x9 size bulbs were true 5x7, and the 

 9x11 of today were about correct at 7x9 

 measurement. Why should another size 

 creep in, called 6x7? This is virtually 

 taking away the best out of the 5x7, 

 which we all know were already small 

 enough, thus leaving the 5x7 size noth- 

 ing but 3x5. If you buy a car-load of 

 horses and there is a shortage, no ship- 

 per would put in ponies as horses. The 

 measurements in vogue, viz., 5x7, 7x9 

 and 9x11, should have remained the same, 

 and the standard of measure likewise 

 should have been maintained, giving the 

 purchaser at least the true size he pur- 

 chased. 



C. C. Morse & Co. 



SEED GROWERS, now located at 



171-173 Clay Street, 

 San Francisco, Cal* 



Growers of tbe following specialties 

 for tbe trade : 



Carrot, Celery, Endive, 



Leek, Mustard, Parsnip, 

 Parsley, Radish, Spinach, 



Salsify, Tomato, Cucnmber, 



Onion, Lettuce 



Flower Seeds, especially 



SWEET PEHS 



Registered telegraph and cable address: 

 Morseed, San Francisco. American Seed 

 Trade Ass'n Code, ABC Code. 4th edition. 



Seed Farms at Newark, Alameda Co., Vic- 

 toria Island and GUroy, Santa Clara Co. 



Farm Office. Trial Grounds and General 

 Growing Headquarters at Carnadero, near 

 GUroy, Cal. 



Warehouses and Bulk Warehouse, Santa 

 Clara, Cal. Address all communications to 



I7M73 Clay St., San Francisco 



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Now comes another new creation, the 

 pure Harrisii and the common Harrisii. 

 This idea probably originated with some 

 one trying to meet low priced competi- 

 tion by statements of the cheap ones 

 being common stock, and in the same 

 breath offering pure Harrisii at an ad- 

 vanced price. Naturally the trade do not 

 want to grow what they think inferior, 

 and buy the so-called pure Harrisii. We 

 grew both side by side. The bulbs ap- 

 peared the same, the plants were the 

 same, and the flowers were the same. 

 The only difference we could see was the 

 difference in price and the supposition 

 that they were different when purchasing. 

 There may be a variation of crop condi- 

 tions among the Bermuda growers, but 

 that should not label the product pure 

 and common. It's pure Harrisii every- 



