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August 16, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



779 



Zvolanek's 

 SWEET PEAS 



I am in a position to supply theset 

 the only peas for fordno;, in origina- 

 tor'vseileapa^ets and wipped direct 

 from him, warranted to be true. 



Christmar-Plnk and 

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White, 75c per package, $2.00 per 

 lb.; mailed free. 



Mrs. Edie Wild 



Carmine, $L00 per packet. 



Mixed Hybrids 



New, all colors, $1.00 per packet. 



CHARLES H. TOTTY 



Madison, N. J. 



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very poor quality of the German aster 

 bloom this seasoa and the great preva- 

 lence of mildew in the centers of the 

 bloom. Most sufferers in England are 

 blaming the quality of seed supplied 

 from Germany last season. The flower- 

 ing of plants from seed supplied from 

 Italy is in every way satisfactory. Ger- 

 man growers have made some very heavy 

 purchases of aster seed in Italy and it 

 is now generally known that Italian as- 

 ters are, so far as mildew is concerned, 

 much to be preferred to those grown 

 farther north. 



The turnip harvest iii England is now 

 in full swing and generally, I think, the 

 yield will be light, especially of the more 

 tender and fancy varieties of garden 

 sorts. Swedes, I think, will be up to the 

 average. 



There is again much complaint in 

 England of weak growth of both Cana- 

 dian stocks of garden peas and Califor- 

 nian stocks of sweet peas. The percent- 

 age of germination of American peas 

 is generally high when grown here, the 

 growth and general appearance is also 

 regular, but the haulm is weak. 



J. B. 



FREE SEEDS AGAIN. 



A special Washington dispatch dated 

 August 12 says: 



Indications are that the Congressional free 

 seed distribution will be fought more bitterly 

 next session than ever before. Encouraged by 

 the pronounced opposition of the Senate and 

 House Committees on Agriculture to this appro- 

 priation, and its almost universal condemnation 

 by the press and public, those Interested have 

 undertaken a "campaign of education." The 

 seed dealers make no secret of their opposition 

 to the free distribution of common garden seeds. 

 In an open letter to the public, Henry W. Wood, 

 of Klchmond. Va., president of the American 

 Seed Trade Association, says that the seed deal- 

 ers oppose the practice because It is an unjust 

 Interference with a legitimate Industry, and 

 because it is a waste of public money. Mr. 

 Wood points out that the total packet seed 

 trade of the country amounts to 120,000,000 

 packets, of which the government gives away 

 40.000,000 and the dealers sell 80,000,000. 

 "What Industry could survive If the government 

 gave away free half as much as those engaged 

 In the industry sold?" he asks. He also sug- 

 gests that It is time for Congress to change off 

 and give away axes, saws, pocket knives and 

 looking glasses. 



The American Seed Trade Association is com- 

 posed of growers, wholesalers and retailers, and 

 Is thoroughly in earnest In its opposition to 

 government interference in its business. The 

 Wholesale Seedsmen's League is also out against 

 It. Between them they are in touch with about 

 ten thousand persons engaged in growing and 

 selling seeds, and with at least fifty thousand 

 store-keepers who carry seeds in stock. As some 

 of the larger seed merchants have more than 

 one hundred thousand customers who purchase 

 seeds In small lots. It Is expected that they 



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will have been In oommunloatlnn with hundreds 

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The granges have taken up the matter In a 

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 tired of the Idea that their votes can be Influ- 

 enced by the receipt of a package of seeds which 

 they can buy at the corner grocery for five 

 cents, and which usually arrives too late for 

 planting. They say they do not want sunflower 

 and pumpkin seed from Congress, and point out 

 that the 1242,000 now wasted In this manner 

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 each state institution between Ave and ten thou- 

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 the farmers say, would do much more good than 

 the distribution of seed. 



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