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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 23, 1906. 



Employees of Rochester Seed Houses on Their Outing at Newport, N. Y^ August 11, 



Seed Trade News. 



AIBBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Vlce-Pres., Charles Burge, Toledo.O. ; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Keodel, Cleveland. The 25th annual 

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



Visited Chicago : 

 Port Hope, Ont. 



John Hume, of 



The French crop of Golden Self- 

 Blanching celery seed is reported short 

 as usual. 



The Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, la., 

 was incorporated August 9 with $100,- 

 000 capital stock. 



Beports from the sections where pea 

 threshing is under way indicate that a> 

 fairly good crop has been harvested. 



Bulb orders are coming in^-well, but 

 the trade is badly hampered by the 

 scarcity of 7 x 9 Harrisii and large size 

 freesias. 



The forehanded seedsman now is giv- 

 ing thought to the cuts for his 1907 

 catalogue. Stock wood cuts no longer 

 serve the purpose for up-to-date books. 



The "Wholesale Seedsmen 's League 

 purposes to keep up the fight on free 

 seeds. W. W. Smith, who was the seeds- 

 men 's Washington representative during 

 the last session of congress, has been re- 

 tained to conduct the publicity end of 

 the campaign and is doing good work 

 in both country and city papers. 



A. C. Kendel makes a good point in 

 an interview with a Cleveland reporter, 

 when he says of congressional free seeds : 

 "Even more opposed to the practice 

 than the seed dealers are the country 

 storekeepers, with whom the seed trade 

 is an important item of their business, 

 or would be if it were not for the thou- 

 sands of packets mailed free by con- 

 gressmen. ' ' 



LEONARD SEED GROWERS 



Leading 

 «;je^* -ow« CO. 



Latsest fiTowen of Peas» Beans and 

 Garden Seed in the Central Wat 



Writ* for Prices* 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PACIFIC SEED GROWERS' CO. 



109 MARKET STRKKT 



SAN rRANCISCO. CAL. 



Specialties! 



Onion, Carrot, Lettuce, Siveet Peas 



Mention Tbe Beylew when you write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion. Sweet Peu, Aster, 

 OoBmoB. Mignonette, Verbena In Tariety. Oo^ 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Reylew when yoa write. 



Beans are not yet past the danger 

 line. Good guessers say, however, that 

 full deliveries are likely to be made on 

 some of the varieties. 



The American crop of radish seed is 

 said to be in good shape. This will in 

 a measure make up for the serious short- 

 age reported from England and France. 



Franklin Ely, representing the Henry 

 i!\ Michell Co., Philadelphia, was in 

 Eochester last week looking over the 

 aster situation. Except Snowdrift and 

 Queen of the Market, nothing is in evi- 

 dence as far as flowers are concerned. 

 All stock was planted late on account of 

 the season, and it will be the middle of 

 next month before asters will be in their 

 glory. At the present time, the outlook 

 is for a sura seed crop of these flowers. 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co-S-r 



WHOI.M>AT,» SBKO OROWSIUI 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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The H. E. Fiske Seed Co. is a new 

 concern incorporated at Boston, with a 

 capital stock of $30,000. Purbot H. 

 Skatton, Harry E. Fiske and D. W. 

 Henry are named as directors. 



The onion set situation has about ad- 

 justed itself. It is generally admitted 

 that the crop is short ; that the product, 

 especially at Chicago, is of good quality; 

 that the conditions will warrant an ad- 

 vance of prices, and that they who sold 

 early for future delivery will have hard 

 work making good. Some of the larger 

 growers who were hit hard by unfavor- 

 able spring weather, and who had hoped 

 that the favorable conditions that came 

 afterwards would help them out at har- 

 vest time,, are disappointed. A scarcity 

 of what are termed pickle onions will 

 help to keep up the price of whites. 



