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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 1, 1906. 



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hardly credible how they all get suffi- 

 cient custom to make it pay. A leading 

 feature is the penny packet trade. Al- 

 most every sort of flower and vegetable 

 seeds is obtainable in penny packets, 

 even the latest novelty in packets con- 

 taining perhaps not half a dozen seeds; 

 in fact, there are one or two firms that 

 supply every article in seeds in penny 

 packets and have no higher price. 



Sweet peas are the predominating fea- 

 ture just now. They are being advertised 

 for all they are worth and to an ordinary 

 mortal it must seem hardly credible 

 that there is any shortage in sweet pea 

 seeds. Most of the postal trade is done 

 on the packet system, so that if an arlicle 

 runs short the retailer needs only to re- 

 duce the quantity in a packet and the 

 buyer still gets his packet. The real 

 shortage will be most felt by the high 

 class firms that cannot afford to have 

 second rate seed on the premises. 



B. J. 



MAJOR BRASLAN, OF SAN HOSAY 



The Mercury, of San Jose, Cal., heard 

 that Chas. P. Braslan had just returned 

 from a three months' trip among the 

 seedsmen of the east and sent a re- 

 porter to the headquarters of the Seed 

 Growers' Co. to interview him. Major 

 Braslan is reported as "having nothing 

 in particular to impart," but an appeal 

 to his local pride brought forth the fol- 

 lowing interesting observations: 



"The seed trade is sharing in the 

 general prosperity of the country. The 

 demand is in excess of the supply. There 

 is going to be a great development of 

 the California seed business in the not 

 distant future, not only along present 

 lines, but in the way of larger variety 

 of product. The east wants seeds which 

 it cannot get with certainty unless Cali- 

 fornia steps into the gap. Take what 

 we call vine plants, for instance; beans, 

 melons, cucumbers and others of that 

 class; there is room for big expansion 

 in that direction out here. The eastern 

 supply is not reliable. ' ' 



* * Where has the trade been looking 

 for such seeds?" asked the reporter. 



"To certain states of the middle west 

 and north, but the crop in those sec- 

 tions cannot be depended upon. It is 

 liable to be nipped by frost, drowned 

 by rain, etc. California can produce all 

 those seeds to the best advantage, with- 

 out the drawbacks experienced there, and 

 the development is sure to come. 



"There is great public interest in 

 Oalifornia. You may think I am talking 

 foolishly, but the fact is that the name 

 of this city is one of the worst obstacles 

 it has to contend with in the east. It 

 disguises us. The people see San Jose 

 in print, but they do not recognize it 



GLADIOLI 



ARTHUR COWEE, 



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as 'San Hosay' in conversation. Tell 

 them that you come from the Santa 

 Clara valley, and it is all right. They 

 recognize that; but say that you are 

 from 'San Hosay' and the question ia: 

 'Where is that! Never heard of it be- 

 fore.' If you undertake to explain to 

 them that 'Jose* is pronounced 'Hosay,* 

 life is too short.*' 



"The ignorance of these easterners is 

 something awful," commented the re- 

 porter. 



"Well, I don't know about that. We 

 feel pretty big out here among our- 

 selves, but we are pretty small when 

 we get east.*' 



THE PUBLIC VIEW. 



The following is probably a fair state- 

 ment of the public view of the matter of 

 the government publication of the names 

 of those who sell adulterated seeds. It 

 is an editorial from the Breeders' Ga- 

 zette, which reaches many thousands of 

 farmers : 



It l9 not surprising that sellers of adulterated 

 seeds should object to the secretary of agri- 

 culture publishing their names. Some of them 

 are Innocent of Intentional wrong-doing. That 

 is, they do not add the inferior seeds with 

 which adulteration is accomplished. But they 

 buy without exercising sufficient care and sell 

 without adequate examination of the seeds which 

 they buy. Few, if any, seedsmen raise all the 

 seeds they sell. They must depend on others to 

 raise and clean much of their stock, but they 

 cannot escape responsibility for filling orders 

 with adulterated stocks, because the same ex- 

 amination which enables the secretary of agri- 

 culture to discover adulteration will enable them 

 to find it and thus protect themselves and their 

 patrons. The law authorizes the secretary to 

 publish the names of seedsmen whose wares are 

 found adulterated. Question as to his right thus 

 to do has been raised, but the attorney general 

 has advised the secretary of agriculture that it 

 Is lawful for him to make such publication, and 

 he will likely continue the good work in this 

 direction that he has begun. The adulteration 

 of seeds is easy and the temptation is great. 

 The public commercial conscience has been thor- 

 oughly proved these latter days to be very elas- 

 tic. It is time to substitute rigidity for elas- 

 ticity in conscience. Publicity of wrong-doing 

 is a wholesome and effective remedy. 



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 WARDWELL'S KIDNEY WAX BEANS 

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 and FIRST AND BEST PEAS 

 These are all crop of 1906 and grown by grow- 

 ers of fancy stocks only. Address 



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NOVELTIES. 



In a review of the new plants, flowers, 

 etc., of 1905, the Horticultural Adver- 

 tiser, a most discriminating English ex- 

 change, says among other things: 



* ' Hybridizers and raisers of new roses ^ 

 are more numerous than ever before, 

 but the list of novelties this season is 

 not long. Lady Gay leaped into popular 

 favor with almost unequaled rapidity 

 while another climber, tiie Philadelphia 

 Rambler, bids fair to dethrone Crimson 

 Rambler from its position at the top of 

 its class. 



"The carnation holds its ground weD 

 as a whole, and the American section of 

 the tree race has had quite a boom. At 

 present transatlantic seedlings have natu- 

 rally secured the bulk of the awards, 

 among the best being Fair Maid, the 

 Cardinal and Lady Bountiful; but a 

 number of English raisers are hard at 

 work, and we shall soon see the results 

 of their energies. 



"Of dahlias we might name the fol- 

 lowing half-dozen as comprising the 

 cream of the new sorts: H. Shoesmith^ 

 Mrs. Macmillan, Peach, the Pilot, Ivan- 

 hoe and Victoria. Of the singles Strom.- 

 boli was the most notable. 



