March 16, 1006. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



U5I 



Seed Trade News- 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOaATlON. 



Pres., W. H. Grenell, Sa^rlnaw, W. S., Mica.; 

 Itrst Vlce-Pres., L. L. Alay, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. The 24th annual 

 meeting will be held at Toledo, G., June 26-28, 1906. 



The market gardeners are now pre- 

 dicting a late spring. 



Spinach seed goes up two notches 

 higher out of sympathy for sweet peas. 



EeportSi. indicate that manyv unexpect- 

 ed shortages in seed stocks are develop- 

 ing. 



Visited Chicago: E. M. Parmelee, of 

 the John H. Allan Seed Co., Sheboygan, 

 Wis. 



The growers are now after the farm- 

 ers who will take a few beans on con- 

 tract for next year. 



Business is reported booming all 

 along the line in spite or a week of very 

 unfavorable weather., '» 



Sweet corn of the early varieties is 

 causing trouble on account of its scar- 

 city — or at any rate the uncertainty of 

 its whereaDouts. 



Mrs. a. L. Austin, wife of the presi- 

 dent of Rogers Bros., Chaumont, N. Y., 

 and herself vice-president of the corpora- 

 tion, died March 7. 



Seedsmen arc cordially welcome to 

 the use of this column in announcing 

 business changes, or any other matters 

 of general interest to the seed trade. 



Some of the people outside of the 

 seed business who- were induced to spec- 

 ulate on seed of the flat varieties of 

 onions are reported to be sorry they 

 spoke. 



The onion set situation is reported to 

 be differently viewed from different 

 standpoints. This is as it should be; if 

 we were all alike nobody would make 

 much of a show. 



A Chicago market gardener is said to 

 be looking for a congressman named 

 Mann who it appears did not send him 

 enough radish seed to fill up the frame 

 he had prepared for it. 



E. H. Hunt, Chicago, plana to handle 

 Bermudian and Japanese bulbs, in case 

 lots only, extensively this season. This 

 department of the business has not been 

 pushed the last year or two, but will 

 now be given the same attention as the 

 other lines. 



According to the State Board of 

 Agriculture, the timothy seed crop in 

 Illinois in 1905 was 64,625 bushels, 

 valued at $1.75 per bushel, against 483,- 

 571 bushels in 1877, valued at $1.25 per 

 bushel. The clover seed crop of the 

 state has also been annually diminishing. 



Winnipeg, Man. — The seed special 

 which has been run over the Canadian 

 Northern Railway returned March 3. 

 Dr. Fletcher, Dominion entomologist 

 and botanist; G. H. Clark, seed commis- 

 sioner, and T. N. Willing, chief seed in- 

 spector for Saskatchewan, were the only 

 passengers. They report an increased 

 interest among farmers in regard to the 

 importance of selecting good seed. The 

 Aggregate attendance at the 206 meet- 

 ings which were held was 28,910. 



LEONARD 



Leading SEED 



'S!^.^ ■■jgg™ CO. 



Meiitlmi The Review when you write. 



SEED GROWERS 



Largfest srowers of Peast Beans and 

 Garden Seed in the Central West. 



Write for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



in Bulk 

 and Packages 



LAWN GRASS SEED 



Dickinsons, Evergreen, and Pine Tree Brands 

 SPECIAL MIXTURES SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAIi. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Oaion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co.! 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 'tion. 

 WHOI^BSAZiB 8SBD OBOWBB8 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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Crenshaw Bros. Seed Co., Tampa, 

 Fla., has been incorporated, with officers 

 a;3 follows: President, John A. Cren- 

 shaw; vice-president and manager, Ira 

 A. Crenshaw; secretary, Frank S. Love; 

 treasurer, H. P. Inabinet. These, with 

 addition of H. S. Hampton and J. A. 

 Grifl&n, constitute the board of directors. 

 The business was established in 1892. 

 The capital stock of the corporation is 

 $25,000, and the charter covers a whole- 

 sale and retail seed and poultry supply 

 business. 



UP TO THE GRANGERS. 



Ed. Review: — You will probably be 

 interested in the enclosed clipping from 

 the Philadelphia Press. A number of 

 us, including members of firms in Bos- 

 ton, New York, Philadelphia, Washing- 

 ton, Richmond and Cincinnati, spent the 

 last two days in Washington, and it 

 really looks as if there were consider- 

 able hope now of work against the free 

 distribution of common seeds becoming 

 effective, provided we largely hide our- 

 selves and induce our customers and 

 others, particularly grangers, through- 

 out the country, to write to their mem- 

 bers of congress. 



W. Atlee Burpee. 



The enclosure to which Mr. Burpee 

 refers was a report by J. S. Henry cov- 

 ering the Cocks motion to strike out 

 from the agricultural appropriation bill 

 the provision for the seed distribution, 

 as reported in last week's Review. Mr. 

 Henry's story of the degeneracy of the 

 said distribution, among other merits, 

 is one of the most accurate yet published, 

 and it appears that the several seedsmen 

 who visited Washington March 5 and 6 

 may have done the trade no small serv- 

 ice in attracting the attention of the 



S.D.Woodruff&Sons 



SPECIALTIBSt 



Garden Seeds In Variety. 



Maine seed potatoes, onion Bets, etc 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Main Office and Seed Farms, OBANGE, CONN. 



New York City Store, 82-84 Dey Street. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



Seed Growers 



815-817 Sansome Street, 



SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. 



OarcAil ^owera of California specialtUs. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



To the Wholesale Seed Trade: 



Write us for growmgr prices in car-lots on 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn 



Healy Bros., Belle Center, 0. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



country to the present opportunity to be 

 rid of this petty congressional graft. 



Burnet Landreth, secretary of the 

 Wholesale Seedsmen's League, sends out 

 the following: 



At a meeting of seed merchants held 

 in the city of Washington, D. C, March 

 5 and 6, it was decided to issue sug- 

 gestions to the general seed trade as 

 follows : 



The following draft or skeleton for a 

 line of argument has been drawn for 

 the purpose of aiding the compilation of 

 similar articles to be distributed by seed 

 merchants to their wholesale customers, 

 retail customers and to others, their 

 friends who might be disposed to com- 

 municate promptly with their respective 

 members of congress in many states, urg- 

 ing them to sustain the action of the 

 committea on agriculture in expunging 

 frpm the general agricultural bill that 

 particular item covering the purchase 

 of seeds for free distribution. 



You are requested, therefore, if this 

 thought meets your approval, to at once 

 have printed some thousands of slips cov- 

 ering the subject and have,, them in- 

 serted in every letter sent out and in 

 every package of seed, so that the united 

 action of the seed trade will start tens 

 of thousands of voters into communica- 

 tion with their respective congressmen. 



The bill for its final passage will come 

 up about the hist of March, and it is 

 imperatively necessary that congressmen 



