Mabch 22, 1906. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



\227 



S. D. Dysinger, manager of the seed 

 department of Sears, Koebuck & Co., is 

 reported to have been seriously ill dur- 

 ing the past two weeks and is not yet 

 well enough to be at his desk. 



The onion market has failed to re- 

 cover from the drop it took several 

 weeks ago, and the seedsmen think it 

 will hurt the. sale of onion seed and 

 thereby shorten up the acreage of 1906. 



The bean growers report that it is 

 up-hill work to get contracts for the 

 coming year placed with the farmers. 

 Several new candidates for trouble in 

 the growing line are helping to make 

 the hill steeper. 



The Eeview prints a great many 

 ' ' Help Wanted ' ' advertisements, some 

 of them otiering pretty fair jobs. One 

 in this issue calls for a seedsman capa- 

 ble of earning $3,000 to $5,000 a year 

 in the catalogue trade. 



The Maryland tomato packers are 

 having difficulty in contracting the usual 

 acreage on the eastern shore, the farm- 

 ers declining the proffered rate of $9 

 a ton, demanding $12, prompted by the 

 high price in the open market last 

 season. 



Knud Gundestrup, Jefferson Park, 

 Chicago, says, "Looking through our 

 order books for seeds for this season, 

 we find that the amount of orders is 

 nearly double last year's. Another fea- 

 ture is that the orders average much 

 larger than last year." 



Reports from the mail order seed 

 houses are generally to the effect that 

 the week 's business has been lessened 

 considerably by the weatheY. These 

 temporary lulls, however, are always 

 welcome in that they give an oppor- 

 tunity to catch up and work no perma- 

 nent harm. 



Many of the market gardeners who 

 had prepared for an early spring find 

 their hotbed plants much in advance of 

 the season, and it looks as though a 

 great many of them will have to get at 

 it to produce another crop of plants. 

 This will be a benefit to the seedsman, 

 as it means another order for "hotbed 

 stuff." 



On page 1199 of this issue will be 

 found the full text of a bill recently 

 introduced in Congress for the purpose 

 of affording protection in the owner- 

 ship of horticultural novelties, together 

 with the report or the action of a nurs- 

 eryman's committee, the opinion of some 

 leading nurserymen and the views of 

 leading seedsmen and florists. 



Mention The Ueview when you write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Braslan Seed 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 



Growers Co.J""'"™- 



tion. 

 WHOLBSA&B SEED OBOWBBS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Arnold Bingier, of W. W. Barnard 

 Co., Chicago, was confined to his hotel 

 at Denver for several days by an attack 

 of rheumatism. He was at Pueblo, at 

 Clark's mineral springs, the past week. 



Referring to the incorporation an- 

 nounced last week, Crenshaw Bros., 

 Tampa, Fla., will continue the produce 

 business, the seed end and poultry sup- 

 plies being taken over by Crenshaw 

 Bros. Seed Co. 



On March 13 the bulb-growing dis- 

 trict in the state of Washington was 

 visited by snow and the coldest weather 

 of the winter, 20 degrees above zero. 

 Hyacinths and narcissi were in almost 

 full bloom. It is impossible to predict 

 how much damage has been done. No 

 stock ever has been lost in this section. 



J. A. Robinson, of the Jerome B. 

 Rice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y., is un- 

 der the doctor's care at the Sherman 

 House, Chicago, ill with the mumps. 

 The cheek of seed travelers is not in- 

 frequently a trial to the trade, but this 

 is the only case on record where the af- 

 fliction came home to roost. 



Mrs. S. D. WooDRrFF, wife of Stiles 

 D. Woodruff, the veteran seed grower of 

 Orange, Conn., died March 8, after a 

 brief illness with bronchitis, aged 67 

 years. She leaves, besides her two sons, 

 Frank C. and Watson S., who are asso- 

 ciated with their father in the seed busi- 

 ness, another son, Robert J., prosecuting 

 attorney of the Common Pleas Court of 

 New Haven county; also a daughter 

 Miss Mary. S. D. Woodruff himself is 

 in a very critical condition with rheu- 

 matic heart trouble. He has been ill for 

 nearly a year and is at present so low 

 that he has not been told of Mrs. 

 Woodruff's death. 



S.D.Woodruff&Sons 



SPECIALTIES: 



Garden Seeds in Variety. 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc 

 Corre8pondence,8oUclted. 



Main Office and Seed Farms, ORANGE, CONX. 



New York City Store, 32-84 Dey Street. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



Seed Growers 



815-817 Sansome Street,^ 



SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. 



OarefU powers of California ■peo ial t i — ■ 



Mention The Review when you write. 



To the Wholesale Seed Trade: 



Write us for growing prices in car-lots on 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn 



Healy Bros., Belle Center, 0. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



The extravagant and misleading 

 claims contained in some of the adver- 

 tising matter now appearing in regard 

 to inoculating material for legumes 

 make it necessary for the Secretary of 

 Agriculture again to call attention to 

 the limitations of the value of inocula- 

 tion. A recent examination of samples 

 of cultures for inoculating legumes ob- 

 tained through various seed firms 

 throughout the United States indicates 

 that there has been a slight improve- 

 ment in the general character of these 

 cultures. 



EVERYBODY WORKS. 



The seed trade is fully aroused in the 

 matter of the free seed distribution and 

 is giving a demonstration of what may 

 be accomplished by united action. Led 

 by W. Atlee Burpee, everybody is work- 

 ing, and the result is a demonstratioH 

 of public sentiment which Mill not faH 

 of effect upon congress. All the lead- 

 ing seed houses arc sending out printed 

 matter urging that letters be written to 

 congressmen, and many seedsmen are 

 giving up a large part of their time to 

 the cause. The trade has a whole lot 

 of influence wlien it once gets down t» 

 work; for instance, prompted by lead- 

 ing seedsmen, at least two of the largest 

 advertising agencies in the country, one 

 in New York, the other in Philadelphia, 

 have sent out to thousands of newspapers 

 with which they ilo business strong cir- 



