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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 29, 1906. 



isted, the idea that these gentlemen have 

 not the space, stock and facilities for 

 attending to their customers' interests. 

 Alfalfa is not selling as quickly as 

 could be wished. The omniscient gentle- 

 men at the capital have cast a shadow 

 over the poor farmers' minds — the fear 

 that good alfalfa cannot be obtained. 

 The variations in analyses of the same 

 bulk goods from four different and 

 widely separated experiment stations 

 (and there is no doubt that the Wash- 

 ington authorities never " lit " on a 

 more suitable cognomen) are so differ- 

 ent that we feel like letting our worthy 

 representatives have the prerogative of 

 distributing alfalfa themselves — * ' free 

 from dodder and all other obnoxious 

 weeds ' ' — when they get some. 



F. S. P. 



RAWSON BURNED OUT. 



Fire destroyed the three-story build- 

 ing of W. W. Rawson & Co., 12 and 13 

 Faneuil Hall square, Boston, early Fri- 

 day morning, March 23. Crossed wires 

 are believed to have been the cause. The 

 loss Avas complete, all the stock of seeds, 

 implements, etc., being ruined, either by 

 fire or water. The firm carried $25,000 

 insurance on the stock, but this only 

 partly covers the loss. The fire could 

 hardly have come at a worse time, as 

 the season's stock of seeds was all on 

 hand and a heavy trade was just fairly 

 beginning. It will be impossible to re- 

 place much of the stock for this season's 

 trade and orders are flowing in with in- 

 creasing volume. Mr. Eawson has not 

 decided Avhether or not to reopen in a 

 new location. However, the business is 

 one of the old and well known ones and 

 will doubtless be continued, although Mr. 

 Eawson \iRs many other large interests 

 at Arlington, Medford and Newton, 

 N. H. 



MAINE SEED LAWS. 



In 1897 the legislature passed an act 

 regulating the sale of seeds in the 

 state of Maine, but it was not until 

 1905 that provision was made for the 

 testing of samples, the work being done 

 at the Experiment Station at Orono. 

 The law requires that every lot of seeds 

 of one pound or more, whether in bulk 

 or package, offered for sale in the state 

 must be accompanied by a written or 

 printed guarantee of its percentage of 

 purity and freedom from foreign mat- 

 ter. Dealers may lose their guarantees 

 on tests of the Experiment Station ol 

 conducted by themselves under such con- 

 ditions as the director of the Experi- 

 ment Station may prescribe. The pen- 

 alty for failure to provide the guaran- 

 tee or for, with intent to deceive, wrong- 

 ly mailing any package of garden, veg- 

 etable or other agricultural seeds, 

 SAveet corn, trees, shrubs and ornamental 

 plants excepted, is $100 for the first 

 offense and $200 for each subsequent 

 offense. The Experiment Station is re- 

 quired to publi.sh the results of all tests 

 made by it. 



The Experiment Station has now pub- 

 lished its first seed bulletin, containing 

 results of purity tests, in nearly every 

 case the samples being well within equi- 

 table standards. Most of the tests were 

 made for planters, but many were sam- 

 ples sent by dealers, and these are 

 named. In the case of a few poor sam- 

 ples it is explained that these were seeds 

 "offered to them and it does not neces- 

 sarily mean that they offered for sale in 



THE 



BEST 



FRESHEST 



MOST PRODUCTIVE 



^JOHNSON St STOK ES^ 



Mushroom ^pawn 



Quality alvraya unltorm— Results always profitable 



Per 10 lbs. Per 25 lbs. Per 100 lbs. 



PURE CULTURE $1.25 $2.75 $10.00 



ENGLISH MILX.TRACK 76 1.50 6.00 



Special quotations will be made on 1000 lbs. and over. 



SEE OUR BULB OFFER IN LAST WEEK'S REVIEW 



JOHNSON & STOKES, 



217-219 Slarket Street, Plilladelpliia, Fa. 



Mpntton The Review when yon write. 



For Sale, 10,000 Armstrong's Everblooming Tuberose Bulbs 



First size, $15.00 per 1000. Also Plants, Perns, Palms. Rooted Cuttings, Hardy Plants, Shrubbery, 

 Imported Bulbs, Domestic Bulbs, Decorative Materials, Christmas Greens, Cut Flower Boxes, Fertil- 

 izers, Insecticides, Flower Pots, Wire Supports. Estimates furnished on Greenhouse Construction, 

 Ventilating Machines, Glass, Boilers. Pumps, Pipe, Tanks, Steam Traps, Thermometers and Thermo- 

 stats of all kinds and everything in the florist line. 



Pilrhpr A Riirrnw^ 1316 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. 



I ll^llfTI Ul UUI I Wt9, Long Distance Telephone. Main 2018. 



ASTERS 



GERMAN GROWN, "^gSSK'** 



T. P. H 08. oz. 



Victoria 25c 50c $1.76 



Victoria, Giant 80c 70c 2.50 



Giant Comet 15c 25c .75 



Ostrlcli Featlivr 16c 30c 1.00 



Queen of the Market 10c 15c .40 



AlysBum— White Carpet.. 10c .80 



Aseratum— Blue Star 20c 



Besonla— Erfordii, Dwarf, Vernon, Vulcan, 

 Zulu King, each T. P., 25c. 



Candytuft Empress, lb. $2.00; T. J»., 10c. 



Moonflow^er — White seeded, oz., 35c; 4 oz., 

 $1.25; black seeded, oz., 25c; 4 oz., 90c. 



T. P. H oz. oz. 

 FMox— Grandiflora 10c 20c .60 



Petunia— Single, large flowered, fringed and 

 stained, California Giants, each T. P.. 60c: double 

 large flowered, fringed and stained, T. P., $1,00. 



T. P. M oz. oz. 



Salvia— Bonfire 25c 70c 2.50 



Splendens 30c 1.00 



Stocks- Dwarf Snowflake, T. P.. 25c; % oz., 

 $2.50; large flowered, 10weeks',T. P.,25c; Jioz.,70c. 



Verbena — Mammoth, in T. P. K oz. oz. 

 colors or mixed 25c .76 



Bonora, the new plant food, pound, 50c; by 

 mail, 65c; 5 lb. per express, $2.50. 



Write for 1906 Wholesale Catalogue, now ready. 



W. C. Beckert, 



ALLEOHENT, PA. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



GLADIOLI 



GrofFs Hybrids, "World's Best,'" Per Per 

 Silver Trophy Strain in their 3 100 1000 

 sections, reds, liRhts and blues.. $3.00 



New seedlings of above 2.50 



Groff's Hybrid, Crawfords stock.... 1.50 $10.00 



Lemoine Hybrid seedlings 1.25 10.00 



Childsii seedlings 1.25 10.00 



Brenchleyensis 1.25 



May 1.50 12.00 



Superb mixture all colors 1 00 8.00 



White and light mixture 1.25 10.00 



All stock F. O. B., packing free. 

 My soil, climate and method are well adapted 

 to the growing of sound, Arm stock. 



John H. Lmpleby, Derby, N. Y. 



A»ntion Tlie Review when you write. 



Maine seeds of this quality; in some 

 instances it is certain that when the ex- 

 amination showed the seeds to be of, 

 low purity, they were not brought into 

 the state. ' ' Practically all the samples 

 were clover or grass seeds. 



GLADIOLIS 



AMERICA 



Is conceded to be 



INXLD 



It was considered exquisite 

 enough to be used exclusively 

 with smilax and ferns in deco- 

 rating the yacht "Mayflower" 

 last August for the reception 

 of the Peace Envoys. The 

 effect was gorgeous. The 

 name was so appropriate too. 



Introduced by us. 



John Lewis Childs 



Floral Park, N. Y. 



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XXX STOCK 



strong and Fine— Ready for 3-lnch pots. 



Verbenas. Best California Giants. 12.00 per 100. 

 Petunia. New Star, finest selected, $2.00 per 100. 

 Fhlux Drummondii. Compact Dwarf, grand 



for pois. finest colore, superb, $2.00 per 100. 

 Pelargoniums. Fancy mixed, 3- In., $0.00 per 100 



XXX SEEDS 



cineraria. Finest large flowering dwarf, 1000 

 seeds, 50c. 



Chinese Primrose. Finest largre-flowering 

 frlng'ed varieties, mixed; single and double, 

 500 seeds, 11.00; half pkt., 50c. 



Pansy, Finest Giants. The best large-flower- 

 ing varieties, critically selected; mixed, 5000 

 seeds, 11.00; half pkt., 50c. 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



THK HOME OF FRIIHBOSES. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Here is a check for $2 for two years, 

 1906 and 1907. The Keview can't be 

 beat; we look for it the same as for the 

 cup of coffee in the morning. We buy 

 through it ; the advertisers can tell. Suc- 

 cess to you. — The Wyandotte Seed 

 House, Kansas City, Kans. 



