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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Apbil 5, 1906. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pr©B., W. H. Grenell, Sagrlnaw, W. 8., Mich; 

 First Vlce-Pres., L. L. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and 

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

 neetlngr will be held at Toledo, O., June 26-28, 1906. 



The department stores are getting 

 their seed outfits ready for the spring 

 rush. 



J. Ogden Armour states that this 

 year 2,500 is the acreage of cantaloupes 

 in the Salton "desert" of California. 



It develops that the "wholesale" 

 seed house looking for a high priced 

 man for the mail trade is Sears, Eoebuck 

 & Co., Chicago. 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, will 

 again be ready for business at the old 

 stand in a very few days. Since their 

 fire, work on restoring the structure has 

 been rushed. 



It is said that the "Seroco" and the 

 other new brand of garden seeds are get- 

 ting a wide distribution. There is no 

 room for complaint here, however, as the 

 distribution of neither is free. 



Onion set men say that the market is 

 likely to close in good order. The quan- 

 tity available is below the average needs 

 of the season and no disturbance or 

 lowering of prices is looked for. 



The seed imports at the port of New 

 York last week were 3,121 bags of 

 clover, valued at $74,340 in the invoices; 

 400 bags grass seeds, valued at $7,798, 

 and miscellaneous seeds valued at $2,695. 



Mail advices from California growers, 

 dated in the last days of March, re- 

 ported heavy rains, with a possibility 

 rapidly becoming a probability that dam- 

 age would be done crops growing for 

 seed. 



A COUNTRY editor says that there 

 never has been a greater farce than the 

 government free seeds since Horace 

 Greeley advocated the distribution of 

 hydraulic rams to sheep breeders for 

 the improvement of their flocks. 



The Capital Seed Co., Des Moines, 

 la., filed a schedule in voluntary bank- 

 ruptcy March 28. The liabilities are 

 listed at $2,744.99, with assets of $1,- 

 591.20. Of the latter $1,500 is stock in 

 trade. The company consists of Charles 

 E. Rogers and George A. Taylor. 



From Southern Illinois and sections 

 in that latitude east and west come re- 

 ports of poor planting weather: Roads 

 impassable, fields wet, little spring farm 

 work done and things generally at a 

 standstill. Merchants are waiting for 

 the seed selling season to open and are 

 not overconfident that the volume in this 

 branch of their business will equal last 

 year 's. 



Reports in general for the week show 

 that trade is well up to the average. 

 Grass and field seed are in better de- 

 mand. * ' Fill in ' ' orders for garden 

 seeds, which up to the present have not 

 reached the volume they should, are com- 

 ing in fairly well. Market garden trade 

 is exceptionally good and the outlook 

 for retail counter trade is quite satis- 

 factory. 



LEONARD 



Leading SEED 



S.w.^' 'JJSS' CO. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



SEED GROWERS 



Largfest growers of Peas, Beans and 

 Garaen Seed in the Central West* 



Write for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



LAWN GRASS SEED i:i^« 



Dickinsons Ev«t. iireen, and i*ine Tree Brandt 

 SPECIAL MI^TlORfiS SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Rerlew when you write. 



Braslan Seed 

 Growers Co.! 



3700 

 Acres 

 of Gar- 

 den Seeds 

 in Cultiva- 

 tion. 

 WHOIiBBAXiB SEED OBOWBBB 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Visited Chicago: Lowell Emerson, 

 president of the Western Seed and Irri- 

 gation Co. 



Chicago: — At this date last year quite 

 an acreage for onion sets and other crops 

 had been planted. So far this year not 

 an acre is sown. This does not prove 

 the present spring late, but it shows how 

 different one year is from another, and 

 how hard it is to feel certain that this 

 year's trade is better or worse than 

 last year's until all the returns are in. 



Madison, S. D. — A seed company, 

 with capital of $25,000, has been organ- 

 ized here. Those interested in the enter- 

 prise are O. S. Jones, George Farmer, 

 Harvey Jones, Dr. Clough, Dr. Truden- 

 feld, George Irish, M. E. Hart, Albert 

 Wedgewood and Frank Fuller. The com- 

 pany will have the O. S. Jones farm at 

 Lake Herman. The chief purpose of the 

 corporation will be the growing and sale 

 of seeds, though the breeding of hogs 

 and chickens will be undertaken as side 

 lines. A greenhouse will be egtablished. 



THAT TRADE-^MARK BILL. 



I have read very carefully the proof 

 of the bill recently introduced into Con- 

 gress for the purpose of affording pro- 

 tection to the introducers of horticul- 

 tural novelties, and must say most em- 

 phatically it is not feasible. 



In common with all other introducers 

 of novelties I have often felt need of 

 some protection, but I have never yet 

 been able to frame in my own mind how 

 this could be done by the government 

 without working injury to the general 

 horticultural and agricultural interests 

 of the country. 



Suppose such a bill should become a 

 law and the introducer of the novelty 



S.D.Woodriiff&Son8 



SPKCIALTIES: 



Garden Seeds In Variety. 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Main OtflM and Seed Farms, OBANGE, CONN. 



New York City Store, 88-84 Dey Stxeet. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE « CO. 



Seed Growers 



815-817 Sansome Street* 



SAN FRANCISCO, Cah 



Oaraftil grower* of California apeolaltioa. 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



To the Wholesale Seed Trade: 



Write U8 for growing prices In car-lots on 



Field, Sweet and Pop Corn 



Healy Bros., Belle Center, 0. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



failed to propagate sufficient quantity to 

 supply at a moderate price, no one else 

 would be allowed to propagate for the 

 period of twenty years. In this way 

 such valuable productions as Burpee's 

 Bush Lima and Burpee's Stringless 

 Green Pod beans might be practically 

 kept from dissemination until the patent 

 had expired. W. Atlee Burpee. 



CALIFORNIA SEED CROPS. 



[Special Telegram.] 

 San Francisco, April 3. — The heavy 

 rains in the Santa Clara valley, report of 

 which has reached the trade, have now 

 cleared away and crops are uninjured. 

 Conditions are normal. 



C. C. Morse & Co. 



NEW ESCHSCHOLTZIAS. 



In the Eeview of March 1, we notice 



under the heading of ' ' Novelties, ' ' you 



have an extract from the ' ' Horticultural 



Advertiser ' ' as follows : 



The additions among annuals are very few, 

 but throe good things obtained recognition, 

 Kschscholtzla Carmine King, etc. 



It struck us we would like to give you 

 a little information and a few facta 

 concerning this, we believe, very inter- 

 esting eschscholtzia. Some years ago we 

 introduced a new class of eschscholtzia, 

 which we called erecta compacta, and 

 which is much more compact in habit 

 than the ordinary rambling variety. Out 



