1874 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 17. 1906. 



The Wasliington correspondents of 

 the daily papers think there is a chance 

 that the free seed distribution will be 

 discontinued. 



EUROPEAN SEED NOTES. 



Coming after exceptionally hot 

 weather, 10 degrees of frost was regis- 

 tered in some parts during this week. 

 Snow has fallen from Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne to Jjondon in the south. I ex- 

 pect shortly to hear many reports of 

 further and very considerable losses in 

 seed crops, as the warm weather had 

 caused growth to be exceptionally for- 

 ward, and Essex, the principal seed- 

 growing county of England, has suffered 

 more than usual, there being quite eight 

 inches of snow over the greater part 

 yesterday. 



The Dutch bulb fields have also suf- 

 fered to some extent and reports to hand 

 are that the crops are very moderate. 

 This state of things will affect seeds- 

 men 's samples of bulbs probably more 

 than forcing samples, as bulbs that have 

 caught the frost are never so satisfac- 

 tory to produce just the large, clean and 

 even-shaped samples required for first- 

 class bedding effects. 



The Royal Horticultural Society has 

 decided to hold a trial of cannas at Wis- 

 ley this year, and the American grow- 

 ers are asked to contribute. Roots should 

 be addressed to Superintendent R. H. S. 

 Gardens, Wisley, Riply, Surrey. 



B. J. 



SEEDSMEN BEFORE THE SENATE 



On May 10, representatives of the 

 leading seed firms assembled at the New 

 Willard hotel, Washington, preliminary 

 to a hearing before the Senate Commit- 

 tee on Agriculture, which was held on 

 May 11. In behalf of the seedsmen, the 

 following addressed the Senate Commit- 

 tee: Ex-Gov. Nathan J. Bacheldor, of 

 New Hampshire, Master of the National 

 Grange; John Fottler, Jr., of Schlegel & 

 Fottler Co., Boston; Burnett Landreth, 

 Bristol, Pa., secretary, the Wholesale 

 Seedsmen's League; William Henry 

 Maule, of Philadelphia; W. Atlee Bur- 

 pee, of Philadelphia ; Henry W. Wood, 

 of Richmond, Va. ; Patrick O'Mara, of 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, and 

 H. B. Hathaway, a banker of Rochester, 

 N. Y. Others who were present were 

 Alex. Forbes, of Peter Henderson & Co. ; 

 C. M. Keeney, of Le Roy, N. Y.; Wm. 

 P. Stokes, of Johnson & Stokes, Phila- 

 delphia; Albert McCullough, of J. M. 

 McCullough 's Sons Co., Cincinnati ; and 

 F. W. Bolgiano, of Washington, D. C. 



Senators Proctor, of Vermont; Per- 

 kins, of California ; Dolliver, of Iowa ; 

 Money, of Mississippi ; Frazier, of Ten- 

 nessee ; Hansbrough, of North Dakota ; 

 Burnham, of New Hampshire, and Sim- 

 mons, of North Carolina, were present 

 and questioned the seedsmen, showing 

 considerable interest in the matter. They 

 desired to know if the seedsmen objected 

 to the distribution of really valuable 

 seeds calculated to improve agriculture. In 

 reply, the seed.smen said that they recog- 

 nized the good work done by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture in that direc- 

 tion but they did not think it right that 

 the government should give away at ran- 

 dom, peas, beans, lettuce and other com- 

 mon seeds which may be bought at any 

 corner grocery. 



W. Atlee Burpee read a letter from 

 Secretary Wilson, in which the Secretary 

 stated that he hoped Congress would do 



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Large cultures of Rhododendron, Azalea, 

 Boxwood, buehgiown and pyramids, extra, from 

 12-lnch to 6 feet high. Blue Spruce (Koster). 



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away with the free seed distribution and 

 give him the money to use in securing 

 and distributing really valuable seeds 

 and plants which would be useful to the 

 country. 



It was shown to the committee that the 

 agricultural and horticultural publica- 

 tions as well as the daily newspapers of 

 the country, are, so far as known, unan- 

 imous in their opposition to free seeds. 

 Many letters were submitted from edi- 

 tors, merchants and farmers, asking Con- 

 gress to appropriate the money for some 

 other and useful purpose. 



Gov. Bacheldor presented to the com- 

 mittee the resolutions of the National 



Here is the dollar for another year. 



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G)ntaios many articles, which if fol- 

 lowed by the wisest florists will bring 

 results they never have been able to 

 get. Keep it coming. 



S. DENNISON, 

 New Philadelphia, O. 

 May 1, 1906. 



Grange, adopted at Portland, Ore., de- 

 nouncing the free distribution of seeds. 

 He urged that the money which goes into 

 the free seed distribution should be di- 

 verted to some purpose that will be for 

 the advancement of agriculture. He stat- 

 ed that the National Grange has a mem- 

 bership of 800,000, with branch granges 

 in thirty states. He said that as a body 

 the farmers do not want the seeds — there 

 may be scattering instances where farm- 

 ers do want them, but a very great ma- 

 jority would prefer to have the money 

 spent in other directions. J. B. Ager, 



Some of our Conifers. 



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