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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Sbptbmbbb 13, 1909. 



The Choicest Strains 

 of Florists' Stocks 



indo^lne Qneraria, Gilceolaria, Cycla- 

 men, Panty, Pettiaia* etc., can be had 

 from ■■v'/y.;-"T'-' ■' 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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Comet Tomato 



Those who force tomatoes should give 



Comet" a trial. This variety has been the talk 



of fardeners around Boston the past season. 



Those who have seen it g:rowlng declare there's 



nothing to compare with it. Seed, $5.00 per os. 



< WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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of the overworked and well-known no- 

 tions of yours truly. 



To my mind, the first and most im- 

 portant feature of a convention to a 

 seedsman is the opportunity it affords 

 him of meeting his customers. It must 

 be remembered that the seedsman — and 

 in using that term 1 mean it in the 

 broadest sense — is the very opposite of a 

 specialist. To be a seedsman in the 

 proper sense, one must have a working 

 knowledge of horticulture, floriculture, 



. agriculture and arboriculture, because 

 the seedsman is an auxiliary to all these 

 different branches of the art of garden- 

 ing. You will observe that I dignify 

 the art of gardening by embracing under 

 it the culinary, the ornameqtal, flfie farm, 

 and the forest. Loudon did so, and no 

 more illustrious example could be fol- 

 lowed. To be a gardener in the true 

 sense of that term, one must have a 

 working knowledge of all these four 

 great sub-divisions of the art, and as the 

 seedsman is the auxiliary and helper in 

 the same field, it follows that he also 

 must be equally well posted, so as to 

 fulfil his proper functions with case and 

 dexterity. Therefore the seedsman, as 

 I said before, is the very opposite of a' 

 specialist. He is all-embracing. But 

 that is the strongest reason why he 

 should be present at a convention of 

 specialists like that of the Society of- 

 American Florists. There he comes in 

 personal contact with his customers, 

 gaining valuable knowledge from their 

 experience with various specialties, in 



■ which he has a direct pecuniary interest. 

 He is able also to get a line on what 

 is lacking, and can lay hiff plans for 

 future progress, thus becoming not only 



. an auxiliary, but a piobeer in the on- 

 ward march of the art of gardening. I 

 have ma^^t a point to attend as many 

 of these conventions as I could during the 

 last twenty years, and I have never re- 

 gretted having done so. In fact, I con- 

 sider it impossible to become thoroughly 



. posted in the profession of a seedsman 

 without taking in as many as possible of 

 these and^otlier conventions bearing on. 

 any phase or branch of the art of gar-i 

 dening, . 



The second and less important phase 

 of this subject from the seedsman's 

 standpoint is the actual and immediate 

 business that can be transacted. From; 

 my" own experience and from what I; 

 hare heard of that of others, the imrae- 



I FORCE BULBS MYSELF 



And Have Found Cut by Hard Knocks Which Pay and Which Don*t. 



I would like you to try a few hundred of my LA REINE 

 TULIPS in comparison with those you have bought elsewhere. 

 I think I would get your import order for next year. The price 

 is a little high, but — 



Per loo $1.25 Per looo $9,00 



Perhaps you would be interested in some other bulbs and 

 seeds I have. Write me. 



LARGE WHITE CALLA BULBS 



Sound ajid weU>ripen«d« only a few left. 



iX to i>^-inch in diameter : ......per 100, $ 4 75 - , 



1 ^ to 2-iDch in diameter. . , •• 6.75 .. . • 



2 to 2;^-inch in diameter " 10.00 , 



Monsters «• 12.CO 



late firm of Johnson* stokes. 219 Mttrket Stay PHILADELPHIA 



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Rawson's Worid Renowned Cyclamen 



Freah Crop Sec da Now Ready for Delivery 



RAWSON'S ROYAL STRAIN 



Unrivaled for size, beauty, colors and foliae'*. 

 Has 'been awarded first prize whenever ex- 

 hibited. We offer reep red, purest white, 

 mauve, white with claret base, bright Christ- 

 mas red, delicate Balmon-pink, delicate pink 

 and an exquisite mixture of all shades at 



91«00perl00a«eds; $9.00per 1000 seeds. 



A Trial Will Convince. 



RAWSON'S CONTINENTAL STRAIN 



New. Oar Own Introdnctlon. Especially 

 valuable on account of its early flowering 

 habit. Will be in full bloom In September 

 and October. We offer pure white, pink, 

 white w^ith claret base, deep red, at 50c per lOO 

 seeds; 11.00 per 1000 seeds. Also salmon pink 

 at 12.00 per 100 seeds: tl5.00 per IwO seeds; and 

 superb mixture of all shades at 40c per 100; 

 t3.60 per 1000 seeds. 



WW DiWCAN J& fA 6 UNION STRKBT. 

 • W. KAiT jUn a KM. boston, mass. 



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DAHLIAS 



Now is the time to plice your order for Bulbs 

 which will insure you gettinK named varieties in 

 any quantity; delivery to be made this fall 01^ 

 early springj. 



DAVID HERBERT ft SON 



Succersors to L. K. Peacock. Inc. ATCX), N. J. 

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Wm. P. Craig 



I M PORTKR— BXPORTIB 



Plants, Bulbs and Seeds 



1305 Filbert St. 



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diate business returns are not adequate 

 in proportion to the expense, and more- 

 over, unless a good exhibit is put up 

 j;he7 will be almost nil. If one goes to 

 a convention for purely business reasons, 

 rather than for the purpose of keeping 

 posted, a good exhibit is indispensable. 

 Quite a number of our most wide-awake 

 houses keep regularly making such dis- 

 plays, year in and year out, and they 

 must find it pays them either directly or 

 indirectly, else they would not keep it 

 up. At the same time there can be no 

 gainsaying the fact that a great many 

 of our prominent seed houses are not 

 represented. Whether it be indifference, 

 lack of time, or what, I dd lioCkfeow; 



Zvolanek's 

 SWEET PEAS 



I am in a position to supply these, 

 the only peas for (ordn;, in origina- 

 tor's sealed packets and shipped direct 

 from him, warranted to be true. 



Christmaa Pink and 

 Florence Denier 



White, 75c per package, $2.00 per 

 lb.; niailed free. 



Mrs. Edie Wild 



Gumine, $1.00 per packet. 



Mixed Hybrids 



New, all colors, $1.00 per packet. 



CHARLES H. TOTTY 



Madison, N. J. 



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but I feel sure many of them need 

 stirring up on this very subject. I can 

 rehiember well how surprised I was in 

 Buffalo in 1901, when not a fsingle one 

 of the local seedsmen took advantage 

 of the grand chance of making an ex- 

 hibit at the minimum of cost. I was 

 ashamed of them. And this apathy pre- 

 vails today. The seed trade wants .?hak- 



