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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 4, 1906. 





the sweet pea seeds in John's vermiform 

 appendix, but the garden never showed 

 any ill effects from the planting of the 

 liver pills. 



Santa Clara, Cal. — Edward Dungan, 

 of Wm. Henry Maule, of Philadelphia, 

 has been visiting the seed growers in this 

 valley. 



John Steens shipped from Hiawatha, 

 Kan., to Chicago a car of clover seed 

 containing 600 bushels, for which his 

 check was $3,700. 



On September 22 the steamer. City of 

 Alpena, took from Cheboygan, Mich., 

 1,300 bags of peas, consigned to D. M. 

 Ferry & Co., Detroit. 



A. E. Petar, of Ann Arbor, Mich., has 

 leased the L. W. Jefferson residence, Pen- 

 ryn, at San Jose, Cal. He is to be man- 

 ager of the Braslan seed farm in the 

 San Juan valley. 



J. M. Clark, secretary of the Leon- 

 ard Seed Co., Chicago, has returned from 

 Brighton, N. Y., where he was called 

 September 18 by the death of his father. 

 80 years old, an old-time gardener well 

 known on Staten Island. 



Sturgeon Bay, Wis. — John Davis, of 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., was at Washing- 

 ton Island last week looking after the 

 shipment of peas to the warehouse in this 

 city. T. H. Hopkins, manager of the 

 Allan Seed Co., was at Baileys Harbor 

 on the same mission. 



Sturgeon Bay, Wis.— The W. W. Bar- 

 nard Co. and the John H. Allan Seed 

 Co. employ over 100 girls in their pick- 

 ing rooms in this city. Many of these 

 come from the towns throughout the 

 county. They are employed for four 

 months or more and average $4.50 a 

 week. This means the distribution of 

 about $600 each week for wages. 



SEED LEAGUE PRICE ESTIMATES. 



Burnet Landreth, Bristol, Pa., secre- 

 tary of the Wholesale Seedsmen 's League, 

 has sent the following circular to mem- 

 bers, dated September 22: 



"In view of the exceeding short crops 

 of onion seed and cucumber, and a de- 

 ficiency in the supply of melon seeds, the 

 board of directors put on record their 

 opinion that the value of these seeds have 

 greatly advanced, and suggest the fol- 

 lowing as the probable values at this 

 date in lota of ten (10) pounds, with a 

 decided possibility of further enhance- 

 ment. 



Onion Seed. 



WHITE. 



White Portugal $1.50 



Southport White Globe 2.25 



YKLLOW. 



Yellow Strasburg 11.25 



Flat Danvers 1.40 



Globe Danvers 2.00 



Prlzetaker 1.25 



Southport Yellow Globe 2.00 



RED 



Extra Early Flat Red $1.00 



Wethersfleld 1.00 



Australian Brown 1 .00 



Southport Red Globe 1.75 



Cucumber. 



According to variety 40 and 60 cents 



Cantaloupe. 



The leading varieties 40 and SO cents 



"The seed supplies are short of beet, 

 egg plant, spinach, French radish and 

 carrot, and the different varieties of all 

 these will be increased in value to a 

 marked degree. ' ' 



[There are those among wholesale 



PERENNIALS 



The largest stock of HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS in aU the best 

 and newest varieties, for instance, 25,000 Gypsopiiila Paniculata Flore Pleno, 4000 

 Romneya Coulteri, 10,000 Campanula Persicifolia Moerheimi, 50,000 Phlox 

 Decussata in variety, 25,000 Pyrethrums, etc. 



nUf IDC one CC ^° Canina in the best sorts, including tiie new Hardy Rose 

 Uff Anr nUoCO "Nora ZembU" (B. Ruys, 1906) and Baby Rambler. 



Manetti Stocks, Sweet Briar Seedling^s, New 

 Corranta, Gooseberries and Raspberries, Etc. 



Nearly all sorts of Plants (even PyrethrumB) are exported most successfully to the 

 United States. Write for illustrated Trade List. 



B. RUYS, 



ROYAL MOERHEIM NURSERIES 

 DEDEMSVAART, HOLLAND 



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VAN DER WEIJDEN St CO. 



The NnrMriea. B08K00P, HOI^LAND 



The best time to place your orders has come. 

 Our prices for the followinjr are most reasonable 

 and the quality strictly first-clasa and true to 

 name guaranteed: Roses, dwarf and standard, 

 best varieties, Baby Rambler: also standard 

 (fine) Rhododendrons; Azaleas, best varieties; 

 Boxwood, bushy specimens, all sizes; Clematis, 

 pot and field-grown: Peonies. Magnolias, Blue 

 Spruce, Koater, etc. Vfo aKents. Catalogue free 

 on demand. For the trade only. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



Danish Seed 



CAUIiIFLOWEB Snowball and Haase's 

 Extra Early Erforter Dwarf. 



CABBAGE, White AmaK«r (Stonehead). 

 Write direct to the erower. 



CHRIS. OLSEN, ofower Odense, Denmark 



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CYCLAMEN 



The most beautiful variety of all is LOW'S 

 SALMON. Seed of this and our finest GiKan- 

 teum and Grandiflorum strains, 36c and 60c per 

 pacliet. We can also quote per weight. We sent 

 out SCHXZANTHUS WISKTONKNSI8. 



UIIGU I nW fii nn bush hill park, 



nUDn LUTT Ob bill MI0DLE8KX, KMCILAND 



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seedsmen who aver that the "decided 

 possibilty of further enhancement" al- 

 ready had eventuated, so far as the white 

 sorts are concerned, before the above list 

 was received, September 27. More nearly 

 the market on that day would have been : 

 White Portugal, $1.75; Southport White 

 Globe, $2.50.— Ed.] 



SEED IMPORTS. 



The United States imported from for- 

 eign countries seeds other than flax 

 valued as follows during 1905 and the 

 preceding two years: 



Country. 1903. 1904. 1905. 



Africa, u. e. ■...« 6,256 ( 10,820 f 6,689 



Argentine 54 40,806 



Austria-Hungary. 13,933 14,554 7,990 



Belgium 13,610 10,136 12,972 



Brazil 67,441 68,314 27,508 



Brit. AustralaHla. 32,377 44,606 13.150 



Canada l.-53,049 423,219 237,051 



Denmark 27,395 37,380 36,118 



France .■W57,209 400.023 450,186 



Germany 827,250 1,012,052 949.553 



Italy 45,346 114,870 137,551 



Netherlands 290,428 263,203 286,630 



Ru88ia, European 29,182 33,600 15,101 



Spain 4,601 , 15,850 18,829 



Turkey, Asiatic. 6,358 3,037 25,924 



Turkey, European 30.231 70,871 20.796 



United Kingdom. 700,130 824,584 803.7.'i8 



Other countries.. .33,405 39,117 43.340 



Total $2,637,255 $3,386,245 $3,138,932 



We consider the Eevieav the beet trade 

 paper we receive. — Covington Seed Co., 

 Covington, Ky. 



Bulbs! Bulbs! 



PlMM* a«k tor 

 Wholesate Trade List 



K. VELTHUYS 



Hillegom, Holland 



Bulbs! Bulbs! 



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Jac? Jurrissen & Son 



NURSSRTBIKM (2M)0 Acres) 



Naarden, near Amsterdam, Holland 



ORNAMENTAL TREES AND CONIFERS 



Enormoub stock of Limes, Maples and Planes, 

 Weeping Trees, English and Irish Yew. Thuya 

 Peabody, Betinispora Pisifera. 400V Retlnis- 

 pora Plumosa, 6-6 feet. Prices on application. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Maoetti Stocks 



One million fine, one-year, Bngliah-grown. 

 Also a large stock of Roses, all leading kinds, 

 per 1000 strong plants. Quantities shipped an> 

 nually to leading American firms. Beferenoei 

 Bassett & Washburn, Cblcp'o. 



W. C. SLOCOCK, Woking, Sorrejf, Eaglapd. 



XiABOEBT 8TOOX Or AU, 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleaa, Arancariaa, Sweet Bays, 

 Palme, Begonias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, BeUrium. 



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LATEST ON PEAS AND BEANS. 



W. H. Grenell, Saginaw, Mich., writes 

 October 1, as follows: "Late varieties 

 of peas are not holding up to a nor- 

 mal yield. Receipts of beans so far do 

 not come up to estimates, and indica- 

 tions are that the yield will not, in some 

 cases, fill contract orders. The. exces- 

 sively dry and hot weather for the last 

 two months has reduced the number of 

 beans in the pods as well as the size of 

 the beans." 



S. M. Pease, president of the Cleve- 

 land Seed Co., Avon, N. Y., writes un- 

 der date of October 1: "The pea har- 

 vest is pretty well along; probably fifty 

 per cent of the crops have been threshed 

 and delivered. It is generally under- 

 stood that the best yields are usually 

 delivered promptly, while the short crops 



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