October 11, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1351 



seeds not specially provided for, and the 

 General Appraisers affirmed such action, 

 as in their protest Hopkins & Co. did 

 not show that the seeds were not in a 

 condition to prevent sale for planting. 



Fbank Osborne, manager of the see^l 

 com department of the Sioux City Seed 

 and Nursery Co., has been looking over 

 his contract corn in Plymouth county, 

 Iowa, and was much pleased with the 

 prospects. 



Holm & Olson, St. Paul, deny the 

 report current in the trade since S. D. 

 Dysinger entered their employ, that they 

 are about to add a seed department in 

 their immense new store; indeed, O. J. 

 Olson . says they hadn 't even thought 

 of it. 



Jos. Stecklee, of New Orleans, states 

 that from careful investigation he be- 

 lieves the vegetable crop of Louisiana 

 will be reduced fifty per cent as a result 

 of the recent heavy storms, which have 

 resulted in a large call for seeds for re- 

 planting. 



It is believed that the principal rea- 

 son why Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, 

 are dropping the seed department is 

 that they have been unsuccessful in their 

 efforts to find a man qualified to run 

 the department on the scale of the rest 

 of the business. Sears, Roebuck & Co. 

 do not do things by halves. 



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NEBRASKA ^ED NOTES. 



The latest Nebraska crop report is 

 from C. P. Coy & Son, Waterloo. It is 

 as follows: 



* ' Cucumber. — Spotted ; some good 



F. W. Brus^erhof. 



crops and others very poor. We are 

 short on some kinds and long on others. 



"Sweet corn. — Good crop, but acreage 

 less than usual. 



" Muskmelon.— Light crop; we are 

 short on most kinds. 



" Watermelon.— Small acreage plant- 



Oeo. 0. Thorburn. Grant Thorbum. Jas. M. Thorbum. 



Three Generations of Thorburiu. 



ed, as most of the trade on this item is 

 going south. Probably enough to fill 

 orders. 



"Squash and Pumpkin. — A good aver- 

 age crop on the whole, though some 

 , varieties have done poorly. ' ' 



J. M. THORBUHN & CO. 



For the last eight years J. M. Thor- 

 bum & Co. have occupied a building at 

 36 Cortlandt street. New York, from 

 which the construction of new railway 

 terminals has forced, a removal to 33 

 Barclay street, the building pictured in 

 this issue running through the block to 

 38 Park place. The business was estab- 

 lished by Grant Thorburn in 1802, at 20 

 Nassau street, where it was carried on 

 for many years, and in 1808 by a miracle 

 escaped total destruction by a fire which 

 swept the neighborhood. In 1814 the 

 business was totally prostrated by the 

 proprietor expending his whole capital 

 and more in fruitless preparations and 

 attempts to raise seeds, etc., which could 

 not be imported during the war. This 

 notice appeared as an advertisement on 

 the back cover of G. Thorbum & Son's 

 catalogue of 1827. On the back cover 

 of the 1822 catalogue appeared the fol- 

 lowing advertisement: 



G. Thorburn & Son take the liberty of Inform- 

 ing their friends and the public that ther are 

 constantly supplied at their warehouse. 20" Nas- 

 sau street. New York, with a general assort- 

 ment of garden seeds suitable for cultivation In 

 the D. S. and West Indies. Grass seeds of 

 erery important and valuable kind; hawthorn 

 quicks for live fences or hedging; a great 

 variety of flower seeds and roots, procured from 

 various parts of the world; spades, shovelp. 

 rakes, hoes, hand ploughs, etc., etc.; bird seed 

 of every kind; English split and whole peas 

 for boiling; American and Scotch oatmeal: En- 

 glish gritts, etc., etc.; a constant supply of 

 garden seeds put up by the Society of Shakers 

 at Lebanon, also their compressed medicinal and 

 culinary herbs. 



The more effectually to accommodate their 

 customers they have connected with the seed 

 trade, a l)otanlcal and agricultural book store. 

 where a great variety of the most valuable pub- 

 lications on subjects, especially the modern 

 works of merit, may now be had. Including the 

 agricultural almanacs of the states of New 

 York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to be bad 

 every year as soon as published. 



In 1816 Grant Thorburn recovered 



from the prostration of his business 



as recorded in 1814, and "with the 



help of $500 advanced by a friend" 



be commenced anew, "having for nine 



years paat stood the attacks of several 

 powerful opponents, and among the last 

 though not the least was the great Ruta 



New Headquarter! of Tliorbum & Co. 



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