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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OcxoBEu 11, 1906. 



one center of growth, should be used. 

 Given proper cultivation, Ajaz Princeps, 

 when selected as above, will be found 

 to be one of the finest of forcing trum- 

 pet daffodils. On the other hand, for a 

 good bedding effect, the heavy mother 

 bulbs previously used by growers for 

 market, are just the samples for use; 

 These mother bulbs, by their numerous 

 offsets, throw up an immense quantity 

 of strong, healthy foliage which covers 

 the ground well and protects the bloom 

 from the splashing of heavy rains, etc., 

 causing these lumpy, ungainly samples 

 to be ideal where a bedding trade is 

 done. 



Good business generally is the rule 

 this autumn in the retail bulb trade. 

 Last year was the best for many sea,*^ 

 sons but this year bids fair to be a 

 record one. All things considered in the 

 general bulb trade, between now and 

 the time (which will be about five years 

 distant) when the new growers of bulbs 

 in the nortli of Haarlem, and previously 

 mentioned in my notes, place their stocks 

 on the market, some high prices may be 

 expected for all bedding sorts of com- 

 mercial bulbs and for two or three years 

 buyers will do well to make their ar- 

 rangements as far ahead as possible. 

 ^ J. B. 



PUBUCATIONS RECEIVED. 



[Lnther Burbank; a Short Review of His 

 Work In Plant Hybridization and Brief Com- 

 P«Jl«>n With Other Hybridizers, by Patrick 

 O'Mara, Jersey City, N. J.] 



When Patrick O'Mara takes his pen 

 in hand those who know the zest he in- 

 fuses in his writings at once begin to 

 sit up and take notice. Nothing that 

 Mr. O'Mara does ever is dull and when 

 he has a special interest in his subject it 

 goes without saying that what he writes 

 will be especially entertaining. Such is 

 the case with Mr. O'Mara's latest ef- 

 fusion. 



It is to be regretted that the gentle- 

 men who have exploited Luther Burbank 

 have used such fulsome phrases as to 

 make it seem necessary to Mr. O'Mara 

 to show the character of some of the 

 claims made for Burbank. It also is to 

 be regretted that Mr. Burbank has given 

 a half endorsement of these extravagant 

 statements by quoting some of them in 

 his catalogues. Mr. O'Mara asserts that 

 when Mr. Burbank labels his catalogue of 

 novelties "The Creations of Mr. Bur- 

 bank" he makes a claim so presumptu- 

 ous as to class him with John Alexander 

 Dowie, but most catalogue makers will 

 recognize Mr. Burbank 's title as a clever 

 catch phrasu rather than as a claim to 

 relationship with J)i«inity. iJHowever, 

 practically all trade growers agree more 

 or less fully with Mr. O'Mara in his 

 estimate of the practical value of the 

 hybridization and selection practiced by 

 Mr. Burbank, no matter how reluctant 

 they would be to assume the public duty 

 with which Mr. O'Mara evidently feels 

 he has charged himself. To those who 

 wish a half hour's easy reading we com- 

 mend Mr. O'Mara's pamphlet. 



LOOKING TO THE AZORES. 



From Japan a still further advance is 

 reported in the various sorts of Japan- 

 ese lilies and more especially does this 

 apply to L, longiflorum multiflorum. In 

 spite of this continual advance, a demand 

 still exists in England, although no 

 jjrower can see a profit in sight on the 

 sale of the cut lilies at the present high 

 jmce of bulbs unless some decided ad- 



PERENNIALS 



The larsett stock of HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS in aU the best 

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

 Romneya Gmlteii, 10,000 Campanula j Persicif olia Moerhdoii, 50,000 Phlox 

 Decussata in variety, 25,0l0 Pyrethrums, etc* 



n\lf IDC DnCCC o*^ Omina in the best sorts, including the new Hardy Rose 

 Ulf Anr nUpCu **MoTa Zemblfi'* {B. Ruys, 1906) and Baby Rambler. 



: , Olanetti Stocks, Sweet Briar Seedling^a, New 

 ;. ~v Cttrranta, Qooteberries and Raspberries* Etc. 



Nearly all sorts of Plants (even Pyretbrums) are exported most succeBsfulIy to the 

 United States. Write for illustrated Trade List. 



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JACQUES R0LL4ND 



Seed Grower and Merchant 



NUtfES, FRANCE 



Vegetable, Flower and 

 Agricultural Seeds 



Speolalttes are Phlox Drummondil 

 and Liuoeme of Provence. 



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CYCLAMEN 



The most beautiful variety of all Is LOWS 

 SALMON. Seed of this and our finest Ui^an- 

 teum and GraDdiflorum stralPB, 36c and 60c per 

 packet. We i-an alHo quote per weight. We sent 

 out SCmZAMTHUS WIBXTOIfKNSIS. 



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vance is made in market values over 

 and above last season's figures. 



It will be a welcome addition to the 

 EflgUsi^.tfiade, jf the new source of sim- 

 ply, the Azores Islands, contiAi/^ to die- 

 velop so that in the near future liliumfl 

 from those islands may be on the Eng- 

 lish markets annually and in commercial 

 quantities. Some of the larger European 

 handlers of liliums are already turning 

 their attentions in that direction. If 

 some English or German capitalists se- 

 riously take the matter up we may expect 

 some large and successful exportations 

 from these islands and it will be a 

 welcome innovation. 



The Japanese supply sadly needs a 

 change of both price and quality and 

 also considerable improvement in the 

 business methods of the exporters in 

 that country. According to all accounts 

 the Azores supply will be a vast improve- 

 ment in quality of bloom and freedom 

 from disease, and the bulbs can be 

 grown and placed on the English and 

 American markets at a much lower figure 



when yon write. 



A part of our Khododeodron Hybrid. 



H. DEN OUDEN & SON, ^JSSR- '-'SS'Jl 



nursery stock for the American trade. Oatalofoe 

 free on demand; also views in our ntineries. 



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ORI^AMEMTAL TRIES AND CONIFERS 



Knormoub stock of Limes, Maples and Planes, 

 Weeping Trees, English and Irleh Yew. Thuya 

 Peahody. Retlnispora Plalt«r». 4U0) Betlnls- 

 pora Plumosa, 6-6 ft^et. Prices on application. 



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Maoetti Stocks 



One million fine, one-year, En^lish-rrown. 

 Also a lar^e stock of Boses, all leadioff klnda, 

 per lOUO Btronr plants. Quantities shipped aa- 

 nually to leadinir American firms. Seferenoei 

 Bassett & Washburn, ChicP'O. 



W. C. SLOCOCK, Woking, Surrey, EiglMl 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



, Araacariae, Sweet BagrSi 

 Palmst Beconiaa, GHoziaiae* etc. 



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than even the cost of production in 

 Japan. The danger at present is that 

 the demand is likely to quite impoverish 

 the stocks, thus keeping prices up too 

 high for marketmen to grow in much 

 increased quantities. J. B. 



Your sample copy was the best of five 

 publications received. — Northwestkbn 

 Nursery & Plant Co., Minneapolis. 



PoNCHATOULA, La. — Mrs. Annie H. 

 Parks, formerly of Chicago, is building 

 a range of houses for vegetables. Three 

 houses are completed and several others 

 under wav. 



