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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



<)CTOBBB 18, 1906. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHIBICAN SEED TBADK ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; First 

 Vlc»-Pre8M OharUs Burgre, Toledo.O ; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. B. Keodel, Cleveland. The S6th annual 

 meeting will be held at New TorkOlty, June, 1907. 



Visited Chicago: Charles N. Page, of 

 the Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, la. 



The Sioux City Seed and Nursery Co. 

 rapidly is completing its bean and pea 

 warehouse at Millington, Mich. 



Burglars wrecked the safe of the 

 Shugert & Ouren Seed Co., Council Bluffs, 

 October 13, but found little currency. 



On October 1 the custom authorities 

 afSrmed the recent decision that seed of 

 yellow trefoil is to be admitted duty 

 free. 



The hard frost of last week has 

 started the fall trade in bulbs in earnest, 

 all the catalogue houses having heavy 

 mail and counter trade being active. 



The seed trade news in the Beview 

 runs through several pages of each issue. 

 Don't think you have it ail w'uen you 

 have gone through these short items. 



There are no signs of a settlement of 

 the lithographers ' strike and those who 

 have orders in for catalogue covers and 

 colored plates are beginning to take 

 alarm. 



V. H. Hallock & Son, Queens, N. Y., 

 have purchased the stock of the new 

 yellow calla, Mrs. Roosevelt, from J. 

 Tailby & Son, Wellesley, Mass., and will 

 disseminate it this season. 



Carl Sonderegoer, who recently added 

 seeds to his nursery business at Beatrice, 

 Neb., already finds himself needing room 

 and will add a story to his big packing 

 shed for the seed department. 



The Kansas newspapers are exploiting 

 clover seed growing aa a profitable 

 branch of agriculture. It is stated that 

 H. B. Walters, of Baker, sold $1,000 

 worth of clover seed off a 60-acre field. 



Prof. W. A. Wheeler, of the Brook- 

 ings Agricultural College, has informa- 

 tion of a $30,000 seed concern which is 

 being organized to go into the seed bus- 

 iness in South Dakota. A location is 

 being sought. 



Frederick M. Clark, secretary of the 

 Everett B. Clark Co., Milford, Conn., Oc- 

 tober 15 stated that "seed crops seem 

 to be cleaning up very disappointingly, 

 and our onion seed crop in particular. 

 We are not realizing over fifty per cent 

 of our anticipations." 



Watkins & Simpson, London, have an 

 unusually large number of novelties this 

 season. Most of the things listed in 

 their annual novelty catalogue are of 

 their own raising. Few European 

 houses are more prolific of nofelties, es- 

 pecially in the line of flower seeds. 



In the vicinity of Des Moines the 

 Iowa Seed Co. is growing quite a few of 

 the items of garden seeds which are not 

 readily picked up in the market. Cu- 

 cumber is not one of the items in the 

 bothersome-to-find class, but it neverthe- 

 less is being grown in steadily increas- 



Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse 



XstebllsliMl 1884. RXCKARD8 BROS.. Prop*. 



Xmportara and Growers ot Higtk-gmAm 



Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, Etc. 



87 East 19th St., near Broadway, Tel.. 4235 Gramercy. New York City 



Mention The Rerlew when you write. 



LEONARD SEED growers 



_ ■ ___^ ,^ __^ I'Uffnt erowen of Pea*, Beans and 



Leading SEED ^ m the central Ve-. 



W^e^* rigweR CO. 



WMto for Prices. 



CHICAGO 



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PACIFIC SEED GROWERS* CO. 



109 MAR.KK'i' STRKKT 



SAN rRANCISCO. CAL. 



Specialties t 



Onion, Carrot, Letttice, S'weet Peas 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



[ Bnrpee's Seeds Qrow ) 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILBOY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Anter, 

 Cosmos. Minnonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Braslan Seedi^~. 



/> _ gy _ den Seeds 



Growers Co. ijj^-«'» 



WBOUtOALX SBED GROWSRS 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



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S.D.WoodrufF&Sons 



SPSCXALTIXSt 



Garden Seeds In Variety. 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Mala Offie. and Seed Farais, ORANGE, CONIT. 



New lork City Store, 88-84 Dey Mtreet. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



ing quantities, because of the satisfactory 

 results obtained. As high as 500 pounds 

 to the acre have been harvested in fa- 

 vorable seasons, although calculations 

 are based on 200 pounds to the acre. 



TOMATO SEED SHORT. 



Robert Livingston, of the Livingston 

 Seed Co., Columbus, O., makes the fol- 

 lowing report under date of October 15: 



"Tomato crops for seed purposes we 

 find quite short of an average year in all 

 of the territory affected by the four 

 successive severe frosts in the latter part 

 of May. Many of the early plants were 



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C. C. Morse & Co. 



SKSD OROWKRS, now located at 



171-173 Clay Street, 

 San Francisco, CaK 



Growers of the following spedaltlea 

 for the trade : 



Carrot, Celery, IndiTe, 



Leek, Hnstard, Parsnip, 

 Parsley, Radish, Spinaeh, 



SiUsily, Tomato, Cacomber, 



Onion, Lettuce 



Flower Seeds, especially 



SWEET PEXS 



RerlBtered telegraph and cable addrees: 

 Moraced, San Franoiaoo. American Seed 

 Trade Ass'n Code, ABC Code. «th edition. 



Seed Farms at Newark, Alameda Co., Vio« 

 torla Island and Gllroy, Santa Clara Co. 



Farm Office. Trial Oroonda and Oeneral 

 Orowlnr HeadQuarters at Camadero, near 

 Gllroy, CaL ^ ,^„ ^ . - . 



Warehoaaes and Bnlk Warehonae, Santa 

 Clara, Oal. Addreaa all commimUMLtlo&s to 



171-173 Clay St., San Francisco 



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destroyed by these frosts, so that a large 

 percentage of the growers were com- 

 pelled to set late plants, whereby from 

 two to four weeks' valuable time was 

 lost. 



"During the month of July and early 

 August we had showers nearly every day. 

 This interfered with fertilization, so that 

 not much fruit was set on during that 

 period of about six weeks duration, but 



