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The Weekly Ronsts^ Review* 



December 13, 1906. 



burning and now are on exhibition in 

 Washington. 



T. J. Smith is manager of the Grand 

 Forks Seed Co., Grand Forks, S. D. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York, call 

 attention to the faet that their prelimi- 

 nary trade list, dated November 20, was 

 the first one out tjiia season. 



The J. J. Bell Seed Co., Deposit, N. 

 Y., has a Brown bag-filling machine in 

 operation in the store of Putnam & Son, 

 where it attracts no little attention. 



An indication that seeds are short is 

 the comparative ease with which advance 

 orders for the coming spring are being 

 booked daily by the travelers for the 

 larger houses; and it should be remem- 

 bered that these future orders are being 

 taken at higher prices than lyive pre- 

 vailed for a long time. 



Congressmen defeated for re-election 

 will still have a chance to vote on 1908 

 appropriation bills and, since they have 

 nothing at stake the anti-free seeds 

 forces should gain some recruits. James 

 W. Wadsworth, active in the last fight 

 on free seeds, was one of those who went 

 down in the November election. 



In England a law has been enacted 

 making it criminal to givp a gardener a 



The rnll Xine ot 



PLANET JR. 



GARDEN IMPLEMENTS 



Should he included 

 in every seedsman's 



CATALOGUE 



For TermlM^nd Electrotypes, Address 



S. L. ALLEN ft CO. 



1107 Market St., PHILADELPHIA 



tion defined for them and to lend its aid 

 to the enforcem.ent of the law against 

 possible violators. 



HARRY L. HOLMES. 



As Harry L. Holmes says, it is twenty- 

 eight years since he first germinated in 

 the seed business, in Philadelphia, under 

 the tutelage of a live stock dealer who 

 sold seeds in a small way. It was in 



Harry L. Holmes. 



fee or commission on purchases for his 

 employer. At a recent meeting of some 

 seventy leading London seed and plant 

 firms it was decided to accept the posi- 



1895 that Mr. Holmes started in busi- 

 ness for himself, as the Holmes Seed 

 Co., at Harrisburg, Pa. This is the char- 

 acteristic way he tells of his start: 



Wetakethis-^ 

 opportunity 



of thanking our friends 

 and patrons for their 

 support in the past and 

 of wishing them the com- 

 pliments of the season. 



J. M. THORBURN & GO. 



33 Barclay Street 



THROUGH TO 



38 PARK PLACE 



NEW YORK 



Everything in Seeds 



for the Florist 



and 



Everything 



of the best' 



We beg to call attention 

 to our new address, tho' 



THORBURN, 

 SEEDSMEN, NEW YORK 



is sufficient. 



Mention The ReTJew when you write. 



"I wrote a party in Harrisburg, be- 

 fore renting there, asking mm what he 

 thought about the seed business for the 

 locality. He replied that he considered 

 it all right, provided we took fruit as 

 a side line. I thought it over carefully 

 and decided to sell seeds and let the 

 other fellow sell the fruit. In October, 

 1895, we started business in a modest 

 little store. My first (^stomer was my 

 landlord, who purchased 40 cents' worth 

 of bulbs. I did not know whether he 

 was afraid of not securing his rent or 

 not, but he was kind and did not push 

 me hard. The rdom measured 20x38, 

 including the office, and resembled our 

 first store in Philadelphia. We then 

 bought a horse — this goes with the busi- 

 ness, or at least I thought so, until I 

 found that it was not an asset. We 

 used to drive him over the country in 



