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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 27, 1906. 



Vick's Aster Seed 



THE BEST IN THE WORLD 

 FINE NEW VARIETIES FOR 1907 



Did you see our adv. in Christinas 

 Number of the Ploeists' Review? 

 Look it up. It is worth reading. 



JANES VICK'S SONS 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



THE LEADING SPECIALISTS AND LARGEST 



GROWERS OF HIGH-GRADE ASTERS 



IN THE WORLD. 



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tural seeds are in full supply. These 

 crop reports may appear somewhat late 

 and may, perhaps, repeat many of my 

 previous reports, but th»y are more to 

 be relied upon coming to hand later and 

 when the crops are fully cleaned. 



Seedsmen report a general clean-up 

 of bulbs of all sorts at good prices. 

 Supplementary orders sent to Holland 

 in the majority of cases remained un- 

 filled, there being no bulbs of the pop- 

 ular trade sorts left in the Dutch ware- 

 houses after the regular shipments fin- 

 ished. Some few sorts of gladioli have 

 been slow sale but even these are get- 

 ting practically cleared. 



Mild weather has been experienced in 

 Holland during the whole of the plant- 

 ing season and practically the whole of 

 the stock bulbs are under the ground and 

 are already safely protected from frost 

 with the winter covering of reeds and 

 similar material. A less quantity than 

 usual is reported to have been planted 

 by the regular, old-established export 

 firms, but taking into account the large 

 new cultures in the new northern dis- 

 tricts there is a larger acreage planted 

 than usual. B. J. 



VITALITY OF SEEDS. 



While there is some doubt as to the 

 reliability of reports of wheat taken 

 from Egyptian graves of ancient date 

 germinating when planted, many notable, 

 if less wonderful, examples of nature 's 

 preservation of the life of seeds come 

 to light from time to time. One of the 

 most noteworthy of these refers to seeds 

 taken from Fort Conger, about 490 miles 

 from the pole, by the Peary party in 

 1899, having been exposed in this north- 

 ern climate for a period of sixteen years, 

 their presence there being the result of 

 the Greely expedition of 1883. Pack- 

 ages of lettuce and radish seeds were 

 brought to the United States, and, after 

 a further period of six years, were 

 planted, and while the lettuce seed had 

 lost its vitality, fully one-half of the 

 radish seeds germinated. 



ANTHURIUM SEED. 



A hint as to the vegetative treatment 

 of the seeds of Anthurium Scherzianum 

 and other species and varieties is given 

 by M. Van Hecke, of Ghent. He states 

 in the Deutsche Gartner Zeitung that the 

 seeds suffer if they be not sown almost 

 directly they are mature, and the best 

 mode of sowing is in shallow pans filled 

 with finely chopped sphagnum one-half 

 and an equal portion of leaf soil, plac- 

 ing the seeds about three-quarters of an 

 inch from each other and putting noth- 

 ing over them, but lightly pressing the 

 seeds into the mixture. The seedpans 



ASPARAGUS I 

 PLIMOSIS I 



We handle only the carefully ^| 



selected, Erreenhouse-grown quality. ^H 



It positively g-erminates and is true ^H 



to name. 60c per 100 oeeds; $8.75 ^H 



per 500 seeds; $S.OO per lOliO seeds. ^H 



SALVIA, (Scarlet Sage) H 



Bonfire, ^-trade pkt., 2&c; trade ^| 



pkt., 40c; per oz., t2.t0. ^M 



Splendens. trade pkt., 26c; per oz., ^H 



11.26. Also all other varieties. ^H 



STOCKS FOR FORCING H 



Princess Alice, ^-trade pkt., 30c; ^B 



trade pkt., 60c; per oz., t2 50. ^H 



Beauty of Mice, Delicate Pink, ^H 



^-trade pkt., 30c; trade pkt., 50c. ^H 



Snowflake, Dwarf, Pure White, ^M 



^-trade pkt., 80c; trade pkt,, &0c. ^H 



CARNATION BANDS H 



Save time and money by usin IT these ^| 



on bursted calyx carnatiun blooms. ^H 



1000 16c I 4600 60c ^m 



2000 26c I 7000 76c ^M 



10,000 ll.UO ^M 



Write for our combined order sheet ^H 

 and price list of flower seeds. ^H 



HENRY F. MICHELL GO. I 



1018 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. H 



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GLADIOLI 



Augrusta, May, E. Scribe, Mme. Monneret, Fire 

 Kingr, Oriflamme, Pactole, "1900," Marie Lemolne, 

 Klondike. Assorted colors— Bed, pink, yellow, 

 white and light, Tarlegated, blue and purple. 

 Silver Trophy, 3 sections. Lemolne Hyb., Grofl 

 Hyb., choice mixture. Write for trade list. 



B. E. STBWART, Rivea Junction, Micb. 



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Aiigasta Gladiolus 



First size, 1>S and up $12.00 per 1000 



Second size, 1^-lJ^ 8.00 per 1000 



Cash with order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



Rowehl & 6ranz,HiGkSYille,LI.,N.Y. 



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receiving an application of water and a 

 sheet of glass over each, and then plac- 

 ing them in the propagating house hay- 

 ing a warmth of 65 degrees to 70 de- 

 grees. The chief points to observe in 

 raising the seedlings are a constant and 

 regular degree of warmth and of mois- 

 ture. 



FUMIGATING SEEDS. 



' ' As much as forty years ago scientific 

 men," says Burnet Landreth in his ad- 

 dress on "The New Agriculture," "in- 

 dicated to seedsmen the use of several 

 insecticides, principally carbon-bisulphid 

 for the treatment of weevil-infected 

 seeds, or for the treatment, in fact, of 

 any seeds bearing on their surfaces or 

 within them insects or mites. Seedsmen 

 and grain merchants are especially an- 

 noyed in the conduct of their business by 

 the depredations of the weevil family 

 which burrow or ensconce themselves 

 notably in the seeds of peas or beans, 

 corn or wheat. These grubs may be 

 killed in their holes by the fumes of 

 carbon bisulphid, to effect which the 

 seedsman erects a room say thirty or 

 forty feet square, lined top, bottom and 

 sides with tin and with a door which can 

 be hermetically sealed. Such a room 



Sow Now 

 The True Thing 



Ageratum Blue Star, the best of all for pots, 6 

 tr. pkts., f 1.25; tr. pkt., 25c. 



Alysaum Carpet Queen, fine extra dwarf strain, 

 e tr. pkts., 11.25; tr. pkt., 25c. 



Begonia Errordil, for pots the best rosy pink, 

 6 tr. pkt., $1.25; tr. pkt., 25c. 



Begonia Gracilis Luminosa, bedder, new, with 

 large, bright scarlet flowers and ball-shaped 

 habit, unexcelled for pots and outdoors. 6 tr. 

 pkts., $2.50; tr. pkt., 50c. 



Cyclamen, plant-flowering', separate colors. 

 1000 seei 8, $e.0O; tr. pkt., $1.00. 



Cyclamen, giant-flowering, mixed colors. 1000 

 seeds, $5.00; tr. pkt., 75c. 



Petunia Rosy Morn, a fine bedder, 6 tr. pkts.. 

 $1.Z5; tr. pkt., 25c. 



Petnnia, California single giants, extra strain, 

 6 tr. pkte., $4.00; tr. pkt., 75c. 



Petunia, double fringed Giants, 6 tr. pkts., $5.00; 

 tr. pkt., $1.00. 



Phlox New Cecily, the very best large-flowered, 

 real dwarf, compact. Drum. Phlox for pots, 

 mixed colors, 6 tr, pkts., $2.50; tr. pkt., 60c. 



Salvia Fireball, this is a new, real dwarf com- 

 pact early-flowering, fine variety and there is 

 hardly a better one for pots. 6 tr. pkts., $2.50; 

 tr. pkt., 60c. 



Verbena, Mammoth, unexcelled strains; as 

 Aurlcolor flowered, scarlet, striped, pink, pur- 

 ple, white, each separate, oz., $1.60; tr. pkt., 25c. 



For larger quantities special quotations. 



0. V. ZANGEN, Seedsman, HOBOKEN, N. J. 



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XXX SEEDS 



Verbena. Improved mammoths; the very finest 



grown; mixed, 1000 seeds, 25c. 

 Cineraria. Finest large-flowering dwarf, mixed 



colors, 1000 seeds, 60c. 



Phlox Pumila Compacta. Very dwarf and 

 compact; grand for pota; in finest colors, 

 mixed, good per cent of new Sicily, 1000 seeds, 

 50c. 



Alyssnm Compactum. The most dwarf and 

 compact variety grown; perfect little balls 

 when grown in pots, finest to be had, 1000 

 seeds, 26c. 



Chinese Primrose. Finest large-flowering 

 fringed varieties, mixed: single and double. 

 500 seeds, $1.00; half pkt., 60c. 



Pansy, Finest Giants. The best large-flower- 

 ing varieties, critically selected; mixed, 6000 

 seeds, $1.00; half pkt., 60c. Pkt. Mme. Perret, 

 "gratis." 



Petunia. New Star, from the finest marked 

 flowers, extra choice. Trade pkt., 26c. 



Salvia Bonfire. Finest variety grown, bril- 

 liant scarlet and compacta, 1000 seeds, 10c. 



Cyclamen Giganteum. Finest giant mixed, 

 200 seeds, $1.00; ^ pkt , 60c. 



Cash. Extra count of seeds in all packets. 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



THE HOMB OF PBIBtKOSBS. 



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can be loaded up with a carload, say 600 

 bushels of peas, beans or anything else. 



''A carload of peas or beans thus 

 treated and subjected to the fumes from 

 a gallon of the liquid for thirty hours 

 may then be taken out witlj all the larva 

 killed, the fumes penetrating not only to 

 the center of the pile, but to the center 

 of every sack. The odor of the fumes 

 soon dissipates, leaving no resultant in- 

 jury to seed vitality. A more efficient 

 agent is hydrocyanic acid gas, but it is 

 dangerous in the hands of ignorant 

 people. ' * 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



fAll catalogues are filed by the Review and 

 are accessible to the trade for reference at any 

 time. Following are the latest arrivals.] 



Dammann & Co., San Giovanni A 

 Teduccio, near Naples, Italy, general 

 price-list of seeds and bulbs; Barteldes 

 Seed Ck)., Denver, Colo., general cata- 

 logue; Wiseman's Horticultural Estab- 

 lishment, Elgin, Scotland, price-list of 

 climbing plants; Sluis & Groot, Enk- 

 huizen, Holland, price-list of vegetable, 

 flower and agricultuial seeds; Pacific 

 Seed Co., Portland, Ore., general cata- 

 logue; E. Vincent, Jr., & Son, gerani- 



