JANLAKV 10, 1907. 



The Weekly Horists' Review. 



573 



NEW 

 CROP 



JOflNSON'S 



HIGHEST 

 QUALin 



TESTED FLOWER SEEDS 



Johnson's Giant-Flowering Verbena Seed 



Florists and professional gardeners pronounce our strain of Oiant- 

 Floweiins: Verbenas the best on the market. The extraordinary 

 size of the flowers, the rich brilliant colors, and the distinctive mark- 

 ings, recommend this superior strain to the most critical growers. 



We olfer New Crop Seed in Separate Colors as follows: White, 

 Piik, Scarlet. Pnrple and Vellow. Urge trade pkt. (1000 seeds), 26c; 

 &0S0 seeds, $1.00; per (lonce. <1.):6. tliant Brilliant Mixed, large 

 trade pkt. (1000 seeds), 20c; 500U seeds, 75c; per ounce, $1.00. 



The seeds herein offered have been selected with the greate.st care and can 

 be depended upon to be the very best procurable. Our Strains of 

 Verbenas, Phlox, Stocks and Petunias are unsurpassed. 



Trade pkt 



Aseratum Blue Perfection, dark blue $0.15 



Alyssum, Sweet 10 



Little Gem or White Oa,rpet 10 



Asparagrus Plumosus Nanus (Greenhouse-Krown), per 100 



seeds, 50c: perloOO seeds, $4.00. 

 Asparaeus SprenKorl, per 100 seeds, ir)c; 250 seeds, 25c; per 

 lOOi) seeds 75c. 



Candytuft Empress, pure white 10 



Carnation Marguerite, choice mixed 20 



Centaurea Gymnocarpa, 1000 seeds, 1.5c 



Caudidissima, lOOO seeds, 2.5e 



Cobaea Scandeus. purple 10 



Cyclamen, English Prize mixed (from show varieties, unsur- 

 passed), per 100 seeds, T.'ic; per 1000 seeds, $6.C0. 



Lobelia Crystal Palace Compacta 25 



Petunia, Giants of California 50 



Johnson's Choice Double Fringed, per 500 seeds, 75c; 

 1000 seeds, $1.50. 



" Johnson's Giant Single Fringed .50 



Dwarf Inimitable (nana compacta) fine for pots 25 



Phlox Drummondii, dwarf large-flowering, mixed 30 



grandifiora (large-fiowering), mixed 15 



Pyrethrum Aureum 10 



Salvia Splendens Bonfire. K lb., .$6.00 30 



>ilb.,$3l0 20 



Smilax (New Crop), per lb., $2.00; ^ lb., »i0c 10 



Stocks, Dwarf Ten Weeks', separate colors 25 



Dwarf large flowering Ten Weeks', mixed 25 



" Princess Alice (Cut and Come Again) SO 



Tbunbergiai finest mixed lo 



Oz. 



$0.50 



.15 



.25 



.20 

 .75 

 .:i5 

 1.25 

 .25 



1.25 



1.25 

 1.50 



.40 



.25 

 2.00 

 1.00 



.20 

 2.00 

 1.75 

 2..50 



.50 



JOHNSON'S KIN6LY PRIZE-WINNER PANSIES 



are the product of the World's leading Pansy Specialicts, and are absolutely 

 unsurpassed in quality by any strain extant. We offer seed as follows: 1000 

 seeds, 80c; 2000 seeds, 50c; 5000 seeds. $1.00; 14 <»z., $1.25; per oz., $5.00. 

 Send for our new Illustrated catalogrue Justdssued. 



JOHNSON SEED CO 



217 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Herbert W. Johnson, of the late firm of Johnson & Stokes, President 

 Mention The RcTJew when you write. 



ONION CONTRACTS. 



One of the California seed growers 

 announces that he will take onion con- 

 tracts for 1907 crop, subject to pro rata 

 delivery in event of short crop, at the 

 following prices, net sixty days from date 

 of shipment: 



S'hport W. Globe.|1.3.-) 

 Sliport R. Ulube. .85 

 S'hport Y. Globe. .75 

 I* R. W'hersfleld .85 

 Ohio Y. Globe... .75 



Y. Strasburg .50 



Anat. E. E. Gl.. .65 



rbila. S. Skin... $1.25 

 Wht. Portugal... 1.25 



Prlzetaker 70 



E. E. Red Flat. .75 

 Y. G. Danvers... .65 

 Y. F. Danvers... .50 

 Australian Brown .50 



Other California growers say they are 

 not yet prepared to set prices for the 

 1907 crop of onion and several of them 

 are not making the usual eastern con- 

 tracting trip. 



CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA. 



Lester C. Morse, of C. C. Morse & Co., 

 writes under date San Francisco, Decem- 

 ber 31, as follows: 



"Conditions in California so far are 

 normal. There has been an abundance 

 of rain for the month of December, and 

 while onion bulbs have not all been 

 planted, they are keeping well and will 

 probably soon be in the ground. 



"The last season was extremely dis- 

 couraging, and the returns in the seed 

 business were not commensurate with 

 the risk nor the capital invested. Prac- 

 tically every branch of industry in Cali- 

 fornia has been paying better than the 

 seed business. "We think this will mean 

 that the seed growers will be forced to 

 demand better prices another season. ' ' 



CONTRACT PRICES. 



The trade had made up its mind to 

 accept a rise in contract prices for 1907 



Tuberous-Rooted Begonias 



SINGLE VARIETIES 



1000 100 



Del. Pink $25.00 12.75 



Scarlet 26.00 2.15 



Crimson 25 00 2.76 



White 26.10 2.75 



Yellow 250U 275 



Orange 26.10 2 76 



Deep Rose 26.0U 2.75 



SalmoB 25.00 2.76 



Copper Bronze 25.00 2.75 



Finest Mixed to order 25.10 3.76 



Single Fringed Begonias 



These are rather new, but very 

 handsome. Doz. 100 



Scarlet $1.75 $12.50 



Rose 1.76 12.60 



Salmon 1.76 12.60 



White 1.76 1260 



Yellow 1.76 1260 



Orange 1.76 12 50 



Mixed of all colors. . 1.60 lO.UO 



Single Crested Begonias 



A most unique form of flower, 

 novel and Interestlnr. 



Each Doz. 



Salmon $U.26 $3.76 



Pink 26 2.76 



Our bulbs come from the best 

 specialist in Europe Bulbs are 

 more than first size and soanri. 



Each Doz. 



White 10.26 12 75 



Yellow 25 2.76 



Copper 26 2.76 



Scarlet 26 2.75 



Mixed of all colors... .20 2.20 



DOUBLE VARIETIES 



lUUO lOO 



Del. Pink |3«.00 14.00 



Deep Rose St.OO 4.00 



Scarlet 84.00 4.00 



Crimson S4 00 4.00 



White 84.00 4.00 



Yellow 34.00 4.00 



Orange 84 00 4.00 



Copper 34.00 4.00 



Finest Mixed to order 84.00 4.0O 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 5 Lnion St., Boston, Mass. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse 



■■tebUshad 1824. RICHARDS BROS., Props. 



New Crop Flower Seeds Just Arrived 



37 East 19th Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Men tlon TTie Rerlew when yon write. 



crop but the rates proposed by some 

 of the California growers are, neverthe- 

 less, a surprise. An increase of 2 cents 

 to 4 cents a pound for lettuce, for ex- 

 ample, is not considered especially mod- 

 est, but some growers are giving certain 

 varieties a boost of 7 cents or 8 cents 

 and on one or two sorts considerably 

 more. It looks too strong to many. 

 Again, in the case of onion, if the South- 

 port Globes on contract, f. o. b. in the 

 Santa Clara valley are going to cost in 

 1907 pretty nearly what they were priced 



at in the 1905 retail catalogues, there 

 are a good many other places where 

 onion seed is likely to be grown in a 

 small way in competition; good onion 

 seed can be grown in the central states, 

 although smut has been a big factor 

 when it has been tried. There is said 

 to be a pronounced shortage of onion 

 bulbs on the coast, but there are enough 

 in the east so that a good many patches 

 will likely be planted in favorable local- 

 ities for seed in 1907. With radish the 

 advance is not quite so precipitate and 



