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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januaby 17, 1907. 



You Want This Aster Seed 



No novelties— grown especially for my growers, best commercial sorts, branching white, blue, shell-pink, 

 25 cents a trade package; 60 cents X oz. Ostrich Plume, 50 cents a trade package; 75 cents }i oz. 



GEORGE B. HART, Wholesale Florist, 24-28 Stone St., ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Seedsman Wanted 



An inside and outside salesman for market 

 garden tr ade; splendid opportunity for advance- 

 ment; state age, experience and salary expected; 

 correspondence strictly confidential. Address 



No. 16, care Florists' Review, Chicagr. 



Pea Society ia appointing a floral com- 

 mittee is a step in the right direction. 

 Twelve experts have been appointed, who 

 will visit the society's trials at Reading, 

 which are to be again conducted by Mr. 

 C. I'oster, at tlie University College Gar- 

 dens. No variety will receive a first- 

 class certificate unless the stock grown 

 at Reading is fairly true. Those who 

 saw the trials last year know that many 

 stocks of much vaunted novelties instead 

 of being true more resembled trials of 

 mixtures. It is proposed that this new 

 committee shall vote on new varieties by 

 some form of ballot. Principals of sweet 

 pea firms are not allowed to be members 

 of the committee, but their expert grow- 

 ers are, and the committee is formed of 

 one-half trade add one-half amateur 

 growers. 



Another important work this commit- 

 tee should take up is dealing with too 

 much alike varieties, and members of the 

 trade who are members of the Sweet Pea 

 Society should press the society to do this 

 for all they are worth. The Spencer 

 group will be the cause of endless trou- 

 ble in the near future, if the varieties of 

 it are not dealt with by the Sweet Pea 

 Society with a firm hand. In fact the 

 Sweet' Pea Society will only justify its 

 continued existence if it does so. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



[All catalogues are filed by The Review and 

 are accessible to trade for reference at any 

 time. Following are the latest arrlyals.] 



J. J. Bell, Deposit, New York, seed 

 catalogue for 1907; Sutton & Sons, 

 Reading, Eng., seed order list; John 

 Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., gen- 

 eral catalogue for 1907; William Toole, 

 Baraboo, Wis., pansies; Wm. Elliott & 

 Sons, New York, general seed catalogue; 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, gen- 

 eral catalogue for 1907; California Rose 

 Co., Pomona, Cal., roses; W. W. Raw- 

 son & Co., Boston, Mass., general cata- 

 logue for 1907; Scblegel & Fottler Co., 

 Boston, Mass., general catalogue for 

 1907; Hasslach & Roumanille, St. R6my 

 de Province, France, seed novelties; T. 

 R. Watson, Plymouth, Mass., nursery 

 trade list for 1907; Joseph Breck & 

 Sons, Boston, Mass., general catalogue; 

 Weeber & Don, New York, general cata- 

 logue ; Portland Seed Co., Portland, Ore., 

 general catalogue for 1907; Texas Seed 

 & Floral Co., Dallas, Tex., general cata- 

 logue; Cox Seed Co., San Francisco, 

 Cal., general catalogue for 1907. 



The Review is in receipt of an attract- 

 ive calendar from the South Bend Floral 

 Co., South Bend, Ind. 



De Kalb, III. — Leonard Johnson has 

 nearly completed his new greenhouse east 

 of town. 



CARLSON'S IMPROVED ASTER SEED 



Has been the best commercial variety in the Chicago market 

 for the past three years. No disease. No yellows. 



/s oz. (trade packet) $ .25 >^ oz $ .80 



X oz .. .45 1 oz 1^ 



1906 Crop. White, Pink and Lavender. GET THE GENUINE. 



E. H. HUNT,76Wabash Ave. CHICAGO 



YouNGSTOWN, O. — E. Hippard says 

 that ill health necessitates his taking 

 life easier and he plans to dispose of all 

 his business interests. 



Glen Cove, N. Y. — The annual dinner 

 of the Nassau County Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held at the Oriental hotel 

 January 30, at 4 p. m. 



I'ANTON, O. — The year 1906 was pros- 

 perous for the Brown Floral Co. The 

 books showed twenty-nine and one-half 

 per cent increase over 1905. 



Cleveland, O. — Henry Sailor, a boy 14 

 years old, was stricken with paralysis 

 January 8, while working in the rear of 

 the greenhouses of the J. M. Gasser Co. 



Cresco, Ia. — W. B. Perry discovered 

 fire in his greenhouse the morning of 

 January 8. The main damage was to 

 the heating plant, which is said to have 

 been destroyed, leaving Mr. Perry in 

 bad straits. 



Vick's Aster Seed 



THE BEST IN THE WORLD 



FINE NEW VARIETIES FOR 1907 



Did you see our adv. in Christmas 

 Number of tbe Florists' Review? 

 Look it up. It is woith reading. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



ROCHE STIR, N. T. 



THE LEADING SPECIALISTS AND LARGEST 



GROWERS OF HIOH-OBADE ASTERS 



IN THE WORLD. 



Mention The RpTlew when you write. 



GLADIOLI 



Write for trade price list of named Tarieties. 

 assorted colors and tine mixtures. 



G. £. STEWART, Rives Junction, Mich. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



