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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januauy 24, 1007. 



America 



The Best Valley Pips 



Western Headquarters for Early Forcing Pips 



Selected Pips, $1.76 per 100; $14.00 per 1000. 



This is the very best stock for early forcing. They have been selected with the greatest care and there 

 IS nothing better coming to this country. We also offer a very good grade of Forcing Pips at $1 60 

 per 100 ; $12.00 per 1000. Return at our expense if not satisfactory on arrival. We ship all over the U 

 S. and supply all the year around. 



Fancy Cut Valley Always on Hand 



HW DDI llkl^ ^^'^'^ Distance Phone gyg « 



• ll* dKIJIiO^ 1409-11 Madison St. LhlCaQO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



is a distinct improvement over the first 

 retail catalogue. Pictures of the firm's 

 store before and after the fire and at 

 present are interesting. 



George S. Green, of the Illinois Seed 

 Co., Chicago, has returned from a two 

 weeks' trip east. 



The January movement of onion sets 

 has begun and the shortage of refrig- 

 erator cars is working a hardship upon 

 the shippers. 



The Wm. Kennie Co., Toronto, has 

 opened a branch store at Montreal in 

 charge of J. Purvis, in addition to its 

 branches at Winnipeg and Vancouver. 



A note on Virginian narcissi as 

 forced for the Chicago cut flower mar- 

 ket, to be found on another page of this 

 issue, will interest seedsmen who handle 

 bulbs. 



The onion set contractor is beginning 

 to call for specifications. He wants to 

 know how low the seed can be supplied 

 for and how high the product will be 

 taken at. 



The fact that much of the onion seed 

 received this year is of low vitality leads 

 some of the trade to think it may have 

 been blended with the surplus of several 

 years ago. 



It is remarkable how low some seeds- 

 man can get the prices, and yet claim to 

 handle nothing but the choicest article. 

 It is hardly possible that a good article 

 can be delivered at half price. 



A noticeable feature in the catalogues 

 this year is the drop in the price of 

 Longfellow beans. Heretofore this has 

 been a high priced variety and, owing to 

 its merit, has been in strong demand. 



Long credits have for so many years 

 been one of the features of the whole- 

 sale seed trade that the proposal of 

 growers to sell on terms of cash in sixty 

 days is causing more agitation than, are 

 the advances in contract prices. 



L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, are busy 

 mailing 300,000 catalogues. Orders have 

 commenced to come in large numbers. 

 A number of orders were received last 

 week from Alaska points. A number of 



JOHNSON'S ITCT^'V^E^V^ f*^E^E^«^ for 



HIGH 



'crAD^ ASTER SEED 



From the Best American 



Florists 



and Bnropean Growers. „, ^ ^ 



^ Trade pkt. 



Qne«n of the Market, three weeks 

 earlier than other Asters, separate 



colors 10.20 



Choice mixed .15 



Semple'B Late Branching, higfh- 

 rrade American grown not Califor- 

 nia, separate colors 20 



Choice mixed 20 



Oatrich Flame, separate colors. ..... !26 



Choice mixed 26 



Tlctorla, highly prized by florists for 

 bedding and cutting, separate colors .26 

 Choice mixed 26 



Improved Peony Perfection, very 

 popular with florists, a profuse 



bloomer, separate colors 26 



Choice mixed 20 



Mlamon, an invaluable variety for 



cutting, pure white 25 



Choice mixed 26 



Hobenzollem, the earliest of "all 



Asters, separate colors 20 



Choice mixed 20 



Comet, a beautiful class, with curled 

 and twisted petals, separate colors.. .26 

 Choice mixed 25 



Daybreak, (originator's stock), shell- 

 pink, one of the most beautiful of 

 Asters, early, long-stemmed and of 

 compact habit 30 



Parity, (originator's stock), pure 

 white, and Identical in form and 

 habit with Daybreak 30 



See Our Flower Seed Offer in Last W^eek's Review. 



oz. 



10.60 

 .50 



.75 



.75 



1.60 



1.26 



1.76 

 1.60 



1.50 

 1.26 



1.50 

 1.25 



1.26 

 1.00 



1.50 

 1.25 



2.00 

 2.00 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY, 217 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



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

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



carload lots have already been forwarded 

 to Chicago, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Fort 

 Worth, St. Louis and San Francisco for 

 distribution. 



The advertising of seeds and plants 

 in the general magazines is less this year 

 than usual, and at the same time the 

 trade is using more space than ever in 

 the recently developed gardening papers. 

 The agricultural papers are getting 

 about their usual run of seed business. 

 It looks as though special advertising to 

 specially interested people is what pays. 



100.000 



CUT OUT THE SEEDS. 



Washington, D. C, Jan. 22.— The 

 house committee on agriculture today de- 

 cided to omit the paragraph providing 

 for the free distribution of seeds, from 

 the agricultural appropriation bill when 

 it is reported to Congress. This is the 

 same action taken a year ago, when the 

 paragraph was inserted by .nmendment 

 on the floor. 



PHOENIX ROEBELENII SEED 



This elegant, graceful and easy-growing Palm is 

 one of the most useful for all kinds of deco- 

 rative work, both in small and large plants. 

 Price $7.00 per 1000. 



Yokohama Nursery Co. 



31 Barclay Street, 



NEW TORK 



A CASE FOR McVAY. 



The following interesting note is from 

 the editorial column of the Ledger of 

 Birmingham, Ala.: "The distribution 

 of seed by congressmen has been highly 

 useful, and it will be continued. The 

 effort to stop this distribution comes 

 from interested men. Farmers want the 

 little packages of seed from other states 

 for they often find a seed suitable to 

 their soil. That is what is intended. It 

 is the best way yet invented to distribute 

 useful seed to the different soils." It 

 is up to Brother McVay to show this be- 

 nighted gentleman the light. 



