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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 24, 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 fi oz, 



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



WANTED 



At once, a first-class Flower and Vege- 

 table Seedsman. Please state number of 

 year's experience, and salary expected. 



Addreaa No. 41, 

 Care Florists* Review, Chicago. 



SEEDSMEN 



We are in want of two who are con- 

 versant with counter trade, permanent 

 position, good wages. 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 



201 Fulton Street, 



NEW YORK 



in tHe nursery and seed trade in Eng- 

 land. The act makes it a criminal of- 

 fense, with a maximum penalty of two 

 years' imprisonment and a fine of £500, 

 to offer any person remuneration in the 

 shape of either money, goods or favor 

 for doing or not doing any act in rela- 

 tion to his principal's business. In the 

 horticultural trades the act prevents the 

 giving of commissions to gardeners, 

 which of late years has become a consid- 

 erable tax on those firms doing a large 

 private trade. A meeting of the trade 

 has been held in London and it was de- 

 cided to give a uniform five per cent dis- 

 count, the discount to be openly stated 

 on each invoice and in the catalogues. 

 The principal seed firms of the country 

 were represented at the meeting and it 

 was particularly asked that all foreign 

 firms, including American, would please 

 agree to the same. It is very doubtful 

 if the decision will serve any useful pur- 

 pose and it is the opinion of many that 

 it would have been better if no discount 

 whatever had been agreed to. The for- 

 eign trade is said to be flooding Eng- 

 land with circulars offering a larger dis- 

 count and for a time at least a consider- 

 able amount of increased retail trade 

 will go abroad. 



Many of the largest retail seed houses 

 have already published and posted their 

 seed catalogue and it is reported the 

 spring order season is opening with a 

 very satisfactory increase of business. 

 It is anticipated that somewhere near a 

 record year will be established in the 

 . retail trade. 



The demand for sweet pea seed is 

 enormous and quite beyond expectations, 

 but unfortunately this only applies to the 

 recent introductions and the newest and 

 best varieties, such as are in short sup- 

 ply. 



The endeavors of those firms engaged 

 in the clover seed business to induce the 

 English growers holding heavy stocks of 

 red clover to thresh and market the seed 

 at the earliest possible moment have met 

 with great success and English red clover 

 is coming on the markets in considerable 

 quantities. Considering the supplies, 

 very satisfactory prices are being real- 

 ized. 



Contrary to some expectations, the 



English-grown seed pea trade is holding 



up, and considering the quantities on 



^ offer, good and remunerative prices are 



obtained. The continental and foreign 



CARLSON'S IMPROVED ASTER SEED 



Has been the best commercial variety in the Chicago market 

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



'A oz. (trade packet) $ .25 'A oz $ .80 



X oz. 45 1 o« 1.50 



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



E. H. HUNT, 76 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO 



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