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Febbuaby 7, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



87> 



DAMMANN ft CO. 



Seed and Bulb Growers 

 and BEerchatita 



8iB GIOTannl a Tedoecio, near Naples, Italy 



Established 1877 

 By Appointment to H. M. the King: of Italy 



HEADQCABTERS FOR 



Cauliflower and Tripoli Onion Seed 

 (Including Crystal Wax and Bermuda) 



And for all other Teg;etable Seeds 



of Unrivaled Quality. 



All Flower Seeds grown on an enormons scale 



Ask for Our Wholesale Catalogrue. 



Mention The ReTJew when yon write. 



No.34i 



WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULIPLOWER-SEED 



is the earliest of 

 all Snowballs, thei | 

 , most compact, the 

 surest header, is 



giving the largest and snow. 



whitest heads, and is the 



best keeper in dry-weailier. 



Demand it through your 



teed-firm or direct from 



R. WIBOLTT, NAKSKOV. DENMARkI 



MeBtloa The Rerlew when yon write. 



CAULIFLOWER f 

 CABBAGE E 



HJALMAR HARTMANN Se CO. 



Growers for tbe Wliolesalo Trad* Only. 

 18 BtonuBade, COPENHAGEN 



M»nHnn Th> R^rfew wh»n yon write. 



XiABOBST STOCK OF A£& 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleas, Araucarias, Sweet Bay*, 

 Palms, Begonias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Belfpium. 



Mention The Reriew when yon write. 



Danish Seed 



0AUI<IFLOWER Snowball and Haage's 

 Extra Early Erfurter Uwarf . 



OABBAOE, White Amager (Stonehead). 

 Write direct to tbe grower. 



CHRIS. OLSEN, Grower Odense, Denmark 



Mention The Reriew when yon write. 



Yokohama, Japan, October 29. Fern 

 balls, 7-9-inch, entered at 100 yen per 

 thousand, were not advanced, but cost of 

 packing included. A Japanese yen is 

 practically equal in value to a dollar in 

 our currency. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending Jan- 

 uary 26 were as follows: 



Kind. Bags. 



Annatto 

 Anise . . 

 Caraway... 200 

 Cardamom. 5S 

 Castor . . . 616 

 Cloyer ...1,004 

 Fennel ... 343 



Val. 



no $ l,.3.S!t 



^9 2.045 



1,460 



975 



3,086 



24,245 



2.095 



Kind. 

 (Jrass 

 Hemi) 

 Millet . . . 

 Mustard . 

 Poppy . . . 

 Rape . . . . 

 Sugar beet 

 Other . . . 



Bags. Val. 

 .2,748 $26,614 

 . 400 1,879 



200 

 869 

 035 

 116 

 68 



511 



9,839 



5,705 



833 



478 



16,102 



In the same period the imports of trees 

 and plants were valued at $6,071. 



In 1890, when W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 

 introduced Burpee's Bush Lima bean, 

 they sold only four beans to a packet, 

 for 75 cents. 



Dahlias 



Awarded 10 

 Gold Medals 

 in 1903, 12 in 

 1904, 12 in 1906 

 and 12 in 1906. 



Pot Roots 



Awarded th^ Stiver 

 Medal by tbe Inter- 

 national Jury 

 at tbe St. LouiB 

 Exposition. 



POT ROOTS FOR SHIPMENT AT ONCE Every section, including the popular CACTUS. 

 rvi KVViJ iva JliiriTH.WI m VW^.C gj,^^ Fancy. Pompon and Mnglc, at $6.00 per 



100 in 25 sorts. Better and newer kinds at S8.00 and $9.00 per 100. These are post tree 

 terms. Note this when comparing prices. Torms oash witli order. 



TEMPTING BARGAINS l^o^e who prefer to have their goods through a forwarding 

 ■ ■.itia utn^M iwiimraiiw t,Quge instead of by parcels post can be supplied in every section, 

 including Cactus, at 94.00. 15.00 and 96.00 per 100 in 25 sorts. 



19 ^FFDI ING fAfTIIS HAHI lA^ ah 1904 sorts and certificated by the Dahlia Societies 

 U aCCULiraU CAL I UJ UWIILI/U j^ England: post free for $2.50 - Dainty. Edith 



Groom, George Gordon, Hereward, Lauretta, Mr. Keith, Mrs. J. W. Wilkinson, Osprey, 

 Pink Pearl, Rainbow, Sweet Nell. Violetta. 



IQ05 SFEDLING CACTUS DAHLIAS ^ '"« opportunity: only a few to offer. One 

 lyUJ 3Ci:ifl.lllU l^ftVIUJ W/tllLI/W ^^^^^ ^j ^^^ following 12 kinds post free for $8.00: 



Alfred Morgan. Antelope, Cockatoo. Harbour Light, Jeanette, Miss Dorothy Oliver, Nero, 

 Rosy Mom, Sir A. Lamb, Tricolour, W. £. Dickson, W. Hopkins. 



fOflli SFFIII ING fAfTIIS DAHI IAS One each of the following new varieties, which 

 lyWJCCUHWU \.ftl,IUJ U/IIILI/U ^^^^ j^^^^ awarded, post free for $4.00: Marjorie 



Gaselton. Silver Wings, Tbe Pilot and White Swan. 



Terms cash with order. Catalogue free on application. 



HOBBIES LIMITED, - Norfolk Nursorlos, - DEREHAM, ENG. 



LONDON DEPOT. 17, Broad Street Place, ■. C. 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



PBLOX CANADENSIS=Perry's Variety 



A grand improvement upon the type, color unique, resem bling Plumbago Capensis, large, 

 flowers, larger heads, petals not out, in bloom 3 months. Giand for foicing. $8.00 per 100 

 Catalogues free. Received Award of Merit ti. H. S. and R. B. S. 



PERRY'S HARDY PLANT FARM, ENFIELD, ENGLAND 



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The Royal Tottenham 

 Nurseries, Ltd.^'i^YsS** 



Managing Director, A. M. C. VAN DCR ELST 



Dedemsvaart, Holland 



Headquarters for Hardy Perennials, among 

 which are the latest and choicest. 13 acres de- 

 voted to growing this line, including Anemone, 

 Aster, Campanula, Delphinium, Funkias, Hem- 

 crocks, Hepatica, Incarvillea, Iris, Peonies, 

 nilox decussata and suiTruticosa, Primula, 

 Pyretbmm,Tritoma. Hardy Heath, Hardy Ferns. 

 Also 5 acres of Daffodils. 12 acres of Conifers, 

 specially yotmg choice varieties to be grown on; 

 8 acres Rbododentlrons, including the best Amer- 

 ican and Alpine varieties; 2 acres Hydrangeas. 

 We make it a point to grow all tbe latest novel* 

 ties in these lines Ask for Catalog. 



Plcea Pungens Olauca (Eoater), transplanted '05 



H. DEN OUDEN & SON. ^^^^:kYd,^o^^':^^oi 



nursery stock for the American trade. Catalogue 

 free on demand; also views in our nurseries. 



CATALOGUE HELD UP. 



The post-oflSce authorities at Chicago 

 have held up the seed catalogue of Mont- 

 gomery Ward & Co. because of the prize 

 offers it contains. It goes without say- 

 ing that Montgomery Ward & Co. do not 

 wish to infringe the postal laws, nor do 

 they think they have done so. They 

 have filed with the post-office represen- 

 tations that the winning of their prizes 

 is not at all a matter of chance, but a 

 matter of cultural skill, in which con- 

 tention they will have the support of the 



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' EstaUislied 1680. Cable sMress. Jacronsmi Wmm 



A. B. C. Code used. 



JACQUES ROLUND 



Seed Grower and Merchant 



NIMES, FRANCE 



Vegetable, Flower and 

 Agricultural Seeds 



■peolaltles are Phlox Dnunmondil 

 and Lucerne of Provence. 



Mentlpn The Review when yoo write. 



Ardisia Creoolata 



Beautiful plants for spring delivery in all 

 sizes. These Ardisias were grown in Bel- 

 gium and we chn supply small plants for 

 'growing on" by the 1000 at very low 

 prices. 



Palms, Araucarias, Bay Trees, ete* 



of very best quality and carefully se- 

 lected for import. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS 



etc., Complete line of French, Holland 

 and English Stocks. All kinds of plants 

 for forcing. RArFIA! RAFFIA I 



H. Frank Darrow, Importer 



te Barclay St., P. O. Box 1250, New York 



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trade. They also have filed with the 

 post-office copies of other seed cata^pgues 

 with the claim that their prize offers are 

 not different from the prize offers other 

 reputable seedsmen have made for years. 



Most of the Montgomery Ward & Co. 

 prizes are for the largest vegetable grown 

 from their seed of a given variety. No 

 other characteristic is to be considered. 

 They direct that the contestant take care- 

 ful measurements and weights of his 

 specimen, whatever it is, and send these 



