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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febbuabt 7, 1907. 



You Want This Aster Seed 



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

 25 cents a trade package; 60 cents X oz. Ostrich Plnme, 50 cents a trade package; 75 cents fi ot. 



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



in a letter attested by three neighbors. 

 The specimen itself is not to be sent. 

 Where quality is to be considered the 

 specimens are to be sent, express pre- 

 paid, to Montgomery Ward & Co., who 

 will appoint judges to announce awards 

 November 1. 



It is difficult to see what the objection- 

 able feature is. Montgomery Ward & 

 Co. are advised that the restriction of 

 the competition to the product of their 

 seed is the worst feature. It is hard to 

 see where an element of chance enters the 

 contests. But the authorities at Wash- 

 ington have upheld the action of the 

 Coicago office, and it looks as though the 

 firm would have to put its book back on 

 the press, eliminating the prize offers. 

 There is, of course, a possibility that 

 they finally will be permitted to mail 

 their book as it is, for there are several 

 other books now going out in other cities 

 with almost identical offers. At any 

 rate, it behooves the seed trade to get an 

 official O. K. on any prize offers which 

 may be contemplated before printing fu- 

 ture lists. 



THE SEEDSMEN'S PROBLEM. 



A seed corn grower in Ohio writes to 

 an eastern seed house that he "will con- 

 tract to grow sugar corn provided he be 

 sent a variety producing tall, stiff stalks, 

 a£ his farm hands will only husk corn 

 from uncut stalks and will not bend 

 their backs for any man. ' ' 



This prompted the recipient to ob- 

 serve that "this certainly is a great 

 country; no wonder the down-trodden of 

 Europe, at the rate of three millions a 

 year, come to a country where farm 

 hands are declining to bend their backs, 

 and where, of course, men of higher oc- 

 cupations than clodhoppers will all soon 

 at the instigation of the walking dele- 

 gates of the labor unions insist on wear- 

 ing kid gloves while dilly-dallying over 

 what passes for work; and yet, the seed 

 merchants are so competing with each 

 other for orders at any price that many 

 of them are on a fair road to the poor- 

 house. ' ' 



MARKET GROWERS' JOURNAL. 



In the Review of January 31 there 

 appeared this item : ' ' The seed trade is 

 being asked to start a market gardeners' 

 journal at Louisville, Ky., by buying 

 subscriptions in bulk. The man on the 

 road is from the force of Wood, Stubbs 

 & Co., and states that this firm is behind 

 the project. ' ' 



Under date of February 1, Wood, 

 Stubbs & Co. state that "this is an 

 error" and ask the publication of the 

 following "correction," which we grant 

 with pleasure. We always are glad to 

 print the facts. 



* ' The company of Wood, Stubbs & Co. 

 is in no way connected with the Market 

 Growers' Journal Co. except as acting 

 as subscription agent for the journal. 

 J. C. Wilson, who was recently with us, 

 has resigned his position to accept one 

 with the Market Growers' Journal Co. 

 The officers of the Market Growers' 

 Journal Co. are: President, C. F. Wood, 

 of Wood, Stubbs & Co.; vice-president. 



OUR WHOLESALE CATALOGUE 



for florists and market gardeners is HOW 

 RKADT and wiU be sent free to all who ask 

 for it. 



NEW CROP 



Flower Seeds are mostly all on hand now 

 and we are prepared to fill orders promptly. 

 We handle only the highest grade seeds. 

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Gold storage Lily ol the Valley Pips, 



best possible grade, 1000 in case, $12 per 1000. 



J. M. THORBURN « CO. 



33 Barclay St., thro««li to 38 

 Park Placa, NEW YORK. 



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NEW STOCKS 



Flower Seeds for Rorisls 



WHOLESALE aTALOGUE READY 



Send for it today. Bat first read our 

 advertisement on pa^e 733 in the 

 FLORISTS' REVIEW lor January 

 24th, 1907. It is worth reading. 



James Vick's Sons 



Seedsmen ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mention The ReTlew when yoa write. 



E. H. Bowen, president Louisville Board 

 of Trade, also ex-president National 

 League of Commission Merchants of the 

 United States; secretary and treasurer, 

 Jas. C. Stone. With the above the 

 directors are: Geo. Braden, president of 

 the Federal Chemical Co.; C. F. Huhlein, 

 vice-president and general manager of 

 B. F. Avery & Sons, also ex-president of 

 National Association of Agricultural Im- 

 plements and Vehicle Manufacturers of 

 the United States; Chas. Scholtz, Jr., 

 president Jos. Denunzio Fruit Co. ; Edw. 



F. Wetstein, practical gardener, also 

 secretary and treasurer of the Gardeners' 

 and Farmers' Market Co. 



JAPANESE LILIUMS. 



There is still a great doubt existing 

 among English grower?, says the Horti- 

 cultural Trade Journal, as to which are 

 the best types of longiflorum to handle; 

 only a few are able to distinguish the 

 diflference between eximium, multiflorum 

 and giganteum (Takesima is another 

 name given by some importers to gigan- 

 teum). Eximium is the cheapest and 

 the least valuable, producing fewer 



We made this halftone 

 from a 



WASH DRAWIN6 



one of many we made 

 for 1907 



Seed Catalogues 



Our artists are the best 

 in the United States on 

 flower and vegetable 

 drawing. 



Try our work on some 

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 and you will give us all 

 your order for the 1908^ 

 general catalogue. 



We make a specialty of 



CUTS FOR SEEESMEN 



All processes. Quick work if necessary. Satis- 

 faciion guaranteed. Special prices on orders 

 placed now for cuts for 1908 catalogues. 



NO STOCK CUTS 



CRESCENT ENGRAVING CO. 



841-847 Clark St., CHICAGO 



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SHAMROCK 



IBISH. THS RKAL THING! GRKKN 



Strong and fine plants. Better order early. 

 11.00 per lOu; or 60c per doz., by mail. 



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yerb«n». Improved mammoths ; the very flnesfc 

 grown; mixed, 1000 seeds, 26c. 



ClBerarlA. Finest large-flowering dwarf, mixed 

 colors, 1000 seeds, 60c. 



Chinese Primrose. Finest large-flowering 

 (ringed varieties, mixed: single and double, 

 500 seeds, tl.OO; half pkt., 60c. 



Pans7» Finest Giants. The best large-flower- 

 ing varieties, critically selected; mixed, t(K» 

 seeds, tl.OO; half pkt., 60c. Pkt. Mme. Perret. 

 "grads." 



Petunia. New Star, from the finest marked 

 flowers, extra choice. Trade pkt., 26c. 



Cash. Extra count of seeds in all packets. 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



THS Home OF PBUtBOeXS. 



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Augusta Gladiolus 



First size. 1^ and up 112.00 per 1000 



Second size. l^-l>i. 8.00 per 1000 



Gash with order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



Rowehl&6ranz,HickSYille,L.I.,N.Y. 



Mention The RcTJew when yon write. 



GLADIOLI 



Write for trade price list of named varietleSr 

 assorted colors and fine mixtures. 



E. £. STEWART, Rives Junction, Mich. 



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blooms, and these are of a thin, poor 

 and watery nature, the petals in some 

 cases almost transparent; the growth is 

 poor and the foliage scant; it does not 

 possess sufficient constitution to retard 

 successfully. In spite of this, however,^ 

 it is probably used in much larger 

 quantities than the other two sorts, per- 

 haps on account of its cheapness, and 

 ease of propagation and cultivation in 

 Japan. Multiflorum is simply an im- 

 proved and glorified form of eximium^ 

 and is perhaps a little difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from it, as its general charac- 

 teristics are the same, excepting that it 

 is stronger in growth and 'produces more 



