882 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuaby 7, 1907. 



W.&D. SPECIALTIES for F0flGIN6 



MlKnunette "New York Market." 8weet 

 P«aa. "True/' Christmas Flowerlnfr.(plnk 

 and white). Tomato, 'The Don," -Stir- 

 ling Castle." Maahroom Spawn, "Eng- 

 lish" aaa "Pure Culture." Send for 1907 

 catalogue. 



lifaohor A nnn Seed Merchaatt ao^ Grt wen. 



HIIqUBI Ob UUIIf 114 Chambers St.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Kevlew when yon write. 



this year a much larger acreage is 

 booked. For all contracts the average 

 price is an improvement on previous 

 year's business. 



An increasing demand is being experi- 

 enced for English-grown garden peas on 

 the Continent and abroad, and some 

 heavy shipments have already been made. 

 In conversation with a niunber of seeds- 

 men some two months ago I gathered it 

 was the general opinion that seed peas 

 •would go to a low and unprofitable price. 

 Fortunately, these fears have not been 

 realized, and prices continue at a fairly 

 profitable level. 



The seed potato trade in England has 

 never recovered from the blow it re- 

 ceived at the bursting of the boom. Con- 

 sequently, the season following a fairly 

 heavy crop, is a stagnant one for the seed 

 trade. The little trade being done is in 

 the oldest and well tried sorts. A bright 

 side of the trade is the keen demand at 

 good prices for seed to' go to South Af- 

 rica, a provincial firm recently shipping 

 500 tons in one order. 



It may be interesting, and also give an 

 idea of the business done by some of 

 the leading English seed houses, to know 

 that Carter & Co., of Holborn, London, 

 have just posted 137,000 spring seed 

 catalogues, weighing nearly seventy tons. 

 The paper and printing cost just under 

 $20,000, and the postage nearly $10,000. 

 The firm recently occupied the whole 

 front page of the London Daily Mail 

 with a seed advertisement, nearly half 

 of the space being occupied by sweet 

 peas. 



The Sweet Pea Annual for 1907 con- 

 tains an audit of the varieties exhibited 

 during 1906. The variety exhibited the 

 most times was Dorothy Eckford, 121 

 times, followed by King Edward VII, 

 with' 97 times ; Gladys Unwin, 81 ; Miss 

 Wilmott, 72; Mrs. Walter Wright, 69; 

 Lady Grisel Hamilton, 68; Countess 

 Spencer, 63, etc. There are nearly 100 

 varieties shown once and not more than 

 three times. J. B. 



FREE SEEDS. 



"Our old friend, the free seed appro- 

 priation, has appeared again," says the 

 Chicago Tribune. "Stricken out in 

 committees, it has been restored by the 

 house, and emerges serene. It is too 

 good a bit of graft to lose. 



' * The theory upon which the free 

 seed appropriation is justified is that 

 the seeds are selected varieties sent out 

 by the Department of Agriculture for 

 purposes of scientific investigation. The 

 recipient is supposed to report to the 

 department the character of the soil and 

 other conditions and the result obtained. 

 As a matter of fact the seeds are pur- 

 chased in large quantities from regular 

 dealers and the Department of Agri- 

 culture knows nothing about their nature 

 and cares nothing about the results. The 

 actual experiments of the Department 

 are carried on in another way. 



"The inclusion of ordinary varieties 

 of flower seed with directions for form- 

 ing window-gardens shows an abandon- 

 ment of even a pretense of scientific 



CARLSON'S IMPROVED ASTER SEED 



Hat been the best comtnrfdal variety in the Chicago market 

 for the past three years. No dis e ase. No yeUows. 



yi ou (trade packet) $ 25 }i ot $ .80 



X o*. .45 1 o* 1.50 



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



E. H. HUNT,'76Waba$hAvi. CHICAGO 



Mention The ReTlew when you write 



r 



Florists' Flower Seeds ^F;;:aX' 



Now 

 Ready 



Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



Giant Flow«red Per doz. Per 100 Per tOOO 



SinRle in separate colors 40c 1250 S22.60 



Double in separate colors 65c 4.00 34.00 



A I OYINIAQ Finest sorts in separate colors, 60c per doz.; 14.00 per 100; 186.00 

 ^^ '-^''^ ■ I"^ ■ >«i^ per 1000. Send lor trade price list. 



CIRRIE BROS. CO. iir.!^.r. Milwaukee, Wis. 



Mention Tlie B«Tlew when yon write. 



value to the appropriation. It may pos- 

 sibly brighten many flats to have flow- 

 ers at government expense, but why not 

 tidies, door mats, and plaster busts? An 

 appropriation to provide every voter of 

 the same political faith as his member 

 of congress with a pink lamp shade 

 would fail of passage, but the seed bill 

 goes through each year. It is considered 

 one of the perquisites of the congress- 

 man and serves the useful purpose of 

 making each recipient think that the 

 congressman has a personal interest in 

 him. 



"The cost to the government does not 



G^FF^ Hnil^F ^^'^ supply 



^^E.I^U Ml Vljai- gtock and fixtures 

 "■^ up to $600 to satisfactory party in good 

 location, who will pay part down and balance 

 out of business on easy terms. Address No. 61, 

 care norlats* Review , CliloaBro. 



stop with the purchase of the seeds. 

 The number of tons of packages which 

 go into the regular mails and have to 

 be paid for helps to increase the defi- 

 ciency in postal revenues, while the ex- 

 penditure for seeds, ostensibly for the 

 purposes of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, makes the total appropriation 

 for that department larger than it would 



