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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



B^BRUABT 14, 1907. 



W. W. Hoisington, of the Alfred J. 

 Brown Seed Co., Grand Rapids; Carl 

 Cropp, of Vaughan's Seed Store, Chi- 

 cago, and several of the Holland bulb 

 men. 



The double invoice system will not 

 apply to 1907 bulb importations. 



Mail trade is somewhat behind last 

 year to date, according to reports. 



It seems that no matter how short 

 seed stocks may be in a general way, 

 there are always lists of surpluses float- 

 ing about. 



Cratz Bros,, one of the oldest clover 

 seed concerns at Toledo, closed its doors 

 February 11, The sum involved in the 

 failure is not yet known. 



Will H. Dildine has charge of the 

 wholesale department of James Vick's 

 Sons, Rochester, N, Y, The firm is de- 

 veloping this end of the business. 



It is said that, next to Burpee, the 

 Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, carries the 

 largest stock and list of varieties of 

 sweet peas to be found in this country. 



The 1907 catalogues devote increased 

 space to poultry supplies, while with 

 manj seed houses this department is 

 now of sufl5cient importance to call for 

 a special book. 



The death is reported of Mrs, Kurtz- 

 weil, mother of Mathias Kurtzweil, pres- 

 ident of the Iowa Seed Co,, Des Moines, 

 She was 78 years of age and leaves her 

 husband and one son. 



Advance orders for a general line of 

 seeds on the pro-rata crop basis are con- 

 siderably easier to book this season than 

 ordinarily, and reports are that business 

 along this line is flourishing. 



One of the good things for which the 

 trade is indebted to the explorations of 

 the Department of Agriculture is the 

 MaUner-Kren horseradish, found in Bo- 

 hemia several years ago by David Fair- 

 child. 



A representative of D, M, Ferry & 

 Co., Detroit, who has been traveling 

 through Wisconsin on business for his 

 firm, says that the people in that state 

 are more prosperous than in any other 

 state he has visited. 



It is reported that Huntington & Page, 

 Indianapolis, would, were it possible to 

 dispose of the catalogue and retail end 

 of the business on satisfactory terms, 

 confine themselves to and enlarge the 

 grovdng and wholesale end. 



It is noticeable that the seed trade, is 

 giving closer attention to the needs of 

 the vegetable forcers, truckers and mar- 

 ket gardeners who buy in bulk and leave 

 the packet trade more or less to look 

 after itself in the general scramble, 



Walter P, Stokes says that it has 

 never been, nor will it be, his policy to 

 compete for business on the matter of 

 price. In the first general catalogue of 

 Stokes' Seed Store it is stated: "The 

 prices are such as will enable us to pay 

 my grower an extra fee for taking that 

 care of the growing stocks which is neces- 

 sary to produce the best results. Under 

 close competition, the price paid the 

 grower has been cut in some cases to a 

 point where it is impossible for him to 

 give that care and attention in roguing 

 and selecting which is absolutely essen- 

 tial in producing best results, I am 

 paying this extra price for extra care 



Florists' Flower Seeds^'ZX^i^ 



Now 

 Ready 



Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



Giant Vlowered Per doz. Per 100 Per 1000 



Single In separate colors 40c *2.60 $22.60 



Double Id separate colors 65c 4.00 34.00 



^1 AYIIUIitQ Finest sorts In separate colore, 50c per doz.; $4.00 per 100; 135.00 

 %M m^\J/\. mmm A«9 per lOOO. Send for trade price list. 



CURRIE BROS. CO. .r.!i;.y. Milwaukee, Wis. 



Mention Tte Review when jaa write. 



GLADIOLI 



Write 

 for it. 



Beautifully illustrated cata- 

 log, colored plate, etc., des- 

 cribing Groff's Hybrids, 

 Named Novelties of rare 

 beauty, Mixtures and Collections to color and Fine Mixtures of all colors. 



Arthur Cowee, ''^X^t^'i^' Berlin, N. Y. 



Mention The Review wben yon write. 



W.&D. SPECIALTIES for FORGING 



MlKnonette "New York Market." Sweet 

 Peas, "True," Christmas PlowerinBr.( pink 

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

 ling Castle." Mnataroom Spawn, "Eng-- 

 Ush" and "Pure Culture." Send for 1907 

 catalogrue. 



Weeber & Don,;?;'c!r/re?i.n^7s;rk 



MfPtlon The ReTlew when you write. 



and extra attention throughout the en- 

 tire process of growing and gathering 

 the seed. ' ' 



W. H. Barrett, Adrian, Mich., has 

 issued a neat, illustrated booklet describ- 

 ing his methods of growing tomato seed. 

 He says his ambition is not wholly com- 

 mercial and confines his attention to 

 twelve varietieSjChalk 's Early Jewel be- 

 ing added to the list this season. 



In the Montgomery Ward & Co. seed 

 catalogue "all prices of seeds are net 

 and do not include free transit, but are 

 shipped at buyer 's expense. In order- 

 ing please remember to allow suflScient 

 postage. If you send too much money 

 we will refund the difference, or omit 

 some article if not enough. '' Most 

 catalogue seed houses find it saves 

 trouble to include carriage charges in 

 the price of all stock quoted by the 

 packet and pound. 



The Chas. H. Lilly Co., Seattle, Wash., 

 has 100 acres in cabbages for 1907 seed 

 crop and reports all the leading houses 

 interested in Puget Sound cabbage seed. 

 They do not meet European prices, but 

 are able to grow at reasonable cost, one 

 of the advantages being that the stock 

 can be wintered in the field, 6 degrees 

 of frost being the coldest recorded last 

 winter. The seed is grown on contract 

 with gardeners, from one to as high as 

 six acres with each, and carefully rogued. 

 A. .T. Milton, of the Lilly Co., is now 

 visiting the trade in the east. 



LILIUM LONGIFLORUM. 



Happily there is now presented to the 

 bulb forcer a new source of supply, and 

 such as promises to far exceed the old 

 source in quantity and quality, and at 

 a much less cost both of initial price and 

 cost of freight to England, says a writer 

 in the Horticultural Trade Journal. I 

 am referring to the new cultivations in 

 Azores islands, which are rapidly gain- 



NEW STOCKS 



Flower Seeds for Florists 



WHOLESALE CATALOGUE READY 



Send for it today. Bat first read our 

 advertisement on paf(e 733 in the 

 FLORISTS' REVIEW for January 

 24th, 1907. It is worth reading. 



James Vick's Sons 



Seedsmen ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



ing considerable importance and reputa- 

 tion for improved quality, more especial- 

 ly in America. In the course of the last 

 twelve months I have frequently come 

 across sample growths of these new im- 

 portations in England, and in all cases, 

 the quality is far in advance of anything 

 I have seen in my experience of Japan 

 or Bermuda bulbs. The type is quite 

 distinct and the bulbs absolutely free 

 from disease — a deformed bloom is ab- 

 solutely unknown. The flowers are per- 

 haps suifiller than those from bulbs from 

 Japan, but they are of very solid and 

 thick texture, with a total absence of the 

 thin, watery flowers seen on the eximium 

 type, giving one more the impression of 

 the giganteum type in the thickness of 

 the petals. The stem, too, is very clean 

 and sturdy, no canes or supports what- 

 ever are needed; and what is perhaps 

 of the greatest value, they are more 

 floriferous. 



When the stock in the islands is worked 

 up sufficiently large, the price will come 

 at about half now paid to Japan. The 

 islands are on the West Coast of Africa, 

 in about the same latitude as the islands 

 of Bermuda. They are possessions of 

 the Portuguese, and as the Bermudas are 

 to America, so the Azores are a health 

 resort for Europeans. The labor is, of 

 course, Portuguese, but some English and 

 German labor is being imported. English 

 speculators do not appear to be ahead 

 of other countries, or even alongside 

 them, in taking up the growing or hand- 

 ling of longiflorums from these islands. 

 I am informed that already some Ger- 

 man firms are prospecting the possibili- 



