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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuabt 28, 1907. 



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Aster Seed 



Our descriptive price list of High- 

 Grade Aster Seed is now ready and 

 will be sent free on application. Try 

 our new varieties, Cardinal, Sunset 

 and Rosy Carmine Branching— they 

 are winners. Price per packet, 25 

 cents; two packets for 40 cents. 



Pointers on how to grow Asters suc- 

 cessfully sent free with every order. 



VICK & HILL CO. 



p. 0. Box 613. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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this company is an evidence of the 

 growth of the dry farming industry in 

 this state, as the concern will seek to 

 supply the dry farmers' demands for ac- 

 climated seeds of all descriptions. The 

 officers of the company are: President, 

 Ora Haley, Laramie; vice-president, Dr. 

 V. T. Cooke, Cheyenne; secretary and 

 treasurer. Prof. B. C. Buffum, Laramie. 

 Governor B, B. Brooks is one' of the 

 stockholders. The company's seeds will 

 not be on the market for two years at 

 least, and during that time seeds grown 

 elsewhere will be handled. 



E. L. COY RETIRES. 



Edward L. Coy, who for fifty years 

 has been engaged in the seed-growing 

 business in Washington county. New York, 

 making a specialty of potatoes and later 

 of cucimibers, has sold out to the Jerome 

 B. Eice Seed Co. and retired. He sends 

 a notice to the trade in a circular issued 

 from Melrose, Mass., where he has made 

 his home for some years, which is in 

 part as follows: 



"1 much, regret to be obliged to in- 

 form you that on account of my age 

 (76 years) and physical disability re- 

 sulting from it, I find myself utterly 

 unable to carry on my seed-growing 

 business any longer, and my physician 

 advises me that I positively must give 

 it up. I regret this very much, for I 

 have been growing seeds in this same lo- 

 . cality for more than fifty years, and 

 have not only enjoyed the work but have 

 formed many pleasant acquaintances and 

 business relations with leading seedsmen 

 throughout the country. 



**I have arranged with the Jerome B. 

 Eice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y., to suc- 

 ceed me, and have turned over to them 

 my stock seeds, with the exception of 

 special stocks with which I have been en- 

 trusted, as well as my growers, and the 

 good will of my business. 



'Tor many years Jerome B. Eice and 

 I have worked side by side in Washing- 

 ton county, and in the same territory, 

 without conflicting or clashing. Several 

 years ago we united in opposing the in- 

 troduction of cucumber seed machines 

 into Washington county, and succeeded, 

 so that all the seed grown there is care- 

 fully harvested by hand, which makes the 

 seed white and much superior in appear- 

 ance to machine-cleaned stock. 



"I consider Washington county. New 

 York, to be the best locality in the 

 United 'States for the uniformly success- 

 ful growing of cucumber seed. Many 

 other seeds are grown there successfully, 

 but cucumber has been my specialty for 

 several years, and the demand for same 

 has been so great as to give me about 

 all I could do." 



STOKES' STANDARD 

 ASTER SEED 



Stokes* LAte BranoUnar Aater. Choice, American- 

 grown stocks in separate colors, 75c per oz.; mixed, 

 60c per oz. 



Truflauts* Peony Perfection Aster. A splendid 

 florist's Aster, long-stemmed sort, in separate colors, 

 $1.50 per oz.; mixed, $1.25 per oz. 



New Crop Asparagus Plumosus Nanus 



Greenbouse-aroiKm, per 100 seeds, 60c; per lOOO seeds, $3.50; per 50OO seeds, $15.00. 



SALVIA BONFIRE 



The best Dwarf Salvia, my own "Floracroft" grown seed, trade pkt., 25c; per oz., $1.50; 

 per J^-lb., $5.00. 



A NEW TYING MATERIAL 



RAFFIATAJPE 



Try it on your Easter plants; pleasing, 

 bright green color; stronger and cheaper 

 and better in every way than string or 

 Raffia. 



Sample tree. It is put ud in coils 

 and on reels. In handling it the coil is 

 placed In the pocket and the tape drawn 

 from the middle. The brass reels are 

 hung from the vest buttonhole. 



Price. Ooils, (enough for tying up 150 plants,) 5c each; 50c per dozen, (by mail). Reels, 

 (250 yards), 75c each, $8.00 per dozen, (by express.) 



'M*i>^l%J^ 



219 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA 



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WESTERN HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Cold Storage Valley Pips 



ORDER NOW FOR EASTER 



It pays to grow our Valley. Finest selected stock, $1.75 per 100; $14.00 % 

 per 1000. £very case guaranteed and can be returned at our expense 

 if not latisfactory on arrival. Place your order now for regular 

 shipments as desired through season. 



Finest Cut Valley Constantly on Hand 



II* W» DKUl^^) Long Distance Phone. V/illl^AUU 



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n. E. FISKE SEED CO. 



Faneuil Hall Square, Boston 



New Crop Seeds now ready 



Aster Seeds ^t^tL^. 



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HOME SAVED SWEET CORN. 



There is danger that much of the com 

 which has been saved for seed through- 

 out the northwest may be useless for 

 that purpose and warning is given to the 

 farmers to assure themselves betimes 

 that their seed corn is all right. A. K. 

 Bush, a former member of the state 

 legislature from Olmstead county, Min- 

 nesota, who is now in charge of the 

 seed testing department of Northrup, 

 King & Co., of Minneapolis, estimates 

 that fully forty per cent of the seed 

 corn is no good. 



"I have not tested much Minnesota 

 seed except our own," said Mr. Bush 

 recently, "but I have the most reliable 



Brldgeman's Seed Warehouse 



Established 1884. BICKABD8 BBOS., Props. 



Importers and growers of high grade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, ETC. 



37 East 19th St., NEW YORK CITY 



Telephone 4285 Oramercy. 

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SPREN6ERI SEED 



1906 CROP 



10c per 100; 60c per 1009; $2.76 per 6000; 

 $6.26 per 10 000. Cash with order, please. 



r. J. BAKER & CO., IJtica, N.Y. 



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information from South Dakota and 

 North Dakota that a large proportion of 

 the corn is useless. The northwest has 

 never had such bad seed. Last fall was 

 unusually wet and the grain had little 

 opportunity to dry out. If corn freezes 

 while green the germ is killed. As the 

 conditions were exactly the same in this 



