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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 21, 1907. 



New Hybrid 



Tea Rose 



Queen of Spain 



This grand flesh-colored rose is undoubtedly 



THE ROSE OF THE SEASON 



It iB a seedling from Antoine Rivoire, with the 

 scent of Souvenir de la Malmaison, very full and 

 beautiful form, an ideal exhibition rose, a good 

 opener, and robust grower. 



We staged 68 perfect blooms at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Show at Holland House, 

 July 9 and 10, 1906, and after two days' show 

 were as good as when first set up, and were ad- 

 mitted to be in better condition than any other 

 variety in the show. 



Awarded the Card of Oommendation 



Vational Bose Society, Botanic 



Gardens, July 6. 



Award of Merit, Holland K >a«e Show , 

 Boyal Kortlcnltnral Society. 



Stronff plants ready in pots in April. 

 Price, Sl.ao eacli; 13 plants for $16.00; 

 SO for •66.00; lOO for 9100.OO. 



S. BIDE & SONS 



Bose Growers and Barseryman 



rarnham, Surrey* England 



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in heavily to the catalogue houses "and 

 counter trade has opened up with a rush. 

 Wholesalers are feeling the pressure of 

 urgent calls for the replenishment of 

 stock, particularly from the country 

 dealers in the southwest, where the season 

 has gone forward with a rush in the last 



SEED SHORTAGES OF 1907. 



Now that the seed catalogues for 1907 

 are published and distributed, our cus- 

 tomers and the trade are wondering what 

 all the excitement about seed shortages, 

 that occupied the minds of the entire 

 craft such a short time ago, was for. 

 One would gather from a close perusal 

 of the seed catalogues this year that 

 never in the history of the trade were 

 there such quantities of seeds and of 

 such splendid qualities. 



The real fact of the case is that the 

 'day of absolute shortage of seeds, so 

 acute that planters must forego their 

 plantings, has forever passed in this 

 country. Our great diversity of soils 

 and climatic conditions makes it an im- 

 possibility, to say nothing of the seeds 

 we can get from Europe. When there 

 are no seeds in one section, there are in 

 another. It is wholly a question of price, 

 and even this season prices have not been 

 nearly so much affected as the "short- 

 age howl," at the time our seed cata- 

 logues were started last autumn, would 

 lead buyers to suppose. 



There are many reasons for this. In 

 the first place, most of- us who do any 

 business at all annually carry over from 

 one year to another seeds in quantity 

 sufficient to carry us a long way on the 

 road of the next year. Now let no one 



PANSIES 



Scotch and English PANSIES are noted all the world over for 

 their excellence. We have unique selections. 



The flowers are larg^e, superb in color and g>rand in substance, 



and yearly selected and improved. 



We do not recommend the flimsy Trimardeau Pansies— size alone is not 

 beauty. 



TRY A SMAIiL PACKET of each of the following, AND YOU 

 WHiL ORDER liARGELY ANOTHER SEASON: 



Covent Garden Superb Strain Prize English Exhiiiition 



$1.60 per doz. packets ; $4.60 per oz. 



These are our Noted Special Strains, but we also keep nearly every 

 other variety in commerce. 



TRY also our very special, carefully selected strains of 

 PRIMULA STELLATA CALCEOLARIA CINERARIA 



CYCLAMEN PERSICUM CARNATION GLOXINIA, etc. 



Write for Wholesale Seed Catalogue, free on application. 



WATKINS & SIMPSON, Seed Merchants 



12 Tavistock St., Covent Garden, London, Eng. 



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QENIINE 



BERMIDA ONION SEED 



-.. CRYSTAL WAX ^SLS^y 



WILDPRET BROS. ^^-^ ?c'2*?rfJL«sr"'« 



We are the oriRinators of the True Orystal Wax Onion and are ready to execute orders for this 

 item if placed at an early date. Beware of spurious and cheap seed. If you ask some of the Texas 

 growers their experience in the past years with a cheap Italian-grown Crystal you will certainly buy 

 nothing but our genuine seeds. 



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LILY OF 

 THE VALLEY 



£xtra fine pips from Gold Storage 

 for shipment any time desired. 



Japanese and Bermnda Itilj Bnll)*, 



▲rancarlas, Azaleas, Bay Trees 

 Palms, Peonies, Bhododendrons, 



Boses, Boxwood, Evererreens, eto. 

 BAPFXA BAFPZA 



For prices and catalogues please apply to 



H. Frank Darrow, Importer 



se BarolAT St., P. O. Box 1S50. New Tork 



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misunderstand just what I mean here; 

 I refer especially to those seeds that 

 are just as good, and in many cases 

 much improved, by being two or three 

 years old. For there is now no question 

 but that vine seeds of practically all va- 

 rieties are better three or four years 

 old than they are the first season after 

 being harvested. I will go no further 

 into this matter at this time, but no 

 one who reads this article must misun- 

 derstand my position in regard to carry- 

 ing over seeds. I am not referring to 

 such seeds as parsnip and others that 

 go into the dirt-barrel at the end of 

 each season, and which even immedi- 

 ately after harvesting often germinate 

 poorly. I am telling you about carry- 

 ing over seeds as a matter of not only 

 business policy, but in order that the 

 customer may get the most for his 



MRS. H. BURNETT 



New Salmon-Pink Carnation for 1907 



A Seedling from Mrs. Lawson and an Bn^llsh 

 variety. Awarded two first-class certificates and 

 an Award of Merit. A lovely warm salmon-plntE 

 flower. Petals of grood shape and substance. 

 Calyx perfect. Delightful clove frarrance. S^ to 

 3Ji Inches In diameter according to seiMon. Stems 

 18 10 86 Inches. A rapid and easy grower. Very 

 productive. Many shades deeper than Bnchant- 

 resB and keeps Its color better. Keeps for a long 

 time arfter being cut and travels splendidly. Just 

 the shade that everybody wants and one not 

 yet produced In America. Price, £6 per 100. 

 established in 2-inch pots. 



He BURNETT 



St. llara^rats. GUBRirSBT. BNGLAND 



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SEED NOVELTIES 



Eryniclam Alphlam Snperbam, as large again 

 as the prototype: pkt, 20c; 10 pkts $1.60; 100 pkts, 115.00. 



Salvia Bracteata, hardy, much better for groups 

 than Nicotiana Sanderae, flowers lilac, pkt.. 16c: 10 

 pkts., $1 25; 100 pkts.. «12.1k), ' ^ ' ' 



PhysosteKia Vlrmliilca Compaota Rosea. 

 pkt., I5c; 10 pTcts., $1 25; 100 pkts., IllToO. "•""'■• 



Remit by International P. O. money order. Send for 

 complete list of Valuable Novelties and prices on quan- 

 tities. KOHLER i RUOEL, WinriischleDba-illtenbar,. Germany 

 Mention The Bevlew when you write. 



money; as he most certainly does when 

 he gets from his seedsman cucumber 

 seeds that are, say, three years old, as 

 against new crop of the same seeds. 

 And so it is that forehanded seedsmen, 

 when a year of short seed crops comes 

 along, are not greatly disturbed by it. 



In most catalogues you will find those 

 varieties most lengthily described and 

 elaborately illustrated that are in largest 



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