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1546 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 4, 1007. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



res., Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; Plrat 

 Vlce-Pres., Charles Burge, Toledo, O. ; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. The 26th annual 

 nieetlngr Vklll be held at New York City, June, 1907 



The planting for the 1907 crop of 

 onion sets is proceeding at a lively rate. 



At Columbus, Ohio, onion sets are 

 held at $3.50 per bushel for white atid 

 $3 for yellow. 



Visited Chicago.— F. W. Maas, for- 

 merly secretary of the Planters' Seed 

 Co., Springfield, Mo. 



It looks as though the Michigan crops 

 for seeds will be planted this year 

 earlier than in any previous season. 



The demise of Mrs. Henry A, Dreer, 

 widow of the founder of the Phila- 

 delphia seed house, is recorded in the 

 obituary columns. 



Mrs. W. K. West-Phillips, owner 

 of a large block of stock in the Phil- 

 lips Seed Co., of Toledo, O., h?is disposed 

 of her holdings to Henry Phillips. 



Minch Bros., Bridg«ton, N. J., are 

 doing a large trade in seeds. A local 

 paper reports that they recently re- 

 ceived "a whole trainload" of seed 

 potatoes from Maine. 



J. Charles McCullough, Cincinnati, 

 who was forced to abandon his store in 

 a hurry during the recent flood, is again 

 back in his permanent location, at Wal- 

 nut and Second streets. 



Thk Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 

 Ohio, held its annual sweet pea sale 

 March 26. This has become a leading 

 spring feature with this firm and they 

 advertise it largely locally. 



Wm. Kelway, head of the widely 

 known English seed and plant house of 

 Kelway & Son, has just been elected to 

 represent Langport and district on the 

 Somerset County Council. 



Frank J. Holy, foreman for the 

 Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and 

 Mrs. Helen Stellick, of La Crosse, were 

 married early in March but kept it a 

 secret until a few days ago. 



E. J. Hohberger, seedsman at Des 

 Moines, la., had a "sweet pea sale" 

 March 28 to 30, offering mixed seed at 

 5 cents per ounce, and did a big busi- 

 ness by means of advertising in local 

 papers. 



John Davis, manager of the W. W. 

 Barnard Co. interests at Sturgeon Bay, 

 Wis., is reported as saying that the com- 

 pany will plant as many peas as for- 

 merly and may possibly have an in- 

 creased acreage. 



The lilies in Bermuda are so late this 

 year that the usual shipments of cut 

 blooms were not made to New York for 

 Easter. It is stated that in ripening, as 

 in blooming, the bulbs will be two to 

 three weeks late this year. 



It is reported at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., 

 that the pea acreage of the John H. 

 Allan Seed Co. is. to be largely increased 

 this season. Seed peas were distributed 

 to growers in Kewaunee county the last 

 week of March and here also it is re- 

 ported the acreage is to be much in- 

 creased. Last fall in the neighborhood 



( Burpee's Seeds Grow | 



Mention The Review when yog write. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Seedsmen and Florists Supplied at the shorteBt notice and at right prices. 

 Our Cataloffues are now ready and are mailed upon requeet. 



Flower Seeds— Onion Sets '» f4'SV/51ird;fehst.. CHICAGO 



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in Bulk 

 and Packages 



LA^VN GRASS SEED 



Dickinsons, Evergreen, and Pine Tree Brandt 

 SPECIAL MIXTURES SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



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SEATTLE. WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The Review when you write. 



CHAUNCEY P. COY & SON 



EstabUsbed 1878. WATSRLOO. NXB. 



VINESEEDS 



AND SEKD CORN 



Wholesale Growers for the Seed Trade 

 Write tor 1907 Contract Offers 



Mention The Review when you write. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



asd an kiads of Garden iteis at Whtlesale Only. 



CAMBRIDGE, washinirto.Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GUiBOY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Oosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, la variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



of 2,000 bags were shipped from Ke- 

 waunee. 



Newspapers all over the country 

 whose interests are identical with those 

 of the local merchants are still making 

 capital of the old story of the postoffice au- 

 thorities excluding Montgomery Ward's 

 seed catalogue from the mails because 

 of its prize offers, as reported in the 

 Keview of February 7. 



The committee on program for the 

 June meeting of the American Seed 

 Trade Association is finding time to 

 get things started. The meeting promises 

 to be the most important in years, with 



S. M. ISBELL ft CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 

 Seed Orowers tor tbe Trade 



BEANS, CLCUIVIBER, TOMATO, 

 Radish, Peas, Muskmelon 



Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



We are now booking: orders for 1907 fall deliv- 

 ery. Send for contract prices; also sarplus list. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Garden Peas and Beans 



ror tlie Wbolesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS. , : MICH. 



C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Growers 



171-173 Glaif St., SAN FRANCISCO, GAL. 

 Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and other California Specialties 



Special 



D. V. BURRELL. Grsweraf 



Strains Of Melons and Cucumbers 



Three of my specialties are the Burrell 

 0«m Cantaloupe. Burrell's Thoroughbred 

 Rocky Ford Cantaloupe and Burrell's Klon- 

 dike Cucumber. Contract orders solicited. 



AMrets. D. V. BURRELL, All. Rocky Fori. Colo. 



seed legislation demanding attention 

 and recent post-office rulings presenting 

 a delicate problem. 



In spite of reports of difficulty at- 

 tending the contracting of sufficient 

 acreage for the 1907 pea crop, it ap- 

 pears that Door and Kewaunee counties, 

 the Wisconsin peninsula, will be pretty 

 much monopolized by the pea growers. 



CALIFORNIA LOSSES. 



Little that is definite is yet known as 

 to the losses by floods in the California 

 seed-growing district, but that the losses 

 are heavy is certain. Mail and telegraph 



