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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 2, 1907. 



The New Perpetual DDIT A lillill A 



Flowering Carnation [>|\| | /\|l||ll|/\ 



The most profitable carnation in cultivation, and one that ll6Ver splits* Color, clear scarlet ; blooms 

 of good size on long, stiff stems. Strong plants, in pots, £5 per 100. Strong rooted cuttings, £3 

 per 100; £25 per 1000. Cash with order. Please remit by International Poetoffice Order. 



A. Smith, The Nursery, Eofield Bighway, Middlesex, Eflgland 



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friends to canvassing for seed orders by 

 giving subscriptions to the paper as a 

 premium, the one VFho turns in the seed 

 order getting the voting coupons. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for tlie week ending April 

 20 were as follows: 



Kind. Bags. Val. Kind. Bags. Val. 



Annatto . 37$ 515 Hemp 600 $3,095 



Anise ... 47 486 Mustard 838 9,348 



Caraway . 150 1.044 Poppy 219 550 



ClOTer ...1,452 37,956 Rape 115 915 



Fennel . . 14 92 Sugar beet . . 2 14 



P'ngreek.. 105 543 Other 1,841 



Grass ...1,000 24,049 



In the same period the imports of 



trees and plants were valued at $19,864. 



Rennie & Thomson, Providence, R. L, 

 have retired from business. 



J. H. White, a well known English 

 seedsman, died April 12, aged 59 years. 



There are more encouraging reports 

 as to the prospects for sweet pea crops 

 in the Santa Clara valley. 



The Civic Improvement League, of 

 Denison, Tex., has recently completed a 

 free seed distribution to the children of 

 the public schools. 



C. G. Van Tubergen, Jr., Haarlem, 

 Holland, will shortly distribute stock of 

 a new freesia, a cross between refracta 

 alba and Armstrong!. The color is pink. 



The Alaska pea is planted almost ex- 

 clusively in the south. It is stated this 

 year's acreage is below normal on ac- 

 count of scarcity and increased cost of 

 seed. 



The Ebbert Seed Co., Rocky Ford, 

 Colo., is not a corporation, but is con- 

 ducted by H. Van Buakirk and R. S. 

 Beall. They have been in business about 

 three years. 



Chicago: — The onion set growers here 

 are having a hard time in getting their 

 seed planted. The weather is cold, and 

 on the low clay ground the soil does not 

 dry out suflSciently between rains to per- 

 mit working it up for seeding. There is 

 yet ten days, however, before it will be 

 too late for safe planting and the grow- 

 ers hope that favorable conditions will 

 give them a chance to utilize these days 

 to good advantage. 



FRENCH SEED CROPS. 



The long, cold winter, quite an unu- 

 vAial experience in the south of France, 

 has not been without its evil effects on 

 vegetation. Many plants suffered terri- 

 bly, especililly kohlrabi, carrots, radishes, 

 <?abbages, mangels, wallflowers, stocks, 

 paijsies, etc. The transplanting of young 



QENlilNE 



BERMUDA ONION SEED 



-.. CRYSTAL WAX SSJSS, 



WILDPRET BROS. P"-^ ?.S2*?,^SiJ«?«"ff« 



We are tbe orlglnatorB of the True Cryetal Wax Onion and are ready to execute orders for th'i 

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

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



nothing but our genuine seeds. 



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