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Mat 23, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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TIME TO PLANT japan"^'^' 



HARDY 



LILIES 



LILIUM AURATUM 



8 to 9-lnob, $i.00 p»r 100 



9 to 11-lncta, 7.00 per 100 



UUUM BPSCIOSUM MKLPOMBNK Doa. 100 1000 



8 to 9-inch bulbs 10.76 $0.00 $56.00 



9 to ll-Inch bulbs 1.36 8.60 80.00 



OLADIOLI Per 100 Per 1000 



The Grand new Oladiolni, America. The flowers, 

 whloh are ot immense size, are of the most beauti- 

 ful flesh- pink color, and, as a florist who Haw it 

 said, it is " flne enough for a bride's bouquet." tl.OO 

 per doz «8.00 $75.00 



Ansnata, the best florists' white OladlolUB in existence; 



Tst size bulbs, 19i inches and up 2.&0 22.fi0 



Bulbs. 1« to IJi inches 2.25 20.00 



Orotf's Hybrids (orlrlnator's strain), extra selected 



bulbs.... : •. 1.50 12.00 



May, pure white, flaked, rosy crimson, the best forcer 



selected bulbs 1.75 15 00 



Brenchleyensis (true), flery scarlet, selected bulbs. ... 2 00 15.00 

 (true), 1st size bulbs 1.50 12.00 



Boddlnafton's White and Lleht, extra selected bulbs 



IH Inches and up 2 00 15.00 



Bulbs 1« to IM Inches 1.25 12.00 



American Hybrids, a mixture of the choicest varieties 



of Gladiolus in cultivation; very fine 1.00 9.00 



Lemolne's Hybrids 1.60 12.00 



ChUdall 2.60 18.00 



Finest all colors mixed 76 7.50 



LXUUM 8PKCIOBUM RUBRUM Doz. 100 1000 



8to 9-inchbulb8 $0.76 $5.60 $i0.00 



9 to U-inch bulbs 1.26 8.60 80.00 



TUBEROUS BEGONIAS 



Large bulbs 

 measurins 

 1^ inches 

 and upward. 



Bpeoial Prices to Close 



SINOLE. 



Separate colors, or 

 all colors mixed. 



100, $8.00 



1000, $16.00 



Crimaoii 

 Searlet 

 White 

 Bose 



PiBk. Ilglit 

 Yellow 

 Salmon 

 Orangs 

 .Copper J J 



SINGLE, extra large bulbs, 1% inches and up 



above. $2.25 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 

 DOUBLE, extra large bulbs, 1% inches and up, 



above. $4.00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. 



NEWER TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS 



New Single Frilled Begonias— To color, each, 15c: doz., tl.5U; 

 100. 110.00. All colors mix«a, each, 10c; $1.00 per doz.; $7.50 per 100. 



Bnke Zepplin, intense pure vermilion scarlet, $1.50 per doz.; 

 $12.00 per 100. 



Lafayette, rich brilliant crimson scarlet, $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 

 per 100. 



DOUBLE. 



Separate colors, or 

 all colors mixed. 



100, $8.00 



1000, $27.60 



same colors as 

 same colors as 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, 342 W. 14th Street, NEW YORK CITY 



Mention 'i'lie Review when yon write. 



BARGAINS TO CLEAR 



OAI,AI>I171II ESCUL,ENTUBI-6 to 7-lnch, $1.50 per 100; 7 to 9-incb, $3.00 per 100; 



9 to U-lnch, $5.00 per 100. 



CANNA BOOTS— Per 100 



Pennsylvania $2.00 



Chas. Henderson 2.00 



GLADIOLUS— Per )00 100 



Chlldsil Hybrid $2.50 $18 00 



Brenchleyensis 1.50 12.00 



CTCAS BEYOLUTA STEMS — Just received large importation — long-leaved variety. 

 Pot now for early winter salen. Assorted cases, 1 to 5 lbs., and 6 to 10 lbs.; 10 lbs., $1 00; 

 100 lbs., $8.00; 300 lbs. to case, $22.50. 



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219 Market Street, 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Review when you write. 



JAMES VICE'S SONS, 



SBEDSMEN. 



Rochester, New York. 



The Florists' Ekview, 



May 20th, 1907. 



ObicaRo, lU. 

 Gentlemen :— 



Please stop our resnlar adv. runnins; at present 

 and give ub just enough of your valuable space 

 to keep our name before the trade. We are 

 drawing to the close of the most Buccesslul 

 season in the Florists' Department we have bad 

 in years, and at the present time, while we have 

 a reasonable quantity of about everything that 

 Florists use, we have no surpluses to advertise. 

 , With the present to encourage us we are 



laying pipe " for future business on a bigger 

 scale than ever before. 



W. H. D.-K. 



Yours very truly, 



JAMKS VICK'S SONS. 



Chicago.— The onion set field that 

 looked so good to the out of town crop 

 inspector was a good stand of chives. 



The reports from the pea and bean 

 districts of Wisconsin and Michigan are 

 not encouraging. The season is weeks 

 late and the chances of a full crop from 

 the acreage planted thereby greatly re- 

 duced. 



The Barteldes Seed Co., Denver, Colo., 

 reports the recent shipment of 6,600 

 pounds of grass seeds to Buenos Ayres, 

 Argentina. The shipment went via New 

 York. 



C. C. Morse & Co., San Francisco, 

 who recently took over the business of 

 the Cox Seed Co., have removed their 

 headquarters to the Market street store 

 of the Cox Co. 



The Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, re- 

 ports its Jefferson Park branch a great 

 success. The market gardeners are 

 pleased with the convenience of having 

 a full stocked seed store in their midst. 



Counter trade has hardly come up 

 to expectations this season; especially 

 not up to anticipations aroused by the 

 heavy volume of business done in March. 

 While March was far ahead of usual 

 records, April fell very short and May 

 is doing nothing to put the score back 

 in our favor. The weather is at the bot- 

 tom of it all. June may be good for 

 better than the usual business, which 

 usually amounts to little but the sale of 

 insecticides after Memorial day, but it 

 hardly will pull the season up to what 

 was expected of the counter trade end 

 of the business. 



The Mangelsdorf Co., Atchison, Kan., 

 May 10 received two carloads of alfalfa 

 seeds from Germany. 



There has been urgent call for seed 

 of the early varieties of tomatoes from 

 the canning districts, where quantities of 

 plants have been caught by frosts. 



The Alfred J. Brown Seed Co., of 

 Grand Bapids, Mich., which does an enor- 

 mous business in vegetable plants, re- 

 ports the Grand Bapids market practi- 

 cally sold out of tomato plants. 



THE WHOLESALERS' SITUATION. 



A well known wholesale seedsman in 

 the east writes as follows under date of 

 May 21: 



' ' Bight in the face of all sorts of tales 

 of present woes, and prognostications of 

 future short crops of garden seeds, whole- 

 sale prices continue most ridiculously 

 low, as general reports, from every direc- 

 tion, and unpropitious weather, must have 

 some foundation in fact. While 'bad 

 news travels fast' and reports of crop 

 failures usually are exaggerated, still 

 * where there is so much smoke there must 

 be some fire.' The Calif ornians grow- 

 ing onion seed, lettuce seed and sweet 

 peas, who report only half a crop of 

 everything; the cabbage seed growers of 

 Washington and Oregon, who report only 

 half a crop; the pea and bean growers 

 of Michigan and Wisconsin; the cabbage 

 seed growers of Long Island, and the 

 beet, carrot, radish and other seed grow- 

 ers of Europe — all of these warn us of 

 a reduced harvest, and that certainly 

 means higher prices for what is saved. 



' ' But the merry dance, figuratively 

 speaking, of commercially cutting each 

 other's throats, still goes on. Some 

 firms are ready to sell at any price, so 

 they do business, and this being so, it 

 is impossible for others, who are better 

 aware of crop conditions and probabil- 

 ities, to get prices to comport with the 

 expectations of the harvest. Those who 

 know are already disposed to look upon 

 the coming pea and bean harvest as al- 

 ready in considerable jeopardy, for the 

 pea planting is delayed four weeks, and 



