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MAT 28, 1907. 



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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



37 



PRIMULA SEED 



The Finest in America 



Giant 



OraDKe King (novelty) BrlRht 

 Salmon 



Trade Pkt. 

 $1.00 



Pure White 

 Blush White 

 Rose 

 Scarlet 

 Royal Blue 

 Mixed 



Novelties 



% Trade Pkt. 

 60c 



Giant ! *»«""• """^ 



Double Crimson 



Trade Pkt. 

 $1.00 



r Primula Obconlca Kermeslna 



Giaiif J " deep rose Tr. Pkt. 50c 



UlOlll ] " Alba, pure white 50c 



I " Mixed 50c 



Primula florlbunda grandlflora 



(Buttercup) 50c 

 Forbesll (Baby Primrose) 25c 

 KEWENSIS (Qlant yellow 



Buttercup) $1.00 



This charmins: addition to our green- 

 house Primroses originated at the Royal 

 Gardens. Kew, as an accidental cross be- 

 tween the small, but bright - flowered 

 Himalayan species, P. FLORIBUNDA, 

 and the sweet-scen^d P. VERTIOILLATA, 

 a native of Arabia. The plant is a strong 

 grower, with bright green leaves, and 

 numerous erect flowerscapes. 10 to 18 

 inches in height, producing flowers in 

 whorls at intervals along their whole 

 length. The flowers are fragrant, bright 

 yellow in color, with a slender tube and 

 spreading limb, nearly an inch in diame- 

 ter. As a winter-flowering decorative 

 plant it is an acQuisition; its flioriferous- 

 ness when in a very small state is re- 

 markable. 



Cineraria 



Boddington's Matchless Mixture is a 



combination of the three most famous 

 English strains, which we can recom- 

 mend to those wishing to grow the best. 

 Tall, % pkt. 60c: trade pkt. $1.00. Dwarf, 

 14 pkt. 60c: trade pkt. $1.00. 



Stellata( Star-flowered Cineraria). Tall 

 growing; excellent as a single specimen 

 for table decoration, or for grouping 

 with splendid effects in corridors and 

 conservatories, i^ trade pkt. 60c; trade 

 pkt. $1.00. 



Calceolaria 



Boddington's Perfection, finest mixed, 

 14 trade pkt. 60c; trade pkt. $1.00. 



Tigered and spotted, mixed, }i trade 

 pkt. 60c; trade pkt. $1.00. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 



342 W. 14th St., New York. 



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that country, for a much greater acreage 

 is grown than when they had the mo- 

 nopoly of the trade; but we also get 

 large quantities from Denmark, Holland, 

 France, Germany, and here in England 

 quantities are grown in Ldncolnshire and 

 Essex. Of peas we probably now get 

 fifty per cent from Canada and in fa- 

 vorable seasons large quantities of home- 

 grown peas are on the market. Ger- 

 many and France also grow considerable 

 quantities, and the latest source of sup- 

 ply is Australia and New Zealand. And 

 so it is with a host of other seed lines. 



American readers know better than I 

 can tell them what seeds are grown in 

 America. "With the great diversity of 

 Boils and climatic influences practically 

 everything can be grown in one spot or 

 another, and when one seed district of 

 Europe or America is short-cropped, an- 

 other is plentiful. In the case of those 

 seeds which remain equal in vitality, and 

 in some cases even improved by two or 

 three years' warehousing, annually in- 

 creasing quantities are being carried over 

 by wholesalers, and even retailers, too, 

 so that, taking all circumstances into con- 

 sideration, absolute shortages are now- 



Summer- Blooming Bulbs. 



GLADIOLUS 100 



Amerloe, the grandest Oladiolua 



up-to-date, color, soft pink $10.00 



AvKoite. pure white 8.00 



BI»T. white, flaked rose 1.60 



Orott'i Oold Medal Hybrids. 3.00 

 Olant OtalldiU, splendid mixed. 2.00 

 White and Usbt Florists' 



Mljctnr* 1.76 



Mixture of Fink Oroands l.N 



Bztra Choice Amerloan 



Hybrids 3.26 



1000 



$76 00 

 36 00 

 12 00 

 18.00 

 18.00 



16.00 

 12.60 



20.00 



GLADIOLUS luo 



Good Mixed $0.8i 



TuberouspRooted Begonias 

 Slnsle. acsrlet, white, yellow, 



rose, separate 8.00 



Doable, scarlet, white, yellow, 



rose, separate 6.00 



GLOXINIAS 



Kxtra choice strain InSsepi' te 

 colors 4.00 



1000 

 $7.0* 



26.00 

 4B.00 



36.00 



Send for trade price list. 



CIRRIE BROS. CO. ^.'J&^. Milwaukee, Wis. 



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JUST RECSIVED, TWO NEW COLORS OF 



Kawson's Giant Primula Obconica 



BLOOD RKD, a most intenae, brilliant color 76c per 100 seeds; $6 00 per 1000 seeds 



CLXAB BLUK, a decided novelty 76c per 100 seeds; 6.00 per 1000 seeds 



Also our resrular supply of the following shades : 



Pink, Crimson, Pure White end Superb Bllzture, 



at 60c per 100 seeds or $4.00 per 1000. 



WX ABB ALWATB FIRST IN OPFXRING MXRITORXOUS NOVXLTIXS. 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 5 Union St., Boston, Mass. 



p. S. We are now Sole Distributors for Boston for CARMAH'S 

 AMTX-PBST. If yon wish to know what it is, 



send for clroulsr. , . 



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GLADIOLI 



Write 

 for it. 



Beaatifally illattrated cata- 

 log, colored plate, etc., dei- 

 cribing Gro£E's Hvbrids, 

 Named Novelties ot rare 

 beauty, Mixtures and Collections to color and Fine Mixtures ef all colors. 



Arthur Cowee, ^igliili^SlF'rX Berlin, N. Y. 



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adays well nigh to being impossible. 

 In some districts, mostly the German 

 and French cultivations, reports are to 

 hand of severe winter, hard frost, with 

 no protection of snow, having severely 

 cut into the ranks of many vegetable 

 seeds, especially the fleshy-leaved sorts, 

 as brassicas, salads and the like. Of 

 course, it is already reported that a 

 shortage of seed will occur after the 

 harvest of 1907. In Italy no great dam- 

 age has been done, although the winter 

 was of almost record severity. It was 

 mostly heavy snowstorms, and snow, of 

 course, protects rather than damages 

 vegetation. Onions in all the onion dis- 

 tricts, and especially Italy, are fair, and 

 with good conditions following now a full 

 average crop will result. B. J. 



THE REAL TROUBLE. 



* ' The real fact of the case in this 

 onion seed trouble, which we always have 

 of late years the moment a short crop 

 sends up the prices," writes an Amer- 

 ican seedsman in a letter which is pub- 

 lished by an English trade paper, "is 

 that foolish and unreasonable competi- 

 tion has gradually educated the planter 

 until he expects his onion seed at a 

 price that, unless it be a year of a 

 great crop, is much below the cost of 

 production. It would seem to the writer 

 that the conditions among our onion 

 seed growers are fast becoming such that 

 in future much higher rates must pre- 

 vail; this, year after year, obtaining 

 prices which are below the cost of pro- 

 duction, surely must have an end." 



This is an example of a half-tone from one of 

 our ^xrasb-drawrlnKa— sets much more detail 

 than in a retouched photograph. Can bring out 

 any feature, or remove defects. 



IMow is the Time 



to get to work on the cuts for your 1908 cata- 

 logue. Our artists are the best in the United 

 States on flower and vcRCtable drawing. We 

 make a specialty of Cuts For Seedsmen. 

 All processes. Qulek work if necessary. Satis- 

 faction guaranteed. 



CRESCENT ENGRAVING CO. 



841-849 Clark St., CHICAGO 



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Florists* Bulbs. 



Import orders now booked. 

 Best grades only. Write for prices. 



W. C. BECKERT, AIIe|iheny. Pa. 



