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JUMB 13, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



35 



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AZALEA INDICA 



ImmenBe stock of all leading Commercial Vari- 

 eties for Fall delivery. We can also supply some 

 very fine New Varieties In limited quantities. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



for Import and from Oold Storage. 



AU kinds of BXLGIAN and HOLLAND 

 PLAMTS for foroinar. 



French, Dutch and Japanese Bulbs 



For prices and full information, please apply to 



H. Erank Darrow, Importer 



28 Barolay St.. P. O. Box 1S50. Mow Tork 



Martial Bremond 



OLLIOULX8. PRANCK. 

 WliolesAlo Ctarow^or of Hlcli-CIaasi 



French Bulbs, Roman Hyacinths, 



Paper White Grandiflora, etc. 



RafphM.Ward&Co. 



Sole representatives in D. S. and Canada. 



IS West Broadway, •• NXW TOBK. 



Write for prices. Wkolosalo only. 



Mention The Bevlew when yon write. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending June 

 1 were as follows: 



Bags. Val. 



...300 $1,400 



Lycopd'm . . 10 1,016 



Millet 600 1.415 



25 1,000 Mustard 227 2,513 



.1,235 6,729 Poppy 134 1,222 



656 13,823 Other 17 744 



Kind. Bags. Val. Kind. 



Annatto .. 5 | 62 Hemp 



Anise 65 895 * 



Canary ...1,215 2,616 



Cardamom . 



Castor 



Clover 



Grass 17 144 



In the same period the imports of 



trees and plants were valued at $7,165. 



MORE VALUABLE. 



In sending in a renewal of subscrip- 

 tion for the Review, June 10, a well- 

 known seed grower writes: "We are 

 glad to find your columns devoted to the 

 seed trade becoming more extended and, 

 therefore, more valuable to us every 

 week. ' ' 



The Review will be pleased to have 

 anyone in the trade communicate items 

 of interest for this department, and 

 thereby help us to add still further to its 

 value. 



PESSIMISTIC 



A seed grower in Michigan writes : 

 "When the time comes in the autumn 

 and winter for shipping out seeds, it 

 will be deeply interesting to note the per- 

 centages of deliveries made on orders for 

 peas, beans, com and many small seeds 

 which are being taken at prices already 

 appearing ridiculously low in view of 

 present crop conditions, both at home and 

 abroad. These crops, when harvested in, 

 will be so clearly far under the average 

 of production that only one result can 

 be looked for, that being a cutting down 

 of deliveries by growers to twenty-five 

 per cent, the buyers finding themselves 

 left high and dry to look around for the 

 deficient seventy-five per cent of many 

 things hard, if not impossible, to get at 

 any price." Certainly an average deliv- 

 ery of twenty-five per cent on the lines 

 mentioned would be a misfortune of no 



Priinala Sinensis Fimbriata 



We offer every variety, double and single, worth growing; the very finest 

 strains procurable, all English greenhouse-grown, each, $1.50 per doz. pkts. 

 Also the Grand Exhibition Strains; Giant Pink, Giant Wliite, Giant 

 Mai^nifica Blu«, $2.00 per doz. pkts. These have enormous flowers and 

 extra solid petals. 



Try also Tlie DuchesB (white with rosy zone in center). The Ducheas 

 Hybrid Red, The Duehesa Hybrida, Mixed (a most striking and distinct 

 mixture of colors with zones of various colors), each variety, $1.50 per doz. 

 pkts. 



Orange King^, our wonderfully striking and unique new color. This is 

 quite a new departure in color and never before seen in Primula Sinensis. 

 The buds are a beautiful rich orange, and when fully expanded the petals 

 are orange salmon, shaded with terra cotta. Splendid habit and very free- 

 flowering. $3.00 per doz. pkts. 



Try also our special carefully selected strains of Primula Stellata, all 

 varieties. Panaiea and Gloxiniaa. Calceolaria and Cineraria. 

 Cyclamen Peraienm, all vars., including new color. Carnationa, best 

 and choicest stage and Marguerite varieties. 



. Write for Wholesale Seed Catalogue, free on application. 



WATKINS ft SIMPSON, Seed Merchants 



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



For The Best Quality Virgin Tracic Mushroom 

 Spawn apply to the chief makers in England, viz. — 



JOHNSON'S, LIMITED 



Virgin Track 

 Moshroom Spawn Manufacturers 



TWYFORD ABBEY MUSHROOM FARM, 



EALING. LONDON, W., 

 ENGLAND. 



This season's fresh made Spawn Is In splendid condition, and is being supplied by na 

 to all the leading firms throughout the world. Price and particulars on application. 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



small proportions. While all conditions 

 certainly are unfavorable, we do not look 

 for anything so calamitous as here indi- 

 cated. 



BURRELL'S MELON ACREAGE. 



In the Review of Mav 30 there ap- 

 peared a note on D. V. Burrell's opera- 

 tions with a steam plow, taken from a 

 Colorado newspaper. The reporter made 

 it appear that Mr. Burrell was planting 

 with melons, for seed, all the land he 

 was plowing. This is what he himself 

 says about it : 



' ' I believe in advertising and, while I 

 confess I am some like the one who said, 

 'Say something about me; something 

 good if you can, but for goodness' sake, 

 say something,' yet when it comes to 

 planting 3,000 acres of melons for seed 

 in one field I wish to be excused. I have 

 only a few over 600 acres of melons all 

 told, and these are planted in many dif- 

 ferent places. 



' ' My steam outfit plows from forty to 

 fifty acres a day and, after doing my 



Modern Art Style 

 Garden Furniture 



RED PARASOLS 



WATKRPROOr. 



Illustrated catalogue free on appUcatloD. 



Cheapest Supplier of 

 FANCT riiOWKR BA8KKT8. 



-Wholesale Onlv- 



FRANZ BIRNSTIEL, 



dOBUBG. GBRMANT. 



own plowing, I took a contract to plow 

 several thousand acres for another party. 

 This is the land referred to in your May 

 30 issue. I am planting only 160 acres 

 of this to melons. The engine moves 

 across the field and pulls twenty-four to 

 thirty plows. 

 "The season has been very backward 



