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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JPNE 20, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



▲HBBICAM SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pr«8., Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; First 

 Vloo-PreB., Charles Burge, Toledo, O.; 8«c'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. The 25th annual 

 meeting will be held at New York City, June 25 

 to 37, 1907. 



All aboard for New York. 



C. L. Allen, the Long Island seeds- 

 man, was 79 years of age June 13. 



Dabmstadt, in Germany, is the great 

 center for tree seeds and grass seeds. 



Cucumber seed is going out in quick- 

 step time since the weather turned warm. 



June rains in California have aided 

 some crops and worked damage to others. 



The onion-set growers are busy weed- 

 ing but feeling better as to crop pros- 

 pects. 



Chicago and the west will send a good 

 delegation to New York next week for 

 the seed trade convention. 



There were nine cases of Harrisii lily 

 bulbs on the steamer from Bermuda 

 which reached New York June 14. 



The sweet peas in the California fields 

 have enjoyed an excellent season of 

 bloom and look good for a satisfactory 

 crop. 



All crops have made a wonderful 

 growth under the favoring influence of 

 moist ground and a few days of warm 

 weather. 



How will the tender pea vines stand 

 the heat? It does not usually strike 

 them until a later stage of growth is 

 reached. 



, A. J. PiETERS, of the A. J. Pieters 

 Seed Co., Hollister, Cal., is visiting the 

 trade on his way to New York for the 

 convention. 



A FIEE of unknown origin did only 

 slight damage, June 6, in the basement 

 of the store of the Carthage Seed Co., 

 Carthage, Mo. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station at Amherst has just is- 

 sued a bulletin on * ' The Blossom End 

 Rot of Tomatoes." 



An extensive horticultural exhibition 

 is in progress at Mannheim, Germany, 

 many leading German seedsmen and 

 nurserymen exhibiting. 



Edwin J. Fuchs, who has been with 

 D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, for twenty- 

 five years, and on the road for them for 

 the last eighteen years, has resigned. 



Howard M. Earl, of W. Atlee Bur- 

 pee & Co., Philadelphia, has been in- 

 specting the sweet peas in the Santa 

 Clara valley during the blooming season. 



The directors of the Wholesale Seeds- 

 men's League will have a meeting at 

 New York next week, and the league 

 members will have their annual meeting 

 June 28. 



In the incorporation of the Henry 

 Field Seed Co., Shenandoah, la., Mr. 

 Field is president, Charles Simjwon vice- 

 president and H. P]. Eaton secretary and 

 treasurer. 



The Venable Seed Co., Owensboro, 

 Ky., has been thrown into bankruptcy 

 on the petition of J. W. McJohnston and 

 others. The matter has been placed in 



in Bulk 

 and Packages 



LAWN GRASS SEED 



• Dickinsons, Evergreen, and Pine Tree Brands 

 SPECIAL MIXTURES SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Headquarters for TURNIP and other seasonable seeds. 

 Write for prices. 



Flower Seeds— Onion Sets '» fJSV^'SlMpist.. CHICAGO 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



Burpee's Seeds 



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SEED 

 BAGS 



Send for Cat. 

 and Prices. 



Herndon, Lester 

 & Ivey Co., 



Rkhmond, Virginia. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Waldo Rohneii 



GILBOY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Swtct Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, MiRDonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respoodence solicited. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



charge of Eeferee J. A. Dean. No 

 schedule of liabilities and assets is at 

 present available. 



Visited Chicago: W. A. Wheeler, of 

 the Dakota Improved Seed Co., Mitchell, 

 S. D.; R. H. Shumway, Eockford, 111.; 

 A. J. Pieters, Hollister, Cal. ; C. R. Mill- 

 ham, Avon, N. Y. 



George L. Born, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Manitowoc Seed Co., Mani- 

 towoc, Wis., reports that it is his belief 

 that the dangers of crop failure in the 

 pea and bean district are being exagger- 

 ated. 



The British vice-consul at Kansas 

 City, Mo., has advised his government 

 that the United States affords a good 

 opening for increasing the export busi- 

 ness England does in agricultural and 

 horticultural seed. 



Wholesale seedsmen are well in ac- 

 cord on the proposition that prices for 

 future delivery of practically all seeds 

 should be higher, but individually are 



JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



tui all kiais sf Garden Seeds at Whaletale Only. 



CAMBRIDGE, washintrto. Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Garden Peas and Beans 



ror the Wholesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS. i • MICH. 



Mention TTie Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE ft CO. 



Seed Grower* 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



48 to 56 Jackson St., San Francisco, Cal. 

 Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other Oalifomla BpecialtleB 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



SEATTLK. WASH. 

 Grower* of 



PUGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



disinclined to see "the other fellow" 

 booking all the business. 



Our friends, the canners, are between 

 the devil and the deep sea. With almost 

 a certainty that crops will come in all 

 at once, greatly shortening the season, 

 the government holds them to a strict 

 line in the matter of the use of pre- 

 servatives. 



Hector L. Dery, of Montreal, says 

 business was exceptionally good in May. 

 Mail orders kept up the rush until the 

 last days of the month. This was mostly 

 due to the cold weather. There was a 

 snow fall of about fifteen minutes' dura- 



