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30 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



June 20, 1907. 



Choice Pansy Seeds 



A SPKCIALTY. 



Ask for price list and teMtlmonialB received 

 from American nurserymen, 



V. FROMHOLD & CO.. seero^f^.r.. 

 Naumburg-Saale, Prov. Saxony, GERMANY 



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CAILIFLOWER f 

 CABBAGE I 



HJALMAB HABTUANN tt CO. 



Growars for tlie Wbolvaal* Trad* Only. 



la Stonusade. COPKHHAGKN 



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pectations. Rutabaga in general suf- 

 fered so badly that the prognostications 

 are for an exceedingly short crop of 

 seed. Of cabbage Winnigstadt only 

 promises half a crop. 



Of course it is too early for them to 

 say anything about the spring sown 

 crops. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending June 

 8 were as follows: 



Kind. Bags. Val. Kind Bags. Val. 



Caraway 200 | 1,485 Hemp 200 | 935 



Castor ...2,899 12,906 Millet 500 1,171 



FenngTk . 157 795 Poppy 270 2,493 



Grass 170 1,093 Other 1,430 



In the same period the imports of 



trees and plants were valued at $2,992. 



PRIZE OFFERS. 



One of the matters which will occupy 

 the attention pf the Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion at the meeting in New York next 

 week is the subject of the post-office rul- 

 ing on prize offers. This is made neces- 

 sary by the action, last February, of the 

 Chicago postmaster, who excluded from 

 the mails the catalogue of Montgomery 

 Ward & Co. because of the prizes offered 

 therein. The department at Washington 

 upheld the Chicago postmaster. 



Charles N. Page, chairman of the 

 Seed Trade Association's committee on 

 postal laws, when he read in the Review 

 of the action of the department, asked 

 Ward & Co. for full particulars, and Mr. 

 Thome, head of the big mail order con- 

 cern, confirmed the facts as stated in the 

 Review and added that in so far as 

 Ward & Co. were concerned the matter 

 was settled and a thing of the past. 

 Since then Mr. Page has permitted the 

 subject to rest in the belief that any 

 speedy attempt to get a ruling from the 

 department would only result in confirm- 

 ing the one made in Ward's ease. The 

 subject must shortly be taken up, how- 

 ever, if seedsmen are to know what if 

 any prize offers they are to be penr.itted 

 to use in the 1908 books. 



The interdicted Ward offers were for 

 the largest or best specimen grown from 

 seed of a given variety purchased from 

 them. The post-office objected to the 

 limiting of the offer to the product of 

 seed bought of the one who offered the 

 prize. As to this possibly W. Atlee Burpee 

 voices the general view as concisely as it 

 can be stated, and his experience in all 

 details of the catalogue business and the 

 mail trade makes his opinion of value. 

 He says: "We noted the item regarding 

 the action of the post-office authorities 

 in holding up the catalogue of Mont- 

 gomery Ward & Co. and fail to under- 



PANSIES 



Scotch and English PANSIES are noted all the world over for 

 their excellence. We have unique selections. 



The flowers are larfl^e* superb in color and (^rand in snbatance, 



and yearly selected and improved. 



We do not recommend the flimsy Trimardeau Pansies— size alone is 

 not beauty. 



Try a small packet of each of the following, and you will order 

 largely another season : COVENT GARDEN SUPERB STRAIN 

 and PRIZE ENGLISH EXHIBITION, each, $1 60 per dos. packets ; 

 94 60 per os. 



These are our Noted Special Strains* but we also keep nearly every 

 other variety in commerce. 



TRT also our very special, carefully selected strains of PHmula 

 Sinensis Fimbriata (all var., including the giant strains) ; Primula Stel* 

 lata, all varieties; Calceolaria and Cineraria, very best market strains; 

 Carnations, best and choicest stage and Marguerite varieties; Cyclamen 

 Persicom, all varieties, including new color; Gloxinias, etc. 



Write lor Wholesale Seed Catalogue, tree on application. 



WATKINS & SIMPSON, Seed Merchants 



12 Tavistock St.* Covent Garden, London, Cng. 



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Giant-Flowering Pansy ^, 



WeiRelt's giant-flower- 

 ing; Elite miztore, very 

 special quality. 

 1000 seedi, 26c: 10 gr., 6Sc: 100 gr.. $4 50. 



^^%#^^l A mi F Wil CliaDt-flowerinK. early bloomlDg, very special 

 W T W ^M IVI tL 1^ quality. 100 seeds, 40c: 1000 seeds, $}.00. 

 Send InternatioDal P. O. Order with your order. 



WEIGELT & CO. se^H;:?.?;... Erfurt, Germany 



Please g'ive us a trial order, after wliicb you will become our regular customer. Illustrated catalogfue free on request. 

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DAMMANN & CO. 



Seed and Bulb Growers 

 and Merchants 



StB GIOTaBBl a Tedaecio, near Naplei, Italy 



Established 1877 

 By Appointment to H. M. the King of Italy 



HKADQUABTEEia FOB 



Cauliflower and Tripoli Onion Seed 

 (Including Crystal Wax and Bermuda) 



And for all other Vegetable Seeds 



of Unrivaled Quality. 



All Flower Seeds crowa on as eaorBOit scale 



Ask for Our Wholesale Catalogue. 



T 



he Royal Tottenham 

 Nurseries, Ltd. 



Established In 187S 



Managing Director, A. M. C. VAN DER ELST 



Dedemsvaartf Holland 



Headquarters for Hardy Perennials, among 

 which are the latest aud choicest. 13 acres 

 devoted to growiDg this line, includinK Anemone, 

 Aster, Campanula, Delphinium, FunUas. Hem- 

 erocallis, Hepatica, Incarvillea, Iris, Peonies, 

 Phlox decns»ata and saffruticoBa, Primala, 

 Pyrethrum, Tritoma, Hardy Heath, Hardy 

 Ferns. Also 6 acres in Daflodils, 12 acres of 

 Oonifers, specially young choice varieties to be 

 grown on ; 3 acres Rhododendrons, including the 

 best American and Alpine varieties; 2 acres 

 Hydrangeas. We make it a point to grow all the 

 latest novelties in these lines. Ask for Catalog. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



stand by what right this has been done. 

 We were in hopes that long before this 

 the department had failed to sustain 

 the ruling of the Chicago postmaster and 

 eagerly await further information. There 

 certainly is no lottery in the prizes as 



Modern 



Alt Style 



Garden 



FurnitNri 



RED PARASOLS 



Watsrvroof 



Illustrated cata- 

 logue free on appll- 

 tion. 



Cheapest supplier 

 of Tanoy Flowar 

 Baskets. 



FRXNZ DIRNSTIEL 



Wholesale Only. OOBUBO. OBBMAaT 



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HOLLAND 

 BULBS^ 



K.Veltliuys,Hilleeoin, Holland 



Ask for our wholesale trade list 

 for Holland Bulbs. 



LARGEST STOCK OF AIX 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleas, Araucarias, Sweet Bays, 

 Palms, Beg^onias, Glojdnias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Bel^um. 



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 writing advertisers. 



