26 The Weekly Florists* Review. 



JuLx 11, 1907. 



result of the season's growth. The bulbs 

 are grown over a considerable area, in 

 lots of varying size, and under all sorts 

 of conditions as to care in keeping the 

 several types unmixed, but perhaps the 

 greatest reason for uncertainty as to 

 the quality and quantity of the stock is 

 that the Jap is as keen as any man on 

 earth in making the foreign buyer think 

 that things are what they are not. Cer- 

 tain detection in deceit has no terrors 

 for him, for he knows the bulbs are 

 wanted and wanted badly. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 



of New York for the week ending June 



29 were as follows: 



Kind. Bags. Val. Kind. Bags. Val. 



Caraway . . 600 $4,416 (irass 85 $ 922 



Cardamom.. 35 1,378 Hemp 300 1,377 



Castor 1,755 6,965 r>y coped 1 u m. . 20 1,968 



Celery 60 729 Millet 658 1,764 



Clover 365 8,562 Mustard 100 1,015 



Coriander . 45 1,192 Uape 5 19 



Cummin . . 77 659 Other 1,182 



In the same period the imports of 



trees and plants were valued at $549. 



SEED CROPS IN FRANCE. 



From what we hear from over the 

 water, the crops in California seem to 

 be in bad state, and this is likely the rea- 

 son why our American friends have sent 

 us numerous demands lately. 



In our district here in northwestern 

 France, apart from ^onu varieties which 

 passed the winter poorly, crops do not 

 look so bad as we might have expected 

 earlier. If we remember the long drouth 

 we had to sustain last summer, when car- 

 rots, beets, mangels, leeks, etc., could not 

 be sown until unusually late, we could 

 scarcely hope that the roots would ever 

 come big enough to be planted for seeds. 

 This was followed by a severe winter and 

 it really is a wonder that growers could 

 save and plant so many as they have done 

 for seed. 



Cabbages will be a short crop. They 

 were sown too late last autumn on ac- 

 count of dry weather, and the plants 

 were too weak to be able to go through 

 the winter. The same remark applies to 

 turnips and swedes. Leeks look pretty 

 well up to now, but there is a small acre- 

 age and prices are already going up on 

 account of bad prospects for next crop. 

 Of onions there is also a small acreage 

 planted. Because of the long dry weath- 

 er wc had last year, onion bulbs could 

 not develop and could not be planted for 

 seeds. Therefore a short crop should be 

 expected. 



NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. 



So indispensable to the modern seeds- 

 man 's catalogue, are a goodly number 

 of so-called novelties and specialties in 

 seeds, bulbs and plants, says an Ameri- 

 can writer in the English Horticultural 

 Advertiser, that hardly is one season 

 ended before this all-important matter 

 as regards the year to come is before us 

 for its solution. Many of our best firms 

 are finding that subjects of real merit, 

 that for one cause or another have been 

 neglected, or let us say, inadeqijately 

 pushed, when properly catalogued and 

 illustrated may prove great drawing 

 cards. Novelties of unquestioned merit 

 are not by any means always obtainable ; 

 on the other hand, a seedsman may cata- 

 logue and illustrate as elaborately as he 

 wishes some standard sort, and be sure 

 of a satisfied customer and a good profit. 



It is an art to arrange the novelties 



ITALIAN FLOWER BULBS 



BEST rOR rORCING, ONLT BTROHQ QUALITT. 



NAUium Meapolitanum Per 1000 



> iBt size 68 



2nd size 38 



Extra selected bulbs. . .-. 10s 



Freesias 



Extra selected bulbs 20s 



1st size bulbs 88 



2nd size bulbs 58 



Lilium Candidum (White) 



Fragrant, extra roots, 20 cent, and 



over „..60s 



Good floweriDg roots, 18-20 cent. In 

 circumference 408 



NareisBus Paper Whit* 



fl^randiflorns Per lOOO 



13 cent, and over 14s 



Good (or forcing lOs 



Atrum Sanctum (Black Calla) 



Ist size per 100, 15s; £5 



Iris alata 



strong, cultivated bulbs for winter- 

 blooming 18s 



Iris Btylosa 



Violet, winter-flowering £1 



TO BR DKLIVRRKD VROM BKGIMmNQ OF JULY. 

 Cash wltb order. 



Price list of other Flower Bulbs and Roots on demand. 



H. ft M. WULLE, 



WHOLESALE 

 BULB GROWERS 



Naples, Italy 



Mention The RgTiew when you write. 



JAP. LILY BULBS 



Large stock of all sorts from Cold Storage. 

 Delivery up to October I. Shipment In Ice 

 room of steamer. 



VaIIav r*rrkt*/nc Finest Quality, for Aut- 

 T ailCy l/rUWIlS umn delivery. Apply to 



ETZOLD& CO., HAMBURG, GERMANY 



Mention The Review when you write. 



and specialties of a seed catalogue. 

 What brought this matter to my mind, 

 was the attractive and prominent man- 

 ner in which Henry A. Dreer, Philadel- 

 phia, catalogued this season the fancy 

 dahlia Frank Smith. I will quote Messrs. 

 Dreer very briefly as follows: "It will, 

 no doubt, surprise many lovers of dahlias 

 when we tell them that this beautiful 

 variety is not new, or even of recent 

 introduction, it having been offered in 



Here is the dollar for reiiewal of 

 my tubscription. 



rVtPS 



is certainly a factor, both in (he 



florists' and seed btuiness, in both of 



which I am interested. Am at present 



btxilding greenhouses; fiave handled 



seeds for fotir years and did $9,000 



in field and garden seeds this spring. 



Another year we will put out a 



catalogtie. 



LESLIE R. BELL. 



Manlius, N. Y., 



July 1, 1907. 



AZALEA INDICA 



Immense stock of all leading Oommerclal Vari- 

 eties for Fall delivery. We can also supply some 

 very fine Mew Tarletles in limited quantities. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



for Import and from Gold Storage. 



AU kinds of BRLGIAM and HOXXAHD 

 PLAMTS tor torolmc 



French, Dutch and Japanese Bulbs 



For prices and full information, please apply to 



H. Frank Darrow, Importer 



26 BarolAT St., P. O. Box ISfO. H«w Tork 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ceptional merit." I would further tell 

 you that Messrs. Dreer have devoted an 

 entire jiage to a most attractive illus- 

 tration of this dahlia in colors, by a 

 noted artist. 



The above happy way of reintroducing, 

 so to speak, to a customer's special at- 

 tention a variety of sterling merit can- 

 not be too highly commended. Of course, 

 varying circumstances and different sub- 

 jects will suggest numberless ways of 

 accomplishing the sftme ends — namely, 

 the giving of deserved prominence to 

 standard varieties of seeds, bulbs, or 

 plants, with the object in \'iew of being 

 able to include in our catalogues a cred- 

 itable list of novelties and specialties — 

 in those years when there would seem 

 to be an absence of real novelties. In 

 this way a seedsman can be absolutely 

 honest with his customers, and not sacri- 

 fice the appearance of his catalogue. 



our own catalogue in 1868, and while 

 we are uncertain as to the exact year of 

 its introduction, it is safe to assume that 

 it was over half a century ago. The 

 fact, that since then thousands of dahlias 

 of all types have been introduced, simply 

 to disappear, should be convincing proof 

 that a variety which has stood the tesf 

 of over half a century must have ex- 



HENRY HELiyS PLANS. 



As previously announced, Henry Field 

 has organized a corporation to take over 

 his seed business at Shenandoah, la., 

 where a warehouse is to be built at once. 

 The following additional information as 

 to his plans is reported from Des Moines: 



"Henry Field, proprietor of a large 

 seed company with headquarters at Shen- 

 andoah, is looking for a location for a 

 branch house and may build in Des 

 Moines. The Greater Des Moines com- 

 mittee is in communication with Mr. Field 

 and he will probably be invited to attend 

 one of the committee meetings in the 

 near future and explain his proposition. 



"Mr. Field desires to establish a 



