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July 11, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



11 



Choice Pansy Seeds 



A SPECIALTY. 



Aak for price list and testlmonlaU received 

 from American nurserymen. 



V. FROMHOLD & CO.. seef ^?«^„.. 

 Naumburg-Saale, Prov. Saxony, GERMANY 



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CAULIFLOWER i 

 CABBAGE I 



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branch in a city nearer the center of the 

 state, his present house being in the 

 extreme southwest corner of the state. 

 He deals largely in seed corn, buying 

 $30,000 worth of this class of seed last 

 year. In order to secure the best qual- 

 ity of seed corn Mr. Field paid $5,000 

 in premiums to the farmers. His busi- 

 ness at Shenandoah amounted to $100,000 

 last year." 



Mr. Field sends the following: "The 

 incorporation papers for the Henry Field 

 Seed Co., which will begin business July 

 1, taking over Henry Field's seed busi- 

 ness, were filed June 12. There will be 

 no change in the management, as Mr. 

 Field will hold half the stock and will 

 be the manager of the company. The 

 list of officers and directors is as fol- 

 lows on temporary organization: Di- 

 rectors: Henry Field, Chas. Simpson, H. 

 E. Eaton, Ben G. Russell, A. L. P. 

 Thompson, S. E. Field, D. S. Lake. Of- 

 ficers: Henry Field, president; Chas. 

 Simpson, vice-president; H. E. Eaton, 

 secretary and treasurer. The company is 

 organized with $75,000 capital stock, 

 which is already all or practically all 

 subscribed. The building will be the 

 finest seed building in the state." 



SEEDLESS TOMATOES. 



The production of any vegetable nov- 

 elty always arouses interest among seed 

 growers and gardeners. More or less of 

 this work has been done by the experi- 

 ment stations. For a number of years 

 breeding experiments with vegetables 

 have been carried on by Prof. Halsted 

 and his associates at the New Jersey 

 stations. Among the distinct and valu- 

 able productions secured in this work is 

 a nearly seedless tomato. That is, the 

 form which Prof. Halsted has developed 

 seldom contains more than fifty seeds, 

 and frequently there are not more than 

 five or six, and often none. 



This variety has become pretty well 

 established and has been called the 

 Giant because of the large size the plant 

 attains. It originated five or six years 

 ago as a result of a cross of Golden Sun- 

 rise upon Dwarf Champion. In describ- 

 ing it Prof. Halsted says: 



"The seedlings frequently bear three 

 cotyledons, and the plants are very slow, 

 growing long-stemmed, with the foliage 

 open, due to the long internodes, and 

 leaves with the divisions widely sepa- 

 rated, which are crinkled, and the ter- 

 minal leaflet blunt pointed. The flower 

 clusters are small, flowers cup-shaped, 

 light lemon yellow, and the fruits few, 

 medium small, light yellow, and nearly 

 seedless. The flesh is particularly fine 

 flavored. The plants, three feet apart 



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 more tlian 8,000 acres, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest 

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Giant-Flowering Pansy 



Welgelt's giant-flower- 

 ing Elite mixture, very 

 special quality. 

 1000 seeds, 25c; 10 gr., 65c; 100 gr., $4 50. 



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WEIGELT & CO. se?<r8^:JUe. Erfurt, Germany 



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DAMMANN & CO. 



Seed and Bulb Orowera 

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HThe Royal Tottenham 

 * Nurseries, Ltd. 



Established In 187S 

 Managing IMrector, A. M. C. VAN DER EL6T 



Dedemsvaart, Holland 



Headquarters for Hardy Perennials, among 

 which are the latest and choicest. 13 acres 

 devoted to growing this line, including Anemone, 

 Aster, Campanula, Delphinium, Funkias, Hem- 

 erocallis, Hepatica, Incarvillea. Iris, Peonies, 

 Phlox decussata and suffruticosa, Primula, 

 Pyrethrum, Tritoma, Hardy Heath, Hardy 

 Ferns. Also 5 acres in Daffodils. 12 acres of 

 Conifers, 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 

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each way, covered the ground devoted to 

 the block, and flowered up to the killing 

 frosts near November 1. The type ap- 

 pears to be well fixed." 



E. P. Sandsten, working at the Wis- 

 consin Experiment Station, produced 

 seedless tomatoes by an entirely differ- 

 ent method, i. e., the use of excessive 

 amounts of fertilizers. He worked in the 

 greenhouse with a good potting soil, us- 

 ing commercial fertilizers at the rate of 

 800 pounds of nitrate of soda, 600 

 pounds of sulphate of potash, and 1,000 

 pounds of desiccated bone per acre. 

 Many abnormalities in the growth of the 

 plants and fruit were observed. "In al- 

 most all cases there was a tendency of 

 the plants to produce fruits containing 

 a much smaller number of seeds than 

 is generally found in the ordinary 



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BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Axaleas, Araucarias, Sweet Bays, 

 Palme, Becponias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOIJTTE PERE 



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fruit." In one instance the plant was 

 dwarfed and the fruit not larger than a 

 walnut, but firm fleshed and entirely 

 seedless. Another plant produced a 

 large, solid fruit that was seedless. Cut- 

 tings taken from these plants and set 

 outdoors remained true to type, but 

 produced more and larger fruit than in 

 the greenhouse. 



"We thus have at least two ways of 

 securing seedlessness in tomatoes — by 

 crossing and selection and by high feed- 

 ing with fertilizers. The work with 

 seedless tomatoes at both these stations 



