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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 18, 1907. 



$10.00 



^ BULBS ^ 



EMPEROR — ^— $10.50 SIR WATKIN 



BARRI CONSPICUUS $4.75 



EMPRESS 12.50 



POETARUM NARCISSUS, Sf,?'- 8.00 



PHEASANT'S EYE NARCISSUS 3.00 



Tulips, Gladioli, Peonies, etc., equally cheap 



Please note. We GUARANTEE aU above to be TRUE, SOUND, DRY, CLEAN, 

 HEALTHY and FIRST SIZE. H not ALL we say, same may be returned at our expense. 

 We will give extended credit, if desired, up to next June. Catalogue on application. 



THIS IS OUR LAST ADV. THIS SEASON. 



D'Alcorn & Sons, Portsmouth, Va. 



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Mention The Jtevlew when you write. 



storage of bulbs. The main part of the 

 building will be 60x110 feet and four 

 stories in height. It will be constructed 

 of concrete, steel, tile and brick and Mr. 

 Field says, "It will be absolutely fire- 

 proof, rat proof and water proof, the 

 only fireproof building, in town and the 

 only fireproof seed house in the west. 

 It will be equipped with steam heat, 

 electric light and power, elevator and all 

 modern conveniences. At the rear the 

 corn house will extend 60x120 feet and 

 will be built partly of concrete and 

 partly of wood. It will be subdivided 

 into cribs and equipped with dumps and 

 elevators and conveyors, so that the 

 labor of shoveling and lifting will be 

 practically eliminated. ' ' 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Arthur T. Boddington, New York, N. 

 Y., bulbs and seeds; Pacific Nurseries, 

 San Francisco, Cal,, rose plants; C. 

 Betscher, Canal Dover, O., peonies; 

 Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 

 bulbs, seeds and general greenhouse sup- 

 plies; the Advance Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 ventilating apparatus. 



SEED TESTING. 



In the report of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Am- 

 herst, Mass., for the year 1906 it ia 

 said: 



"There is a constantly increasing de- 

 mand for work * pertaining to seed 

 germination, seed separation and purity 

 testing of seeds. The station is not at 

 present sufficiently well equipped for 

 purity testing, since the best work in 

 this line can be done only by a special- 



ist, or by one who is able to devote 

 considerable study to the subject. 



"Most of our seed separation is done 

 for tobacco and onion growers of the 

 Connecticut valley, and for this work 

 the department has installed efficient ap- 

 pliances. It is hoped that market gard- 

 eners will eventually separate their seed, 

 since in growing such crops as lettuce, 

 celery, radishes, etc., this practice would 

 prove valuable. 



"Germination tests were made on 126 

 samples, purity tests on 18, separation 

 testa on 87. 



' ' The average percentage of germina- 

 tion of onion seed was 79.5; of sweet 

 corn, 71.9; and the highest percentage 

 of onion seed germination was 100, while 

 the same percentage was obtained with 

 samples of sweet corn. The lowest 

 percentage of germination of onion was 

 28; that of sweet corn, 25. The onion 

 seeds tested during 1906 were particu- 

 larly good, being much better than those 

 we have tested during previous years. 

 Both onion and tobacco seed were sepa- 

 rated by air. Only two per cent of seed 

 was discarded by the process of air 

 separation from the best tobacco seed 

 sent in, while from the poorest samples 

 thirty-seven per sent was discarded. In 

 the case of the best onion seed, eight 

 per cent was discarded by the use of a 

 winnowing machine, while only twenty 

 per cent was discarded from the poorest 

 samples of onion seeds." 



FRITILLARIA CONICA. 



FritiUaria conica is a charming new 

 fritillaria, which has been found in the 

 mountains of southern Greece, says M. 

 Herb, of Naples. It belongs to the min- 

 iature fritillarias, which do not, like the 

 Crown Imperials, parade by the size of" 

 their flower tufts, but which charm the 

 spectator by their delicacy. The inflores- 

 cence attains only a height of albout 

 three-quarters of an inch in the average 

 and forms small rosettes with the dark 

 green, bright leaves, which partly stick 

 to the stems. The bell-shaped, conical 

 flowers are brilliant golden yellow within 

 and a little lighter without, passing into 

 straw-color. They appear as early as the 

 month of March ; viz., as soon as the 

 earliest bulbous plants, like crocus, galan- 

 thus, chionodoxa and similar small-sized 

 bulbs, to the colors of which they form a 

 good contrast and with which they may 

 be advantageously used for planting on 

 spring beds. Several bulbs of Fritillaria 

 conica planted together in small pots can 

 be well used for spring decoration of 

 flower stands. 



I NEEDED the Eeview^ when I had a 

 ▼ery small business, and I need it donblr 

 now, with the increase in business. — J. 

 G. AngiI', Oklahoma City, Okla. 



THE IOWA SEED LAV. 



As a result of the new state law in 

 Iowa requiring seeds to be of a certain 

 standard of purity, the Sioux City Seed 

 & Nursery Co., at Sioux City, will begin 

 at once the erection of a new elevator 

 and cleaner, at the cost of $20,000. The 

 building will adjoin the present plant 

 of the seed company. H. A. Johns, 

 president of the Company, says it will be 

 impossible for his concern to comply 

 with the new law with its present equip- 

 ment. Expensive apparatus for clean- 



