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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Jui-T 18, 1907. 



ing seeds will have to be installed. "Work 

 on the improvement will commence at 

 once, with the hope of having the new 

 building ready by fall. 



"Seedsmen are compelled to put a 

 tag on every sack of seed sold, with the 

 exception of garden seed, ' ' said Mr. 

 Johns, in discussing the new law. ' ' If 

 the seed is not of a standard purity, it 

 ynll be necessary to specify the per- 

 centage of the admixtures. For in- 

 stance: If it contains three per cent 

 chick-weed, or five per cent foxtail, the 

 tag must give this information." 



Mr. Johns believes the new law will 

 meet the approval of the larger whole- 

 sale seed dealers, though it will cause 

 some annoyance at first. Certain phases 

 of the law will have to be modified, he 

 says, but these modifications will sug- 

 gest themselves within a year. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending July 

 6 were as follows: 



Kind. Bags. Val. 



Canary ...2,282 $4,283 



Castor 2,830 



Clover 350 9,920 



Grass 254 5,965 



Kind. Bags. Val. 



Lycopodium.. 5 |; 490 



Mustard 325 3,925 



Kape 5 19 



In the same period the imports of 

 trees and plants were valued at $1,309. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The streets of wholesaledom look al- 

 most deserted. Many of the principals 

 and more of the lieutenants are on their 

 vacations. Of retail trade there is but a 

 semblance. No more marriages till Au- 

 gust. Even funeral work is at a low 

 ebb and, while prices are quoted as a 

 formality, so much that is shipped re- 

 mains unsold that the general average is 

 below the bottom figures given in the 

 wholesale cut fliower list. There has been 

 no change in the price of roses. The 

 last week's quotations stand approved. 



Carnations and most stock shortened 

 somewhat in supply on Monday, a condi- 

 tion that was booked to come sooner or 

 later, but even this fact had little ef- 

 fect on prices and any apparent strength 

 lacked backbone or aggressiveness. 



Valley has advanced slightly. Lilies 

 are abundant and the summer values 

 hold. Smilax has fallen to the lowest 

 prices of the year and sweet peas were 

 never so abundant, so cheap and so uni- 

 versally good in quality. 



Gladioli are already arriving from the 

 local growers, as well as from the south, 

 and the price has retrograded to $1.50 

 per hundred for the best. 



There is some demand for orchids and 

 shipments are made in quantity to the 

 summer resorts, but no undue demand is' 

 anticipated and to hold them to respect- 

 able figures and so maintain their dig- 

 nity is no easy task. 



Variotfs Notes. 



Beautiful weather in the east. The 

 temperature on Monday was 70 degrees. 

 If we can do as well four weeks hence, 

 wlien the S. A. F. comes to Philadelphia, 

 there will be general rejoicing, not only 

 in the city of brotherly love, but in 

 New York, where we hope to entertain 

 many either going or coming, for no one 

 thinks of making the journey to the con- 

 vention without allotting a part of his 

 holiday to the metropolis. There is so 

 much to see here that you can "live a 

 lifetime in a day." But Philadelphia 

 promises great things and New York 



ITALIAN FLOWER BULBS 



BKST rOR rORCING, ONX.T STROMO QUALITT. 



Allium Neapolitanam Per looo 



l8t size 5s 



2nd size 3s 



Extra selected bulbs lOs 



Freesias 



Extra selected bulbs 20s 



Ist size bulbs 88 



2nd size bulbs 58 



Lilium Candidnm (White) 



Fragrant, extra roots, 20 cent, and 



over 60s 



Good flowering roots, 18-20 cent, in 



circumference 40s 



Nareisaus Paper White 



Ifrandinorns per lOOO 



13 cent, and over 14s 



Good for forcing lOs 



Atrum Sanctum (Black Calla) 



1st size per 100, ISs; £5 



Iris alata 



Strong, cultivated bulbs for winter- 

 blooming 188 



Iria Btylosa 



Violet, winter-flowering £1 



TO BS DXUVKRKD VROM BEGINNING OF JULT. 

 Casb wltb order. 



Price list of other Flower Bulbs and Roots on demand. 



H. ft M. WULLE, 



WHOLESALE 

 BULB GROWERS 



Naples, Italy 



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JAP. LILY BULBS 



Large stock of all sortB from Cold Storage. 

 Delivery up to October 1. Shipment in ice 

 room of ateamer. 



VaIIav Pm«*/nc Finest Quality, for Aut> 

 TOIICy x/l UWII9 umn delivery. Apply to 



ETZ0LD&C0.,HAMBUR6,6ERMANY 



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will do its duty in exhibits and attend- 

 ance. Many who can not give the en- 

 tire week to convention interests will go 

 down mornings and sleep at home. It's 

 only two hours from New York. I 

 predict an attendance of several hundred 

 from this center alone. 



Among the latest developments of the 

 Lord & Burnham Co. in greenhouse con- 

 struction is the glass enclosed swimming 

 pools, which are fast becoming popular. 



Here ii the dollar for renewal of 

 my Bubscriptioo. 



m 



cPSXS' 



is certainly a factor, both in the flo- 

 rists* and seed business, in both of 

 which I am interested. Am at present 

 buildin; greenhouses; have handled 

 seeds for four years and did $9,000 

 in field and garden seeds this spring. 

 Another year we will put out a cata- 

 logue. 



LESLIE R. BELL. 



Manlius, N. Y. 



July i, 1907. 



On a large private place near Pittsburg 

 this firm has just completed a modern 

 Pompeian equipment, marble-lined pool 

 and all the old Boman appurtenances, 

 with many new ones that make these 

 ancient accomplishments fade away. 

 Then, too, there is being completed in 

 Delaware, with Lord & Burnham patent 

 iron construction, a combination scheme 



No.34i 



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AZALEA INDICA 



Immense stock of all leading Commercial Vari- 

 eties for Fall delivery. We can also supply some 

 very fine New Varieties in limited quantities. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



for Import and from Gold Storage. 



AU kinds of BKL6IAN and HOLLAND 

 PLANTS tor (orolnB. 



French, Dutch and Japanese Bulbs 



For prices and full information, please apply to 



H. Frank Darrow, Importer 



se Barelar St.. P. O. Box ItSO. ««w Tork 



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WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULIFLOWeRSEED 



is Ihr earliest of I 

 all Snowballs, thrl 

 . most compact, the ' 

 surest header, is 

 fiving the largest and snow< 

 whitest heads, and is the 

 best keeper in dry-weailier. 

 Onuand it through your 

 «cd-rirm Of direct (rom 



R. WIBOLTT, lutsxov. nnmni 



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whereby the swimming pool of the sum- 

 mer becomes a greenhouse in the fall 

 and winter. The banks of the swim- 

 ming pool near Pittsburg are covered 

 with flowers and a most charming effect 

 produced by the combination. Every 

 private place of note will add this nov- 

 elty to its luxuries in due time. 



George Sykes, the veteran salesman 

 for Lord & Burnham Co., was seriously 

 injured in a trolley collision on his way 

 to his home in Passaic a week ago. 



A good deal of adverse criticism ap- 

 pears in the leading New York daily 

 newspapers concerning the management 

 of our great Central park. Deteriora- 

 tion is lamented. The working force is 

 called scant and ineflBcient and its roads 

 and lawns and untrimmed trees arc se- 

 verely censured. Police discipline is 

 called lax and retrogression during the 

 last ten years is declared to be constant 

 and methods of care and removal far 

 behind the times. The commissioner de- 

 clares the trouble to be lack of men and 

 appropriations — skilled labor and an ad- 

 dition of 100 workers to the helpers and 



