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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 25, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICIN SEED TBAOE ASSOCIATION. 



Pree., Georgre S. Green, Ctalcafo; First Vlce- 

 Pres., M. H. Duryea. New Yorfc; Sec'y and 

 Treaa., O. B. KendeJ, Cleveland. 



The first French bulbs are due this 

 week. 



A BIO shipment of Harrisii bulbs is due 

 at New York this week. 



The probabilities are for high prices 

 for Alaska peas for next season. 



Montgomery Ward & Co. are issuing a 

 fall catalogue of seeds and bulbs. 



G. L. Bissell & Son now are pro- 

 prietors of the Ottumwa Seed Co., Ot- 

 tumwa, la. 



Now is the time to get photographs, 

 or to arrange to get them, for illustrat- 

 ing 1908 seed catalogues. 



Lithographers report that seedsmen 

 are willing and even anxious to place 

 orders for covers and colorplates early 

 this year. 



Send your latest catalogue to the Re- 

 view and see that it is on your regular 

 mailing list. All catalogues are filed for 

 reference. 



John M. Fitch, who is traveling in 

 southern Kansas for the Barteldes Seed 

 Co., reports good crops on the farms and 

 a good business with the handlers of 

 seeds. 



The government statisticians report 

 the acreage planted to potatoes this year 

 as 54,000 acres more than last year. 

 The average condition July 1 was 90.2 

 as against a ten-year average of 91.3. 



The "Wisconsin Pea Canners' Co. has 

 been organized with a capital of $1,300,- 

 000, combining the two largest plants in 

 the west, those of the Albert Landreth 

 Co., Manitowoc, and the E. J. Vaudnuil 

 Co., Two Rivers. 



Arthur C, Dillman, a recent grad- 

 uate of the South Dakota State Agricul- 

 tural College, has taken a position as 

 field man with the Dakota Improved 

 Seed Co., which Prof. W. A. Wheeler is 

 establishing at Mitchell, S. D. 



Bermuda onion seed to the value of 

 $14,729 was exported from Teneriffe, 

 Canary Islands, to the United States in 

 1906. From consular reports it appears 

 that last year's crop far exceeded the 

 demand, and it is estimated that over 

 40,000 pounds were left in the hands of 

 the dealers. 



One of the seedsman's troubles is the 

 fellow who sends a postal card for a 

 catalogue merely because he likes to have 

 the postman stop at the door; but the 

 seedsman's woes of this nature are as 

 nothing compared to the troubles of the 

 two big, and many smaller, Chicago 

 mail order houses against whom the 

 country merchants are waging war by 

 means of thousands of "phoney" letters 

 asking for catalogues that cost the 

 larger houses $1 each. Some of them try 

 to sift the good from the bad by asking 

 a small cash payment, to be credited on 

 the first order, before the book is sent. 



PEAS AND BEANS. 



Jerome B. Rice says that in all of the 

 pea growing districts this year the 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



HeadquarterB for TUBNIP and ctber seaBonable seeds. 

 Write tor prices. 



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Flower Seeds— Onion Sets '»fnV.'Slrd.'{;is*..CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



[ Burpee's Seeds Grow ) 



Mention The Review when you write. 



C. C. MORSE « CO. 



■••d Gro'wera 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



48 to 56 Jackson St., San Francisco, Gal 

 Onion. Lettuce* Sweet Peas 



aad Other Oallfomla Speolaltlea 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Co. 



SEATTLK, WASH. 

 Qrowers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention "nie Review when yon write. 



weather "has been too dry. Pods are few 

 and small and the crop is, in his opinion, 

 destined to be a short one. "Later on 

 we shall know better, of course, but to- 

 day (July 22) the outlook is not favor- 

 able for an average yield. ' ' 



The Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y., is a large grower of peas 

 and it is about the only seed crop at the 

 present time that is far enough along 

 to form a correct opinion of. Mr. Rice says 

 the crop of sweet corn is coining along 

 nicely, but is very late. Much depends 

 upon how the frost holds off in the fall 

 as to whether the crop will ripen sufl5- 

 ciently for seed. Beans have a fair stand 

 and present indications are favorable. 



CONNECTICUT CROPS. 



Frederick M. Clark, secretary of the 

 Everett B. Clark Co., Milford, Conn., 

 writes under date of July 20: 



"All seed crops promise well at this 

 writing. Our beet, onion and parsnip 

 are looking well now. Com is growing 

 rapidly, but many late pieces will have 

 to hustle to ever make seed." 



ASTER SEED CROP. 



Charles H. Vick, president of James 

 Vick's Sons, writes as follows of the con- 

 ditions at Rochester, N. Y., at the open- 

 ing of the present week: 



"In the last two weeks we have had 

 several heavy rains, which are improving 

 the crops materially. The season opened 

 very late and cold, and everything in the 

 growing line is in the neighborhood of 

 two weeks behind. 



"While our asters, of which we are 

 growing from forty to fifty acres, are 

 somewhat later than last season, we ex- 

 pect, with the encouraging weather of the 

 last few weeks, that we will have a 

 bountiful crop." 



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VE6ETABLE 



SEED 

 BAGS 



Send for Cat. 

 and Prices. 



Herndon, Lester 

 & Ivey Co., 



Richmond, Virginia. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



OHiROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



nd si kMt sf Garriei teed* it Wbelstsla Oaiy. 



CAMBRIDGE, waihi.tto. Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when ysn write. 



CORN IN OHIO. 



C. S. Clark, Wakeman, O., sends tke 

 following report of conditions aa of 

 July 23: 



* ' Our contracted crops of corn growing 

 for seed are from three weeks to one 

 month late. The early varieties and sec- 

 ond earlies should get ripe and make a 

 fair to good crop. But all the late sorts 

 of sweet com must have a very late, fa- 

 vorable autumn to mature suflSciently for 

 seed, and we shall be very short in case 

 this late corn does get ripe, for the cold, 

 wet spring caused so much replanting 

 that many growers canceled their con- 

 tracts and planted other crops. The 

 weather for the last three weeks has been 

 fine for corn and, while it is very back- 

 ward, it is now growing fast and is of 

 fair to good color and clean." 



DUTCH BULBS LATE. 



The lifting of all bulb crops in Hol- 

 land is fully ten days later than usual 

 this year, owing to the cold and back- 

 ward spring. Many of the tulips and 



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