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August 29, 1907. 



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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



29 



Seed Trade News. 



AMKBICAN SEED TBAOE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., George S. Green, Chicago; First Vlce- 

 pres., Bl. H. Duryea. New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. B. Kendel, Cleveland. 



Albert McGullouqh, of Cincinnati, is 

 at home from bis European trip. 



Pansy and nasturtium seed crops in 

 Holland are late and light this year. 



The candidum lily bulbs will soon be 

 delivered. Plant them without delay. 



L. L. Olds, president of the L. L. Olds 

 Seed Co., of CUnton, Wis., was in Chi- 

 cago last week. 



W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia, with 

 his wife and sons, has returned from a 

 three months' tour of European seed 

 trade centers. 



The reports of crop conditions in Eu- 

 ropean seed-growing districts, especially 

 in Germany, are not favorable. The sea- 

 son is the latest known in many years. 



Herbert G. Tull, of the Henry A. 

 Dreer Co., Philadelphia, takes the place 

 of J. F. Wilcox, Council Bluffs, on the 

 board of directors of the Florists' Hail 

 Association. 



George Gibbs, of Clearbrook, Wash., is 

 one of the pioneers in the growing of 

 bulbs in America. Starting alone on a 

 small experimental garden at Fort Bel- 

 lingham, thirteen years ago, he has dem- 

 onstrated that bulb culture is a profit- 

 able industry for florists of the Puget 

 Sound basin. He is one of those who 

 have made it possible to have the 

 choicest bulbs without importing them 

 from Holland. 



Alarm is felt over the aster seed crop 

 in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., where 

 probably a larger area is grown than 

 anywhere else in America. James Vick's 

 Sons are the principal growers. Charles 

 H. Vick says the season has been exces- 

 sively dry and that the crop of seed of 

 the early varieties is sure to be materially 

 reduced, but he says that with a few 

 good rains it is yet possible that the late 

 sorts may mature a fair crop of seeds. 



Cape Vincent, N. Y. — The large ware- 

 houses of the Cleveland Seed Co., at the 

 foot of Market street, have been pur- 

 chased by the Adams & Duford Co., of 

 Chaumont. On account of the farmers 

 in this vicinity being unable to raise 

 peas and beans for several years past, 

 the Cleveland company was obliged to 

 move its headquarters to Avon, N. Y. 

 For this reason the bvuldings have not 

 been used as extensively as they had 

 been, about the only business done being 

 making split peas. 



There were two exhibits of Vick's 

 new aster, Hohenzollern Eose, at the 8. A. 

 F. convention at Philadelphia last week 

 that attracted much attention. One ex- 

 hibit was by Vick, the other by the 

 Altimo Culture Co., Canfield, O., and on 

 each table the variety showed up in a 

 fashion to attract the attention of every 

 grower of asters who was present. It 

 pleased the Vick people that the other 

 exhibitor, a large grower of asters for 

 cut flowers, should have only one variety 

 in its display not originated by Vick's. 

 This one was Carlson's purple. 



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DARWIN TULIPS. 



This handsome race of tulips is now 

 exceedingly popular for garden decora- 

 tion and for cutting. The original stock 

 was the life work of an amateur grower, 

 and was purchased in 1885 by E. H. 

 Krelage & Son, of Haarlem, Holland. 

 It originally co^jsisted of small quan- 

 tities of many hundred varieties. Some 

 of these were offered to the public in 

 1889. 



Darwin tulips are rather taller and 

 more robust-looking than any other type 

 of tulip. They are really white ground 

 breeder, or mother tulips, that is to say, 

 they are in that stage of their existence 

 which we may compare to the chrysalis 

 state of a butterfly, if we consider the 



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GEO. E. MANNING, 

 Broadalbin, N. Y. 



Aueutt 6,1907. 



flamed and striped state which we get in 

 the Bembrandts and English to be their 

 ultimate perfection. They are selfs, with 

 but few exceptions. Some catalogues in- 

 clude in their list of Darwin tulips such 

 varieties as Jaune d'CEuf and Sensation, 

 which are both more or less yellow. This 

 is wrong, for there were no bizarres 

 among the original varieties, and it 

 would be well to keep to this arrange- 

 ment. 



Darwin tulips are too tall, most of 

 them, for bedding, unless the beds are 

 large. They look best in ordinary gar- 

 dens, accorc^ng to an English gardeners' 

 magazine, in clumps of from nine to a 

 dozen in the mixed herbaceous border, 

 where the surrounding greenery forms a 

 delightful setting for their brilliant 



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colors. They are also excellent for late 

 forcing, to come into flower at the end 

 of March and early in April. 



Whether grown under glass or in the 

 open, their tall, stiff sterna make them 

 particularly suitable for cutting, and 

 they should be grotvn in Quantity. There 

 is nothing different in their treatment 



