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BBPTDUBEiB 5, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Prize Euays. 



Samuel Murray, of Kansas City, offers 

 two prizes of $30 and $20 for the fol- 

 lowing essays to be presented by Septem- 

 ber 30 : ' ' Comparative Worth in the Com- 

 munity and to Horticulture and Flori- 

 culture. * ' 



First: The man who is a gardener and 

 florist, having' a store and conservatory in 

 the city, conducts a high-class business; 

 has greenhouses in the suburbs; grows 

 plants and cut flowers for his store; has 

 a good business in spring bedding plants 

 and does all in his power to increase the 

 sale of hardy perennials, setting forth to 

 his patrons on every occasion possible the 

 beauty and charm of ithe hardy flower 

 garden plants, shrubs and trees and bulbs 

 in the fall. 



Second : The man who conducts a store 

 and conservatory in the city has a high- 

 class business, but does not have any 

 greenhouses, buying all his plants and cut 

 flowers at wholesale. 



These essays were originally to have 

 been presented at the Philadelphia con- 

 vention, but because of the short notice 

 given, the time was extended. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., sub- 

 mits for registration the following ram- 

 bler roses: 



Walsh's Poesy, color clear dark pink; 

 base of the petals fading to pure white; 

 distinct; free flowering, strong growers; 

 flowers borne in large clusters and hang- 

 ing gracefully on the plant. This variety 

 raised in Woods Hole in 1901. 



Walsh 's Coquina ; beautiful shell pink ; 

 lower half of petals creamy yellow; fo- 

 liage glossy ivy green; profuse bloomer; 

 single flowers. 



Walsh's Cinderella, beautiful dark 

 rose; flowers double, borne in immense 

 clusters, shoots bearing from sixty to one 

 hundred blooms; when fully developed 

 flowers assume imbricated form and 

 change to a lovely shade of light pink; 

 one of the latest of the rambler class to 

 flower. 



Walsh 's Delight, single flowers ; intense 

 carmine tipped with scarlet; lower half 

 of petals white; most profuse bloomer; 

 flowering from every bud on each shoot; 

 foliage dark glossy green and a grand 

 forcing rose. 



Walsh's Evangeline, single flower; two 

 inches in diameter; large bronzy, glossy 

 green foliage; most vigorous grower; de- 

 liciously fragrant, suitable either for 

 climbing or creeping in parks or shrub- 

 beries; color, soft pink and white. 



Walsh's Paradise, single flowers; borne 

 in large clusters ; hardy, profuse bloomer ; 

 fragrant; petals, lower half white, upper 

 half pink; when fully developed the pet- 

 als recurve to a sharp point, forming a 

 perfect star; center filled with yellow 

 stamens. P. J. Hauswirth, Sec 'y. 



* Lewiston, Me. — T. J. Allen visited 

 Boston last week, buying fall supplies. 

 He reports business as good and is busy 

 with an addition to his houses. 



Mason City, Ia.— The Perth Floral Co. 

 lost $3,000 by fire August 25. The build- 

 ing was completely destroyed. The loss 

 is partly covered by insurance. The ori- 

 gin of the fire is unknown. 



BocHESTEE, Ind. — John Shelton expects 

 to begin work at once in the enlarging 

 of his greenhouses. The new buildings 

 will be 45x149- feet and will be completed, 

 before the arrival of cold weather. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AHBBICAN SEED TBADE A8MOCI4TION. 



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

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

 Treas., O. B. Kendei, Cleveland. 



The Dutch bulbs are now arriving and 

 quality is excellent. 



Visited Chicago : J. B. Comont, repre- 

 senting Carter, Dunnet & Beale, London, 

 Eng. 



All root crops on the other side are 

 reported to be making a light seed crop. 

 Some of the varieties of beets are ex- 

 ceedingly light. 



Reports from the onion seed fields of 

 the central west state that the harvest is 

 over and that the seed balls indicate a 

 good seed yield. 



The cool weather which generally pre- 

 vails over the country is reported to be 

 bad for the sweet corn, \dne seed and 

 tomato seed crops. 



Beans are coming along all right, ac- 

 cording to reports. Much can happen yet, 

 however, to change the situation, espe- 

 cially on the Refugee and other late 

 ripening sorts. 



At Chicago some of the onion seed that 

 was labeled, "Eastern grown, strictly 

 choice white," seems to be badly mixed 

 with a mongrel yellow and red, according 

 to the set growers who planted it. 



Long Island growers of cabbage seed 

 have harvested nearly a full crop in 

 good shape, but the increased demand 

 renders the supply short. Recent rains 

 have materially improved the condition 

 of cabbage stock for seeding 1908, and 

 also were of great benefit to cauliflower, 

 of which hundreds of acres are grown 

 on Long Island for market. 



The way peas are coming in at the 

 growing stations bears out the reports 

 that the crop is going to be light. Some 

 of the canners, however, say they will 

 have a lot that got too ripe for canning 

 and that this feature may have a bearing 

 on the price. The best posted growers 

 think the canners have an object in send- 

 ing out these statements. 



The onion st't situation is not well in 

 hand. Opinions vary as to the actual 

 production of the commodity. It cer- 

 tainly looks as though the crop is far be- 

 hind that of last year in quantity. Grow- 

 ers are holding off for stiff prices and 

 unless there are quantities in places that 

 have been overlooked the indications . are 

 that stiff prices will have to be paid. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



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CAMBRIDGE, waahiDgto. Co.. NEW YORK 



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GUiROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 CoBmoB, Mignonette. Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Weichman & Hoffman, at Forest 

 Junction, "Wis., are again in the seed 

 business. 



Knud Gundestrup, Chicago, with bis 

 family, has returned from a three 

 months' tour of European seed-growing 

 centers. 



A. M. KiRBY, head of the bulb and 

 flower seed department of Peter Hender- 

 son & Co., New York, is the author of 

 "Daffodils and How to Grow Them," 

 just published by Doubleday, Page & Co. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, president of J. M. 

 Thorburn & Co., expresses the utmost 

 confidence in the outcome of the season's 

 seed crops. He says that while some va- 

 rieties will undoubtedly be decidedly 

 scarce, still enough seeds are each year 

 produced to meet the general require- 

 ments of the trade. 



F. G. Johnson, formerly of Columbus, 

 O., is now with S. M. Isbell & Co., Jack- 

 son, Mich., associated with E. J. Sheap 

 in the management of the garden seed 

 department. Mr. Johnson was with the 

 Livingston Seed Co. for over twenty 

 years, but about a year ago was com- 



