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TheWcckly Rorists' Review. 



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.\. Septbubbb 12, 1907. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMKBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., George S. Oreen, Cblcaro; First Vice 

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

 Treas., C. E. Kendei, Cleveland. 



Cantaloupes are yielding an abun- 

 dant crop this season. 



September started dry and hot in the 

 Texas trucking districts. 



At least a fortnight more without frost 

 is needed in the seed corn fields. 



Thomas Cox, of the Cox Seed Co., San 

 Francisco, is about to start on an East- 

 em trip. 



The western state fairs are offering 

 liberal premiums for exhibits of pedi- 

 greed seed corn. 



The Texas truckers are preparing to 

 largely increase the acreage in fall crops 

 as compared to last year. 



The up-to-date catalogue man is now 

 busily engaged on his 1908 books, to 

 have the southern edition ready for mail- 

 ing in December. 



The weather for the last month has 

 been unfavorable to grain crops and es- 

 timates oi probable yields of the princi- 

 pal cereals are considerably reduced. 



C. F. Wood's paper, the Market Grow- 

 ers' Journal, published at Louisville, es- 

 timates the onion set crop at slightly 

 more than 390,000 bushels, as against 

 about 525,000 bushels in 1906. 



F. W. Beuggebhop says that it should 

 be the aim of every seedsman, as it is of 

 Thorburn & Co., to supply only seeds of 

 the best possible quality, for such seeds 

 mil almost sell themselves. 



A D0LX.AR or two spent on retouching a 

 photograph may mean many dolltirs addi- 

 tional sales, not only on that one item, 

 but on other items in the catalogue, for 

 the influence of a cut, good or bad, ex- 

 tends to other varieties than the one it 

 illustrates. 



As price competition becomes closer 

 and closer between wholesale seedsmen, 

 the country firms find that they are at no 

 <lisadvantage as compared to those who 

 <lo business where ground values are 

 stated by the square foot and where 

 cartage, storage, hsindling and incidental 

 expenses are at the maximum. 



Seedsmen will be interested in the in- 

 junction proceedings begun by farmers at 

 Charleston, S. C, against a neighbor 

 whom they hold responsible for the 

 spread of cucumber bUght. As reported 

 on page 33, they seek by injunction to 

 stop his growing cucumbers in his green- 

 houses. 



The Planters' Seed Co., Springfield, 

 Mo., has commenced to erect a warehouse 

 on the Frisco and Missouri Pacific tracks, 

 to facilitate the handling of the carload 

 business. The building now occupied will 

 be used for ofiSces and a retail store. Ar- 

 thur G. Lee, the seedsman at Fort Smith, 

 Ark., owns a controlling interest in the 

 company. 



lilALLEEY & White, De Smet, S. D., are 

 having a contest with three prizes for 

 sweet peas, competition open only to 

 those who bought seeds of Mallery & 

 White. The contest is being advertised 

 in local papers, which are admitted to the 

 mails, although the plan is exactly similar 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers off Superior Garden Seeds 



Headquarters for TURNIP and other Beasonable seeds. 

 Write for prices. 



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Flower Seeds-^Onlon Sets '» f4W.'Si?d&8t.. CHICAGO 



Mention The Bevlew when you write. 



[ Burpee's Seeds Grow | 



Mention The Review when you write. 



to the one used by Montgomery Ward & 

 Co., Chicago, and which resulted in that 

 firm's seed catalogue being barred from 

 the mails last spring. 



A. L. Don, New York, says that a 

 seedsman doing a strictly retail business 

 may not make as much noise as one who 

 chases hither and yon after quantity or- 

 ders, and then for the stock with which 

 to fill them, but that the man dealing out 

 packets, quarts and pounds gets just as 

 many of the comforts of life, and possi- 

 bly more. Mr. Don is in a position to 

 know. 



Reports from pickle packers in the 

 west show that crop conditions vary 

 greatly, a fairly good yield reported in 

 some sections and an extremely poor one 

 in others. Too cool nights in some local- 

 ities are hurtful. Minnesota reports indi- 

 cate a smaller yield than expected, re- 

 ports from Kansas points say the pack 

 will be about two-thirds, and dry weather 

 is hurting the cucumbers in Nebraska. 



Articles of incorporation of the Car- 

 penter Seed Co., Prove City, Utah, have 

 been filed. The company vrill do a gen- 

 eral wholesale and retail seed business, 

 with the principal place of business in 

 Prove City. The capital stock is $20,000 

 in shares of the par value of $100 each. 

 The directors and officers are: G. J. Car- 

 penter, president; Wealthy Graham, vice- 

 president ; Addie Carpenter, secretary and 

 treasurer; Maude Hopson and Albert 

 Hopson. The residence of Maude and Al- 

 bert Hopson is Grand Junction, Colo. The 

 other officers ' residence is Prove City. 



GUNDESTRUPS VAREHOUSE. 



Ejiud Gundestrup's onion-set ware- 

 house, an illustration of which appears 

 on this page, is located on the Northwest- 

 ern railroad, at Jefferson Park, near Chi- 



JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



Md an VMS of Garden Seeds at Wkalctale Oaiy. 



CAMBRIDGE, wa.hi.sto> Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yom write. 



C. C. MORSE « CO. 



-«- Seed Growers 



Address all communications to car permanent address 



48 to 56 Jackson St., San Francisco, Gal. 

 Onion. Leftuce, Sweet Peas 



Otber Oalifomia Speoialtlee 



Mention The Bevlew when 70a write. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



P IGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



Waldo Rohnert 



GUiROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos. Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence Bolicited. 



cage. It is equipped with the best mod- 

 ern machinery for cleaning, sorting and 

 handling the sets. Though Mr. Gunde- 

 strup has not long made a specialty of 

 onion sets and the warehouse measures 

 64x80 feet, it is already proving to be 

 inadequate and Mr. Oundestrup has de- 

 termined to erect another, a duplicate of 



Onion Set ^Tarehouse of Knud Gundestrupt Chicagfo. 



