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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEE 3, 1907. 



S^ Trade News. 



AHKBIGAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pros., Oeorge S. Green, Chlcaro; Flrat Vloe- 

 pre«., M. H. Duryea. New York; Sec'y aad 

 Traas., O. B. Kendei, Cleveland. 



Onion sets may be plentiful, but the 

 brokers who deal more or less in the 

 commodity cannot find many to start the 

 season with. 



The fact that Alaska peas are selling 

 for $4 per bushel in round lots to the 

 trade is an indication that there is a 

 scarcity somewhere. 



In Wisconsin there is reported to be 

 a light crop of seed potatoes, although 

 julvices indicate that in the country at 

 large there is a normal yield. 



A. T. BoDDiNGTON, New York, will this 

 Heasou send out a new cosmos, named 

 Lady Lenox, of gigantic size, the flowers 

 being said to be six to seven inches in 

 diameter. 



Max Wilhelmi, of the Barteldes Seed 

 Co., Lawrence, Kan., was a recent visitor 

 at Chicago. He spent several days in 

 the vicinity and it is not thought that he 

 was looking for popcorn, although he in- 

 timated that might be the object of his 

 quest. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 report orders for their two new Spencer 

 sweet peas coming in at a remarkable 

 rate. One order received September 24, 

 from a retail seed house, called for 8,000 

 ])acket8. The novelties are packeted in 

 two sizes, containing ten seeds and twen- 

 ty-five seeds each. 



The L. L. Olds Seed Co., Clinton, 

 Wis., located right in the barley country, 

 report that they are no more fortunate 

 than the rest of the seed trade this 

 year, in the matter of crops for seed 

 j)urpose8. Potatoes, barley, speltz and 

 oats are their specialties, and all are 

 short crops. Corn with them is two 

 weeks late and not yet out of danger. 



L. L. Mat & Co., St. Paul, have in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $200,- 

 000, one-half preferred. OflScers are: 

 L. L. May, president and treasurer; F. 

 W. May, vice-president; E. W. Eeid, sec- 

 retary; W. H. Lovell, assistant treasurer. 

 This firm has vacated the warehouse on 

 Minnesota street and moved its offices to 

 the second floor of the Sixth street store. 

 A new fireproof concrete warehouse is 

 being erected on Como avenue, near the 

 greenhouses, where the wholesale seed 

 business will be k^andled. 



Otto Schwill, son of the late Otto 

 Schwill, has acquired the interests of all 

 the other heirs and some other stock- 

 holders in the corporation known as Otto 

 Schwill & Co., at Memphis, of which he 

 is now president. Mr. Schwill has for 

 years done a large florists' business as 

 the Idlewild Greenhouses, which he has 

 now largely turned over to a manager, 

 «o that he can give his personal atten- 

 tion to the seed business, which is in- 

 creasing rapidly. The firm was estab- 

 lished in 1869 and incorporation fol- 

 lowed in 1899. The premises at 20 

 South Front street have just been 

 doubled by securing No. 18, next door. 

 A general catalogue trade is done. 

 Jacob F. Haid, a brother-in-law of Mr. 

 Schwill, is secretary, treasurer and of- 

 fice manager. 



LEONARD SEED CO* 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Moit of oar Crops are noiir liarv*Bt*d and we are ready to quote prices to the trade. 



Flower Seeds-Onion Sets '• 'ir«*5!"£Si?.'i,M st. CHICAGO 



Mention The Rcrlew when yog write. 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



ALFe J. BROWN SEED GO. 



Oro'wers of 



Garden Peas and Beans 



For tlio Wbolesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS, i t MICH. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Visited Chicago: S. A. Wilson, of the 

 L. L. Olds Seed Co., Clinton, Wis. 



Fob the National Corn Exposition at 

 Chicago, October 5 to 19, more than 

 $75,000 in cash and merchandise pre- 

 miums are offered. 



William Emerson, of the Western 

 Seed & Irrigation Co., Fremont, Neb., 

 is on a tour of inspection of the sweet 

 corn and vine seed crops. 



Seedsmen will be interested in Farm- 

 ers' Bulletin No. 306, just issued by the 

 Department of Agriculture. The title 

 is ' ' Dodder in Relation to Farm Seeds. ' ' 



The postage on letters to or from 

 Europe is now 5 cents for the first ounce 

 and 3 cents for each subsequent ounce or 

 fraction thereof. Before October 1 it 

 was 5 cents for each half ounce. 



B. Suzuki, of the Yokohama Nur- 

 sery Co., thinks the Island of Formosa 

 will be looked to in the future for our 

 supplies of longiflorum, replacing the 

 Bermuda-grown bulbs to a large extent. 



The fact that th& California onion 

 crop for seed is turning out better than 

 was expected in the excitement follow- 

 ing the floods last spring should not 

 cause anyone to lose sight of the fact 

 that the high water materially reduced 

 the acreage, so that a big scarcity is in- 

 evitable. 



Beans are reported to be spoiling in 

 the straw. Many crops were cut pre- 

 vious to the wet weather and have been 

 lying in windrows. The weather during 

 the last stages of the crop's growth was 

 not favorable to good ripening and the 

 moisture left in the pod, together with 

 the wet straw, is causing a mould that 

 will cut the crop considerably. 



WESTERN NEW YORK CROPS. 



The general line of crops in western 

 New York will be unusually light ; all va- 

 rieties, including field and sweet corn, 

 beans, etc. Tomatoes will be only a me- 

 dium crop. 



The season was so backward that our 

 asters, of which we grow in the neighbor- 

 hood of forty acres, are in full bloom 

 September 25, but with a favorable fall 

 will ripen. C. H. ViCK. 



JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



tai sH kMs sf Bsrdca leeit at Whahsala IMy. 



CAMBRIDGE, waskiagto. Go.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Rerlew when jam write. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



«- Mad Gbrowan 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



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

 OnloDj Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



~ other Oallf oml» »p«c l » l tl — 



Mention The Berlew when 70a write. 



SEATTLS. WASH. 



Qrowwrc of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The Berlew when 70a writ*. 



Waldo Rohnert 



OHiROY. CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettnce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oor> 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Berlew when yon write. 



ONION SETS. 



The Chicago onion set crop is har- 

 vested, and part of it has been put into 

 winter storage, filling for early orders 

 is under way and a few cars have been 

 . shipped out. 



The crop, while far below normal as to 

 quantity, disappoints no one, as this has 

 been expected since midsummer. The 

 worst hit of any grower, as far as a 

 short crop goes, is unquestionably the 

 one who had the most land planted. As 

 has been recorded previously in the Re- 

 view, many of the gardeners, with whom 

 onion set growing is but a side line, have 

 fared better than the professionals and 

 have no cause for complaint. The land 

 that these gardeners work is situated in 

 such a way as enabled it to withstand 

 the adverse conditions of the freakish 

 weather. The quantity of sets harvested 

 in this favored section did not, however, 

 exceed 15,000 bushels, largely whites, 

 and for the most part they have been 

 bought in by the Leonard Seed Co. 



The quantity of sets harvested this 



