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.The Weekly Florists* Review. 



NOTBMBEB 7, 1007. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMKBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

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

 Tr«as., O. B. Eendei, Clereland. 



The French seeds are already arriving 

 at New York, earlier tiian last year. 



If anything in the line of seeds is really 

 low in price, most seedsmen have failed to 

 notice it. * 



Two boats, in :^rom France, November 

 1, landed 4,300 bags of peas and 700 

 bags of beans. 



When all the returns from the bean 

 fields are in, the crop estimators will real- 

 ize how far out their figures were. 



The pea crops are about all in and 

 those who ordinarily have plenty at this 

 season of the year are about all out. 



On the boat from Marseilles, reaching 

 New York November 1, R. M. Ward & 

 Co. and Schulz & Ruekgaber each had 

 twenty-nine cases of French bulbs. 



Visited Chicago: Alfred Emerich, of 

 Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France; 

 Joe L. IJllathorne, of XJUathorne Seed 

 Co., Memphis, Tenn. ; H. W. Buckbee, 

 Rockford, 111. 



The Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, has 

 just completed another greenhouse 185 

 feet long. This makes a total of thirty- 

 two greenhouses, which are devoted al- 

 most exclusively to growing plants for 

 the mail order trade. 



The Herman Glass Seed Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y., dealers in seeds and 

 implements, has recently let the contract 

 for a new feed mill and implement ware- 

 house, 40x80 feet, and will push the im- 

 plement end of the business. 



The onion set market remains firm at 

 Chicago. The unusual skirmish to secure 

 what sets were available for fall sale 

 helped out considerably. The shortage in 

 the crop is now known to be actual and 

 not trumped up for effect, as was sus- 

 •pected by the doubters. This leaves the 

 field open for legitimate trade and as- 

 sures a steadily rising price until the 

 end of the selling season. 



From the wholesalers' standpoint, the 

 old story about the seed traveler who used 

 to wire to his customer that he would be 

 passing through the town on the limited, 

 and that he would accept an order con- 

 ditionally if the customer would hand it 

 to the porter, nearly represents the way 

 things are at present. It does seem as 

 though the buyer of seeds is seeking for 

 the seller, and not the reverse, as is nor- 

 mally the case. When the retailer gets 

 his turn it is to be hoped that he will find 

 as easy sledding. 



M. Herb, Naples, Italy, sends out a 

 long list, printed in three languages, of 

 novelties for 1908. Among them are 

 Echeveria imbricata, with a long suc- 

 cession of waxy carmine flowers; Helian- 

 thus cucumerifolius plumosus. the little 

 flowers of the disk changed to small 

 feathers; Ipomoea purpurea flore pleno 

 striata, a morning-glory resembling a 

 gay tassel ; Myosotis dissitiflora Elf riede. 

 good for forcing and cutting; several 

 other variations of popular strains in 

 flower seeds, and a new mild pepper 

 called Spanish Bull. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Most of our OropB are no^7 harvested and we are ready to quote pricea to the trade. 



Flower Seeds-Onion Sets '• ffiJ?:"5lr.fo*iphst. CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



I Burpee's Seefe faow | 



Mention The Rerlew when you write. 



THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



MlUord, Conn. 

 I^ast Jordan, Mloh. 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



Growers of FANCY STRAINS Onion, Beet, Parsnip. Turnip and Sweet Com 

 In CONNECTICUT; Peas and Beans In MICHIGAN and WISCONSIN. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



JEROME B. RIGE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



Hd ill Uads of Garden Seeds at Wholesale Only. 



CAMBRIDGE, washingto. Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The Rerlew when 70s write. 



SwEKT com seed is going to be high. 

 Some sorts are high now. A jobbing price 

 of $5 per bushel for November is not so 

 bad. 



The man who needs onion seed feels 

 that the high price asked by the man who 

 has some to sell will not help much in 

 lessening the financial stringency. 



THE CHICAGO PICKLE CASE. 



At various times in the last two years 

 the Review has had occasion to refer 

 to what has been called the Chicago 

 pickle non-warranty case, which has now 

 developed into a suit against H. W. 

 Buckbee in the United States circuit 

 court at Freeport, 111. In brief, the his- 

 tory of the case is as follows: 



October 17, 1903, H. W. Buckbee, of 

 Rockford, 111., entered into a contract 

 with P. Hohenadle, Jr., & Co., of Janes- 

 ville. Wis., for the sale to Hohenadle 

 & Co. of a quantity of seeds, among 

 others being 300 pounds of cucumber 

 seed known as Chicago Pickle, to be 

 delivered f. 0. b. Rockford. October 23, 

 1903, the same parties entered into an- 

 other contract for the sale to Hohenadle 

 & Co. of 3,500 pounds of cucumber seed 

 known as Improved Chicago Pickle, The 

 seeds were delivered in ample time ac- 

 cording to the terms of the contract 

 and it is claimed by Hohenadle & Co. 

 that the growth of the seeds developed 

 a diflferent variety of cucumber and of 

 less value. 



These seeds were sold by Hohenadle & 

 Co. to various parties over the country, 

 some of them under contract to grow 

 cucumbers for Hohenadle & Co. It is 

 claimed that a quantity of these seeds 

 were sold to one Philip A. Marsh, who in 

 turn sold them to one F. H. Swett 

 and A. W. Todd, copartners as F. H. 

 Swett & Co. Some time after this Swett 

 & Co. brought a suit, in the circuit court 

 of Cook County, against Philip A. Marsh, 

 possibly for the purpose of recovering 

 a judgment against Marsh and giving 

 Marsh an action over against Buckbee, 



S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 

 BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muakmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



CorrespoDdencp Solicited. 



■Write for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 for Immediate Sblpment. 



Mention The Rclew when you write. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growera of 



PUGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The B«Tlew when 70a write. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, OdIod, Sweet Peas, Aster. 

 CosmoR, Mignonette. Verbena, in variety. Oor* 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The Berlew when 70* write. 



S. D. Woodruff & Sons 



SPECIALTIES: 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatceB. onion sets, etc. 

 Oorrespondence Bolicited. 



HalD Office and Seed Farnm, nSiNAB, COITN. 

 New ¥ork Citr Htore, 82-84 Dey Street. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



Seed Growers 



Address all communications to our permanent address 



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

 Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other Oalifomla apeolaltles 

 Mention The Rerlew wbce 70a write. 



ALFRED J, BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers of 



Garden Peas and Beans 



For the Wholesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS. • 1 MICH. 



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