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NOVEMBEU 14, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



45 



THE CREGO ASTER 



Advertised by one of the largest wholesale dealers in Chicago as the 

 '*BEST ASTER ON THE MARKET/' 



Orders for seed are being booked. Delivery on and after December U 

 Colors, shell pink, white, and dark pink. 



Trade Packet (about 2000 seeds) -.. 



Half-ounce — 



CASH WITH OBDBB, PUEAIK. 



$1.00 



4.50 



a.00 



Address G. S. CREGO, May wood, III. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



acreages this year at Chicago. This ac- 

 counts for the stacks of empty trays. 



The last meeting of the Wholesale 

 Seedsmen's League has helped out some- 

 what on the price question, but the un- 

 fortunate circumstance that only a sec- 

 tional view of the situation is taken at 

 the League meetings is thought by some 

 to lessen the general value of its price 

 lists. 



Canners ' varieties of peas are still in 

 strong demand and prices are advancing 

 proportionately. The Leonard Seed Co., 

 Chicago, reports sales of Advancers at 

 $5.50, Horsfords at $5.50 and Alaskas at 

 $4:50 for car lots; smaller sales propor- 

 tionately higher. When a carload of peas 

 brings $5,000 there is a pleasure in doing 

 business, the seedsmen say. 



Little can be added to former reports 

 regarding beans. Considerable activity 

 in threshing and cleaning is reported 

 from some of the stations, but there still 

 remains a large portion of the crop in 

 the straw and it will be some weeks be- 

 fore definite information of the shortage 

 or otherwise of any given variety will be 

 known. It looks from the returns so far 

 that shortages will be the rule, however. 



The onion seed perennial question is 

 still to the front. A careful canvass of 

 the set growers who harvested seed of 

 their own shows that the harvest with 

 them is not what was expected. Those 

 who have kad the best luck are shy some 

 few pounds of their estimated needs for 

 next year's sowings and they are out to 

 buy it if it can be secured. A $2 per 



pound price frightens them somewhat, 

 but they will come to it if they have to. 

 The mongrel yellow from south of the 

 Ohio river will answer if none other is to 

 be had, but for a pure Red they seem to 

 be up against it, as the scarcity of seed 

 of this color is distressing. Seed of the 

 Globe sorts, excepting White, is not hard 

 to locate. 



Michigan grown radish seed, what 

 there is of it, is reported to be of good 

 sized grain and well matured. Growers 

 report that the past season was the worst 

 for weeds that they have experienced for 

 many years and that consequently the 

 cleaning of the seed after it was threshed 

 was an experience they do not care to 

 have repeated. The profits of the crop 

 to them amount to so little that they 



