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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Decbmbeb 19, 1907. 



of the seed inclosed in a small illustrated 

 envelope similar to the usual package in 

 which garden seed are commonly sent out 

 by dealers. The following printed de- 

 scription appears on the back of the en- 

 velope : 



Broccoli. — • • • Taller and more hardy 

 than cauliflower, but otherwise very similar to 

 that delicious vegetable. Culture and use are 

 identical with that of cauliflower. 



"It is very evident from the above de- 

 scription that these are not cauliflower 

 seed. As broccoli seed are not specially 

 provided for in the tariff act, we hold the 

 collector's assessment to be correct and 

 overrule the protest." 



SEED SAMPLES. 



At the request of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture the Treasury has directed 

 that until July 1, 1908, two-ounce sam- 

 ples of all importations of 100 pounds or 

 more of grass, clover and forage plant 

 seeds be prepared at the earliest practica- 

 ble date after entry and forwarded to the 

 Seed Laboratory, Department of Agri- 

 culture, labeled with names and addresses 

 of consignors and consignees, name of 

 seed and quantity of the consignment. 

 This is the same order that has been is- 

 sued annually for several years. 



RESULTS OF SELECTION. 



Notable Examples. 



The result of selection is a most inter- 

 esting subject, of course observed and 

 studied most intensely in the human fam- 

 ily, really more in every family of the 

 entire animal kingdom than in the vege- 

 table kingdom, but even in the case of 

 table vegetables there is ample oppor- 

 tunity for most interesting observations. 



For a lifetime a grower of esculent 

 vegetables for their seed, the writer has 

 taken great pleasure in studying the his- 

 tory of evolution of present-^y table 

 vegetables from their supposed original 

 or primitive condition, and their later 

 intermediate stages up to their present 

 degree of development. Take, for in- 

 stance, so common and homely a thing as 

 the cabbage. Consider how it has been 

 improved over its salt-water parent, as 

 the writer has observed it, still found 

 growing, but slowly disappearing, on the 

 rocks of the seashore from Norway south 

 to Spain and around the Spanish coast to 

 the Mediterranean side, a plant when 

 wild somewhat resembling a broad-leaved 

 seaweed. It has taken 2,000 years, how- 

 ever, to bring it up to its present condi- 

 tions and to change it to the many dis- 

 tinct forms of varying merit which it 

 presents, from the cow cabbage of 

 France, sometimes growing ten feet high 

 with stalks six inches in thickness, so 

 woody as to be utilized as fence material 

 and the making of cow pens, to the mar- 

 row-like savoy and toothsome cauliflower 

 of the present day, for all come from one 

 source. And why in the next few hun- 

 dred years should not the improvement be 

 indefinitely extended t Then what will be 

 the outcome? 



Com. 



Take the subject of maize, or corn, as 

 reported upon by the early settlers in 

 America as a grain then in everyday cul- 

 tivation; seeming to be of a fair degree 

 of development and fixity of, character. 

 But how it has improved since those early 

 days, and with what surprising variations 

 as to its productiveness! 



Though we have no record whatever of 

 what was its productiveness 300 years 



Surplus Bulbs 



TJHnm Harrlsll, only 3 cases left (335 to case) $19.60 per case 



only 10 cases left (200 to caae) Ifi.SOpercase 



Per 100 Periooo 



NarolBSua Paper Wblt*, Kl«nt lise $1.60 $11.00 



rr««sUM, large bulbi, ^-incb up 66 6.00 



Callas, l}i to 2-iDcb 6.00 66.00 



** 2to2>i-inob 8.60- 70.00 



Ryaolntlis, first size, named, 10 Varieties 6.00 66.00 



" second slse. named, 10 varieties 4.00 86.00 



" single and double, assorted 2.25 20.00 



Tullpa, Jaolit von D«Ut, wbite 75 6.00 



La Ralna.wbite, extra select 75 6.60 



Blanoli* Hatlv* 2.00 18.00 



OlortaSoUs 1.25 10.60 



LaCandaur 1.26 1060 



BszRubrorum 1.60 14.00 



Bplraoa Japonloa 4.60 40.00 



riortbnnda 6.00 46.00 



Gladatona 6.26 80.00 



JAPAN LILIES 



Per 100 1000 Per 100 1000 . . — 



Multmonim, 7-9... $5.00 $16.00 Glean totun, 7-0 $7.00 $66.00 



9 10.. 8.50 80.00 " 910.... 10.50 100.00 



CURRIE BROS. CO.ii^.r. Milwaukee, Wis. 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



Surplus Bulbs 



AT EXCEPTIONAL PRICKS 



HYACIMTHS Per 100 1000 



Separate colors, single tl.75 116.00 



Choice named aorta, sold under name, 



fine bulbs 3.00 2800 



French White Roman, 12-16 cms 3.00 18.00 



SINGLE TULIPS 



Artus, scarlet 10 90 $ 8.00 



Belle Alliance (true), bright scarlet. . 1.76 16.00 



Canary Bird 75 6.60 



Chrysolora, yellow 60 600 



Crimson King 1.00 9.00 



Eelzerskroon, red and yellow 1.60 18.00 



Ii'Immaculee. pure white 60 4.60 



LaBeine, fine forcer .76 6.00 



Pottebakker, white 90 860 



•• scarlet 1.40 13.00 



" yellow 80 700 



Proserpine, brtght pink 2 40 23.00 



Prince of Austria, orange red 2.00 19.00 



Yellow Prince, fine forcer 76 8.00 



Superfine Early Mixed 60 6.00 



Oeaneriana, scarlet (true) 80 7.00 



MABCISSI 



Double Von Slon. first size, selected. .10 90 tS 00 



Qlant Princeps. fine forcer 60 4.00 



Blcolor Grandee 60 4.00 



Other Bnlba at proportion Mtely low prices. 

 OBDKR AT ONCE DONT WAIT. 



Ummi llMAflii Forctngr Rhubarb Roots 



Now Ready •-i^f.'erxi?:."'' 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 



217 Market St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ago, there has been a constant progres- 

 sion, for in the last 200 years there is 

 recorded a continuous increase in its 

 productiveness. In this short period in 

 the lifetime of the world the yield has 

 been increased 100 per cent, and in nine 

 cases in ten because of natural variations 

 which have been seized upon by observant 

 men. Take, for example, an ear of 

 corn selected from a field where as much 

 as 130 or 140 bushels of shelled grain 

 have been produced to the acre, and put 

 this alongside an ear of pod corn, some- 

 times termed primitive corn. This pod 

 corn is supposed to be the original form 

 from which all others have been derived, 

 all the result of selection, covering per- 

 haps 2,000 years; and as it takes an 

 observant man, whether civilized or a 



Reliable Seeds 



Sow Now 



Tr. 6 Tr. 



Pkt. Pkt. 



BcroBla Oracilis lumlnosa . . . 50c $2.60 



Baffonia Erfordla 60c 2.60 



Bcffonia, Zanren's Bedding 



Qaeen ^ 60o 2.60 



0«atanr«a Gandldissima 2fic 1.25 



Kobclia, new Trailing Ham- 



burgia 80c 1.60 



FetiiBla, Doable Giants. 



fringed, mixed ;....$1.00 5.00 



Fatnnls, Single Fringed 



Qiants, mixed 75c 4.00 



Petnala, Single Ruffled 



Giants, mixed $1.00 5.00 



Phlox Drum., new Oicily, 



dwarf comp., mixed 25c 125 



Phlox Dram . Dwarf Fireball, 



Roseball, Snowball, each 



separate 25c 1.26 



■alTla Bonfire 25c 1.26 



■alTla Fireball 50c 2.50 



8w««t Alyaanm Carpet 

 Queen, real dwarf, for pots 

 no equal 25c 1.25 



Stocks, German Ten Weeks', 

 wall flower leaved, white, 

 pink, purple, lavender, blood 

 red, each separate 60c 2.60 



V«rb«aa. Mammoth auricula 

 flowered pink, purple, scar- 

 let, striped, white, each sep- 

 arate 25c 1.25 



Por larg'«r qnantltlcs ask 

 for my n«w fall list. 



O. V. ZANGEN 



Seedaman, Hobokea, N. J. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



LILY OF tHE VALLEY 



PlBoat Borlin, 913.00 per lOOO 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE 



Blokards Bros., Propa. 

 87 last 19th St. NEW YORK 



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