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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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be 80 limited that their orders will not 

 tax the supply. 



It is reported that seed of Phoenix 

 Eoebelenii is scarce. 



The W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, haa 

 five catalogues "on the fire" at present. 



The seed advertising in the general 

 magazines for January is lighter than 

 usual. 



Henet F. Michell, Philadelphia, was 

 elected, December 17, one of the vice- 

 presidents of the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Is it not a little bit curious, when you 

 stop to think about it, that the seed 

 catalogues go out almost on the day that 

 winter begins? 



Some of the newer standard varieties 

 of bettns that have heretofore sold at 

 high prices will be surprisingly low in 

 the coming lists, it is said. 



The preliminary price lists of repre- 

 sentative wholesale seed dealers are out 

 and there are no startling features, 

 either as to prices or otherwise. 



The southern editions of the seed cata- 

 logues are now in full flight, to apprise 

 the planters down in Dixie that the joy- 

 ous holiday season is at hand once more. 



It seems pretty well-established that 

 where a seedsman employs the Seed 

 Trade Association's non-warranty he is 

 protected from liability for unsatisfac- 

 tory crops. 



The United States Department of 

 Afiriculture haa issued its final estimate 

 of the 1907 crops, showing the farm 

 value of the corn crop to have been 

 $1,340,446,000. 



Seedsmen will be able to place their 

 hands quickly upon much valuable in- 

 formation by adding the Garden and 

 Farm Almanac for 1908 to their trade 

 libraries, and any planter will get 25 

 cents' worth from the almanac, so that 

 it may well be added to the list of pub- 

 lications carried in many catalogues. 



Referrikg to the increased cost of 

 catalogues this year, particularly in the 

 cost of paper and press work, one whole- 

 sale and retail seedsman says: "We ex- 

 pect the. trade and the public to stand 

 for higher prices for seeds this year, so 

 why should we kick on the cost of paper? 

 All we want to know is that others are 

 being charged the same advance." 



"Integrity of stocks" is a card that 

 yet seems to cut a figure in assisting 

 seedsmen to get a double price for the 

 seeds they offer, at any rate some houses 

 seem to thrive mightily by printing 

 prices m their catalogue that if placed 

 m others would cause a complete frost 

 If the purchaser will pay double for an 

 article because it is offered by a special- 

 ist, it would seem then that it pays to 

 be in the specialist class, if you can. 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY 



The annual meeting of the National 

 Sweet Pea Society of England was held 

 m London, December 6. Leonard G. 

 Sutton, F. R. H. S., of the firm of Sut- 

 ton & Sons, at Beading, presided. The 

 annual report showed a record of a 

 splendid year of work and increasing 

 suecesa. At the annual show there were 

 more exhibitors, more exhibits and more 

 visitors than in 1906. The committee re- 

 ports that one of the most pleasing and 



William Cutiibertson. 



interesting features of the year was the 

 visit of W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadel- 

 phia, with his wife and family. Mr. 

 Burpee visited most of the leading sweet 

 pea growers in the United Kingdom. He 

 was keenly interested in the splendid 

 London show, which surprised him; and 

 he was impressed by the extent and im- 

 portance of the society's trials. As evi- 

 dence of the pleasure he experienced 

 among us, he has presented the society 

 with a fine fifteen guinea challenge cup. 

 The society's trials are recognized by 

 all as one of the most important and 

 most valuable services rendered by any 

 society to floriculture, and traders in the 

 United States, in New Zealand and on 

 the continent of Europe have frequently 

 testified to their value. Three hundred 

 and fifty rows were on trial last sum- 

 mer, and, in addition to giving awards to 

 meritorious varieties, the floral commit- 

 tee did excellent work by drawing up a 



list of "too-much-alike" varieties, by 

 recommending certain varieties as the 

 best in their respective color classes, and 

 by preparing a list of those old and in- 

 ferior varieties which it is unnecessary 

 to test further in the trials. 



Next year's show will be held in Lon- 

 don, July 24, and in connection with the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland 

 a show will be held in Dublin, August 5. 



Wm. Cuthbertson, J. P., of the firm 

 of Dobbie & Co., Rothesay, Scotland, 

 was unanimously elected, on the motion 

 of S. B. Dicks, of Cooper, Taber & Co., 

 London, to the oflSco of president. He 

 has long been closely identified with 

 sweet peas and everything pertaining 

 to them. In conjunction with the 

 late Richard Dean, he promoted the 

 exhibition of the sweet pea at the 

 bicentenary celebration in 1900. His 

 firm has introduced a number of merit- 

 orious varieties and this year received 



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