January 16, 1008. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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29 



ary, but it lasted only a few days. Bet- 

 ter things are looked for soon, however. 



The flurry in canners' peas has sub- 

 sided. 



Congress will soon be ready to vote 

 its members free seeds for 1909. 



The annual invasion of salesmen for 

 the Holland bulb growers has begun. 



Theee is a brisk demand for the mar- 

 ket gardeners' varieties of early radish. 



Late deliveries of seeds are interfer- 

 ing with the work of the mail order 

 houses. 



Just as the catalogues went out, after 

 an unusually warm early winter, a big 

 blizzard buried the Mississippi valley. 



The H. F. Miehell Co., Philadelphia, 

 devotes forty pages in its 1908 catalogue 

 to garden and greenhouse requisites. 



South Texas promises to supply the 

 early vegetables, not only for the west, 

 but to penetrate to eastern markets to 

 compete with the truck from Florida and 

 South Carolina. 



The Lohrman Seed Co., of Detroit, 

 has opened bids for the erection of a 

 one-story and basement warehouse, to be 

 erected at the corner of Gratiot avenue 

 and Bandolph street. 



One seedsman even puts a cut of 

 Stowell's Evergreen and Country Gentle- 

 man corns on the cover of his 1908 cata- 

 logue, though a search of the sixty pages 

 in the book fails to show the latter vari- 

 ety to be listed and only pecks at $1.25 

 are offered on Evergreen. 



William Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., re- 

 ports that mice have destroyed his stock 

 of seed of Comet tomato to such an ex- 

 tent that he will have no- more than 

 enough for his own needs, instead of 

 having quite a quantity to sell, as he 

 had expected. He grows it extensively 

 under glass. 



The Knox County Truck and Berry 

 Growers' Association holds a meeting at 

 Knoxville, Tenn., every Saturday morn- 

 ing, to discuss growing and marketing. 

 It is proposed that a committee of the 

 most successful growers be appointed to 

 buy all the seeds the members will need 

 during the season. 



Peter Henderson & Co. enclose in 

 their 1908 catalogue a blank headed: 

 I 'To the Kecipient: We would esteem 

 it a favor if you will send us the names 

 and addresses of a few of your neigh- 

 bors who are likely to be interested in 

 our catalogue and goods." And at the 

 bottom of the sheet it says: "If any 

 of the above make a business of grow- 

 ing vegetables for sale kindly put an X 

 in front of their names." 



Many mail-order seedsmen feel that 

 this is to be a season which will bring a 

 great deal of early business. Most of 

 the houses consider that in a normal sea- 

 son their success is measured by the 

 volume of business in January and Feb- 

 ruary, as March and the first part of 

 April give them all they can do, no mat- 

 ter how much business has been taken 

 care of in the two preceding months. 

 The seedsman who is late with his cata- 

 logue this year is missing the gravy. 



SEED TESTING LABORATORY. 



Arrangements have been made by 

 which the Bureau of Plant Industry, co- 

 operating with the Nebraska Agricul- 



1909 



EARLY MODEL RED GLOBE BEET 



WB ABC VOW BOOKING OBDKBS FOB 

 DBLIVSBT AVTXB HABVBST 1009 



WATKINS & SIMPSON 



SEED MERCHANTS 

 12 Tavistock St., Covent Garden, LONDON, ENG. 



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-TO THX TBAOK- 



HENRY METTE, Qoedliobtirg, Germany 



^■^"^"^^^^ (ESTABLISHXD IN 1787.) 



Grower and Exporter on the very lurceet scale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, ELOWER and EARM SEEDS 



8p«olaltl«ai B*ana, Beets, Oabbasres, Carrots, Kobl-Rabi, Leeks, Lettuces, Onions. 

 TmwM, Badlalioa, Spinach, Turnips, Swedes, Ast«ra. Balsams, BeKonlas, Oamatlons, 

 Cinerarias, Gloxiolas, Larkspurs. Nastartlnms, Pstnaloa, Petunias, Phlox, Primolaa, 

 Scabious, Btooks, Verbenas, Zinnias, etc. CatalOKue free on application. 



HBHBT MBTTB'B TBIUMPH OF THK OIAMT PAV8IB8 (mixed), the moil 

 perfect and most beautiful in the world, 16.00 per oz.; $1.60 per H-oz.; 76c per 1-lA-oa. 

 Postage paid. Casta witta order. 



All seeds ofifered are grown under my personal sapervislon on my oym cronnda of 

 more than S.OOO acroa, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growtb, flnetl 

 stocks and best quality. X alao cro^^ larcely aeoda on contract. 



Wholesale Import Only 



Ardlsta Grennlata, Kentlas, Arancarlas, 

 Ba7 Trees, Vlous, Draoaenas, and all Belgium 

 grown plants for spring and fall dehyery. 



L.II7 of the Tallejr from cold storage in New 

 York for Immediate shipment. 



French Fruit and Ornamental Stocks— I 

 can BtlU book orders for all the leaMllng varieties 

 for winter or spring shipment. 



English srown Btanettlt Pines, Spruces, 

 Btc, carefully selected and packed. 



Holland Roses, Bhododendrons, Coni- 

 fers. Box Trees, Clematis, Btc, of best 

 quality. 



Japanese Llllnm Aaratnm, Albam, Bn- 

 bram. Etc., from cold storage in New York. 



Baffla Baftla Baffla 



For catalogues, prices and further information 



please apply to 



H. FRANK DARROW, 

 P. 0. Box 1250, 26 Barclay St., New Yorii 



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Hamburg cirmBiy 

 ^AWilSprihkSchenkeLOrotanlcneriffe) 

 Wholesale growers inSEEDSoF 



_ ^fopical useful Plants^ 



VEGETABIiS,BERMUOA ONIONS 



ehc. 



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Lily of the Valley 



MANN'S EXCELSIOR 



Are the finest in existence and their flowers 

 bring the best prices In the London market. 

 Vor quotation please apply to 



OTTO MANN, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany 



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tural Experiment Station, will, about 

 January 20, 1908, establish a seed-test- 

 ing laboratory "at Lincoln, Neb. 



This laboratory is being started in or- 

 der to give quicker reports on samples 

 of seed submitted by farmers and seeds- 

 men in Nebraska and adjoining states, 

 where the time required for mail to go 



The Royal Tottenham 

 Nurseries, Ltd* 



EsUbllshed la 187t 

 Managing Director, A. M. C. VAN DER CLST 



Dedemsvaart, Holland 



Headquarters for Hardy Perannials, among 

 which are the latest and choicest. 13 acres 

 devoted to growing this line including Anemone. 

 Aster, Campanula, Delphinium, Funkias, Hem- 

 erocallis. Hepatlca, Incarvillea. Iris. Peonies. 

 Phlox decossata and suffruticosa. Primula, 

 Pyrethrum, Trltoma, Hardy Heath, Hardy 

 Ferns. Also 6 acres in Daffodils, 12 acres of 

 Conifers; specially young choice varieties to be 

 grown on; 8 acres Rhododendrons, including the 

 best American and Alpine varieties; 2 acres 

 Hydrangeas. We make it a point to grow all the 

 latest novelties in these lines. Ask for Catalog. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



No.34i 



WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULIf LOWER-SEED 



is thr eirli«st of 

 all Snowballs, thci | 

 , most compact, the 

 surest header, is 

 giving the largest and snov- 

 whilest heads, and is (he 

 best keeper in dry-wratlier. 

 Demand it through yotir 

 seed-firm or direct from ^ 



R. WIBOLTT, NAKSKOV, OENMRlTi 



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 XJLRGK8T STOCK Or AIX 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleaa, Araucarias, Sweet Bays, 

 Palms, Befl^nias, Oloziniaa, ete. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Belerium. 



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to Washington, D. C.^ and return fre- 

 quently causes serious delay. As the fa- 

 cilities for work will be limited for the 

 present, it is suggested that only those 

 samples be sent to the Nebraska labo- 

 ratory on which quick reports are de- 

 sired. 



