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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



February 27, 1908. 



„ T^ , „ .^1 • T,i Des Moines, Iowa, February 19, 1908. 



Editor Florists' Review, Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sir: — We take pleasure in enclosing herewith photograph taken of our mail Monday morning, 



February 17, which was the largest single mail that we ever received, there being 7163 letters and postals in 



our mail that day. This was simply the first morning mail. 



Tell your advertisers not to get "cold feet " because of the financial stringency which has prevailed dur- 

 ing the past three months ; there is plenty of money and plenty of business in the country if they only go after 

 it in the right way. The farmers have the money this year ; advertising will bring it, if properly written and 

 inserted in good, live papers. 



The Review has given us excellent results from the trade, and we are glad to notice that its columns 

 are so well filled. Yours very truly, 



Iowa Seed Company, per Page. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., George S. Green, Chicago; First Vica 

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

 rreas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 



Seed of Large Red Wethersfield onion 

 is offered at $2 per pound. 



Mail orders are said by most seed 

 bouses to be up to what they usually are 

 in February. 



The western catalogue seed houses re- 

 port business starting off in a way which 

 seems to assure each of them a banner 

 season. 



The government seed shop is doing 

 the largest mail trade in the country 

 just now. The appropriation for the 1909 

 distribution will soon be before congress. 



E. J. Sheap, of S. M. Isbell & Co., 

 Jackson, Mich., is visiting the trade in 

 the east and southeast and reports good 

 success in booking contracts for peas, 

 beans, sweet corn, radish, tomato and 

 vine seeds. 



At Chicago February 25 timothy seed 

 was slightly easier for country lots, 

 which ranged from $3.60 to $4.60. Cash 

 contract closed at $4.80 and March at 

 $4.85. Clover seed was sharply higher, 

 in sympathy with stronger outside mar- 

 kets. Cash contract closed at $19.50, 

 March at $19.60, and cash lots at $12@ 

 19. 



P. A. Forbes, Plymouth, Ind., says 

 that although it often is stated that the 

 buyers do not want the extra large on- 

 ions, still growers he supplied seeds to 

 last year obtained 5 cents to 8 cents 

 more for large ones than the smaller 

 onions brought. One of his exhibits at 

 the seed store is a photograph of two 

 bushels of onions, one of which con- 

 tained fifty-six red onions, weighing 

 fifty-six pounds, and the other fifty-six 

 yellow onions, weighing fifty-two pounds. 



There is a horticulturist named D. C. 

 Turnipseed at Flora, Ala. 



M. Lytle is preparing to open a seed 

 store at Clear Lake, la. 



The counter trade is beginning to 

 wake up, in spite of wintry weather. 



True White Globe onion seed of guar- 

 anteed germination is offered at $3 per 

 pound. 



The weather of the season to date 

 has been favorable to the California seed 

 growers. 



The wholesale lists indicate an ability 

 to supply most of the scarce items to 

 anyone who needs them at a fair price. 



The Henry Field Seed Co., at Shen- 

 andoah, la., reports that it is feeling the 

 full effect anticipated from the material 

 enlargement of its facilities made since 

 last season. 



Practically every seedsman will as- 

 sume all responsibility for his seeds as 

 long as they are in the bag, but after 

 they go into the ground the seedsman 

 has no control and the risk of failure be- 

 comes the planters'. 



In 1907 the crop of timothy seed in 

 Illinois was only 49,030 bushels, the 

 smallest in thirty years, or since the 

 State Board of Agriculture has kept rec- 

 ords. The banner crop was in 1881, when 

 it amounted to 426,531 bushels. 



The seed advertising in the March 

 magazines makes a good showing as com- 

 pared with last year, although the ma- 

 jority of seedsmen are now doing their 

 principal advertising in the farm papers 

 and the special horticultural publica- 

 tions. 



Crosman Bros., Rochester, have just 

 issued their wholesale price-list of seeds. 

 Under sweet corns, the words "Crop 

 failed" appear in the price column op- 

 posite Country Gentleman. Eastern- 

 grown Stowell's Evergreen is quoted at 

 $7. On peas in ten bushel lots the fol- 



lowing quotations are made : Alaska, $6 ; 

 Advancer, $4.75; Telephone, $5.75. Let- 

 tuces run 50 cents and 60 cents per 

 pound. 



ADULTERATED SEEDS. 



During the calendar year 1907 seeds 

 of agricultural plants were obtained in 

 the open market in accordance with the 

 following paragraph in the act of Con- 

 gress making appropriations for the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



The Secretary o( Agriculture Is hereby di- 

 rected to obtain in the open market samples of 

 seeds of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, 

 and if any such seeds are found to be adulter- 

 ated or misbranded, or if any seeds of Canada 

 bluegrass (Foa compressa) are obtained under 

 any other name than Canada bluegrass or Poa 

 compressa, to publish the result of the test, to- 

 gether with the names of the persons by whom 

 the seeds were offered for sale. 



In carrying out the provisions of this 



JEROME B. RICE SEED GO. 



Growers of 



Peas, Beans, Sweet Corn 



aad al kUs of Gariei Seeds at Wbaletale IWy. 



CAMBRIDGE, WMhf.Kto> Co.. NEW YORK 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Surplus Stock! 



Onion, Radish, Beet. Carrot, Cucamber, Cauli- 



flower. Peas, Oabbage, Beans, Sweet Corn, etc. 



Write for prices for immediate shipment. 



▲IX STOCK CHOICK 1907 CROP. 



MICHI6AN SEED CO., Bay City, Mich. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growan of 



PIGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention The Review when you write. 



