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The Weekly Rcwists' Review* 



Mabch 12, 1908. 



i^^The Most Centrally Located Seed House In the V. S/' 



ST. LOUIS SEED CO. 



545-547 North Fourth St. 



ST. LOUIS, MO., U. S. A. 



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Meatlon The Beriew yfaea yoa write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBIC AN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



E>res., George S. Green, Chicago; First Vlce- 

 pres., il. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas., O. E. Kendel, Cleveland. Twenty-slxtb 

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartrain, De- 

 troit, Mich., June 23 to 25, 1908. 



Red Wethebsfield onion seed is yet 

 scarcer than almost any other of tbe 

 needful seed commodities. 



Arnold Eingier, secretary of Ae W. 

 W. Barnard Co., Chicago, is wadmg his 

 annual trip to the Pacific fosst. 



The Country Gentleman for March 5 

 ooiitained an excellent portrait and 

 aketch of the career of W. Atlee Burpee, 

 Philadelphia. 



All the popular varieties of lettuce 

 seed are scarce. This will give a chance 

 to swing over to some of the old-time 

 sorts that for all practical purposes are 

 just as good as the newer favorites. 



Visited Chicago: Chas. P. Braslan, 

 of Braslan Seed Growers Co., San Jose, 

 Cal.; Lewis S. JeflEerson, of the National 

 Seed Co., Louisville, Ky.; A. J. Pieters, 

 of A. J. Pieters Seed Co., Hollister, Cal. 



The L. L. Olds Seed Co., Clinton, 

 Wis., will in a few days be in a posi- 

 tion to say just how scarce seeds really 

 are this season. "With their stock a total 

 loss through fire March 5, and the mail 

 trade just gathering volume, they face 

 the necessity of buying a complete stock 

 of field and garden seed^, and doing it 

 quickly. 



The onion set planters in the vicinity 

 of Chicago claim to be fairly well pro- 

 vided with seed. In some cases, though, 

 there is a determination to sow the Red 

 Globe in place of the Wethersfield. This 

 will be a bad thing for the grower who 

 does it, as the Globe seed will not make 

 an acceptable onion set, and the product 

 of it will cause lots of trouble after har- 

 vest. 



The onion set problem is now agitat- 

 ing the minds of those who have them 

 and those who have them not. No 

 change in the situation worth mentioning 

 can be noted, however. Now and then a 

 car shows up at a point where it was 

 supposed that everything had been 

 cleaned up. This makes some of the 

 bearish fellows feel good for the time 

 being, but it does not affect the market. 

 There are yet six weeks to go before the 

 demand will be over and the posted deal- 

 ers say still, as they have been saying 

 right along, that the supply will give out 

 before the demand ceases. 



The Yokohama Nursery Co., New 

 York, reports a great interest being 

 taken in JTonnosa lon^^florum bulbs as a 

 result of the success which is attending 

 the flowering of last year's importation. 

 Tliis year the crop of these bulbs will be 

 large enough to cut quite a figure in the 

 market. 



OLDS COMPANY BURNED OUT. 



¥^re totally destzoyed the warehouse, 

 offioe and stock of the L. L. Olds Seed 

 Ca,, dintou, Wis., March 5, causing a 

 iooB «f ^0,000, which is partially cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



The fire started in the women's cloak- 

 room on the second floor, just after the 

 work for the day had ended and the 

 employees had gone home. Despite the 

 efforts of the fire department and vol- 

 unteers, it spread so quickly to the en- 

 tire structure that it was impossible to 

 save the building or contents. The fire 

 started in the east end of the building 

 and, fanned by a strong east wind, was 

 a seething mass of flames by the time 

 the first alarm was sounded. 



The L. L. Olds Co. is one of the largest 

 seed concerns in the state. Its plant is 

 one of the most complete, and it had a 

 large stock of garden and field seeds, as 

 well as some 16,000 bushels of potatoes, 

 all of which are a total loss. Sixty hands 

 were employed. Some thirty of these were 

 women, in whose cloak-room the flames 

 started. 



The building was a three-story frame 

 structure, with a deep basement. Tem- 

 porary offices were opened next morning, 

 and as soon as material can be obtained 

 the plant will be rebuilt. L. L. Olds, 

 president of the company, said that as 

 soon as the safe could be dug out of the 

 ruins they would be ready for business 

 again, and hope to fill all orders with 

 but little delay. 



COMMISSION SEEDS. 



During the spring of 1907 there were 

 purchased in the states of Maine, Ver- 

 mont, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Wiscon- 

 sin, North Dakota, Kansas, and Colorado 

 2,778 packets of so-called "commission" 

 vegetable seeds. These were put up by 

 twenty-seven seedsmen and included seeds 

 of twenty-six kinds of vegetables. The 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture pub- 

 lished, March 7, a bulletin in which it 

 shows the average germination of each 

 kind of seed sold by each of these seed- 

 packeting houses, as well as the average 

 germination of each kind from all the 

 houses, the average germination of all 

 the kinds from each house, and the aver- 

 age germination of all the samples. 



The authors, Edgar Brown and W. L. 

 Goss, say: 



"The germination of many kinds of 



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Gold Medal Strain 

 BEGONIAS 



Tuberous-Rooted 



Sinele- Per doz. 100 



WUte $0.40 $2.50 



Yellow 40 2.50 



Nankeen 40 2.50 



Pink 40 2.50 



Rose 40 2.50 



Bed""-- 40 2.50 



DarkRed 40 2.50 



Salmon 40 2.50 



Orange 40 2.50 



Mixed .35 2.25 



Dnnble— 



White 65 6.00 



Yellow 65 5.00 



Orange 65 5X)0 



Rose... 65 5.00 



DarjcRose 65 5.00 



DarkRed *. .65 5.00 



Red 65 5.00 



Salmon 65 5.00 



Mixed 50 4.00 



CALADIUM ESCULENTUM 



or Elephant's Ea^ 



a, c ... ..1- ,^ Per doz. 100 



Size .5x7-inch bulbs $0.36 $ 2.00 



;; 7x9 •' " 48 3.00 



., 9x11" 85 6.00 



12-inch and over bulbs 2.40 16.00 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



Of the following varieties we have exception- 

 ally large and choice stock. 



Per 100 1000 5000 



America $7.00 $60.00 $250.00 



Aosntta 2.50 20.00 95.00 



Brenehleycnsit, selected 



l8t size 1..50 10.00 47.50 



M*J 2.00 15.00 60.00 



Wttite and LiKht 1.50 12.00 57.50 



Special Mixed, extra large 



selectbulbs l.oo 8.00 37.50 



Tvbroaes. Kxcelilor Pearl, 



4x6-l8tsize 9.OO 40.00 



so ^ui-c/of SiTe^^ 



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