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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 16, 1908. 



W.Van Kleef & Sons 



Wholesale Growers of Nursery Stock 



BOSKOOP 



HOLLAND 



Beg to announce that their W. Van Kleef, Jr., is 



again in America calling on the trade. Please ask his 

 prices first, before ordering elsewhere. Address during 

 April and May, care of 



MALTliS it WARE, 



14 Stfone Street, NEW YORK CITY. 



Cataloanie tree for the aakins:. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



GRASS SEED MARKETS. 



Toledo, O., April 14. — Clover seed, 

 cash, .$12.00; April, $11.50; October, 

 $7.25.. Timothy, prime, $2.15. Alsike, 

 prime, $13.00. 



Chicago, April 14. — Timothy seed was 

 lower for contract seed, which was quoted 

 $4.25. Country lots were $3.00@4.25. 

 Clover seed was dull. The sfeason is 

 practically over and nothing much is 

 doing. Cash lots were quoted $11.00@ 

 18.00. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 



of New York for the week ending April 4 



were as follows: 



Pkgs. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



. 234 I 3,469 Hemp 700 |2.820 



.2.988 10,373 MUlet 1.683 5,182 



. 126 1.699 Mustard . . 200 1,955 



.1,281 40,709 Rape 519 4,832 



94 986 Sugar beut. 304 1,826 



783 Other 1.572 



Kind. 

 Annatto 

 Castor . 

 Celery . 

 Clover . 

 Cummin 

 Orass . . 



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In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 $14,380. 



GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF SEED. 



Prices versos Qtiality. 



The "pure seed" bill now before con- 

 gress, a bill to stop the adulteration 

 and mislabeling of seeds, is looked upon 

 by everyone of experience in the han- 

 dling of seeds as too exacting, as a bill 

 which, in its present form, would work 

 a hardship to the seed trade; which 

 view is correct if the Department of 

 Agriculture, to which is referred the mak- 

 ing of uniform rules and regulations, 

 is impractical in the drafting of such 

 regulations, but the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture, under the authority given him 

 to formulate rules, can so frame the rules 

 as to make them practical. 



The government cannot provide against 

 the selling of a poor quality seed at a 

 correspondin^y low price, or even at an 

 outrageously high ^ price, for that is a 

 matter entirely between the buyer and 

 the seller; but the government can step 

 in and prevent the selling of unvital 

 seeds and seeds mixed with other seeds, 

 which it is obvious were not harvested 

 in the same field at the same time. 



Ample Room for Reform. 



There is ample room for the adoption 

 of practical rules and regulations, which 

 may be not only a benefit to the entire 

 agricultural public, but to every seeds- 

 man who is disposed to be honest, and 

 the writer, for one, is ready to let the 

 Secretary of Agriculture do what he can 

 to correct many things in the seed trade, 

 which sadly needs regulation. Of course, 

 within the Department of Agriculture 

 are the only people, in the employ of the 

 government, capable of dealing with this 

 subject, as for congress to attempt to 

 deal with it would be like setting a bull 

 in a china shop. 



The necessity for government control 

 is brought about by the course of the 

 seedsmen themselves. Intense compe- 

 tition between wholesale seed merchants 

 doing a general seed business and large 



SURPLUS GLADIOLI 



IN MIXTURE- Standard Mixed 11.00 per 100; $6.00 per lOOO. Fancy Mixed. $1.50 per 100: $9.00 

 per 1000. XXX Mixed, $2.50 per 100: $20.00 per 1000. Groff's Hybrid Seedlings, $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 

 1000. IN COLOR 8KC?riON8— Red and Scarlet, $1.00 per 100; $7.00 per 1000. XX Red and Scarlet, 

 $1.50 per 100, $10.00 per 1000: Pink and Rose. $1.50 per 100, $12.00 per 1000. XX Pink and Rose, $2.00 per 

 100, $18.00 per 1000; Yellow and Orange, $3.00 per 100, $24.00 per 1000. XX Yellow, $4.00 per 100, $35 00 

 per 1000; Blue and Purple, $3 00 per 100. $'25.00 per 1000: Striped and Variegated, $2.50 per 100, $18.00 

 per 1000. XX Variegated $3.00 per 100, $25.00 per 1000; White and Light, $1.50 per 100, $10.00 per 1000. 

 XX White and Light. $2.50 per 100, $15.00 per 1000. Scarlet, with light throat, $2.00 per 100, $16.00 per 

 1000. New Pink and White mixture for florists' use, $3.00 per 100, $20.00 per 1000. All first-size 

 Bulbs, l^-ln. and up. I can supply 2nd-Bize, 1^4 to 1^-in., at % of price for first-size. I can also 

 supply plantiDK stock and bulblets. 



The following named kinds by the 100: AMERICA, Africa, D* Chevllle, Florida, Mrs. 

 Francis Kine, Mrs. Beecher, Nezinscott, Kinc Humbert. 



The following by the 100 or 1000: Geo. Paul, Giant Pink. Klondyke, Marie Lemolne, Ori. 

 flamme, Le Faotole, Ausrusta, Mme. Monneret and ' 1900," 2nd size only. 



SEND FOR TRADE LIST' 



E. E. STEWART, Rives Jonction, Mich. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



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GLADIOLI 



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Per 100 Per 1000 



America, beautiful, soft flesh pink $7.50 $60.00 



Augusta, pure white, blue anthers 2,50 20.00 



May, white, flaked rose 1.60 14.00 



Groff's Gold Medal hybrids 2.00 18.00 



Giant Childsii, in splendid mixture 2.00 18.00 



White and Ldght Florists* mixture 2.00 15.00 



Pink shades .,. 1.50 12.50 



Striped and variegated 2.25 21.00 



Yellow shades 3.00 25.00 



Scarlet and red shades 1.25 10.50 



Lemoine's Butterfly, mixture 1 .50 12.00 



Extra choice American hybrids 2.25 20.00 



Choice colors, mixed 2.00 17.50 



Good mixed 85 7.00 



CURRIE BROS. CO., 3 12 BROADWAY, MILWAUKEE, W IS. 



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AZALEAS Su'eusirAMs, 



for fall delivery, the best DAI UC for spring or fall 

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ADDRI8S THB AMKBIOAN REPBISKNTATIVES 



delivery, furnished by 



^nmOrffQin Belgium; orders 

 OUmBlgBllli booked now.... 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 31 Barclay St., or P. O. Box 762, New York 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Gladiolus Bulbs 



100,000 from Ik inches up, $4.00 per 1000. 100,000 

 from % to m inches, $2.00 per 1000. Cash with 

 order. Description given on request. 



Nice block of California Privet, $10.00 per 

 1000 and up. As to quality , write for particulars. 



Nice lot of American Cliestnut trees at a 

 bargain. 35 large Suear trees, most of them 

 sample trees. 



I. As J. L. LEONARD, lona, N. J. 



Mpntlon Th»» Revlpw wbfn yon write. 



wholesale growers of special crops, in 

 the taking of orders for garden and 

 field seed from jobbers and smaller deal- 

 ers, both in cities and the country dis- 

 tricts, has resulted in a breaking down 

 of wholesale values to an alarming de- 

 gree, the result being unprofitable all 

 around as respects cash returns and as 

 leading to a depreciation of quality. 



Small Profits and Poor Qtiality. 



At the present day many seed farm- 

 ers only obtain a profit from their seed 



GLADIOLI 



CINNAMON VINK BIADKIRA VINX 



HYAC1NTHU8 CANDICANS 



SPOTTED CAIXA LILTKS IN VARISTT 



GERMAN IRIS 



VARIEGATED DAT LILT 



DELPHINIUM rORMOSUM 



Send for Price List of Bulbs and Hardy Plants. 



E. S. MIIiLER,Wadine: River, N. Y. 



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(iladiolas Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 

 TRT THEM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



STLVANIA, OHIO. 



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crops very little above the profits on 

 corn, hay and potatoes, and they cannot 

 be expected to expend, on the one hand, 

 the necessary labor in culling crops, and, 



