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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April IC, 1908. 



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VICK QUALITY ASTERS 



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Tl«k's Branohliiff (8 colon) 

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 Tlok'a Boyal Vnrpla 

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 Tick's Dsybrsak 

 Tick's Parity 

 Tick's Bnnsct 

 Tick's Mikado 

 Tick's Oardinal 

 Tick's Tlolct Kinff 



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sciences should support investigations 

 which will bear on the unscrupulous. 



The agricultural public can properly de- 

 mand a safeguarding of their interests 

 against the selling of such seeds as are 

 without doubt a fraud, and these im- 

 positions cannot be guarded against if 

 too great a laxity of law is permitted to 

 prevail. The writer would like to see 

 the law so framed that there could be 

 no fraud in the seed business, any more 

 than in an apothecary shop, either by 

 a man ignorant of the nature of the busi- 

 ness, or by a rogue. 



The seed business is one of confidence ; 

 a purchaser is entirely in the hands of 

 the seller — very different from the case 

 of a purchase of a pair of shoes or a hat, 

 where the purchaser can there and then 

 judge the quality of the completed 

 article. Burnet Landreth. 



THE MAINE SEED LAV. 



In view of the national pure seed law 

 now before congress, it is of interest to 

 note that as far back as 1897 the legis- 

 lature of Maine enacted a law regulating 

 the sale of agricultural seeds. It worked 

 an immediate improvement in the char- 

 acter of the seeds sold in the state, but 

 it did not provide for an inspection and 

 as time passed the moral effect of the 

 law to some extent and with some deal- 

 ers grew less. To remedy this, the legis- 

 lature of 19Q5 passed an additional sec- 

 tion, calling for an inspection somewhat 

 similar in requirements to that of the 

 laws regulating the sale of commercial 

 fertilizers, foods and feeding stuffs. 

 Every lot of seeds sold, or exposed for 

 sale, must be accompanied by a written 

 or printed guarantee of the percentage 

 of purity. 



In 1907 the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Orono made a large number 

 of tests which, in general, showed that 

 the grass seeds sold were of good qual- 

 ity, although in quite a number of in- 

 stances, seeds were sold under a guaran- 

 tee much too high. It developed in most 

 instances that these seeds were bought 

 from wholesale dealers in Maine and 

 were sold by the retailer under the guar- 

 antees printed or stenciled on the bags as 

 received from the wholesale dealer. As 

 the seeds were, so far as it was possible 

 to ascertain, bought and sold by the re- 

 tailer in good faith, to the officials in 

 charge it did not seem right to prosecute 

 him. On turning to the wholesale dealer, 

 who should have been the responsible 

 party, it was not practicable to trace the 

 goods to him. That is, it was not prac- 



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Dahlias 



Named varieties. 

 Send for list. 



DAVID HERBERT & SON 



Successors to L. K. Peacock, Inc. ATCO, N. J. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



Lilium Multiflorum 



7x9, $45.00 per 1000. Cold-storage stock 

 for immediate delivery or as ordered. 



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ticable to prove that the sample drawn 

 at the store of the retailer was from a 

 particular lot furnished by a wholesale 

 dealer. "While it would have been a sim- 

 ple matter to prosecute the retail dealer, 

 it was not so easy to press the case 

 against the wholesale dealer. 



In January, at the invitation of the 

 director of the Experiment Station, rep- 

 resentatives of the wholesale houses he 

 believed to have violated the law met at 

 his office and the whole matter was gone 

 over. As it seemed that by the amicable 

 arrangement then made, and the clearer 

 understanding of the law on the part of 

 the wholesalers, the future would be safe- 

 guarded, all cases for 1907 were dropped. 



The director makes this comment: 

 ' ' This is to be said as to the position of 

 the wholesale dealer in Maine. He can- 

 not anywhere buy seeds under a guaranty 

 and he must by law guarantee the seeds 

 he sells. This is a good deal of hard- 

 ship. It is offset, however, by the fact 

 that the Maine retailer cannot, so far as 

 the writer knows, buy guaranteed seeds 

 of any wholesale dealer outside of Maine 

 and on this account the Maine wholesale 

 dealer is in condition because of his guar- 

 anteed seeds to command the trade of 

 Maine retailers." 



The law will be much more strictly en- 

 forced in 1908 than in the past. 



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NEWCROPFLOWERSEEDS 



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Terbena Mamnotk, in colors or mixed, 90.30 fl.OO 



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Lily of the VaUey, Early Forolna;, to close 



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