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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 23, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBIC AN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Georsre S. Green, Obicago; First Vlca- 

 pres., M. H. Duryea, New York: Sec'y and 

 Treas., 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. Twenty-sixth 

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartrain, De- 

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



W. Atlee Burpee sailed for Europe 

 April 22. 



Trade in all lines of the seed business 

 is reported brisk. 



The counter man in the seed line is 

 having his troubles at present. 



D. I. Bushnell, St. Louis, has gone 

 to Europe, expecting to be absent four 

 months. 



The bean growers report fairly smooth 

 sailing in securing acreages for next 

 year's crop. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has issued a bulletin on "Cowpeas" that 

 will interest seedsmen. 



Some of the market gardener seeds- 

 men report trade better this year than 

 last, by fifty per cent so far. 



Visited Chicago: Mel. L. Webster, 

 Independence, la.; Robert Livingston, 

 Livingston Seed Co., Columbus. 



Fill-in trade with the jobbers con- 

 tinues large. All shortages on the gen- 

 eral orders are more than being made 

 up for. 



Bean sales are being forced by low 

 priced surplus lists. Some of the stand- 

 ard varieties of peas are being offered, 

 also, at fairly reasonable prices. 



An optimistic Chicago seedsman says 

 that in a few years he expects to see 

 Chicago as much of a center for onion 

 seed growing as it now is for onion sets. 



One seedsman says that if the Mann 

 pure seed bill becomes a law in its pres- 

 ent form, he will feel compelled to go 

 into politics — to work up a pull so he will 

 not be the one made an example of. 



Seeding for onion sets is well under 

 way at Chicago. The growers report 

 that seeding conditions were never bet- 

 ter. A full quantity of seed is going in, 

 and the reported lack of set seed seems 

 to have been somewhat overdrawn, as 

 each of the larger growers has found 

 seeds enough for t*he usual acreage. The 

 smaller growers are not so well off. 



Seeds of the Globe varieties of onion 

 have been selling better during the last 

 week. Some of the marsh-land growers 

 who expected to cut down their acreages 

 have thought better of it. The fact, 

 however, that much seed of both the 

 Yellow and Red Globe was grown last 

 year by the average planter cut the reg- 

 ular seedsmen out of a great many of 

 the onion seed sales. 



The end of the season finds the onion 

 set still high in price. Reds are practi- 

 cally out of the market. Yellows and 

 whites are still to be had. There has been 

 no special boom in sets ; the call has been 

 steady throughout the month. Last 

 spring, and for several years back, the 

 abnormal weather caused a boom in sets 

 one day and a slump the next. This con- 

 dition has not prevailed this year and 

 the trade in sets for this season has been 

 more satisfactory. 



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ONION 

 SEED 



RED WETHERSFIELD 



EXTRA EARLY RED FLAT 



DANVERS GLOBE 



STRASBURG YELLOW 



PRIZETAKER 



LOW PRICES 



ON 

 APPLICATION 



Bloomsdale Seed Farms, Bristol, Pa. 



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in Bulk 

 and Packages 



LAWN GRASS SEED 



Dickinsons, Evergreen, and Pine Tree Brandt 

 SPECIAL MIXTURES SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



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Growers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



Name your requirements; we can usually meet all seasonable demands. 



Flower Seeds-Onion Sets '•iS'V!'5."ido15i. st. CHICAGO 



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YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



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ONION SETS 



Finest stoclc. Yellow, 81.85; Red. $2.30; White. $2.45 per bushel. 32 lbs. to the bushel. Terms, 

 net cash, f. o. b. Chicago, subject to change in market and being unsold. 



KIRKEBY & 6UNDESTRUP SEED CO., 



4273 

 Milwaukee Ave. 



Ghicaso 



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THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



Larsrest growers of CX>NinECTICUT ONIOH SKKD. Now offarlngr botli 1007 and 1908 

 crop. Soutbport Tello^^ Globe, Soutbport Red Globe and TeUo^e Globe DanTers. 



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BfUford, Conn. 

 East Jordan, BQob. 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



S.iVI.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON. MICH. 



Contract Med Growers 

 BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muakmeion 

 Squash, Watcnaeloa, Sw««t Cars 



Oorreipondence Solicited. 

 Write for prices on Snrplus Bteoks 

 for Immediate Slilpment. 



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SEATTLE. WASH. 

 Qtowmn of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GIIiROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster. 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



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C. C. MORSE « CO. 



Seed Grower* 



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48 to 56 Jackson St., San Francisco, Cal. 

 Onion* Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other California Specialties 



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