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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 7, 1908, 



WANTED 



Two good, bright Men capable of earn- 

 ing $1000 per year each, that are well 

 versed in the seed busineee. One that has 

 had a great deal of experience in garden 

 seeds and some in field. Another that 

 has had considerable experience in grass 

 and field seeds and can take charge of 

 shipping department and act as general 

 foreman around warehouse. When an- 

 swering, state age, number of years' 

 experience and with whom. 



Address No. 247, " 

 Care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMKBICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Prea., Gteorge S. Green, Chicago; First Vice- 

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

 Treas., 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. Twentj-slxth 

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartraiu, De- 

 troit, Mich., June 23 to 26, 1908. 



The season in the Santa Clara valley 

 is about normal to date. 



The weather over a large part of 

 the country has been unfavorable for 

 business in the last week. 



There is a lull in the demand for the 

 canners' varieties of sweet corn. It is 

 hoped that canners will need more later 

 on, as there is said to be a surplus still 

 available. 



The bean growers are still busy in 

 some sections looking for enough acreage 

 to put seed into. It seems to be just 

 as hard as usual to make contracts, but 

 in most cases less land will be needed 

 than was used last year. 



Unfavorable weather at Chicago has 

 shut oflF the planting of seed for onion 

 sets. Most of the growers have yet a 

 considerable portion of their acreages 

 to seed. May 10 is about the limit for 

 safe sowing for a set crop and it is 

 hoped that the weather will clear soon; 

 if it does not, the set crop may be short- 

 ened considerably. 



There does not seem to be any boom 

 in any line of the seed business at pres- 

 ent. Apparently the weather is un- 

 favorable in all parts of the country. 

 Fill-in trade with the jobbers has fallen 

 off somewhat and mail orders are said 

 to be less than ordinary for early May. 

 Market gardeners are waiting to see 

 what the seeds already planted are go- 

 ing to do before they order more, and 

 in general there is a tendency to hold 

 off for more seasonable weather. The 

 rush will come again before long, how- 

 ever. 



It is reported that H. W. Fisher is 

 leaving Montgomery Ward & Co., Chi- 

 cago, June 1, and rumor has it that the 

 seed department will be discontinued. 

 The seed business does not work in well 

 with any other line and the seedsmen 

 have felt all along that sooner or later 

 all the big general mail order houses 

 would conclude, as did Sears, Koebuck & 

 Co., after one year's experience, that the 

 energy necessary to maintain a seed de- 

 partment might more profitably be ap- 

 plied to other lines. If Montgomery 

 Ward & Co. have not, as reported, now 

 come to this conclusion, mail order 

 seedsmen think they will arrive there 

 sooner or later. 



in Bulk 

 and Packages 



LAWN GRASS SEED 



Dickinsons, Evergreen, and Pine Tree Brandt 

 SPECIAL MIXTURES SEED FOR GOLF GROUNDS 



THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. 



MINNBAPOLIS 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



Orowers and Wholesalers of Superior Garden Seeds 



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



Flower Seeds-Onion Sets 'Mi'V^lKMSi. st. CHICAGO 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



YOU will be satisfied witli the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia, — for new Complete Catalog 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



ONION SETS 



Finest stock. Yellow, $1.85 ; 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. 



Chicago 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



Larseat (rowem of CONNECTICUT ONION 8KKD. No'w offering both 1907 and IMM 

 crop. Southport Tellow Globe, Soutliport Red Globe and Tello'w Globe Danvers. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



BUUord, Conn. 

 Kast Jordan, Blleb. 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



Waldo Rohnerf 



GUiROY, CAL. 



Wiioiesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos. Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



Mention The EcTlew when yon write. 



Trade so far for May is generally 

 reported to be short of what it was last 

 year. 



Seed corn is scarce and at the present 

 time orders are also shy, A spurt is 

 looked for later. 



The mail trade naturally begins to 

 let down by May 1, but too much rain 

 and cold has cut off a lot of counter 

 trade in the last week. 



We couldn't do business without the 

 Review; it is the only paper that keeps 

 one posted as to trade news in the seed 

 line. — A. W. Oilman, Rochester, N. Y. 



Reports from the pea growing sec- 

 tions are not as favorable as at this time 

 last year. It is early yet, but the 

 ground is unseasonably cold and wet and 

 the plantings so far are not coming along 

 as they ought. 



The congressmen are not forgetting 

 to send the usual packages of free seeds 

 to the seed merchants who vote for 

 them. Three citizens interested in one 

 Chicago firm received packages this week. 

 It is evident that the congressmen are 

 not inclined to show any favors in the 

 distribution. 



S.M.iSBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed GroTurers 

 BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



Correspondence Solicited 



■^^^Write for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 W^^w for Immediate Shipment 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOIND CABBAGE SEED 



Mention Tbt Herlew when yon write. 



C. C. MORSE « CO. 



Seed Growers 



Address all communications to our permanent addreat 



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

 Onion. Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



and Other Calitomla SpedaltleB 



Mention The Review when yea write. 



THE PUBLIC ATTITUDE. 



The public knows as little about the 

 technicalities of the seed business as do 

 the members of congress, and the atti- 

 tude of the public toward the Mann pure- 

 seed bill is well illustrated by the follow- 



