The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 4, IMS. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN 8EBD TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres.. George 8. Green, Chicago; First Vlca- 

 Dres., M. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

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

 •nnual convention at Hotel Pontchartrafn, De- 

 troit. Mich., June 28 to 25, 1908. 



The price lists of turnip, winter rad- 

 ish, spinach, etc., are out. 



Mes. H, H. Berqee, of H. H. Berger 

 & Co., New York, is on a trip to Europe 

 accompanied by her daughter. 



Boston seed houses say the season 

 now closing has been an excellent one, 

 averaging up well with its predecessors. 



W. C. Adams, of Decorah, la., is sec- 

 retary of the Iowa Seed Dealers' Asso- 

 JKiation, which meets at Des Moines, 

 June 9. 



J. BoLGiANO & Son, Baltimore, do a 

 large business in bedding plants in con- 

 nection with their seed trade and have 

 had a first-class season. 



M. 8. Griffith, vice-president and 

 manager of GriflBth & Turner Co., Balti- 

 more, has sailed for Europe, accompanied 

 by Mrs. Griffith, expecting to be absent 

 three months. 



The Hickory Seed Co., of Hickory, 

 N. C, has been incorporated, 'vnth a cap- 

 ital stock of $20,000. The incorporators 

 are R. O. Abemathy, W. J. Shuford, 

 L. R. Sticker and A. L. Shuford. 



The. Rocky Ford Gazette of May 22 

 said: "Burnet Landretb, of the D. Lan- 

 dreth Seed Co., of Bristol, Pa., one of 

 the oldest seed firms in the country, and 

 F. W. Bruggerhoff, of J. M. Thorburn & 

 Co., of New York, the oldest seed house 

 in the United States, were guests of D. 

 V. Burrell today. Mr. Burrell took them 

 over some of the country in his auto, to 

 show them some of Colorado's best irri- 

 gated farms." 



PROSPECTS AT ROCKY FORD. 



Writing under date of May 25, D. V. 

 Burrell, Rocky Ford, Colo., said: 



' ' For the last two weeks there has 

 been little water in any of the ditches 

 here except the Rocky Ford ditch. Farm- 

 ers under other ditches began to be dis- 

 couraged, but we have had rains in the 

 mountains, so these ditches can draw 

 water now and everything looks promis- 

 ing for a good crop." 



THE WEEK IN SEEDS. 



Business is gradually tapering off in 

 the seed houses. Corn planting is pro- 

 ■ gressing in the west, but most of the sea- 

 son 's seeds are now in the ground. Heavy 

 rains have made some replanting neces- 

 sary and some extra business has been 

 occasioned thereby. Planting of both 

 corn and cucumber in many localities is 

 later than usual because of wet soil, the 

 month of May having been an unusually 

 wet one throughout the greater part of 

 the United States. The plant business, 

 which has become a large feature with 

 most seed houses doing a counter trade, 

 has been excellent and is not yet over. 



In general, this season has been a 

 thoroughly satisfactory one in net results 

 and attention is now being turned to 

 supplies for 1909. Crop prospects, while 

 it is yet too early to speak definitely of 

 any item, afford no occasion for alarm 



in Bulk 

 and PackagM 



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LEONARD SEED CO. 



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Flower Seeds-Onion Sets 'MsVlKi'dollii 8t. 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 stock. Yellow, S1.85 ; Red. 92.80 ; White, S2.45 per bushel. 82 lbs. to the busbei. Terms, 

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KIRKEBY & GONDESTRDP SEED CO., 



4873 

 Milwaukee Ave. 



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Chicago 



Mllford, Conn. 

 East Jordan, Mich. 

 Sister Bajr, wis. 



THE EVERETT B. ClARK SEED CO. 



Larsast crowars of OONMKCTXCDT ONION 8KXD. Now otfeiine both 1907 and 1908 

 crop. Southport YeUow Globe, Southport Bed Globe and TeUow Globe Danvers. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILBOY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Gor- 

 respondence solicited. 



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except as to a possible, if not probable, 

 shortage of sweet peas and a possibility 

 that late varieties of sweet com will 

 again fail to mature. 



ERFURT SEED TRADE. 



April brought very changeable weather 

 at Erfurt, Germany, April 13, just a 

 few days before Easter, we even had to 

 put up with a heavy snowstorm. Of 

 course, planting and other field work 

 could not be pushed forward then, as we 

 were accustomed to do in other years. 

 Happily, May 1 set in with fine weather 

 indeed, for our growers. Not only plenty 

 of sunshine, but sufficient rain as well, 

 so that planting and all other work out- 

 doors can be carried on to the best ad- 

 vantage. All the growers are at present 

 (May 23) busy planting, and such plants 

 as scabiosas, antirrhinum, verbenas, phlox 

 and asters are nearly all planted out by 

 now. 



Coming to vegetables, it can be said 

 that cauliflower, kohlrabi and other 

 things are growing nicely by now, espe- 

 cially cauliflowers are standing very fine; 

 but the young plants have to suffer a 

 good deal by the ravages of the ground 

 flea, a great enemy of the young 



S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Groveers 



BEAN. CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet €iom 



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 ■^^Wrlte for prices on Surplus Stooks 

 i^^V for Immediate Shipment 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 



Growers of 



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plants of all varieties of cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, kohlrabi, etc. Stocks, too, are 

 very liable to the attacks of this insect. 

 This nuisance is especially felt in a long 

 spell of dry weather and is then hard to 

 combat on a large scale. 



Wall flowers, winter stocks, pansies, 

 myosotis, etc., are in full bloom just now 

 and present, in their great masses, a 

 lovely view. They all wintered well and 

 are giving good prospects for the next 

 harvest of seeds. All outdoor primulas, 

 too, have been, and some of them are 

 still, flowering splendidly and of course 

 promise likewise a fine crop of seeds. 



Just now the growers are beginning to 

 plant out the roots of cannas and dah- 

 lias. They both are acquiring more 



