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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNH 11, 1908. 



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Seed Trade News. 



▲HKBICAir SEED T]|ADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Gteorgre 8. Green, Chicago; First Vlce- 

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

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

 annual convention at Hotel Pontchartrain, De- 

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



Visited Chicago: Chas. P, Guelf, 

 with Jerome B, Rice Seed Co., Cam- 

 bridge, N.Y. 



The national organization of whole- 

 sale grocers has adopted resolutions op- 

 posing the parcels post. 



The interest in t^ approaching con- 

 vention of the American Seed Trade As- 

 sociation gives promise of the largest at- 

 tendance on record. 



The Iowa Seed Dealers \ Association, 

 "an organization to promote the sale 

 of pure seeds," had a good> meeting at 

 Des Moines June 9. 



Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, send 

 a photograph of their new building, 

 erected on the site of the one burned last 

 July. The picture and their description 

 indicate that they are much better 

 equipped than bfifbre.* 



J. BOLOIANO & Son, Baltimore, have 

 just completed the installation of the 

 largest chick food and poultry foods 

 manufacturing plants in Maryland. The 

 firm started the manufacture of these 

 foods in a small way, but from time to 

 time has been compelled to increase its 

 manufacturing capacity and recently has 

 felt justified in enlarging its facilities 

 for the making of the foods to more than 

 ten times the original capacity. The 

 firm is now prepared to :Bupply 150,- 

 000 bushels of poultry foods a year, and 

 as it has been behind in its orders con- 

 tinuously for the past six" months, it 

 feels confident that the supply will be 

 entirely taken. 



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FRENCH BULBS. 



.' One of the latest quotations by a 

 French bulb grower, for stock f. o. b. 

 French port, is as follows, the prices be- 

 ing in shillings per thousand: 



White Roman byaclntbs, 11-12 cm 40 



White Roman hyacinths, 11-15 cm 62 



White Roman hyacinths, 12-13 cm 62 



White Roman hyacinths, 12-15 cm 62 



White Roman hyadntte, (3 cm.: and up 72 



Paper White narcissi, 13 cm. and up 10 



REAPPRAISEMENTS. 



The following reappraisements of in- 

 terest to the handlers of seeds and bulbs 

 have been announced by the customs au- 

 thorities : 



LIIjX bulbs. — From exporters as below: 

 Yokonama, exRorted August 23, 1907; entered 

 at Milwaukee.' File No. 47893. Entry 1027, 

 1028, etc. Findings or SlilirrettS.O. A.: Hnom, 

 Seltaro Aral, multlflorum, 7-9; entered at 66.16 

 Ten per 1,000. No advance. Ditto, 9-10; en- 

 tered at 78.02 yen per 1,000. No advance. 

 Glganteum, 7-9; entered at 62.82 yen per 1.000. 

 No advance. Longlflorum, 7-9; entered at 31.74, 

 advanced to 35 yen per 1,000. Ditto, 9-10; en- 

 tered at 68.30 yen per 1,000. No advance. Dis- 

 count, 5 per cent. From Rebacbiro Tanoi, Jap. 

 lily bulbs; entered at from $21 to 137.60 per 

 1.000. No advance. And similar goods. CbargeB 

 included. 



THE WEEK IN SEEDS. • 



With the arrival of hot weather the 

 seed trade has not much to look forward 

 to except the revival in the demand for 

 insecticides, which always comes with 

 the advent of genuine summer. The seed 

 business has run down to a little more 

 than the trade in turnip seeds and the 



in Bulk 

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MUtord, Conn. 

 Kast Jordan, Mich. 

 Sister Bay, wis. 



THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



OILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. OdIod, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Oor- 

 respondence BoUcited. 



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one or two other seasonable items. Coun- 

 ter trade in seeds has practically ceased 

 and there is little doing in plants. 



In the growing department, condi- 

 tions are more favorable than a week 

 ago. The weather has been good and 

 planting and growth generally satisfac- 

 tory, although great heat has done some 

 damage to special crops. Those seeds- 

 men who are away on crop inspection 

 tours are sending home favorable re- 

 ports except as to sweet peas in Califor- 

 nia and some reduction of acreages 

 which will affect the supply of other 

 seeds even with fair yields. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 



of New York for the week ending May 



30 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Anise 75 I 973 Cammin 101 $1278 



Caraway . . .200 1931 Rape 6 21 



Cardamom .. 13 301 Other 1490 



CloTer 680 20580 



In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 $6,364. 



CANNERS'PEAS. 



Advices from Baltimore indicate that 

 there is likely to be a decided shortage 

 in the pea pack from the estimates based 

 on the large acreage set out this year. 

 According to some reports Maryland can- 

 ners cannot expect to make over twenty 

 per cent of a normal pack, but other es- 

 timates run higher. In Delaware large 

 packers believe that they will get about 

 seventy-five per cent of last year's out- 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muslcmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sw^eet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 

 ■^^^WMte for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 ^^v for Immediate Shipment 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



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put. The capricious weather of the last 

 two weeks has had a pronounced effect 

 upon the crop. The recent hot spell 

 caused a rapid development, which the 

 subsequent rains and the cool weather 

 have retarded. Receipts at Baltimore 

 have shown a decided falling off and 

 most of the raw stock is fit only to be 

 made into seconds. Some reports say 

 that the shortage will be confined mainly 

 to the sifted and finer grades. 



This is interesting to the seed trade, 

 because a short pack will mean another 

 year of very high prices for seed peas of 

 the canning varieties, for every season 

 that the market is well cleaned up the 

 canners each put out as large an acreage 

 as possible. 



SOME NOVELTIES IN CANNAS. 



One of our very best canna novelties 

 up till now is, no doubt, the Mme. Mar- 

 guerite MUhle. It was raised by Argad 

 Miihle in Temesvar, Hungary, who named 

 it after his wife and introduced it into 

 the trade a year or .two ago. For the 

 massing and composing of small or large 

 groups it is one of the best sorts we have 



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