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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 2, 1008. 



JOHNSON'S Prize Winner PANSIES 



FROM THE WORLO*S PANSY SPECIALISTS 



"These superb Giant Pansles are veritable Prize Wianers wherever exhibited. Their extraordinary size; vigorous, compact habit; long, 

 stif* steins; heavy texture, wide range of magnificent colors, and distinctive markings, have made them famous with the most critical Pansy 

 Growers of the United States and Canada." We offer seed of this superior strain, as follows— 1000 seeds 80o; 2000 seeds, 50c; 5000 setds. $1.00; 

 ^4 cz., $1.25; per oz., $S.OO. See our offer of Giant Pansles In last Issue. Our complete Pansy list Is ready and will be mailed on request. 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY, 



217 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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vo^r<l that they be given a vote of 

 tbai^s. 



The Disclaimer. 



In an'"' executive session there was a 

 long discussion of the disclaimer and 

 its use, in which, as usual, a variety of 

 opinions were shown to exist, but the re- 

 sult was the adoption of a resolution 

 reaffirming the disclaimer as originally 

 adopted at the Rochester meeting and 

 urging all seedsmen to employ it on all 

 packets and printed matter in identical 

 language. 



The Banquet. 



The banquet at the Hotel Pontchar- 

 train was well attended and a thorough- 

 ly enjoyable affair, Jesse P, Northrup 

 presided. Among the speakers were D. 

 M. Ferry, A, T, Ferrell, W. W. Tracy, 

 F. B, White, C. D. Boyle, J. C. Vaughan, 

 L. H. Vaughan, L. L. May, E. M. Par- 

 malee and H, W, Wood. 



Additional Visitors. 



In addition to those mentioned last 



week as being present, there were the 



following : 



O. J. Barnes, Malone, N. Y. 

 G. B. Hiscbe. Chicago, III. 



F. G. Phillips, Toledo, Ohio. 

 W. H. Grubbs, BufTalo, N. Y. 



G. R. Warren, Alpena, Mich. 

 A. H. Goldsmith, New York. 



F. G. Johnston, Jackson, Mlcb. 



D. G. Martin, New York. 

 Albert E. Rogers. Chicago, 111. 

 A. Currle, Jr., Milwaukee. 



G. H. Hogg, Toronto, Canada. 



A. McMeans, Ontario Agricultural College. 

 C. D. Boyle, Chicago. 

 William Nichols, St. Louis. 



E. H. Cushman, Sylvanla, Ohio. 

 Adolph Cornell, St. Louis. 

 Peter Hollenback, Chicago. 



W. S. Woodruff, Orange, Conn., for whose 

 name S. D. Woodruff was printed last week. 



BRUNTON GOES TO WOOD. 



Henry W, Wood, president of T. W. 

 Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., has en- 

 gaged Frank Brunton, expert seed grow- 

 er, horticulturist, landscape gardener and 

 florist, to take charge of the new model 

 seed farm being established at Milford, 

 on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and 

 Potomac railway, in Caroline county. Mr, 

 Brunton served five years' apprenticeship 

 with one of the leading seed and nursery 

 firms in England. He is a graduate of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens 

 in agricultural chemistry and plant 

 breeding. He was superintendent of the 

 Shady Hills Nursery, in Newport, R. I., 

 and has laid out as well as planned some 

 of the finest estates in the north. For 

 the last two or three years he has been 

 in Texas. Unfavorable seasons and a 

 cyclone which carried away his home and 

 came near killing his wife and children 

 caused Mr. Brunton to leave that state. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Searl & Sons, Sydney, Australia, seeds, 

 bulbs, plants, shrubs and trees; F. Lude- 

 mann, San Francisco, Cal., bulbs and 

 plants for fall delivery; Madison Cooper 



Stokes Standard Pansy Seed 



stokes' Standard Mixed Pansy 



Is the finest strain of Giant Pansles it la 

 popslble to produce. It is a blend of all that 

 Ir finest in Pansles from J'rance, England and 

 Germany. It is absolutely unrivaled In range 

 of magnificent colors, size and substance, 



Trade packet (2000 seeds), 50c; ^ oz., 85c; 

 ^ oz.. $3.25; 1 oz.. W.OO; H lb., $20.00. 



SEND FOR SPECIAL 



Kingly Collection of Qiant Pansles 



Mixed 



A most excellent strain, the same as has been 

 sold for years by the late firm of Johnson 

 & Stokes, and has given great satisfaction. 



Price— ^ trade packet, 30c; trade packet 

 (2000 seeds). 50c; 5000 seeds, $1.00; per-oa., 

 $5.00; per ^ lb., $14.00. 



PANSY CIRCULAR 



rRKNCH and DUTCH BULBS In season-GET PRICKS 



219 Market Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will bear longrer and yield better than from any pther variety of 

 Spawn. This Is proven by facts. Full particulars and information how to succeed in mushroom 

 raising free. We warrant you. if uslug our method of growing mushrooms, that all will go well. 



KIRKEBY & GUNDESTRUP SEED GO.,4273 Milwaukee An., Chicago 



MUSHROOM SPECIAUSTS 



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FLORISTS have a splendid oppor- 

 tunity of raising Sfnshrooini br 

 utilizing the waste space under th« 

 benches, and then utilizing the iraste 

 material of ex^ndta mnshrooD 

 beds in growing flowers. Lambert's 

 Pure Culture MUSHROOM 

 SPAWN, the best Spawn in the market, is sold by all 

 leading seedsmen. A fresh sample brick, enough for 

 a trialbed, together with illustrated book on "Mash- 

 room Culture." will be mailed postpaid upon receipt 

 of 40c in postage stamps. Address AmerioaD 

 Spawn Company, St. Paul, Minn. 



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Co., Watertown, N. Y., "The Cooper Sys- 

 tems of Refrigeration"; "Wild Bros. 

 Nursery Co., Sarcoxie, Mo., list of buds; 

 Yuess Gardens Co., Newburgh, N. Y., 

 flower seeds and bulbs; Wm. Baylor 

 Hartland & Sons, Ard-Cairn, Cork, Ire- 

 land, daffodils and narcissi; A. C. Zvo- 

 lanel^, Bound Brook, N. J., winter flow- 

 ering sweet pea seed. 



SWEET PEAS IN ENGLAND. 



The present outlook indicates that 

 there is going to be a big shortage of 

 seed unless something happens quickly, 

 says a writer in the Horticultural Trade 

 Journal (English). Beportr from Cali- 

 fornia promise a short crop, and over 

 here things are far from rosy. 



Autumn sown seed proved a failure in 

 most places, and the spring sown, es- 

 pecially certain varieties, came up bad- 

 ly, and slug ravages only added to the 

 trouble. As if this were not bad enough, 

 drought has for several weeks aggra- 

 vated matters. The varying rains that 

 have fallen have done little good, while 

 they have given the weeds a strong send- 

 off. Were it not for the weed trouble, 



Seed PANSY Seed 



Brown's extra select superb Giant Prize 

 Pansles. My own grown seed. New 1908 

 crop ready. Your owii selection of light 

 or dark strain. 



Price, mixed seed. 80(»-rted8, $1.00; 

 U oz., $1.50; »a oz.. $2.60: 1 oz., »5 00: H lb.. 

 $14.00; i2 lb.. $25.00: 1 lb.. $50.00. Plants 

 ready September 1. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



Peter Brown 



Lancaster, Pa. 



Pansy Seed 

 Grow^er 



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we could easily turn out a cheap sample 

 of home-grown seed. The cost of hand- 

 weeding, however, debars its possibility, 

 and this season has compelled growers 

 to dip deeply into their pockets for la- 

 bor. One grower tells me charlock is 

 smothering his plants, for it seems to 

 revel in the drought. The peas, how- 

 ever, are making scarcely any movement, 

 and buds are opening rapidly. This is 

 bad business, for when 12-inch plants 

 begin blooming the chance of a good 

 crop is remote. Under glass growers 

 have found it a task to keep things go- 

 ing. The terrific heat prior to Whit- 

 sun literally frizzled the flowers and 

 plants, too. 



Smith's Mum Manual sent by the Bk- 

 viEw for 40 eenta. 



