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July 16, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



27 



Festlva Maxima, extra white 

 Featlva, drop white 

 Boule de Neixe, late white 

 buolieaae de Nemours, pure 



white 

 Duke of Welllnston, sulphur white 

 Mme. de Vemevllle, pure white 

 Kdulls Superba, soft pink 



Peonies 



For September and October Delivery. Strong 

 Undivided Transplanted Clumps :: :: 



M. Jules EUe, extra pink 

 Loula Van Houtte, bright red 

 Dr. Bretonneau, pink 

 Golden Harvest, extra 

 Fault, extra flne shape 

 Felix Crouaae, bright red 

 Roaea Superba (new), earliest, 

 best pink otticiualis 



Several of these varieties answered the roll call after the severe test of April and May weather this year. All plants are Kuaranteed to be true 

 to name and description. No plants sent out unless they have shown flowers at our nurseries. Enormous stock of advertised and other kinds 

 enables us to sell at prices no European or American bouse cares to meet. For descriptive catalogue apply to 



H. F8AHK DABBOW,26 Barclaii St., Niw York, Sole Agwtfor H. M. HABDYZER, Boskoop, Hollaml ^ 



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The crop in the Azores (possibly 500,- 

 •000 bulbs) is yet too small to cut much 

 figure in the world's supply, but is in- 

 creasing and of good quality. Those who 

 have forced these bulbs are well pleased 

 with them. European markets get a 

 good part of the crop. 



Japan now supplies the major part of 

 the Easter lily bulbs. Many are grown 

 by small farmers, a few thousands here, 

 a few thousands there, over a consider^ 

 able territory, so that it is difficult for 

 the exporters themselves, to say nothing 

 of foreign firms, to keep track of the 

 methods employed; and hence, probably, 

 the complaint which has attended the 

 flowering of last year's crop of bulbs. 

 There were large losses of longiflorum 

 multiflorum, but giganteum did much bet- 

 ter and the demand has centered on it, 

 with the result that prices on giganteum 

 and multiflorum are rather wide apart. 

 One of the best informed men in the 

 trade says this year's output of multiflo- 

 rum will be not so large as last year in 

 number, with an increase of giganteum, 

 and that in time prices will gradually 

 draw together again. 



Formosa promises to figure largely by 

 another year. Last season the crop there 

 was only a drop in the bucket; this year 

 it is 175,000, according to a man who was 

 there at planting time. The first plant- 

 ing there was true Jap longiflorum and 

 for two seasons the Formosa bulbs that 

 have come to the United States have 

 given such good results that this year's 

 crop has sold quickly. Those interested 

 in the Formosa product have used every 

 endeavor to hold the stock true, but it 

 is said a few of other types already have 

 appeared there, which simply goes to 

 show how hard it is to hold on to a good 

 thing in this big and envious world. 



At least one house has been offering 

 "a few cases of longiflorums from a 

 place not yet exploited that turned out 

 fine last year, " so it may be that soon 

 still other sources of supply will have to 

 be reckoned with, for of course the ex- 

 istence of such a crop is not to be ques- 

 tioned. 



Leading handlers of bulbs say that the 

 advance orders for bulbs are about as 

 last year from those who grow for their 

 own trade, but that the big growers for 

 city markets are not ordering so many 

 as last year. But with the perfection of 

 the cold storage process the marketing of 

 longiflorum bulbs has come to be an all- 

 vear-round affair and the importers, with 

 full faith in a large increase in business 

 activity later in the year, feel secure in 

 the ultimate result. 



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 Gloxinias and other Florists' Flower Seeds 



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 Johnson's, Ltd., are The Chief makers of Mushroom Spawn and growers of MuBhrooms in Eng- 

 land and they recommend this season's improved Spawn as being in better condition than ever. 

 Correspondence invited for OVER.SEA ORDERS. Prices and particulars on application. 



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Grower and Exporter on the very largest scale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



Speoialties : Beans, Beets. Cabbages, Carrots, Kohl-Rabi. Leeks. Lettuces. Ontons, 

 Peas, Radialies, Spinach. Turnips. Swedes. Asters, Balsams, Begonias. Carnations, 

 Cinerarias. Gloxinias, Larkspurs, Nasturtiums, Pansles, Petunias. Phlox, Primulas. 

 Scabious, Stocks, Verbenas. Zinnias, etc. Catalogue free ou application. 



HENRT METTE'S TRIUMPH OF THE GIANT PANSIES (mixed), the most 

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All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on my O'wn grouxids of 

 more tlian 3000 acres, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest 

 stocks and best quality. I also gropr largely seeds on contract. 



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oncl avenue, north. The new concern is 

 capitalized at $30,000, is incorporated 

 under the laws of Tennessee, and is 

 strictly a Nashville concern. 



At a meeting of the stockholders W. B. 

 Ewing, formerly manager at Nashville 



of the branch house of Woods, Stubbs & 

 Co., Louisville, wm elected president and 

 manager of the new company. Woods, 

 Stubbs & Co. and W. H. Small & Co., of 

 Evansville, Ind.. are large stockholders 

 in the Cumberland Seed Co., but in no 



