July 23, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



27 



Festiva Maxima, extra white 

 Festlva, drop \vtaite 

 Boule de Neisret late white 

 Duchesse de Nemours, pure 



white 

 Duke ot Wellinarton, sulphur white 

 Mme. de Vemevllle, pure white 

 Edulls Superba, soft pink 



For September and October Delivery. Strong: 

 Undivided Transplanted Clumps :: :: 



M. Jules Elle, extra pink 

 Louis Van Houtte, bright red 

 Dr. Bretonneau, pink 

 Golden Harvest, extra 

 Faust, extra fine shape 

 Felix Crousse, bright red 

 Rosea Superba (new), earliest, 

 best pink oftk-inalis 



Several of these varieties answered the roll call after the severe test of April and May weather this year. All plants are guaranteed 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 house cares to meet. For descriptive catalogue apply to 



^ H, FRANK DABBOW, 26 Barclay St., New York, Sole Agent for H. M. HABPYZER, Boskoop, Holland ^ 



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ago. Its business rapidly increased and 

 it was doing over $100,000 business an- 

 nually, when its building was destroyed 

 by fire just at the beginning of the last 

 seed season. The company then began 

 to look for a good location, with a view 

 to enlarging its business and securing a 

 more desirable shipping center. Eock- 

 ford, 111., and other towns are said to 

 have offered bonuses, but the unique lo- 

 cation of the city of Madison as a rail- 

 road center and its proximity to the uni- 

 versity experiment^Ktion attracted Mr. 

 Olds and he decided to locate there. A 

 company with $50,000 stock was organ- 

 ized and nearly one-half of the stock was 

 sold in Madison. The majority of the 

 stock is held by Mr. Olds and men asso- 

 ciated with him in Clinton. Some of the 

 Madison stockholders are: Col. A. H. 

 Hollister, who has known Mr. Olds since 

 boyhood ; former Mayor W. D. Curtiss, 

 E, F. Riley and C. N. Brown. The firm 

 in Clinton employed fifty people and it 

 is believed a larger number will be em- 

 ployed at Madison as soon as the business 

 is started. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 of New York for the week ending July 

 11 were as follows: 



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



Annatto ... 3| 32 Clover 493 |12.864 



Anise 35 286 Grass 600 4342 



Canary 824 1199 .Millet 331 1088 



Caraway . . . 100 935 Rape 7 28 



Castor 1334 4892 Other 3195 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$3,324. 



LOUISVILLE ONION SETS. 



The harvesting of onion sets in the 

 Louis^ille district is well along, having 

 commenced as early as July 6. Eecent 

 rains helped the late planting. H. R. 

 Whiteside, who last year carried through 

 a successful deal, is reported to be 

 equally active this season. The concern 

 has increased its storage facilities at 

 Fourteenth and Maple streets, where the 

 main office is located, and will operate 

 the storage house near Buechel, also the 

 big warehouse at New Albany, Ind. Mr. 

 Whiteside says that from reports fur- 

 nished by his buyers, who have been 

 loading potatoes and onions at the vari- 

 ous railroad loading stations scattered 

 over the district and are in touch with 

 the situation, he estimates the increase in 

 the onion set acreage to be twenty per 

 cent over last season, but owing to dry 

 weather, which has cut the crop some- 

 what, the total yield will hardly be over 

 ten per cent greater than in 1907. He 

 approximately fixes 200,000 bushels as a 

 full estimate for the entire Louisville 

 onion set crop, of which seventy-five per 



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