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OCT09B« X. 1008. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



3$ 



AZALEA INDICA 



Immense stock of all leading varletiea. nicely 

 shaped and well budded plants. 



LILT or THK VALLXT 

 Very finest Hamburg; and Berlin Pipa for im- 

 port and from cold storage. 



MAMXTTI STOCKS 

 KngUsb and French grown especially for flo- 

 rists' use. 



HOLLAND PLAMTS 



Roses. Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees, 

 Clematis, Conifers, etc. 



LILT BULBS 



Japanese, Bermuda and Azores, Dutcln and 

 ftencb Hyacinths, etc. 



For particulars and other information please 

 apply to. 



H. FRANK DARROW. 



Import Wbolesal* 



P. 0. Box 1250, 26 Barclay St., New York 



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English Grown Seeds 



Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds of best qual- 

 ity. Specialties : Giant Fancy Pansy, saved from 

 named plants; Carrot, Onion, Brussels Sprouts, 

 Cabbage, Golden Ball Turnip. 



Price list free on application to 



THE BEDFORDSHIRE SEED CO., Ltd. 



SANDY. BNGLANJ) 



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LARGK8T STOCK OW ALL 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleas, Araucariaa, Sweet Bays, 

 Palms, Begonias, Oloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE, PERE 



GHENT, Belsrium. 



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ing a yearly volume of 1,000 to 1,200 

 pages. The weekly mutual bulb market, 

 the committee of arbiters, the floral com- 

 mittee for judging novelties, etc., are 

 all established by the Bulb Growers' 

 Society. 



THE QUESTION BOX. 



Is there a white seeded onion, and if 

 80, what is its name? 



What is the cause of beets going to 

 seed without making bottoms? 



Why is it I cannot get sets, here in 

 thQ state of Washington, from the peren- 

 nial onion that I received from the east 

 two years ago, and why don 't they multi- 

 ply as they do in the east? C. J. J. 



There is not a white seeded onion, as 

 far as we know. 



Beets and many other biennial crops 

 go to seed when a sufficient check in their 

 growth takes place. A long spell of dry 

 weather coming after conditions have 

 been favorable to a good growth may 

 cause a check, and when rains come 

 again and conditions favor a second 

 quick growth the natural tendency of 

 a biennial plant is to push forward to 

 the second natural stage, which is the 

 production of seed. 



There are no reasons except adverse 

 climatic or soil conditions that can pre- 

 vent a perennial or Egyptian onion from 

 fulfilling its natural growth anywhere. 



THE MARKET GARDENER'S VIEW 



I believe I am the gardener whose 

 offer of $10 a pound for seed of the 

 Prizetaker onion, guaranteed true to 

 name, was published nearly a year ago in 

 the Rural New Yorker. A number of 

 prominent seed firms replied to the prop- 

 osition by saying that probably this man 

 would be willing to pay the price for 



— TO THK TRADE ^— 



HENRY METTE, Qoedlinbori, Qermany 



^^^^^■^^■^^ (Established in 1787) 



Grower and Exporter on the very larveat seale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, ELOWER and fARM SEEDS 



Specialties : Beans, Beets, Cabbages, Carrots, Kobl-Rabi, Leeks, Lettuces, Onions, 

 Peas, Radishes, Spinacii, Turnips, Swedes, Asters, Balsams, Begonias, Carnations, 

 Cinerarias, Gloxinias, Larlispurs, Nasturtiums, Panrtes, Petunias, Phlox, Primulas, 

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



HSNRT MBTTE'S TRTOIMFH OF THK GIANT PAN8IBS (mixed), the most 

 perfect and most beautifulin the world, $5.00 per oz.: $1.50 per H-oz.; 75c per 1-16 oz. Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on my o^m grounds ot 

 more tban 8000 acres, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest 

 stocks and best quality. X also STOW largely seeds on contract. 



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j Cyclamen Seed 



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Crop 1908 now ready of our unsurpassed giganteum strains, price, 

 $12U.U0 per ounce: Low's Salmon King^, $160.00 per ounce. Also 

 seed of Schisajitlius Wisetonensis, $160.00 per ounce. 



HUGH LOW & CO., Bush Hill Park, Mldillesex, England 



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AZALEAS 



for tall delivery, the best DAI IIC for spring or fall 

 that_ _8re_ grown^ _8lsp TULMO delivery, furnished by 



, Somergem, ^''"'"" °'''" 



_ booked now..,. 



ADDBISS THK AMKBICAN BKPBKSSNTATIVKS 



AUGUST ROLKER ft SONS, 81 Bi^rclay St., or P. O. Box 768, New York 



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No.34i 



WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULLTLOWER-SEED 



is the earli«»t of i 

 all Snpieballs, ihrt| 

 Dtost Mnpaci, the 

 surest header, is | 

 giving (he largest and snow- 

 vhilest heads, and is (he 

 best keeper in dry-wraiher. 

 Demand it through your 

 seed-firm or dirrcl from 



It. WIBOLTT, RAKSKOV. DCNMRII | 



gua r ante ed seed, but the majority would 

 not, hence there was not one of them 

 willing to guarantee any portion even 

 of genuine Prizetaker. As a general 

 proposition I would not like to pay $10 

 a pound for true seed of the Prize- 

 taker, for I know it can be grown pure 

 and placed in the hands of the planter 

 for less, but were I obliged to choQse 

 between true-to-name seed at $10 a 

 pound and the miserable mixture some- 

 times exposed for sale under that name 

 for nothing I would choose the $10 seed. 

 The last few years I have grown some 

 of my own seed. I do not do this as a 

 matter of choice, but because I cannot 

 buy the kind of seed I want. The onions 

 I selected for seed are large, a perfect 

 globe with a small neck, smaller even 

 than a lead pencil, of a beautiful, perfect 

 straw color. Had I crated up those 

 onions in a crate similar to those that 

 are sold for 5 cents a pound in grocery 

 stores under the name of "Spanish," no 

 man could have told the difference be- 

 tween mine and the Spanish; I could 

 have sold mine for the same price the 

 Spanish onions sold for, and with the 

 money so received might now buy one 

 and one-half pounds of Prizetaker seed 

 for- every pound I harvested. You will 

 see that I am out all of the labor and 

 expense of growing, harvesting and 

 cleaning the seed besides. The commer- 



IMPORTANT 



Novelties 



of our raisins of 



Pereonials, Carnatioos 



DAHLIA.S, CLEMATIS, etc. 

 Our NOVSLTT LIST free on apitlloatlon 



does & Koeoemano 



NIEDERWALLUF 

 (Rlielncsn) OKRHANT 



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If yon want a really LIIICIJDAAMC 

 successful crop of IrllJollltUUlTlO 



OSS ONIiT 



JOHNSON'S IMPROVED 

 MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Correspondence invited for over^sea orders. 

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cial grower, of course, may be able to 

 grow his seed cheaper, but he cannot 

 grow the kind of seed that I have for 

 the amount of money he gets as his share 

 and live and prosper as he deserves. 



I believe I am within the bounds of 

 reason and truth when I say that owing 

 to seed adulteration the planter loses 

 millions annually. This fact was brought 

 home to me again last fall when I 

 placed upon the market turnips grown 

 from seed of my own growing in com- 

 petition with turnips grown from seed 

 bought from the seed merchants. Gar- 

 deners would pick up a turnip from my 

 basket and exclaim, "Why, they look as 

 though they were hand-painted." Others 



