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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



October 22, 1908. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHIBIGAN 8BKD TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Watson 8. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

 First Vice-pres., J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Bec'y and Treae., C. £. Kendel, Cleveland. 



The third shipment of Japanese longi- 

 florum bulbs reached Chicago last week. 



Prof. W. F. Massey comments that 

 Maule's Earliest and Earliana tomatoes 

 seem to him to be identical. The former 

 was introduced first. 



Charles P. Guelph, of the Jerome B. 

 Eice Seed Co., Cambridge, N. Y., is at 

 present making his headquarters at Co- 

 lumbus, O., Chittenden hotel. 



W. W. Eawson & Co., Boston, have 

 been exhibiting largely at local and near- 

 by fairs and flower shows, believing it 

 good advertising for both fl^jwer and veg- 

 etable seed departments and the plant 

 department. 



There is said to be a wide range in 

 the deliveries made by the different 

 growers of peas for the canning trade, 

 some delivering only twenty-five per cent, 

 while others are delivering from fifty to 

 sixty per cent. 



A SUMMER visitor to the trial grounds 

 of Watkins & Simpson, London, says it 

 was notable the vigorous manner in 

 which selection is carried out in flower 

 seed crops grown there, and the result- 

 ing improvement in the strains. 



C. A. Tenny is the manager of the 

 Horr-Warner Co., one of the largest 

 growers of onions on the muck lands of 

 Wayne and Medina counties in Ohio. 

 About 200 bushels of onions are planted 

 each year for seeds, the selection of 

 bulbs for planting being made from the 

 general crop as the crop is being har- 

 vested. 



At Chicago, October 20, timothy seed 

 was steady. October closed at $3.50 bid, 

 and March $3.75 bid and $3.82M.' asked. 

 Country lots, $2.30 to $3.40. Clover seed 

 was firmer at $7.75 for October and $6 

 to $7.50 for cash lots. At Toledo, clover 

 seed was, cash, $4.72i4; October, $4.70; 

 December, $4.77 V2; March, $4.90; No. 2, 

 $4.52; No. 3, $4.40;" rejected, $4.25. Al- 

 sike, prime, $8.80. 



The argument that because the purity 

 of fertilizers can and has been success- 

 fully required by law to be guaranteed, 

 the same guarantee should be required 

 for seeds, is a weak one. Fertilizers are 

 the product of men and machinery; 

 seeds are the product of nature. There 

 would be no need for any sort of a guar- 

 antee if it were not a characteristic of 

 human nature to want to get something 

 for nothing, or as near to it as possible. 



A verdict has been rendered in favor 

 of the Leonard Seed Co., Chicago, 

 amounting to $255.25, against the Big 

 Four railroad, growing out of a suit for 

 damages to a shipment of onion sets 

 made a year or two ago over the line of 

 the defendant. The shipment was sent 

 to an Indiana point and upon arrival at 

 destination the consignee declined to ac- 

 cept the shipment, claiming that the 

 onion sets has been damaged by delay. 

 Thereupon the Leonard Seed Co. in- 

 structed the railroad to return the ship- 

 ment and verdict was given for the full 

 amount of the claim. 



C. C. MORSE & CO. 



48-66 Jackson St.. Sbh Francisco, Cat. 



THX LARGEST SKKD GROWERS ON THK PACIFIC COAST 



Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



-AL,SO- 



Carrot, Celery, Leek, Mustard, Parsley, Parsnip, Radish, Salsify 



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FLOWER SEEDS-ONION SETS . . . GET OUR PRICES 



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YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



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THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, ETC 



Mllford, Conn. 

 Kast Jordan, Mich* 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



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S.IM.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Oro^eers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



Correspondence Solicited 



■^^Wrlte for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 ^^V for Immediate Slilpment 



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PEAS a BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. 



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The seed trade in New York city 

 takes an optimistic view of the situation 

 and looks forward to a first-class season. 



J. M. Clark, secretary of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., Chicago, was called to his old 

 home on Staten Island, New York, by 

 the death, October 15, of his mother, 73 

 years of age. 



F. C. Heinemann, Erfurt, Germany, 

 is this year sending out a norelty in the 

 way of a forcing radish called Giant 

 IButter, large, round, scarlet, short 

 leaved, with small tap root. 



It is stated that H. W. Buckbee, 

 Eockford, 111., who advertises his cata- 

 logue in the syndicate country weeklies, 

 had so many calls last year that an ex- 



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Colored 

 Flower 

 and 

 Vegetable 



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 BAGS 



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Herndon & Lester, Inc. 



RICHMOND, VA. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, inXn, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. 



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 Growers of 



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tra edition of 35,000 was required, and 

 will this year print 150,000 books, at the 

 same time enlarging from 128 pages to 

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