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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBR 29, 1908. 



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The Float Representing H. F. Michell Co., in a Philadelpfaia Industrial Parade. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMSBICAlf SKID TBADS ASSOGUTIOIT. 



PreSv Watson S. Woodruff, Orange, Gonn.; 

 flmt Vlce-preB., J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Beo'y and Treas., C. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 



SCHILDER Bros., Chillicothe, O., har- 

 vested enough onion seed so that they 

 are offering direct to planters through 

 the produce papers. 



Stumpp & Walter Co., New York, 

 does a large business in poultry supplies, 

 and is now holding a poultry show on 

 the second floor of its building at 50 

 Barclay street. 



The McKay Seed & Floral Co., Jack- 

 son, Miss., is a comparatively new con- 

 cern, which handles a line of field and 

 garden seeds. J. F. McKay is in charge 

 of the store. 



A SEEDSMAN, W. E. Marshall, has been 

 appointed to organize the3orticultural 

 section of the big industriaP^aft parade 

 to be given in New York city^ Saturday 

 afternoon, October 31. 



W. WiLLiFORD & Co. is a new shipper 

 of holly and wild smilax at Troy, Ala. 

 The firm has timber leases on some 30,- 

 000 acres of land and says that in the 

 thirty years it has been connected with 

 the lumber business in that section it 

 has never seen holly so full of berries 

 as at the present time. 



At Chicago October 27 timothy seed 

 was firmer. March closed at $3.82i^ bid. 

 Country lots, $2.40@3.50. Clover seed 

 was dull at $8.50 for October and $6 to 

 $8 for cash lots. At Toledo clover seed 

 was: Cash, $5.07%; October, $5.10; De- 

 cember, $5.15; March, $5.27^5; No. 2, 

 $4.85; No. 3, $4.75; rejected, $4.65. Al- 

 sike, prime, $8.90. 



Lem W. Bowen, president and gen- 

 eral manager of D. M. Ferry & Co., De- 

 troit, states that the reports coming from 

 the Pacific northwest with regard to his 

 firm's establishing a seed farm in that 

 section are "all a mistake." Shown a 

 clipping from a Denver paper, which 

 said the firm was to do something large 

 in Idaho, and asked for something au- 

 thentic, Mr. Bowen said : ' * The only 

 answer we can make is that we have no 

 present intention of establishing a seed 

 farm in Idaho, or any other western 

 state, nor have we contemplated any 

 such thing." 



M. FuLD, of W. W. Rawson & Co., 

 Boston, says that the call for Dutch 

 bulbs this year has been far above their 

 supply. 



Archias Seed Store, Sedalia, Mo., is 

 having plans made for a 2-story brick 

 warehouse to be built in the rear of its 

 present quarters. 



Robert Laughlin, of Kenton, O., is 

 one of the largest growers of sets and 

 onion seed in the Ohio district and is 

 said to have several thousand pounds of 

 onion seed now in store. 



Referring to the season's business in 

 bulbs, Peter Henderson & Co., New York, 

 say: "We ordered very conservatively 

 this year, so we are now buyers instead 

 of having a surplus to offer." 



Anton C. Zvolanek, Bound Brook, N. 



J., has announced his determination to 



sell out his greenhouse establishment and 



devote his entire time to his business in 



"^eeds of winter-flowering sweet peas. 



Edward Lotz is preparing to start in 

 th6 wholesale seed business at Salina, 

 Kan. 



James Vick's Sons, Rochester, say: 

 "We havfc had a splendid trade in bulbs 

 this fall and our stocks are rapidly clos- 

 ing out, so it is evident we shall not 

 have any surplus." 



J. D. Funk, seedsman of Bloomington, 

 111., had a two-column article in the Chi- 

 cago Tribune October 23, in which, from 

 the point of view of the farmer, he de- 

 clared "Bryan's bank plan like bogus 

 seed." 



The F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., reports a splendid bvsiaess in 

 Dutch bulbs. Their bulb trade extends 

 to the Pacific coast and they felt enough 

 confidence in the prospect for the pres- 

 ent season so that orders for import were 

 placed on the same scale as in preceding 

 years. The result has been that, with the 

 good demand, they have had one of the 

 best bulb seasons in years. 



"-^'£r^... COLD STORAGE VALLEY PIPS 



I offer a surplus of a very good grade of Valley, suitable for 



Thanksgiving and Ciirislmas Forcing 



at $18.00 per 1000 $1.60 per 100 



Order at once, it will be to your advantage, before they are sold. 

 Extra Selected Pips, $16.00 per 1000; $8.00 per 100 



SPKCIAL FANCY CUT VAIXKT. Reirember. I (trow enough; there 

 will always be a supply of fancy STalley In the ChicaKO market. 



1407-1411 W. MADISON STREET, 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



H. N. BRUNS, 



Mention The Review when you write. 



An Excellent Forcing Winter Flower is 



Rawson's New Pink Beauty Lupin 



Seeds sown now will produce immense spikes of beau- 

 tiful pink blossoms during the early part of March. 

 FRESH SEEDS ARE READY NOWl Per o«., 30c; 4 ©«., $1.00. 



We have just received new crop seeds of the TRUK IRISH SHAMROCK. 

 NOW is the time to sow it for St. Patrick's Day. ^ oz., 50c; 1 oa., fS.OO. 



W.W. RAWSON SCO., 



6 Union Street, 

 BOSTON, MASS. 





