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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



NOYCUBiB 26, 1908. 



Seed Business 



For Sale 



An opportunity to acquire an interest, minor, 

 aaajor or whole, of an old eBtabllshed and 

 profitable seed buBiness; wholesale, retail and 

 mail order; volume about $200,000.00 per annum. 

 Bad health of the majority owner reason for 

 selling. Full particulars to interested and re- 

 sponsible partiee. Would require about $60,000.00 

 to buy all the stock. 



Address No. 253, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



BKXD TBADK 



Situation wanted by an experienced seedsman, 

 thoroughly conversant with every branch of the 

 trade; 25 years' practical experience. Address 

 Ko. S50, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SEED TBAOE ASSOtlATION. 



Pres. Watson S. Woodruff, Orange, Conn ; 

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

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



MusKMELON doesn't become any more 

 plentiful. 



Thebe is now no time to be lost on 

 the catalogues; the southern lists must 

 go out within three weeks. 



Holland growers are holding mangold 

 seed for higher prices in consequence of 

 reports of a short crop in Germany. 



An excellent illustration of Mikado 

 Pink, the new aster of Jas. Vick's Sons, 

 appears on page 15 of this issue. It was 

 described in Ihe issue of November 19. 



It is stated that the reorganized St. 

 Louis Seed Co., St. Louis, is considering 

 disposing of its mail-order business and 

 that invitations for an offer have been 

 addressed to some of the leading mail- 

 order seed houses in the western field. 



The Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dallas, 

 has embarked on a campaign of educa- 

 tion "to promote diversification of crops 

 and larger demand for better seed in 

 greater variety" in the southwest. H. 

 W. Fisher, formerly with the Albert 

 Dickinson Co., Chicago, and later in 

 charge of the seed department of Mont- 

 gomery Ward & Co,, has been engaged 

 to take charge of the work. A house 

 organ in magazine form, to be called The 

 Prop^ressive Planter, and to be issued 

 Bemi-monthly, will be the principal means 

 employed. The first issue was dated No- 

 vember 16 and contained as its principal 

 feature an illustrated sketch of the Texas 

 Seed & Floral Co. and its president, E. 

 Nicholson. 



Neithek of the great Chicago mail- 

 order houses will issue seed catalogues 

 for 1909. Sears, Eoebuck & Co. dropped 

 its seed department a year ago, after 

 stocks were under contract for 1908, and 

 Montgomery Ward & Co. closed its seed 

 shop at the end of the 1908 spring sea- 

 son, after a fall seed and bulb book was 

 partly in type. To the general mail-order 

 people it looks as though the seed busi- 

 ness would be one of the easiest lines to 

 handle, but a little actual experience 

 serves to demonstrate that seeds can not 

 be successfully dealt in under the condi- 

 tions surrounding the general mail-order 

 trade when conducted on a mammoth 

 scale. The seedsmen have nothing to 

 fear from this competition, and it proba- 

 bly will be some time before any other 

 large general mail-order house makes an 

 incursion upon the seedsmen's field. 



C. C. HORSE & CO. 



48-66 jaekaon St., San rroncisco, CaU 



THX LABGBST 8XXD GROWSB8 OH THS rACXFIO CX>AIT 



Onion, Lettuce, Sweet Peas 



-AL80- 



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



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LEONARD SEED C^ 



GROWERS AND WHOT.1WAT.BBS OFi SUPXRIOR GARDEN SEEDS 



FLOWER SEEDS-ONION SEtS . . . GET OUR PRICES 



79 E..tKin.i.sW^.t^^^ CHICAGO 



148 West RandolMi I 



Mention Thev|Revlew when you write. 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelpliia, — for new Complete Catalog 



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miford. Conn, 

 ■aat Jordan, MIolu 

 Slater Bay, Wla. 



TflE EVEREn B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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



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Surplus, Crop 1906 



Sweet Pea and Onion 



SEED 



stocks choice. Prices reasonable. Our con- 

 tract list for 1909 is ready. Special terms for 

 early orders. Correspondence solicited. 



A. J. Platers Seed Co., Hollister, Cal. 



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SEATxTiE, WASH. 

 Growors ot 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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There are at present several opportu- 

 nities for men of capital to acquire an 

 interest in established seed houses doing 

 a large trade. 



James G. Elder, wLo was for some 

 years with the Iowa Seed Co., at Des 

 Moines, is again in the employment of 

 that concern as manager of the retail 

 salesroom. 



To keep pace with their rapidly in- 

 creasing retail trade, the Planters' Seed 

 Co., Springfield, Mo., has found it neces- 

 sary to annex the adjoining room east. 

 The company now occupies the entire 

 building at 220 and 222 West Walnut 

 street. 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Beod Growora 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Oorrespondence Solicited 



a^^^WHto for prices on Surplus Stoeka 

 ^^V for Inunodlata Slilpmont 



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PEAS ^ BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS. - - MICH. 



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Onion Seed 



We are extensive growers and dealers. 

 Write for prices on 1908 crop. 



Are also contracting now for 1909. 



SCHILDER BROS., Chillicothe, 0. 



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Waldo Rohneri 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettace, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aatei, 

 Cosmos. Mignonette, Verbena, In vaiiety. Ooc^ 

 respondence solicited. 



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