

The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Decbmbeb 31, 1908. 



Vick Quality Asters "»*,x'o*:5!Sa °' 



Introduced by as; gro-wn eveiywhere— 



Vick's Late Branching: (H colors); Vick's Snowdrift; 

 Vick*' I>avender Gem; Vick"* Daybreak; Vick's Purity; 

 Vick's VioUt King-, and many other money-makins 

 varieties. 



Other Recent Introductions— Vick's Early 

 Branching; Vick's Royal Purple; Vick's Upright 

 White; Vkk's Cardinal. 



NEW VARIETIES 



Vick's Mikado Pink— JutI the thing: to Krow 

 between the extra tarlv and late flowering: sorts. Sold 

 this year by packet only. 25c each. 



Vlck'a Imperial LaTender— Similar to Day- 

 break, except in color. 1-64 oz., 40c; l-32oz., 60c; 

 1-16 oi., $1.00; '8 oz., $1.60; « oz., $2 50; hi oz., $4.50; 

 loz ,$8 00. 



Vick's Non-lateral Branching:— A newstrain. 

 Every stem bears an exhibition flower. No lateral side 

 buds. 132oz.,26c; 1-16 oz.. 40c; 'a ox., 60c; }ioz., 

 $1.00; H oz., $1.75; 1 oz , $3.00. 



Send for our Aster Book for Florists. 



JAMXS VICK'S SONS, Rochester. N. T. 



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by slow progression have attained their 

 excellence by selection through many gen- 

 erations, are still with us. 



Giuie of Deterioratiofi. 



Great quantities of tomato seed are 

 saved at catsup and canning factories. 

 Many large melon growers save the seeds 

 from their culls and small melons. Much 

 cabbage, turnip, beet, carrot and other 

 seeds are produced in mild climates, 

 where it is not necessary to remove the 

 roots from the ground for winter protec- 

 tion, and consequently they cannot be 

 carefully selected. Even large crops of 

 radish seeds are grown without trans- 

 planting. 



These seeds are furnished to dealers 

 very cheaply, and certainly show no im- 

 provement. In the breeding and improve- 

 ment of plants we must work along the 

 same lines as practiced by our breeders 

 of thoroughbred animals. They do not 

 stop after selecting and breeding, but 

 continue with careful attention and good 

 feeding, knowing that without these es- 

 sentials but little progress can be made. 



It is not necessary to produce argu- 

 ment that varieties are improved by culti- 

 vation, because it is a well-known fact 

 that our vegetables were in their original 

 wild state almost worthless weeds. Most 

 of us have noticed how soon they will 

 degenerate and revert if permitted to be 

 self-sown and to grow without cultivation 

 for a few years. The radish will become 

 somewhat like the charlock, or wild mus- 

 tard, which is its near relative. It is a 

 common belief that the parsnip will be- 

 come poisonous, although this idea is con- 

 tradicted by some eminent physicians. 



Sources of Best Seeds. 



Some years ago we firmly believed that 

 seeds grown in any certain locality were 

 best adapted to that place, or, in other 

 words, we believed in home-grown seeds. 

 We had printed in large type on tbe 

 labels of the cases of seeds that we 

 placed in the stores to be sold on com- 

 mission these words, "Black's garden 

 seeds are nearly all grown in Buchanan 

 county, Iowa. ' ' We succeeded in grow- 

 ing nearly all kinds, but many of them 

 without profit. 



After some years of experience, we 

 have modified our belief to some extent 

 and now think that seeds grown where 

 the vegetable will reach its highest state 

 of perfection are best, with few excep- 

 tions. Our best cauliflower seed is grown 

 near Puget Sound, Wash.; early cabbage 

 seed on Long Island, New York; late 

 cabbage seed in Holland, and radish in 

 France. We believe that tomato, cucum- 

 ber, squash and most vine seeds that are 

 grown in Iowa are as good as the best. 



All seeds from which we wish to grow 



New Crop Flower Seed Comiog io Rapidly 



STOKKS* HAMMOTH VKRBBNA, white, pink, scarlet, purple, mixed. 



trade pkt., 20c; oz., $1.25. 



STOCKS. DWARF, LARGE VLOWSRING TEN WEEKS, blood red. pink, blue, 



white, mixed trade pkt, 25c; oz., $2.00 



Princess Alice trade pkt.. 80c; oz., 2.50 



Improved Snovrflake » trade pkt., 40c 



SALVIA, my own growing:. 



Splendens trade pkt., 25c; oz., $1.00 



Bonfire trade pkt., 30c: oz., 2.00 



Zurich trade pkt., 50c: l-16oz., 1.00 



MIGNONETTE, Machet trade pkt, 10c: oz.. 85c: k-lb., 1.25 



LOBELiXA, Crystal Palace Compaota trade pkt., 25c; oz., 1.25 



PRIMULA. Stokes' Standard Chinese. 



An unsurpassed strain per 100 seeds, 25c; per 500 seeds, $1.00; per 1000 seeds, 1.65 



Kermeslna Splendens, Snow White, Peach Blossom, Blue. A]ba Rosea. Striped, 

 per 250 seeds, 50c; per 1000 seeds, 1.75 



PETUNIA. Giant o< California trade pkt., 45c 



Howard's Star ■ trade pkt., 35c 



Blotched and Striped trade pkt., 15c; oz., 60c 



S^SpAes S^^d Si<>^^' 



819 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Seeds { 



For the Florist 



and Gardener 



FRESH ENGLISH MUSHROOM SPAWN 



$6.60 per 100 lbs. 

 SEND FOR TRADE CATALOG 



Currie Bros. Co., ""^^S^fs".''^^ 



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An Excellent Torcing Winter Flower is 



Rawson's New Pink Beauty Lupin 



Seeds sown now will produce immense spikes of beautiful 

 pink blossoms inside of three months. 



FRESH SEEDS ARE READY NOW I Per oz., 30c; 4 os., $1.00. 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 



6 Union Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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iir^^E^ Mushroom Spawn 



Never fails to produce a crop. 10 lbs., 80c; 25 lbs., $1.50; 100 lbs., $6.00; 1000 lbs., $55.00. 



Paper White Qrandiflora Narcissus 



Large bulbs, 14 cm. and over. $1.00 per 100; $8.00 per 1000 (case). 

 NEW CROP FLOWER SEEDS READY. Send for Florists' Wholesale Catalogue, just issued 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 



217 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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NARCISSUS 



(Paper White Grandiflora) 

 First-class bulbs, $1.00 per 100; $6 60 per 1000. 



TheDiiiEse&GoMnlGo.*';]"'" 



Dahlias 



Named varieties. 

 Send for list. 



DAVID HERBERT ft SON 



dticoeaK>rftoL.K. PeMook.Iiio. ATOO.H. J. 



