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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Febbcabt 18, 1909. 



Seed 



CAULIFLOWER 

 A B B A G E 



LILY OF THE VALLEY PIPS 



HJALMAR HARTMANN & CO. 



12 Stormgado, CopanhagiBn, Denmark. 



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Holland Bulbs 



Blaathuis & Van Alphen, wholeBale bulh 

 frowers and exporters, Llue, near Haarlem, 

 Holland. Superior quality, low prices. 



Sole American Agent, 

 J. MEERKAMP VAN EMBDEN, ML Vernon, N. Y. 



Ask fob Catalog. 

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English Grown Seeds 



Farm, Garden and Flower S^ods of best qual 

 ity. Specialties: Oiant Fancy Pansy, saved from 

 named plants; Carrot, Onion, Brussels Sprouts. 

 Cabbagre, Golden BaU Turnip. 



Price list free on application to 



THE BEDFORDSHIRE SEED CO., Ltd, 



SANDY. BNOLAND 



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LARGKST STOCK OV AIX 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Aaaleaa, Araucarias« Sweet Bays, 

 Palma,Besoniaa« Oloxiniast etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE, PERE 



GHENT, Bel^um. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN SBBD TftADB ASSOCIATION. 



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

 First Vice-pres., J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., 0. £. Kendel, Cleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Niagara 

 Falls, Ont.. June 22 to 24. 1909. 



The mail trade is keeping right up to 

 the best February records. 



Canners are again inquiring for peas, 

 but none seem interested in corn. 



The mail-order houses report a con- 

 siderable increase in the southern busi- 

 ness, especially with truckers. 



California growers are now pretty 

 well cleaned up on surpluses and are 

 bending all energies to the next crop. 



Wholesale seedsmen are on the jump. 

 If a buyer calls for stock that can be 

 BuppUed, he expects it on the first train. 



Market garden business is enjoying 

 something of a boom. The prices of 

 vegetables in practically all markets are 

 so high that the market gardeners are 

 confident of a good return for their early 

 crops and are pushing things along. 



The Texas seedsmen, whose season is 

 several weeks farther along than it is 

 with the northern houses, say that the 

 business is footing up ahead of last year 

 and that in certain lines it has become 

 difficult to fill orders. 



The U. S. Senate has requested the 

 Treasury Department to state the amount 

 of specific duties collected on imports 

 during the last year and the cost of mak- 

 ing the collections, also the same infor- 

 mation regarding ad valorem duties. The 

 information is desired in connection with 

 the proposed tariff retifiion. 



Japanese Lily Bulbs and Plants 



Grown and Exported by 



RIHACHIRO TANOI 



Yokohama, Japan 



Catalogs for 1909 on application to representative 

 K. TAKEUCHl, = 478-A Boylston Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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— TO THX TRADE— > 



HENRY METTE, Qaedlmbfir& Gennaoy 



^"■■■■^^"^^■^ . (Established in 1787) 



Grower and Exporter on the very largest scale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



Speoialtles : Beaas, Beets, Cabbages, Carrots, Kohl-Rabi, Leeks, Lettuces. Onions, 

 Peas, RsidlslieB, Spinach, Turnips, Swedes, Asters, Balsams, Begonias, Carnations, 

 Cinerarias, Glojcinias, Larkspurs, Nasturtiums, Pansles, Petunias, Phlox, Primulas, 

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



HISrRT MBTTB'S TRIUMPH OF THS GLANT PANSIKS (mixed), the most 

 perfect and most beautiful in the world, 16.00 per oz.; $1.50 per ^-oz.; 75c per 1-M oz. Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on my owm arounds of 

 more than 3000 acres, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest 

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



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COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest grades of Hamburg Valley, for 

 shipment as desired. 



Fruit and Ornamental Stocks. 



French grown, best quality, carefully selected, 

 graded and packed. 



KncUsh Manettl Stocks. 



Grown especially for florists' use. 



Holland Plants. 



Roses. Peonies, Rhododendrons, Boxtrees, 

 Clematis, Conifers, etc. 



Uly of the VaUey. 



Finest grades of Berlin and Hamburg for im- 

 port. 

 For catalogs, specialotters, etc., please apply to 



H. FRANK DARROW, 

 Importer Wliolesalsr 



P. 0. BOX 1250, 26 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



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Lily of the Valley 



MANN'S EXCELSIOR 



Are the finest in existence and their flowers 

 fetch the beot prices in the London market. 

 For quotations, please apply to 



OTTO MANN, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany 



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The English seed business known as 

 John Sharpe & Sons is in bankruptcy. 

 The liabilities are about $165,000, with 

 assets estimated to produce $15,000. 



HELIANTI. 



Otto Katzenstein & Co., Atlanta, Ga., 

 report having secured the sole American 

 rights for the distribution of a new tuber- 

 ous plant called Helianti, which they say 

 has gained a rapid populftrity in Europe 

 because its yield is something phenomenal 

 and its economical value great. 



Helianti is a hybrid belonging to the 

 sunflower family. It grows ten feet high, 

 with deep green foliage and bright yel- 

 low flowers, but the edible parts are 

 the root tubers. The tubers are plowed 

 like potatoes and stored like sweet po- 

 tatoes, in a cellar or barn, covered with 



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WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULIf LOWER-SEED 



is thr earliest of I 

 all Snovballs, thei| 

 . most compact, the 

 surest header, is | 

 giving the largest and snow- 

 whitest heads, and is the 

 best keeper in dry-weallier. 

 Demand it through your 

 seed4irm or direct from 



R. WIBOLTT, MKSKOV. DCNMRK I 



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HOLLAND BILBS 



A complete line of healthy, well-grown, well- 

 graded bulbs for fall delivery. 



VAN TIL-HARTMAN 

 HILLEGOM, HOLLAND 



Price list and full information from 



Jackson & Perkins Co* 



Sole American Agents 



Newark - New York 



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UP-TO-DATE 



Azaleas and Rhododendrons 

 with Jean Bracke 



lioochriaty, near Ghent, Belpunk 



CATALOGUES FREK ON APPLICATION 



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a layer of moist sand. The yield is said 

 to be as much as half again as great as 

 that of Irish potatoes. Its food value is 

 said to be more than four times that 

 of potatoes and twenty-five per cent 

 greater than the food value of green 

 peas. The flavor is said to resemble 

 French artichokes, or asparagus wiljh a 

 flavor of mushrooms, and Katzenstein 

 & Co. say that they have not the least 

 doubt that Helianti will soon be one of 

 the most popular vegetables in this coun- 



