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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Jdlt 8, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMBBICAN 8EKD TBADI ASSOCIATION. 



Prea., J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; First 

 Vice-pres., M. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas., 0. £. Kendel. Cleveland. O. 



The government seed contract for 1910 

 calls for 27,830 pounds of lettuce and 

 56,667 pounds of radish. 



The Western Seed & Irrigation Co., 

 Fremont, Neb., is inviting bids for the 

 erection of an addition to its seed ware- 

 house. 



The "Western Seed Co., Oklahoma City, 

 Okla., is in bankruptcy. The stock of 

 seeds and florists' supplies will be sold 

 July 12 by Webb Frantz, trustee. 



The family of Jay J. Utter, the 

 grower at Bravo, Mich., have had a long 

 tussle with measles this spring, Mrs. 

 Utter and three children being ill. 



C. E. KooT, manager of the Barteldes 

 Seed Co., Denver, states that in order to 

 facilitate quick delivery of their mail 

 they have adopted the address P. O. Box 

 1804. 



A PROTEST of the Jerome B. Rice Seed 

 Co., filed because of duty assessed on an 

 importation through the port of Albany, 

 N. Y., has been overruled for want of 

 merit. 



The report from the Groningen district 

 in Holland is of an unfavorable season 

 for seed crops, especially of nasturtium 

 and mignonette, with no prospect for 

 other than a small harvest. 



The Maryland Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, at (.'ollege Park, has is- 

 sued a bulletin, No. 133, entitled "Cab- 

 bage Experiments and Culture," which 

 contains much of interest to seedsmen. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has issued 

 "Meadow Fescue, its Culture and Uses," 

 a bulletin by H. N. Vinall, which will 

 be of interest to the dealers in grass 

 seeds. 



The import bulb list of the W. W. 

 Barnard ('o., Chicago, is so arranged that 

 there is a blank at the leit of each item, 

 so all the customer has to do is to fill in 

 the figures indicating the quantity 

 wanted of each variety. 



The Galesburg Mail has discovered 

 that Olmstead >i. Ferris, of Galesburg, 

 111., brought the dandelion to America 

 from England in 1849, the seeds being 

 distributed to several friends in New 

 York, Ohio and Illinois. 



The Livingston Seed Co., (.'olunibus. 

 O., has leased a ne\y four-story brick 

 lmil4ing on • East Chestnut street, near 

 the post-office, and will remove its seed 

 stock and mail order departments there. 

 The offices and retail store will remain 

 on North High street. The change will 

 give both ends of the business a much 

 needed opportunity to spread out and 

 grow. 



SEED CONTRACTS SAFE. 



Because of rumors afloat in the trade 

 to the effect that contingencies had arisen 

 affecting the contracts of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for seeds for the 

 congressional distribution of 1910, the 

 Review asked for official information as 

 to how matters stand. The following 



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COBBESPONDKNCB SOUCITKD. 



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 New lork City Store. 82-84 Dey Street 

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letter was written July 1, by Leon M. 

 Estabrook, Assistant in Charge, Office 

 of Seed Distribution. Mr. Estabrook 

 said : 



"I am directed by the Chief of 

 Bureau to acknowledge receipt of your 

 communication of June 29, 1909, and to 

 advise you that practically all the seed 

 required for the coming congressional 

 distribution has either been purchased 

 from surplus stocks or provided for by 

 growing contracts. 



* ' This office has no knowledge at the 

 present time of any contingencies which 

 would indicate that any of its contracts 

 will not be fulfilled to the letter. The 

 Government 's interests in this regard are 

 fully protected. The rumor referred to 

 in your letter appears to be wholly with- 

 out foundation in fact. ' ' 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 of New York for the week ending June 

 26 were as follows: 



.4ir 



Kind. 



Annatto 



Caraway 



Cardamom . . 1 35 



Celery 3" :!»7 



Clover .lo-i }>,1»2:! 



Coriander . . .2!):{ .'>24 

 Kennel 52 534 



Vkme. Val. Kind. I'kgs. Val. 



2<l !f 140 (irass 10$ :J8 



3,013 l^ycopodluni. . 8 578 



Millet :!25 885 



I'opijy 100 4!I5 



Hape 4 19 



Other 1,3!»2 



In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 .$1,104. 



FIELD'S GOOD YEAR. 



The Henry Field Seed Co., Shenan- 

 doah, la., held its annual meeting July 

 1 and declared a dividend of eight per 

 cent. Reports showed the past season a 

 prosperous one, the increase in business 

 being about fifty per cent over the pre- 

 vious year. All of the old officers and 

 directors were reelected, with the addi- 

 tion of D. S. Lake, the well-known whole- 

 sale nurseryman, to the board of di- 

 rectors. 



For the coming year there will be no 

 change in policy or management. They 

 expect to make quite a feature next year 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, mCH. 



Contract Seed Groovers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squaah, Watermelon, Sweet Cktm 



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 ^^V tor Xnunedlate Shipment 



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ARROYO GRANDE, CAL. 



SWEET PEA and NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIALISTS 



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 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



OILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



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