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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



JULT 15, 1900. 



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The Boston seed stores all report the 

 best and longest seed season on record. 



The Nebraska State Experiment Sta- 

 tion, in its efforts to educate the farmers 

 to better seeds, has just issued a bulletin. 

 No. 110, devoted to agricultural seeds, the 

 methods by which they are grown,, and 

 the weed seeds commonly :ieund a»so»g 

 them. 



SPECIFIC DUTIES ON BULBS. 



Senate Bill Revises Tariff. 



The new tariff bill as adopted by the 

 Senate July 8 and now in conference, 

 with almost a certainty of its final pas- 

 sage without amendment to the horticul- 

 tural schedules, gives the trade, not only 

 specific duties on seeds, but specific du- 

 ties on bulbs. 



The rates provided in paragraph 259 

 are as follows: 



Bulbs. Per 1000 



Tulip $ 1.00 



Narcissus 1.00 



Begonia 1.00 



Gloxinia 1.00 



Hyacinth " 2.50 



Lily 5.00 



Calla 5.00 



Amaryllis 10.00 



Astllbe clumps 2.50 



Dlelytra clumps 2.50 



Valley pips 1.00 



Valley clumps 2.50 



Peony roots 10.00 



Iris Kaempferl 10.00 



Iris Germanlca 10.00 



Canna roots 10.00 



Dahlia roots 10.00 



All other bulbs, bulbous roots and corms 

 which are cultivated for their flowers or foliage, 

 .W cents per thousand. 



Orchids, palms, azaleas, and all other deco- 

 rative or greenhouse plants, and cut flowers, 

 preserved or fresh, twenty-flve per centum a4 

 valorem. 



The Seed Parasfraphs. 



The paragraphs covering seeds are as 

 reported in these columns at the time of 

 their adoption by the Senate committee 

 of the whole, as follows: 



245. Beans, 45 cents per bushel of sixty 

 pounds. 



258. Seed peas, 40 cents per bushel of sixty 

 pounds. 



262. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, 25 cents 

 per bushel of flfty pounds; flaxseed or linseed 

 and other oil seeds not specially provided for In 

 this section, 25 cents per bushel of flfty-slx 

 pounds; poppy seed, 15 cents per bushel; mush- 

 room spawn, and spinach seed, 1 cent per 

 pound ; beet, except . sugar beet, carrot, corn 

 salad, parsley, parsnip, radish, turnip and ruta- 

 baga seed, 4 cents per pound; cabbage, collard, 

 kale and kohlrabi seed. 8 cents per pound; egg 

 plant, and pepper seed, 20 cents per pound; 

 seeds of all kinds not specially provided for In 

 this section, 10 cpnts per pound. 



664. Seeds free: Anise, canary, caraway, 

 cardamom, cauliflower, coriander, cotton, cum- 

 min, fennel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound, man- 

 gel-wurzel, mustard, rape. Saint John's bread or 

 bean, sugar beet, sorghum or sugar cane for 

 seed; bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible and 

 not otherwise provided for in this section; all 

 flower and grass seeds; evergreen seeds; all the 

 foregoing not specially provided for In this 

 section. 



The Nursery Paragraph. 



The paragraph covering nursery stock, 



in the Senate bill, is as reported in the 



Beview^ of June 10, as follows: 



260. Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of Myro- 

 bolan plum, Mahaleb or Mazzard cherry, Manettl 

 multlflora and briar rose, three years old or 

 less. $1 per thousand plants; stocks, cuttings 

 gr seedlings of pear, apple, quince and the Saint 

 Mullen plum and evergreen seedlings, three years 

 -VJ or less, |2 per thousand plants; rose plants, 



Mushroom Spawn 



Read these unsolicited testimonials from a Grower 

 and a Gardener. 



From MR. TH08. JONES. 



PONDTAIL NURSEEY, FLEKT, HANTS. 



I have no beBltation in saying with- 

 out exception yourB is the best Spawn I have 

 ever handled. I state this after 40 years' 

 experience. 



From MR. C. MOORE, Thk Oardkns, 

 Fbensham Place, Fabnham, Scrbet. 

 I am dellKhted with the Maihroom 

 Spawn. It b»B turned out the most pro- 

 ductive I have aver had, the beds having 

 yielded heavy crops for three months. 



■Write Us Vor Tmnna- 



J. PITHER, Ltd. 



EsUbliBhed 25 years. UXBRIDGE, ENGLAND 



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A good farmer is the wisest of all men, who. 

 with the plough, writes on the land the magnificent 

 book of human happiness. (B. P. G.) 



THE BEST CROPS OF ONIONS 



can be raiaed in the United States with 



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VARELA'S" 



Improved Bermuda Onion Seeds 



Limited production for 1909. Write soon to secure 

 some. My IMPROVED SEEDS are only obtain- 

 able throoah seedsmen and dealers in the U. S. If a 

 grower cannot get it from his seedsman, write to me 

 and I will give you the names of many who can sapply it. 



rEDERICO C VARELA,(cYn^a?y«/^IS.) 



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budded, grafted, or grown on their own roots, 

 4 cents each; stocks, cuttings and seedlings of 

 all fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous and 

 evergreen, shrubs and vines of all trees, shrubs, 

 plants and vines, commonly known as nursery 

 or greenhouse stock, not specially provided for 

 In this section, twenty-flve per centum ad 

 valorem. 



HARVESTS TO BE GREAT. 



The most tremendous crop of cereals 

 ever harvested is rapidly being made by 

 favorable weather, according to the 

 statisticians of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. The figures given out as of 

 July 1 indicate banner crops of every- 

 thing save winter wheat, with the corn 

 crop for the first time exceeding three 

 billion bushels. 



Here are the figures: 



Acerage. 



1909. 1908 



Winter wheat 27,871,000 30,349,000 



Spring wheat 18,391,000 17,208.000 



Corn 109,006,000 101,788,000 



Oats 32,422,000 32,344,000 



Rye 1,935,000 1,948,000 



Barley 6,881.000 6,646,000 



1909. 

 W. wheat.. 82.4 

 S. wheat... 92.7 



Corn 89.3 



Oats 88.3 



Rye 91.4 



Barley 90.2 



Condition. 



July 1, July 1, Indicated 



1908. Crop. 



SO. 6 .397,000,000 



89.4 296,000,000 



82.8 3,117,000,000 



85.7 1,030,000,000 



91.2 31,000,000 



86.2 191,000,000 



Crop of 



1908. 



438,000,000 



226,000,000 



2,669,000,000 



807.000,000 



32,000,000 



167,000,000 



THE SIOUX QTY CONCERN. 



The Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co., at 

 Sioux City, la., has this year planted 

 about 5,000 acres of corn for seed, most 

 of it in the vicinity of Sioux City, but 

 some in South Dakota. At Sioux City 

 people will tell you the concern has made 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest rradei of Hambnrt Valley, for 

 ■talpment ai desired. 



Fruit «ad Onuunantal ■took*. 



Sirench grown, best quality, carefully lelected. 

 graded and packed. 



■ncUBh Man«ttt ■tooka. 



Grown especially for florista' use. 

 Holland Plants. 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododendrons, Boztreas. 

 Clematis, Oonifers, etc. 



UlT Of tlio VaUoy. 



Finest grades of Berlin and Hamburg for im- 

 vort. 



For catalogs, specialoflers, etc., please apply to 



H. FRANK ■ARROW, 



Importar Wliol«aal«r 



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



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HOLUND BULBS 



A complete line of healthy, well-growa, waU- 

 graded bolbs for fall delivery. 



VAN TIL-HARTMAN 

 HILLEGOM, HOLLAND 



Price list and fall Information from 



Jackson it Perkins Co. 



Bole American Agents 



Newark - New York 



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40,000 Delphiniums 



Now coming into flower, the finest in Europe, 

 every plant 50% better than those you can buy 

 on the Continent. Liata frae. 



PERRY'S HARDY PLANT FARM 



EHraEXJD. MXDDUE8XX, BNGLAND 



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the town the country's leading market 

 for seed corn, of both sweet and field 

 varieties, shipments in carload lots being 

 made to the New England states, to the 

 Pacific coast and to western Canada. 



The Sioux City Seed & Nursery Co. was 

 organized in 1884 for the nursery busi- 

 ness alone. One year later the seed busi- 

 ness was added. The nursery department 

 still carries on an extensive business, sell- 

 ing direct to the planters through agents 

 and by catalogue, but the seed trade is 

 exclusively a contract business with seed 

 dealers and canners. In addition to corn, 

 peas and beans are leading specialties. 

 The company owns a warehouse at Al- 

 pena, from which the pea growing end is 



