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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 5, 1909. 



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■■tabUslied 1808 



Lilium HarrisH 



True Stock from most reliable 

 growers. 



Freesia Purity 



Send for copy of our ^^eholesale 

 bulb catalog^ue, now ready. 



J. N. THORBURN it CO. 



88 B»roIay Street, thronsh to 

 88 Park Place, NEW YORK. 



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Seed Pansy Seed 



Brown's extra select superb Giant 

 Prize PatPBies, awarded medals wher- 

 ever exhibited. Flowers are of enormous 

 size; in beauty and color they are incom- 

 parable; mixed, light or dark strain. 



New 1909 seed of my own growing. 

 3000 seeds, 91.00; X os., $1.B0; 'A 

 oi., 92.60; 1 oz.,96.00; X lb., 914.00; 

 'A lb., 986.00; 1 lb., 9(0.00. 



Plants Ready in September. 

 Cash with order. 



Peter Browfl,«ui^'stLancaster, Pa. 



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JHerelj A Reminder 



of the importance of getting^ 



Vick Quality 

 Seeds 



for summ^ ■owing^ 

 to secure the best results « 

 either in greenhouse or open field. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS, 



Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



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PR J Mil lim 



No better strains in existence. Famous Ronsdorfer 

 and Lattmann Obconica iiybrids, 2-in. stocli ready now. 

 For prices see classified adv. 



J. L. SCHILLER, 929 Prouty Ave., Toledo. 0. 



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Catalopes, Colored Plates, 



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cherry, Manetti multiflora and briar rose, 

 3 years old or less, $1 per thousand 

 plants; stocks, cuttings or seedlings of 

 pear, apple, quince and the St. Julien 

 plum, 3 years old or less, $2 per thousand 

 plants; rose plants, budded, grafted, or 

 grown on their own roots, 4 cents each; 

 stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all fruit 

 and ornamental trees, deciduous and ever- 

 green shrubs and vines, and all trees, 

 shrubs, plants and vines conmionly known 

 as nursery or greenhouse stock, not spe- 

 cially provided for in this section, twenty- 

 five per centum ad valorem. 



266. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, 25 

 cents per bushel of fifty pounds; flaxseed 

 or linseed and other oil seeds not spe- 

 cially provided for in this section, 25 

 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds; 

 poppy seed, 15 cents per bushel; mush- 

 room spawn and spinach seed, 1 cent per 

 pound; beet, except sugar beet, carrot, 

 com salad, parsley, parsnip, radish, tur- 

 nip and rutabaga seed, 4 cepts per 

 pound; cabbage, collard, kale and kohl- 

 rabi 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 cents per ^ound. 



668. Free list. Seeds: Anise, canary, 

 caraway, cardamom, cauliflower, corian- 

 der, cotton, cummin, fennel, fenugreek, 

 hemp, hoarhound, mangel-wurzel, mus- 

 tard, rape, St. 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, ever- 

 green seeds; all the foregoing not spe- 

 cially provided for in this section. 



DEFENDS THE MEN. 



A. J. Pieters, of Hollister, Cal., has 

 issued a circular letter, in which he de- 

 fends the men who are in charge of the 

 government seed distribution. Mr. Piet- 

 ers was at one time a member of the 

 staff of the Department of Agriculture 

 and should have full knowledge of his 

 subject. His circular is as follows: 



"In several of the recent numbers of 

 the trade journals letters and items have 

 appeared that reflect on the manner in 

 which the free seed distribution is being 

 conducted by the Department of Agri- 

 culture. The writer of this holds no brief 

 for the oflScials of the department and is 

 convinced that they are well able to take 

 care of themselves, but he does feel that 

 someone ought to protest against these 

 attacks on the men instead of on the 

 measures. The writer has himself been 

 engaged in this work and helped to estab- 

 lish some of the poUcies that have been 

 followed ever since, and he knows where- 

 of he speaks when he says that there 

 is not a responsible official in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry who would not be glad 

 to have the seed distribution done away 

 with. Much more effort has been made 

 by these men than the seedsmen know of 

 to bring about this result. That they 

 have not succeeded is not their fault, 

 and that the distribution has grown since 

 the work was turned over to this bureau 

 is only the logical result of good ad- 

 ministration. 



"The trade should remember that 

 these men have a hard problem to han- 

 dle. On the one hand they have to get 

 out the seed, and on the other they have 

 a definite amount of money to use and 

 the seeds must be secured within that 

 appropriation. Mr. Landreth recently 

 objected to the fact that the department 

 had placed a growing contract and want- 

 ed to know why this seed could not have 



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Recognized by the growers a» the best 

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 top prices. Seed saved from selected 

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'A trade pkL, 60c; trade pkL, $1.00 

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