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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 12, 1909. 



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Lilium Harrisii 



True Stock from most reliable 

 growers. 



Freesia Purity 



Send for copy of our wholesale 

 bulb cataIogn>Of now ready. 



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Seed Pansy Seed 



Brown' B extra select saperb Giant 

 Prize PansieB, awarded medals wher- 

 ever exhibited. Flowers are of enormoas 

 Bize; in beauty and color they are incom- 

 parable; mixed, light or dark strain. 



New 1909 seed of my own growing. 

 8000 seedB, $1.00; X oi., $1.K0; % 

 os.,$2.50; 1 oi.,$6.00: % lb., 914.00; 

 % lb., $26.00; 1 lb., $60.00. 



Plant! Raady in September. 

 Cash with order. 



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* PANSY SEED 



^Bal S & I Giant. Finest Mixed 



per oz., 15.00 

 Cineraria Bead, S & I Finest Mixed, tr. pkt .. .60 



Per 1000 

 Cyclamen Seed, Finest EnKllsh strain, 



giant tlowering, in colors f 9.C0 



Ullum Harrisii, truetype,5/7, 400 in a case 45.00 



6/7.385 " 65.00 



Narclasua, Paper White Grandiflora. 18 



cm. and up 1250 in a case 9.00 



NarolBSua, Paper white Grandiflora, 



mammotb. 14 cm. and uo. 1000 in a case 11.00 

 Wblte Roman Hyaolntbs, 1^15 cm., 



2000 in a case 23.60 



Frenob Trumpet Major, mammoth 12.00 



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No better strains in existence. Famous Ronsdorfer 

 and Lattmann Obconica hybrids, 2-in. stock ready now. 

 For prices see classified aav. 



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forth; second, Silas Cole, Northampton. 



For American varieties of sweet peas, 

 prizes were offered by W. Atlee Burpee 

 for twelve bunches and by C. C. Morse & 

 Co. for six bunches, and the best varieties 

 shown were of the Spencer type, Asta 

 Ohn, Mrs. Routzahn, Bamona, Tennant, 

 Beatrice anil Mrs. Sankey. 



Among the novelties shown which 

 found favor with the public were Mrs. 

 W. J. Unwin and Edna Unwin, from W. 

 J. Unwin; Anglian Blue, Anglian Pink 

 and Anglian Orange, from E. W. King & 

 Co.; Mrs. Townsend, Ida Towasend and 

 Mrs. Cawthorne, from Jarman & Co.; 

 Orange King, from S. Bide & Sons, aad 

 Colleen, from W. Deal. There were 

 rumors afloat that there would be yellow 

 sweet peas in evidence. On the stands, 

 however, they were non est, but some of 

 the fraternity of a sportive character 

 had yellow blooms of the deepest dye in 

 their buttonholes, suggestive of the ani- 

 line bottle at home. 



It will be remembered that the premier 

 novelty of 1909 was George Stark, but 

 the raisers, G. Stark & Sons, were unable 

 to send it out on account of their limited 

 stock. They have sold over 5,000 pacfets 

 for next season's delivery, and their crop 

 prospects at present are good. 



This show was undoubtedly the largest 

 ever held under the society's auspices, 

 and altogether it was probably the best, 

 certainly the best as regards the dec- 

 orative effect. . 



Unfortunately, the names of the pre- 

 mier novelties of the year could not be 

 announced at the show, as usual. The 

 floral committee does not give awards to 

 novelties as exhibited; they have to un- 

 dergo a more stringent test, especially 

 for fixity. The raisers send seeds in 

 spring to the society's superintendent of 

 trials, and they are grown under number 

 without the raiser seeing them until the 

 floral committee has done its work. The 

 cold, sunless, rainy season militated 

 against the flowers developing, and they 

 were judged after a spell of three or four 

 days' wind and rain. Consequently the 

 committee deferred its decision, in order 

 to make another inspection under more 

 favorable auspices. 



A few days prior to the show, between 

 fifty and sixty members of the society 

 \isited the sweet peas growing for seed 

 on the farms of Cooper, Taber & Co., 

 Essex, W. Deal, Kelvedon, and E. W. 

 King & Co., Coggeshall, and the large 

 acreage and purity of stocks generally 

 were favorably commented on. The crop 

 prospects at present are good, but a long 

 spell of sunny weather is now required, 

 as this alone will determine whether 

 there will be a full or a short crop. 



In consequence of a controversy in one 

 of our journals last winter, in which E. 

 VV. King & Co. were guaranteeing ninety 

 per cent fixity of their Spencer types, R. 

 Sydenham, Birmingham, one of the 

 largest mail-order houses in sweet peas, 

 challenged the King firm to prove its 

 statement by an independent trial, the 

 loser to pay the trial expenses and £10 to 

 the gardening charities. E. W. King 

 promptly accepted the challenge, and 

 seeds of ten varieties were sent to the 

 society's trial grounds, where they were 

 scrupulously tested, and judged a few 

 (lays ago. The result was altogether in 

 King's favor. Twenty seeds of each 

 variety were sown, and I believe seven 

 varieties were quite true and three varie- 

 ties had one rogue each. E. W. King 

 has received numerous congratulations 

 upon his pluck in accepting the challenge, 

 and upon the result, also. Bee. 



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