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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Deceubbr 16, iai>9. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAII SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Prea., J. C. RobinBon, WaterJoo. Neb.: First 

 VJce-prcB., M. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

 Treas.. 0. B. Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



Waldo Eohnert, Giiroy, Cal., finds it 

 necessary to abandon the eastern trip 

 he had planned. He is this season in- 

 creasing his acreage in seed crops from 

 800 to 1,000 acres. 



James Vick's Sons have a new pink 

 aster, which has been given the name 

 Bochester, and which the .Chamber of 

 Commerce there has adopted as the offi- 

 cial flower of the city. 



At the annual meeting of the Rhode 

 Island Grange Society, last week, it was 

 voted to ask the general assembly to 

 enact a law to provide for an inspection 

 of all seed that is sold for horticultural 

 and agricultural purposes in that state. 



Most of the big seed houses will this 

 season avail themselves of the privilege 

 of mailing their catalogues prepaid in 

 cash without stamps. The post-office 

 regulations have now been so simplified 

 and have become so well understood that 

 a considerable saving is made to anyone 

 mailing large quantities of identical 

 pieces. 



The first of the eastern general seed 

 catalogues for 1910 to reach the Review 

 was tliat of the Livingston Seed Co., 

 Columbus, O., which came to hand De- 

 cember 12 — an advance copy — with which 

 was enclosed the special catalogue for 

 market gardeners. The general cata- 

 logue celebrates the sixtieth anniversary 

 of the house and it is natural that a 

 specially fine book should have been is- 

 Baed. The embossed lithograph cover of 

 coarse Carries a tomato, with the Ohio 

 Sugar muskmelon on the back. The 

 prices are of course a matter of interest. 

 Peas of the popular sorts are from $2 to 

 $2.75 per peck; beans from 40 cents to 

 60 cents per quart, with most of the 

 largest sellers at 50 cents; Crosby's 

 ry Egyptian beet, 75 cents per pound. 



TO THS TRADB 



HENRY METTE, Qoedliobors, dennaoy 



^■"■■^■^^^^^ (ESTABUSHID IW 1787) 



Grower and Exporter on the Tery largest teale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



Bpeolalttea t Beana, Beets, Oabbagea, Carrota, Kohl-Rabi, Leeks, Lettuces, Onlona. 

 P«aa, Badlataea, Spinach, TumipB, Swedee, Asters, BalsamB, BegoniaB. OamatioDB, 

 GinerariaB, OloxinlaB, Larkspurs, NaBturtlums, Panslas, Petunias, Phlox, Prlmolaa, 

 ScabiouB, Stocks. Verbenas, Zinnias, etc. Catalogue free on application. 



HKNRT MXTTK'B TRIUMPH OP THX GIANT P4N8IK8 (mixed), the most 

 perfect and moat beautiful in the world. $6.00 per oz.; 91.60 per I4-0Z.; 76c per M6 oz. Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal BuperviBion on my cwn Broands of 

 more tluui SOOO «ores, and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest 

 stocks and best quality. I al8<f cro^^ larKely seeds on contract. 



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for Florists' forcing; Azaleas. Rhododendrong, 

 Lilacs, etc : Romans. Valleys, Lilies, etc., imported 

 to ordei: delivery. Fall seaBODi910. Address 



PLANTS and BULBS 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 31 Barclay SL, or P. 0. Box 752, NEW YORK 



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The price of bouquet green in the 

 west this year is governed entirely by the 

 exigencies confronting the buyer. 



The scientific side of seed growing is 

 receiving constantly increasing attention 

 the world over, but the venerable house 

 of Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co., Paris, is 

 easily the leader in this respect and its 

 work is coming to be recognized far and 

 wide as of large importance to the in- 

 dustry of agriculture. 



A BREACH of warranty case in Ireland 

 recently was decided for the defendant, 

 the Irish Wholesale Agricultural Society, 

 on the ground that "a good or bad crop 

 depended very much on the way the seed 

 was sown, the soil, the climate and other 

 matters beyond the control of the sup- 

 pliers of the seed. ' ' 



The Aggeler & Musser Seed Co., Los 

 Angeles, Cal., has sent the Eeview an 

 advance copy of its 1910 catalogue, now 

 ready for mailing. The book shows 

 progress. It carries lithographed cov- 

 ers, White Seeded Kentucky Wonder 

 bean on the front and First Early to- 

 mato on the back, and contains 144 

 pages. 



There still are some small surpluses of 

 Dutch bulbs in the east. 



Dutch-bulb salesmen have beconu' 

 numerous in the west; they are cominj,' 

 earlier every year. 



If there is not a big business in glad; 

 olus bulbs next spring, a number of pe ' 

 pie will meet with financial disappoint 

 ment — but there is little danger of tha . 



The U. S. Department of Agricultu " 

 issued, December 4, a bulletin on "T^ ■ 

 Deterioration of Corn in Storage" th ! 

 will be of interest to seedsmen. It is ' 

 J. W. T. Duvel. 



In England all the conditions 

 "service" are closely prescribed by la 

 A new regulation limiting the hours ' ' 

 employment is held to apply to ser 

 men 's assistants and is causing alarm :' 

 being likely to seriously hamper the sd 

 trade during the busy season. 



W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, who a 

 nually make a leading specialty |^ ' 

 Christmas greens in a wholesale way, v ' 

 enjoying an extremely successful yc''' 

 with that highly speculative commodit. . 

 bouquet green. Acting on their beli'^t 

 that this jW^^ to be a ye^r of shortage') 



