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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J.VNtJAUY (5, 1910. 



Every Florist Who Grows 



ASTERS 



should aend for onr Aster Book 

 immediately. Get yonr name on our 

 files for our regular Florists' Whole- 

 sale Catalogue. These books are free. 

 Wben writing, mention this paper. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



ROCHESTER. H. Y. 



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fold labors as a nursery employee, as a 

 nursery manager and latterly as an em- 

 ployer, with special reference to his work 

 as a hybridist. Mr. Grieve suitably re- 

 plied and the proceedings were enlivened 

 by toasts and songs. 



The death is announced of M. Phillipe 

 Eivoire, Marseilles, France, a well known 

 chrysanthemum grower. 



French horticulturists are arranging an 

 international rose congress of an impor- 

 tant character, to be held in Paris during 

 the summer of 1910. 



A Peter Barr MedaL 



The narcissus and tulip committee of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, London, 

 has decided to perpetuate the memory of 

 the late Peter Barr by instituting a medal 

 to be called the Peter Barr medal, to be 

 given annually in some way connected 

 with the daffodil, and to use the balance 

 of the subscriptions to provide for the 

 maintenance of a child in connection with 

 the Gardeners' Orphan Fund, as this was 

 an institution in which he had taken a 

 life-long interest. 



The mistletoe is now (December 17) in 

 evidence in huge piles in all our markets. 

 The supplies are drawn principally from 

 Normandy, France, the annual shipments 

 amounting to 700 or 800 tons. Probably 

 100,000 Christmas trees will pass through 

 Covent Garden before Christmas, in all 

 sizes, from one foot up to thirty feet. 

 One consignment of 7,000 trees, four to 

 five and one-half feet, has just come in 

 from Germany. Holly is abundant and 

 well berried. Bek. 



ADULTERATION OF SEEDS. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 issued, December 14, a bulletin on "The 

 Adulteration of Forage-Plant Seeds, ' ' by 

 F. H. Hillman, assistant in the seed 

 laboratory. The subject is introduced as 

 follows : 



"Farm seed is considered to be adul- 

 terated when it contains seed of inferior 

 kind or quality in excessive quantity. 

 When inferior seed is present in con- 

 siderable quantity it is naturally pre- 

 sumable that intentional adulteration has 

 been practiced. 



"The misbranding of seed, or its sale 

 under the name of a different kind, may 

 be intentional or it may be the result of 

 error in labeling. Its effect, however, so 

 far as the purchaser is concerned, is the 

 same as adulteration. 



"Some of the plants whose seeds are 

 used as adulterants have more or less 

 forage value and are widely distributed 

 in agricultural regions where farm seeds 

 are produced. For this reason a com- 

 paratively small quantity of their seed 

 is likely to appear in seed crops merely 

 as an incident to the culture of these 

 crops. When the small extent of such 



Dreer's Double Petunias 



OUR DOUBLE PETUNIAS, for more than half a century, have been the 

 acknowledged standard. The strain this season is equal in high quality to its 

 predecessors, and is well known to the trade. 



We offer 16 distinct varieties, in strong, 3-inch pots, which will quickly 

 furnish an abundance of cuttings. Strong, 3-inch pots, 75c per doz.; $6.00 per 

 100; the set of 15 for $1.00. 



Seed of our SUPERB STRAIN OF FRINGED PETUNIAS. Double* 



76c per 500 seeds; $1.60 per 1000 seeds. Single, 50o per trade pkt.; $1.00 per 

 1-16 oz.; $1.50 per }4 oz. 



Onr Quarterly DVholesale Price List, issued January Ist, offers a 

 full line of seasonable Plants, Seeds and Bulbs. 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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^"^Reliable Seeds, Sow Now 



AlysBum Zanaren's Carpet Queen, resl dwarf, from pot-crown plants, 



extra eeiected of my own raislDg 6tr. pkts., $1.25; oz., 



Besonla Oraoilla Luminosa, best scarlet bedder 6 tr. pkts., i 



Beconla Zangren's New Pink Bedding: Queen, best plBk bedder.6 



■oheverla Woodlla^Tn, new, ready in 6 mootbs after sowing; 1000 seeds, 



Myosotia Winter Queen, flnest for Kreenbouse cut oz., 



Petunia, Zangen's selections of Double Frinsed Grlant* 6 tr. pkts. 



Petunia, Zangen's Binsle Ruffled and rrinared Hybrids 6 



Ptaloz Drummondi, nanacorapacta Fireball..) tiest for f oz. 



Phlox Drummondi, dwarf Roaeball > pot 



Pblox Drummondi, nana compacta. Bno^rball. ) use. 

 Pblox Drummondi Cecily, large flowered dwarf mixed 



Salvia Zansen's Fireball, finei't for pot uie ) Unexcelled strain f ■ . " 



Salvia Zanaren's Kins: of Scarlets, best late... >- of my own V- " 



Salvia Zuriob, mo»t valuable for early pot use ) raising. ( . . " 



Stocks, Beauty of Kire, Daybreak, Wbite. best for cntting, each, separate " 

 Verbena Mammoth, auricula flowered, blue, pink, purple, 



scarlet, striped, white, each, separate 



Mixed colors " 



My new catalogue is ready now. If yoo are interested in Flower Seeds of horticultural and 

 florlcultural value, ask for tbe same. It's free. 



O. V. ZANGEN, Seedsman, HODOKEN, N. J. 



I xxyonas o 



"I tiest for f oz., 



) use. I 



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GLADIOLI... 



Here la good valae. AU stock is l^a-lncb and np. 



Per 100 1000 



President Taft $8.00 $25.00 



Golden Qneen 4.00 30.00 



Amerloa 8.50 30.00 



Anrasta 2.00 15.00 



Africa 4.00 



DeCheTlUe 2.00 16.00 



Baster IJSO 12,00 



Florida 2.00 16.00 



Per 100 



Oso. Pan! $4.00 



Otant Pink 4.00 



Lm Pactole 3.00 



Klondyks 4.00 



May 2.00 



Mohawk 6.00 



Mrs. Francis Kins 250 



Marie Iicmoins 1.60 



1000 



$80.00 

 25.00 

 30.00 

 16.00 



20.00 

 10.00 



5 per cent dlsconnt for cash. 



e. C. STEWART, 



Rives Junction, Mich. 



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