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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 3, 1910. 



DREER'S^RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



c »«> Wc4iffer below a short list of flower seeds which should be sown early. New 

 crops of same are aow ready. For complete list see our current Wholesale 

 Catalogue. If you have not received a copy we will send you one on application. 



Tr. pkt. Oz. 



Olperarla Maritime Oandldlsiims 10.10 lo.zo 



Cobaea Ucandeus, blue 15 .40 



white 20 .75 



Uelphlnium Belladonna, new 17 



Dracaena AustraliB 15 .60 



Indivisa 10 .80 



Pennisetum Rueppelianum 10 .26 



Heliotrope Lemoine's Olant 40 2.00 



Ipomoea Grandiflora (White Moonflower) 15 .40 



Lobelia Crystal Palace Compacta, true 25 l.oo 



Emperor William 26 1.00 



Speclosa 16 .60 



" G'aclllB 15 .40 



Petunia Dreer's Superb Single Fringed 60 



Dreer'B Superb DouMe Fringed, $1.60 per lOOOseedt. 



Pyrethrum aureum (Oolden Feather t 10 .25 



Halvia SplendenB, ScarletSage 26 l.oo 



" ■■ Bonfire 40 226 



BahofPire 60 3.00 



Burning BtBh 40 2.00 



Zurich 60 



Smilax 10 .80 



Solanum OapBicastrum 10 .25 



SteTia serrata 20 .76 



Stocks Large Flowering 10 weeks, blood red 40 2 60 



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rose 40 2.60 



llKhtblue 40 260 



:: :: .; purp'e .4© 250 



pure white 40 2.50 



Oz. Stock! Cut and Oome Again, white 50 8.00 



$0.50 •' rose 60 8.00 



.35 blood red 50 3.00 



.40 dark blue 60 300 



.50 ;: : ;; ;; yeiiow 6o s.w 



.50 lilac 60 3.00 



.50 Thunbergta, mixed colors 15 .40 



.60 Torenia Fournieri 30 l.5(v 



.60 Verbena Mammoth, pink 80 I25 



.60 ;; ;; biue 30 1.25 



purple 80 1.25 



.20 scarlet 80 12k 



.85 ;; ;; striped so 1.25 



.76 " " white 30 1.2& 



.76 " " finest mixed 26 1.0© 



SALVIA'BONFIRE 



Tr. pkt. 



Ageratum Blue Perfection, dark blue $0.15 



Ageratum Cope's Pet. llKht blue 15 



Alyisum Little Gem or Carpet of Snow, very dwarf. 16 



Antirrhinum Giant, white 20 



': " scarlet 20 



" piuk 20 



" garnet 20 



" yellow 20 



" Btriped 20 



Begonia Semperflorens Vernon 25 



Candytuft Empreii. best white 10 



Centaurea Gymnncaroa If 



Caniidisslma 25 



" Cyanus, new double blue 25 



HENRY A. DREER 714 Chestnut St , PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Henderson & Co. for several seasons and 

 was a young man of splendid character 

 and generally esteemed. 



The market gardeners ' demand from 

 the southwest continues to show rapid in- 

 crease. 



It is so generally well known that 

 peas are scarce that those who need peas, 

 even in small quantities, are ordering 

 earlier than usual, and this helps to 

 bring in orders for other items earlier 

 than ordinary. 



Visited Chicago: John Bodger, Jr., 

 of Gardena, Cal., and W. J. Fosgate, of 

 Santa Clara, Cal., returning from the 

 east, both reporting extremely satisfac- 

 tory trade; A. Lehman, manager of the 

 Lompoc Produce Co., Lompoc, Cal., en 

 route for the east and a European trip; 

 W. H. Barrett, Adrian, Mich. ; Alex Mat- 

 thews, representing the Peninsular Seed 

 Co., Port Huron, Mich. 



The papers of Philadelphia and vicin- 

 ity recorded the death, January 25, of 

 Alfred Landreth, a member of the fam- 

 ily of Landreths identified with the seed 

 business since 1784. This Mr. Landreth, 

 while a grandson of the founder, was 

 not connected vdth the seed business, as 

 he was always in possession of suflBcient 

 income to live a life of leisure. He 

 served in the Union army during the War 

 of the Bebellion and was 75 years of age. 

 He was noted for his gentleness and affa- 

 bility and possessed the affection of 

 . everyone. 



OPAQUE POCKETS MAILABLE. 



Some time ago the post-office depart- 

 ment made a ruling that seed packets 



must be transparent, so that it would be 

 possible to tell whether or not any writ- 

 ten matter was enclosed in the packet. 

 We now are informed that the depart- 

 ment has granted an extension of time 

 up to July 1, 1910, on this ruling, thus 

 permitting seedsmen to make use of 

 stock on hand. 



This will be welcome news to the trade 

 and it is hoped that before another sea- 

 son the post-office department will change 

 its ruling in such a way that it will not 

 interfere with the future mailing of seeds 

 put up in the ordinary way. There have 

 been no complaints of seed dealers tak- 

 ing advantage of this privilege by send- 

 ing out first-class mail in seed packets. 

 There is, therefore, no legitimate reason 

 for making a special ruling against the 

 opaque sealed packets. 



ANOTHER PURE SEED BILL. 



The State of Maryland is to have a 

 pure seed law, if the efforts of Kepre- 

 sentative Collier, of Talbot county, bear 

 fruit. Mr. Collier is drafting the bill. 

 No penalty will be provided for seeds- 

 men furnishing poor seeds, but a deter- 

 rent will be provided in publicity of re- 

 ports on various samples. "The bill 

 will have a moral effect," said Mr. Col- 

 lier. "Samples will be taken and the 

 results will be published periodically in 

 a bulletin, and this, we believe, will keep 

 the seedsmen up to the mark and their 

 goods up to a high standard. We do not 

 wish to impose any hardship on the seeds- 

 men, but we do wish to protect the 

 farmer. ' ' 



The Beview sends Smith's Mum Man- 

 ual on receipt of 40 cents. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minn., flower, garden and field seeds, 

 plants, implements, etc.; Heller Bros. 

 Co., New Castle, Ind., roses and other 

 plants; W. W. Wilmore, Denver, Colo.,, 

 dahlias, gladioli, peonies and hardy 

 plants; Martin Kohankie, Painesville, 0., 

 plants, shrubs and other nursery stock; 

 the McGregor Bros. Co., Springfield, 0., 

 roses and other plants, seeds, etc.; E. 

 Neubert, Wandsbek, Germany, ferns, be- 

 gonias, lilies, etc; the Connon Floral 

 Co., Hamilton, Ont., wholesale list of 

 bedding plants, roses, vines, shrubs and 

 perennials; William Toole & Sons, Bara- 

 boo, Wis., pansy seeds and plants, orna- 

 mental shrubbery, etc.; W. Atlee Burpee 

 & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., wholesale seed 

 list for market gardeners and florists; 

 Pacific Nurseries, San Francisco, Cal., 

 trees, shrubs, roses, camellias, etc.; S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 

 circular on "Smith's Patent Display 

 Vase"; John E. Box, Croydon, England, 

 special list of begonia seeds and tubers. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business held fairly good during last 

 week, January 29 seeing supplies well 

 cleaned up. The present week opens with 

 a steady trade and values in most cases 

 well maintained. Eoses, owing to the 

 warmer and generally clear weather, have 

 been more abundant, except in the case 

 of American Beauties, which are off crop, 

 and long-stemmed flowers are specially 

 short. Carnations appear to be shorten- 

 ing up and prices have shown a harden- 



