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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



B^BRCABT 24, 1910. 



years, as well as from a typographical 

 standpoint. He was an undoubted au- 

 thority on all botanical questions, and 

 nowhere will his loss be more felt than 

 in the Botanical Section. 



With his fellow-workers in the seed 

 business he was always pleasant, kind, 

 patient and forbearing, with the old- 

 time courtesy of manner so seldom 

 seen nowadays. In his death they feel 

 that "a good man has fallen." 



AGAINST FREE SEEDS. 



The following resolutions were unani- 

 mously adopted at the meeting of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, 

 February 15, 1910 : 



A resolve In favor of tto repeal of the laws 

 authorizing the free distribution of seeds by the 

 government. 



Whereas, after careful and painstaking In- 

 vestigation of the subject by men who were well 

 qualillcd for that worls, It appears that the need 

 for the free distribution of seeds by the govern- 

 ment no longer exists; that such free distribu- 

 tion is at present attended by so many abuses 

 that few whom the act was intended to benefit 

 do. In fact, receive any benefit therefrom; and 



Wherpas, enormous quantities of seeds are 

 annually sent by congressmen through the malls, 

 under the franking privilege, thereby adding 

 greatly to the expense of the post-office depart- 

 ment without contributing anything towards its 

 support; and many of those to whom seeds are 

 sent are not engaged in agriculture or gardening 

 in any way or form; and in all these ways 

 the government is put to great expense, and the 

 aggrecate benefits received by all, do not war- 

 rant the expenses incurred. Now, therefore, 



Uesolved that we, the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston, in regular meeting assembled, 

 do hereby favor the repeal of all laws providing 

 for the free distribution of seeds by govern- 

 ment- that we, individually, will urge the 

 congressmen from our respective districts to use 

 their influence to procure the repeal of such 



'" And be It further Resolved, that a copy of 

 these resolutions be spread upon the records of 

 this meeting, and that a copy be forwarded by 

 the secretary of this club to the senators and 

 representatives of this commonwealth in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



ADULTERATED SEEDS. 



Under date of February 16 the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture made the publication 

 as required by law of the names of those 

 from whom the Department had procured 

 adulterated seeds. The list is materially 

 shorter than in previous years and does not 

 contain the name of a single one of the 

 big seed houses of national reputation; 

 the published parties mostly are those 

 doing a local business and are probably 

 more sinned against than sinning; they 

 merely neglected to have the purchases 

 tested, so did not know what they were 

 selling, though nineteen of the forty 

 firms have been caught before. The Sec- 

 retary's circular comments on the sit- 

 uation as follows: 



"During the calendar year 1909 seeds 

 of red clover, alfalfa, orchard grass, and 

 Kentucky bluegrass were obtained in the 

 open market in accordance with the fol- 

 lowing paragraph in the act of Congress 

 making appropriations for the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture: 



The Secretary of Agriculture Is hereby directed 

 to obtain in the open market samples of seeds 

 of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, and 

 if Iny such seeds are found to b«^ adulterated 

 or misbranded, or any seeds of Cana^ ^^^Tthtr 

 Vpoa compressa) are obtained under any other 

 name thai Canada bluegrass or Poa compressa 

 to publish the results of the tests together with 

 the names of the persons by whom the seeds 

 were offered for sale. 



"In carrying out the provisions of 

 this act, 1,814 samples of seed were se- 

 cured and analyzed under the direction 

 of Mr, Edgar Brown, Botanist in Charge 

 of the Seed Laboratory, and publication 

 is here made of the analyses of the 

 sixty-nine samples found to be adulter- 

 ated or misbranded, together with the 



FLORISTS' FLOWER SEEDS 



Trade pkt. of about 1000 leedi. o . 



Alter— Queen of tbe Market, white, pink, livbtblue, mixed lo.io so 



(Jarlion'e BranctainE (Invincible), wbite, lavender, pink, crimaon, purple, 



m xed 25 i 



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yellow, rink, violet, mixed 20 i 



Semple'B Branching, white, lavender, pink, rose, blue, crimson, purple, 



shell pink, mixed , .15 i 



American Beauty 25 2 



Snowdrift 25 i 



Panay-Currie's International Mixture ^s oi., 91.26 .60 g . 



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ULY OF THE VALLEY PIPS 



Cold Storage 



Our usual high grade quality. 



PRICE ON APPLICATION 



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1000 Pounds 

 of Rhubarb Seed 



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 on Rhubarb leed 



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 an<l fine roots ean be raised in one year. 



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LILIUM GIGANTEIM 



7/9, fine bulbs, $24.00 per case. Ready for 

 delivery from cold storage as desired. 



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