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The Florists' Review 



August 13, 1914. 



First Quality Flower Seeds 



DA M C Y~"Sup«rb Giant Mix«d— We have for years sent out a special 

 —————— mixture of Pansy seed, under above -— •*- — 



name, and have had some flattering reports from it. 

 You cannot buy a better mixture at any price. 



Trade packet, 50c; ^ ounce, $1.26; ounce, $4.00. 



If you want named varieties and separate colors, we can supply 

 you from best strain of Gassier, Odier, Bugnotand QiantTrimardeau 



Cineraria Hybrida Grandiflora, 



An unbeatable strain of this, in mixed colors, trade packet, $1.00. 

 Writ* for Catalogue No. 5 for all seaaonable •••<!. 



The Storrs & Harrison Co., 



PAINESVILLE, 

 OHIO 



16, steamer Sado Matu, 277 cases for 

 New York and 235 cases for Chicago, 

 total of 512 cases, has been entirely 

 omitted and on the same steamer there 

 was doubtless a large number of cases 

 for San Francisco of which we see no 

 mention made in the list. 



Yokohama Nursery Co. 



MB. CUTHBEBTSON TALKS. 



Frank Cuthbertson, son of a well- 

 known Edinburgh seedsman, after a 

 term in California, has gone home for 

 a visit, combining business and pleas- 

 ure. A trade paper has had a talk 

 with him and a part of what it says 

 will be interesting reading for the 

 trade here: 



"A trifle over three years ago Mr. 

 Cuthbertson left for New York with 

 a view to discovering whether there 

 was an opening for such as he in the 

 land of the free. Sweet pea growing 

 was his forte, and therefore on his 

 arrival in the States, he offered his 

 services to a Californian firm. He was 

 put in charge of a small gang in the 

 sweet pea fields, with the promise of 

 three months' work. He is still with 

 the firm, and is now what one may term 

 managing foreman of thousands of 

 acres. Apart from the business he has 

 in hand, Mr. Cuthbertson is also acting 

 as a delegate for the great exposition 

 which opens next February at San 

 Francisco. 



"The greatest specialty of C. C. 

 Morse & Co. is onions; 600 acres come 

 under Mr. Cuthbertson 's eye. The 

 system of growing is much the same as 

 at home. Of lettuce, the firm grows 

 400 acres, the seed being sown from 

 February to May. The resultant plants 

 are thinned out in due course, and be- 

 yond the necessity of cutting open the 

 large headed tj'pes, the crop is usually 

 pretty certain. This season, however, 

 the total Californian lettuce crop, or 

 rather those crops in the San Juan 

 valley, were threatened with extinc- 

 tion by a caterpillar or worm which 

 gave a considerable amount of trouble 

 before it was suppressed. Carrots do 

 well on the Morse ranches, and an 

 immense area is devoted to them. 

 Beets, mangels and all forms of the 

 brassica cannot be grown, as the seed 

 produced invariably bolts when sown 

 elsewhere. 



"Flower seed crops are almost en- 



A DISCOVERY 



We have discovered that it is as hard to get people to believe the truth as it is a 

 lie. There is so much "guff" about new and old things that folks must actually be 

 shown before they swallow any kind of bait. Long, long ago we told you that a better 

 plant of snapdragon could be grown from SEED than from cuttings; that it would de- 

 velop more quickly and be free from disease; that a seedling Silver Pink would net 

 two dollars to one from cuttings, and that you were wasting time and money if you 

 were not using seedlings of this wonderful snapdragon. 



AUGUST 

 SOWING 

 BRINGS 

 DOLLARS 



AUGUST 

 SOWING 

 BRINGS 

 DOLLARS 



TURN ABOUT TODAY 



and if you are the least bit skeptical try one packet of seed. If you will lake ouKword, buy iii«»* 

 and utilize all of the space that you can. The snapdragon is down for a winner. Get in l.n^f?! 

 some of the easy money. Sow seed today, and don't let August go by without having a lot & Beet- 

 ling S. P. Snaps. They will prove the greatest money-making thing on your place. 



New crop seed, $1.00 per pkt.; 3 for f2.50; 7 for $5,00; postpaid for cash. New cultural direc- 

 tions free. 



Will have 60.000 plants ready in October. Figure your need and send order early. 



AlU A Q Tip^In the event of a scarcity of bulbs due to the existing European war, l^^yj 

 flHn I Ir prepared with a subslituteV My seedling S. P. Snap is the most a^ *''*riU 

 thing on the market. Belter sow a few packets of seed and be ready for any emergency, '' ^"^ ' 

 profitably tide you over a serious difficulty. Act today. 



G. S. RAMSBURG, 



Mention The Review when yoo write. 



SOMERSWORTH, N> H. 



tirely grown on contract, the exception 

 being sweet peas, of which the firm 

 grows 400 acres, just about double the 

 entire area grown on this side of the 

 water. When Mr. Cuthbertson arrived 

 on the Morse ranches, it was not long 

 before his superiors discovered that he 

 knew more about sweet peas than they 

 dreamed of. As a matter of fact, he 

 holds the view even now, that few 



seedsmen or seed growers in ."1 ^j" 

 United States actually knov *''. 

 difference between Spencer and ;; '^^ 

 flora sweet peas. C. C. Morse & ^ 

 are going to make things hum it t* 

 great exposition at San Franeiscc f 

 Cuthbertson has been experinifnt'"! 

 during the last two seasons ami " 

 discovered how giant show blooms c> 

 be produced in California, and 'i^ 



