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The Florists' Review 



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August 27, 1914. 



First Quality Howef §ee<cjs 



DA M C Y'^"?*'^^ 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; ^4^ ounce, $1.25; ounce, $4.00. 



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

 you from best strain of Gassier. Odier, Bugnot and Giant Trimardea 



Cineraria Hybrida Grandiflora, 



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

 Writ* for Catalogue No. 5 for all ••asonable sead. 



The Storrs & Harrison Cc/^^^SS"^^ 



needed it. On the other hand, our 

 crops in Michigan — and that seems 

 quite odd for Michigan, too — have suf- 

 fered from excessive moisture, and also 

 from the destructive diseases which al- 

 ways beset a crop of beans, but this 

 year to a worse degree than usual. 

 However, it often seems to us that 

 the seed trade must get tired of the 

 hard-luck stories in connection with 

 crop reports, for it seems as though 

 there were a never-ending string of 

 mishaps and hardships, and we think 

 the seedsmen who are not right next 

 to the growing end feel inclined to sub- 

 ject to a high rate of discount anything 

 and eVerything in the nature of a pes- 

 simistic report. For this reason, if 

 for no other, we strive to avoid bear- 

 ing too hard on the dark side of things. 

 Nevertheless, as a matter of hard, cold 

 fact, nature does serve up a pretty good 

 number of hard blows in the form of 

 capricious weather conditions, diseases, 

 and what not, and any of the trade who 

 come tolerably close to the soil in their 

 attempt to wrench from it something of 

 value will be broad enough to acknowl- 

 edge that this is a fact. So, if we are 

 honest, we have to say that in our 

 opinion we cannot this year have a full 

 crop of beans by a long margin, bare 

 as the market is and however much a 

 full crop may be needed. The writer 

 feels that there is a good prospect for 

 making a better crop than we had last 

 season. However, that says little, when 

 you consider what last season's crop 

 was. Furthermore, it is going to take 

 favorable weather for harvest; that is, 

 these excessive rains must cease from 

 now on if we are going to do even that 

 well. 



"One cannot talk definitely this 

 early, of course, but we do know al- 

 ready that some varieties are bound 

 to be quite short in supply. We have 

 simply come to recognize this with 

 respect to those varieties and to hope 

 for the best with regard to the others. ' ' 



MONTANA PEA CBOP. 



"Owing to the rank growth of vine 

 on late varieties of peas in Gallatin 

 valley, the acreage here this year on 

 those sorts has been considerably les- 

 sened," says William A. Davis, head of 

 the W. A. Davis Seed Co., of Bozeman, 

 Mont., in speaking of the pea crop in 

 that section. "The growth of vine has 

 not been as great on any variety as in 



Giant Pansy Seed, Home Grown 



Ab fine as the very best obtainable: — 

 $6.00 per ounce; $1.60 per quarter ounce; 60c per trade packet 



Cyclamen Seed, the celebrated Englieh 

 strain, $9.00 per 1000. 



Poinsettiasy 2)^-inch, strong, $5.00 per 

 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



Fern Flats, 10 best varieties, $2.00 per 

 flat; 20 flats at $1.75 each. 



Begonia Gloire de Chatelaine, easiest 

 Begonia grown, $6.00 per 100. 



For Roses, Primulas, Snapdragons, Asparagus Plumosus Nanus, 



Sprengeri, Cyclamen plants, etc., see our ads 



in the Classified Columns. 



S. S. SKIDELSKY & CO. 



1004 BETZ BUILDING. 



PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



M^ntlna Th# R»»1»w whim von writ* 



Hunkel's Giant Cyclamen 



Orowa br the leading' ■peclaliats In Earoi)e. Flow- 

 era of giant size, fine shape and pure In color. New 

 Crop Seed. H'hlte: ( rimaon; Kose; RonaVon 

 Marlentlial, Daybreak: WIilt«. with Carmine 

 Ere. 100 aeeds. 70c; lOU) seed*. (6.00. Glory of 

 Wandabek, 100 eeeds. $1.26: 1000 aeeda. SIO.OO. AH 

 colon mixed, 100 seeds, eoc; 1000 seeda, $4.60. 



G. H. HUNKEL CO., 



Nihrnkee, Wis. 



llMitloB Tb« IUt1«w wb— Toa WTJf . 



previous seasons, but all are podding 

 and filling fairly well, with the excep- 

 tion of the early, large-podded sorts. 

 The maturing season has been hot and 

 dry; consequently seed will be rather 

 small, but of good sample and vitality. 

 Some of the later crops have been pre- 

 maturely ripened, but milling and hand- 

 picking will remove the imperfect seed. 

 Harvesting is well under way and 

 threshing about to begin. "With con- 

 tinued favorable harvest weather the 

 average returns should equal those of 

 previous seasons." 



Lilium Formosuin 



New crop, fine, plump, well 

 matured bulbs. 



7 to 9-inch, 300 bulbs to case, $7.00 per 

 100; $65.00 per 1000. 



9 to 10-inch. 200 bulbs to case, $12.00 per 

 100; $100.00 per 1000. 



A. Henderson & Co. 



369 RIVER STREET. CHICAGO 



Allentown, Pa.— Ernest Ashley **' 

 one of the 1,600 passengers of the Cue 

 ard liner Laconia, which reached N®* 

 York August 17 after crossing the At- 

 lantic disguised as a Norwegian 1'"* 

 vessel. 



