June 1, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



41 



LOOK US OVER 



The things offered are seasonable; our stock is right and so are our prices. 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus Seed, greenhouse 



grown. $4.00 per 100; 5000 for $18.75. 

 Asparagus Plumosus Nanus Seed, lathhouse 



grown. $2.00 per 100; 5000 for $9.00. 

 Primula Obconica Gigantea Seed, separate 



colors or mixed, 90c per 1000. 

 Primula Chinensis Fimbriata Seed, 90c per 



1000. 

 Cineraria Hybrida Qrandiflora and Semi-dwarf 



Seed, 50c per trade packet. 

 Cyclamen Seed, English strain, none better, in 



separate colors (ready in Augu.st), $9.00 per 



1000. 



Pansy Seed 



Giant flowered, S. & 

 I. prize florist mix- 

 ture, as good a strain as can be obtained at the 

 highest price, 5<)c per trade packet; $1.50 per 

 'A oz.; $5.00 per oz. 



Mignonette Giant Excelsior, extra selected strain 

 from giant flowering spikes, ready for delivery 

 July 1st. I'o oz., $1.00; oz., $5.00. 



And while on the subject of seasonable stock, 



how about 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine ? 



Strong 2X-incli. twice transplanted plants, at 

 $15.00 per 100; $140.00 per 1000: 250 at 1000 

 rate. 

 Fern Flats, all varieties, $2.00 per flat. 



Asparagus Plumosus Seedlings, $10.00 per 



1000. 

 Poinsettias, 2X-inch, readv in Julv and August, 



$0.00 per 100; $50.00 per lOUO, " 



Cold Storage Lilium Giganteum, a few more 

 cases left of the S/lO size. 



LET US HEAR FROM YOU 



Skidelsky & Irwin Co. 



1215 Betz Building Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Keview when you write, 



Ix 1910 the Holland bulb growers ex- 

 ported slightly over 16,966 tons of bulbs. 



F. G. JoHXSOx &: Co., Harrisville. 

 Mich., are the successors of tlie Sheap- 

 tlohnson Seed Co.. contract pea <jro\vers. 

 F, G. .Johnson is president, and C. B. 

 Pyle vice-president and treasurer. 



C. H. Kexxerly, of Kennerly's Seed 

 Store, Palatka, Fla., has written and 

 published a 140-pago book, * ' Facts and 

 Figures, or the A. B. C. of Florida 

 Trucking." He doesn't think it will 

 hurt the sale of Kennerly's seeds and 

 he won't lose any money on it at $1 a 

 copy. 



This lias boon a season during which 

 tlie older mail order seed houses have, as 

 a rule, broken no records, though they 

 liave, iu general, rolled up an excellent 

 season's total of sales. On the other 

 hand, the newer seed houses, especially 

 those in the south, southwest and west, 

 have gone ahead rather faster than ever 

 before. Planters would rather buy seeds 

 near home, and do so as soon as Ihey 

 gain confidence in the local seed dealers 

 equal to that the old houses have estab- 

 lished by years of cousoientious dealing. 



The winter in Denmark was mild au(i 

 not moist, so that the overwintering of 

 cabbages was extraordinarily good, with 

 only a small percentage of death heads: 

 five to ten per cent of the late cabl)age 

 and thirty-five Tier cent of the early cab- 

 bage, report Iljalmar Hartmann & Co., 

 of Copenhagen. The heads started 

 growth early, but severe frost with 

 storms April 5, 6 and 7 somewhat in- 

 jured the new shoots and it is not 

 easy to say to what extent this late 



winter will affect the further growing, 

 but as for the present outlook (May 6) 

 the crop is prosperous. 



May has given the mail-order seed 

 houses a splendid run of business, gen- 

 erally much above the records of other 

 years. 



SEED GROWING IN DENMARK. 



Carlos .Tensen, manager of the ex- 

 port department for L. Daehnfeldt, 

 Odense, Denmark, recently has visited 



a number of seed growers in the United 

 States and has shown a number of in- 

 teresting photographs illustrating the 

 methods and extent of the Danish seed 

 growing industry. One of his pictures 

 is reproduced on this page. The view 

 is in a field of fifty-five acres of Cab- 

 bage Danish Ball Head Amager. The 

 plants marked with the stakes are 

 those selected for stock seed. The 

 Danish growers are, from all accounts, 

 unroinitting in their care to preserve 





Fifty-five Acres of Cabbage Danish Ball Head Amager in Denmark. 



