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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JULV 26, 19X1. 



is Marshall Humphrey, an expei'ienced 

 seedsman. 



A EEPORT from Alpena July 15 speaks 

 of copious rains over the northern Mich- 

 igan region. 



Wm. Behm, who recently became Amer- 

 icp.n traveler for L. Daehnfeldt, Odense, 

 Denmark, is at New York, preparing to 

 make a trip to the headquarters of his 

 house. ' 



Advices from the lima bean growing 

 section of California, received at the end 

 of last week, were to the effect that the 

 crop is progressing under the most favor- 

 able conditions. , 



Ik the Chillicothe, O., section the 

 harvesting of onion sets began last week, 

 but there is not much more than half a 

 crop, with the acreage for the district 

 greatly reduced as compared with last 

 season. The onion seed crop in- that sec- 

 tion still gives excellent promise. 



The Texas Seed & Floral Co., of Dal- 

 las, has filed a complaint with the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission against 

 the Texas & Pacific and the Santa Fe 

 and connecting lines, asking reparation in 

 the sum of $940.13 overcharge on a ship- 

 ment of incubators from New York to 

 Dallas, 



A PRESS report from Amoy, China, 

 dated July 15, says the Pacific Mail 

 steamer Mongolia, sailing that day, car- 

 rijgd. from that port 230. tons of Amoy 

 narcissus bulbs for theA-merican market, 

 adding that this shipment is the first of 

 its kind. The bulbs are produced in a 

 small area on the West river, and the an- 

 nual' supply is limited. There has been 

 sharp competition lately among foreign 

 bulb dealers to get the local supply. 



The stockholders' meeting of the A. A. 

 Berry Seed Co., Clarinda', la., was held 

 Jbly 11, and ^ dividend of ten per cent 

 ^^clared. Tlie annual report showed the 

 ist season the most prosperous in the 

 istory of the company and the earnings 

 laced a good surplus to the reserve fund, 

 le board of directors and officers are as 

 Fallows: A. A. Berry, president; Geo. 

 Standage, vice-president; J. F. Sinn, sec- 

 i^etary; A. F. Galloway, treasurer^ J. V. 

 Pfander, J. W. Berry, James Shum, the 

 last named member being newly elected 

 to fill the place made vacant by the re- 

 moval of Joseph Kindall to Seattle. 



PEAS AT ALPENA. 



Last week the daily newspapers con- 

 tained so many sensational dispatches 

 regarding fire losses in Canada and in 

 the northern part of Michigan that 

 reports became current in the trade that 

 the pea crops in the Alpena region had 

 suffered seriously by fire. Rogers Bros., 

 whose headquarters are at Alpena, re- 

 plied by wire July 14 to an inquiry 

 from The Review, as follows: 



"No crop losses by fire to our knowl- 

 edge. Peas are being shortened very 

 much by drought." 



HOLLAND SEED CROPS. 



A report from Holland indicates that 

 it is the opinion of one grower there 

 that spinach will be in surplus this 

 autumn, there being an excellent crop 

 in Groningen district and a good crop 

 on some 750 acres standing for seed 

 near Haarlem. Turnips will yield only 

 moderately, the crop having been 

 shortened by the dry weather. There 

 is considerable acreage of turnips for 

 seed this vear at Dedemsvaart. It is 



SPIRAEA 



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last half century. 



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Catalogue of Dutch Bulbs now ready. If you have not received one, write 

 today. Nothing but the highest quality. 



GT. van WAVEREN S KRUIJFF 





LOUIS BKRGSR, Manager. 



American Branch House, 491 Boarse Baildingr, Philadelpkia, Pa. 



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