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May 11). 1010. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



59 



PRIMROSE 



IMPROVED CHINESE 



Finest trrown. large flowering, fringed, single 

 and double, 15 varieties, mixed. 600 seeds, $1.00: 

 half pkt. 50c; 1000 seeds. $1.50. Have the varie- 

 ties separate, also. 



PRIMULA KEWEN8IS 



Grand, sweet, yellow primrose; trade pkt., 25c. 



atkAC^ IkOt tk Finest large flowering, 

 WtrlMnlM dwarf, mixed, 1000 

 s66ds 50c 



GIANT P#\ W S Y flowering varie- 

 ties, critically selected. 6000 seeds. $1.00; half pkt.. 

 50c; oz.. $2.50. 500 seeds of giant Mme. Ferret 

 pansy added to every $1.00 pkt. of Giant Pansy. 



CASH. Liberal extra count. We can please you. 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



RUPPTON: Tbe Home of Prlmrosea 



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Never Again!! 



at these prices 



Elephant Ear Balbs 



clean, sound .stock, with ccntor .«lio<)t.s. 



Per 100 Per 1000 

 5-7 inches in circumference $0.75 $ 6.00 

 7>J " " 200 15.00 



'J-11 " " 3.00 25.00 



ll-iuchesand up. 5.00 



200 Bulbs at 1000 rate 



GLOXINIAS 



Giant Mixed. 



Per 100 Per 1000 

 . .. $3.00 $25.00 



Johnson Seed Co. 



817 Market Street 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Headquarters for 



5PBIN9 BULBS 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



Floral Park. N. Y. 



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Ant C. Zvolanek 



S'^einator o! aH winter fIowerin£ Sw«et 

 ''•a*, all colon. New crop teed will be 

 "My aboat Aoe. lit. Orders booked now. 

 BOUND BHOOK, KBW JBRSBY 



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Funkia Undulata 



-. ^ Bxtra fine planti. 

 W.OO par MO: $86.00 per 1000. 



tlTea.** **" *** *^^* bolbi and planto cheerftiUy 



P. W. O. SCHMITZ 



unpovtwr, PRIHCB BAT. W.iT. 



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M. 



PuGET Sound cabbage is reported as 

 promising no better than a light croj) 

 this year. 



ADVICES to hand from France do not 

 give any rosy accounts of seed grow- 

 ing prospects for the season. The sea- 

 son has been cold and wet and has re- 

 sulted in injury to some crops and delay 

 in planting others. 



Burglars gained access to the store of 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., in Chicago, a 

 few nights ago and made a determined 

 but unsuccessful effort to open the safe 

 in the office. Although they drilled holes 

 into the doors, broke off the handles and 

 smashed the combination lock, the doors 

 held fast. It required the services of an 

 expert locksmith for two and a half hours 

 to get inside the safe, during which time 

 business was almost suspended, pending 

 getting out the books and papers. There 

 is no clue to the burglars. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending May 

 7 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. KiuU. I'kgs. Val. 



Canary ... 350$ 1,618 Coriander ...100$ 215 



Caraway . . 100 C46 Cummin 98 1,448 



Cardamom. 37 907 Mustard 529 3.036 



Castor ...3,428 15.179 Poppy 2S0 984 



Clover ... 50 1,477 Other 2,372 



In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 $17,710. 



COMMERCE IN SEEDS. 



The foreign commerce of the United 



States, in seeds, for the month of March 



was as follows : 



Imports.. 



1909 $ 580.253 



1908 1,860,049 



Exports. 



1909 I 480,983 



1908 261,075 



AS SLUIS SEES CONDITIONS. 



' * The seed trade everywhere in Amer- 

 ica seems to have had an extremely busy 

 season and to be in a condition of pros- 

 perity not excelled elsewhere in the 

 world." 



The speaker was Yoost Sluis, of Sluis 

 Bros., seedgrowers at Enkhuizen, Hol- 

 land, who is back at New York, prepara- 

 tory to sailing May 24 after his first 

 visit to America. Mr. Sluis has crossed 

 the continent, having visited the cab- 

 bage seed growers on Puget Sound, 

 passed down through the Santa Clara 

 valley and returned east by way of Los 

 Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, 

 Cincinnati, Washington and Philadel- 

 phia, spending the last days of his stay 

 in visiting the cabbage and cauliflower 

 seed growers on Long Island. 



' ' The seed crops in California, so far 

 as I saAv them," said Mr. Sluis, "are 

 looking good, with the exception of rad- 

 ish, and this, I was told, is the general 

 condition at those places I did not have 

 time to visit. Lettuce looks particularly 

 well, but the growers are not complaining 

 at the condition of onion, sweet peas or, 

 in fact, any crops other than radish. 



' ' Our own main crops are cabbage and 

 cauliflower and I was, of course, specially 

 interested in the growing of cabbage for 

 seed at the Puget Sound. They do not 

 have the prospect of a large crop there 

 this year. 



"At home we have had a time of ex- 

 tremely high prices; high as prices for 

 seeds have been in practically all the 

 countries of the world, I think Holland 

 has had a sharper rise than any other. 



WarfsLilyBttlbs 



'NOT HOW CHEAP- 

 BUT HOW GOOD' 



RALPH M. WARD & GO. 



12 W. Broadway, NEW YORK 



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IMPORT ORDERS 



FRENCH AND DUTCH BULDS 



Paper White Narcissus 



Kt)inan Hyacinths Dntcli Hytu-inths 



Tulips and Narci.ssii.s 



Let M« riBure on Tour Want« 



CYCA.S STEMS 



Assorted sizes — fresh 



2.)-lb. lot« at 8c lb. ; 100 lbs. at I'/n-. 



STOKES' SEED STORE 



819 Market St. PHILADELPHIA 



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GLADIOLI 



Brenchleyensis, May, Pactole, Cerea, 

 La Marek, Isaac Buchanan. 



Cinnamon Vines, Milla, Beaaera, 

 Oxalis, Iria, Lilies and other Bam- 

 mer flowering Bolbs. 



—Send for pricea.— 



Ee S. MILLER 



Wading River, Long lalaad, N. Y. 



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RDSh Outers 



Flower Seeds, Market Garden and 



Field Seeds, all kinds of Tender 



and Hardy Plants, Tuberoses, 



Dahlias, Qladioll, Small Fruits. 



RUSH ORDERS 



JAMES VICK*S SONS 



ROCHSSTBR, m. Y. 



