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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



May 26, 1910. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



W. Van KLEEF & SONS, Boskoop, Holland 



Beg to announce that their Mr. W. Van Kleef, Jr., is again making his annual trip through 

 America, calling on the trade. Pleaie addreBS all correspondence until June 6th, care of Messrs* 

 Naltus it Ware, 14 Stone Street, New York. Catalogue free for the asking. Will be 

 glad to make special prices for large quantities. 



Specialties: Azaieas, Andromedas, Box Trees, Clematis, Conifers, Hardy 

 Climbers, Hydrangeas, Kaimias, Magnolias, Maples, Peonies, Rhododendrons, 

 Roses, Spruces, Shrubs, Trees, Plants for Forcing, etc. 



Mention The Review wben you write. 



rooms, and persons engaging accommo- 

 dations in advance will have the pref- 

 erence." 



IMPOETS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending May 

 14 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. Plcgs. Val. 



Annatto $ 16 Fennel 2 $ .S92 



Anise 27 267 Grass Ill 2.449 



Caraway . . 100 653 Hemp 800 3,179 



Cardamom. 15 560 MiUet 473 1,350 



Castor ...4,646 19,018 Muxtard 805 6,036 



Ciover ... 413 11,409 Poppy 100 509 



Coriander.. 380 828 Rape 50 380 



Cummin . . 156 2,004 Other 3,049 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$15,301. :_ 



COMMEBCE IN SEEDS. 



According to the U. S. Department of 



Agriculture the values of seeds imported 



in the last three years were : 



Tear. Clover. Flaxseed. All other. Total. 

 1909... 11,202,758 $ 831.871 $3,923,390 $5,968,019 

 1908... 2,323,699 71,625 3,976,146 6,871,470 



1907... 2,386,734 124,494 3,894,548 6,404,776 



In the same periods the value of seeds 

 exported was: 



Cotton and Grass Other 



Year, flaxseed. seed. seeds. Total. 



1909... $1,725, 100 $3,190,856 $ 340,667 $6,266,623 



1908... 6,074,650 2,322,404 286,734 8.683.688 



1907... 8,199,876 1,630,821 263,912 10,004.600 



SEEDSMEN BECLAIMINCr SWAMP. 



That Schilder Bros., Chillicothe, O., do 

 not confine their activities to onion seeds 

 and onion sets is shown by a report that 

 comes from Norfolk, Va., as follows: 

 . "Announcement is made of the award- 

 ing of a contract to the American Steel 

 Dredge Co., of Ft. Wayne, Ind., for the 

 digging of fifty miles of drainage ca- 

 nals for the reclamation of 12,000 acres 

 of land in the Dismal Swamp, near Moy- 

 ock, N. C, under the new drainage laws 

 of that state. The project is one of 

 $150,000, headed by John Seip and other 

 capitalists of Chillicothe, O. The re- 

 claimed land is to be developed into rich 

 truck fields for the production of horse- 

 tooth corn, celery, onions and Irish po- 

 tatoes. Messrs. Seip and Schilder Bros., 

 of Chillicothe, are owners of large saw- 

 mills and cooperage plants at Wallace- 

 town, in Norfolk county, and Moyock, 

 across the North Carolina border. The 

 product being used in their mills is tim- 

 ber which they are cutting from the Dis- 



^TO THX TRADB 



HENRY MEHE, Qoedlinbors, fiermaoj 



^^^^^™^"^" (ESTABUSHKD IN 1787) 



firower aid Bxyortor oa the Terr larceit leale of all 



CHOICE VCGeTABLC, FLOWER and PARN SEEDS 



8p«olalttoat H— n«. Beets. Cabbatres, Oairota, Kobl-Rabi Leeks. Lettuces, Onions, 

 Pmm, Radlali**, Spinach, Turnips, Swedes, A*t«ra, Balsams, Begonias, Camationa, 

 Cinerarias. Gloxinias. Larlcspurs, Nasturtiunis. Panslas, Petunias, Phlox, Primulaa. 

 Scabious, Stocks, Verbenas, Zinnias, etc. Cataloarue free on application. 



HKHRT MXTTS'S TRIUIIPH OP THC GIANT PAMIIKS (mixed), the most 

 perfect and most beautiful in the world. $5.00 per oz. ; $1.50 per >« oz. ; 75c per 1-16 oz. Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on mjr own vast cronnds, 

 and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest stocks and l>est quality. I also 

 KTow Uurcoly soods on oontraot. 



Mention The Kevlew wtien yon write. 



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Seed 



AULIFLOWER 

 A B B A G E 



LILY OF THE VALLEY PIPS 



HJALMARHARTMANNftCO. 



LoafiBtMlrae'e 20, CopcakacM, tkamtk 



mal Swamp property preparatory to the 

 reclamation of the land for trucking pur- 

 poses. It is estimated that the revenue 

 from crops grown upon rich reclaimed 

 land will in four years defray all cost of 

 reclamation. ' ' 



SEED TESTING IN MISSOUBI. 



Edgar Brown, chief of the division of 

 seed testing of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. Q,, has been in- 

 specting the seed-testing laboratory at 

 the College of Agriculture of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, at Columbia. The 

 United States government is supporting 

 four cooperative laboratories, in Oregon, 

 Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana. These 

 are all branches of the laboratory at 

 Washington. The laboratory in Columbia 

 has already received 520 samples of seeds 

 this year. Last year at this time only 

 196 had been received. At present fifty 

 to 100 samples are received each week. 

 This tripling of the work has made nec- 

 essary the employment of another assist- 

 ant. Miss Frances Burket, of Forest 

 Glen, Md., an assistant in the Washing- 

 ton laboratory, will work in the Colum- 

 bia laboratory for the next two or three 

 months. Miss Norma Waddle, a gradu- 

 ate of the University of Nebraska in 

 1908, has charge of this laboratory. Miss 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest grades of Valley for shipment as 

 desired from New Yoik. 



QRCCNNOUSE PLANTS 



Palms, Bay Trees, Ficus, Araocarlas, Aspidis- 

 tras, etc., of choice quality. 



HOLLAND PLANTS 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees. 

 Clematis, Conifers, etc., at low prices. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



Finest grades of Berlin and Hamburg for 

 Import. 



H. ERANK DARRaW 



p. 0. Box 1250 26 Bvttoy SL, NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Bertha Cunningham, of Columbia, is the 

 assistant. During the last year ninety- 

 four per cent of all seeds tested were 

 from Missouri. Sixty-six per cent were 

 sent in by farmers. 



SEED GBOWING AT HOLLISTES. 



The Free Lance, published at Hollis- 

 ter, Cal., in a recent issue, published an 

 interesting two-column illustrated write- 

 up of the seed farms of the Pieters- 

 Wheeler Seed Co. and elsewhere in the 

 paper said: "Within the past two 

 years the industry of seed farming has 

 developed greatly and promises to be- 

 come of great importance. In the San 

 Juan valley 600 acres are devoted suc- 

 cessfully to the raising of seeds that are 

 shipped to all parts of the world. In 

 the San Felipe section, where artesian 

 flowing wells abound, large areas are 

 being devoted to flower and vegetable 



