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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Juke 1G, 1910. 



Pleters-Wheeler Seed Company 



HoUister, - -* California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Oniotij Radish, Lettuce, 

 Sweet Peas, etc. : : 



Correspondence Solicited. 

 Mention The Review wlien you write. 



BRASUN SEED GROWERS' CO. 



Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade Only 



Saa Jose, California 



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Seed Trade News 



AMERICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; First 

 Vice-pres., M. H. Duryea, New Yorlc; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel. Cleveland, O. Twenty-eighth 

 annual meeting, Atlantic City, N. J., June 21 to 

 28, 1910. 



There are not quite so many local 

 patches of onions for seed in the seed 

 buying sections this year. 



Lkoxard Sutton, of Sutton & Sons, 

 Reading, England, is visiting the trade 

 in New York and other eastern cities. 



Except of one or two varieties, the Long 

 Island cabbage seed growers expect a 

 fair yield, but they feel assured of a 

 much better demand. 



Tf the government's crop reports are 

 substantiated by Hie harvests, little else 

 will be needed to insure another good 

 season for seedsmen. 



D. Laxdreth Sggp Co., Bristol, Pa., 

 lias appointed DanrVRust. secretary of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 as local agent in Philadelphia. 



The convention of the American Seed 

 Trade Association at Atlantic City next 

 week promises to be one of the best yet 

 held in po'nt of attefldance and interest. 



A WELL-POSTED seedsman, who does a 

 large business with florists, says a 20- 

 dollar ad in The Review will sell more 

 goods than a 20-dollar salesman — and 

 Ihe publisher pays the traveling expenses. 



W. Atlee Burpee has mailed invita- 

 tions to .seedsmen and those of related 

 trades, asking them to Fordhook .Tune 

 24. following the adjournment of the 

 seed trade convention. \ considerable 

 party is expected. 



G. Lexich. the son of the proprietor of 

 tiic well-known seed establishment of 

 Gustav Schott. at Aschaflfenburg, Ba- 

 varia, entered the firm May 12 as part- 

 ner. The firm does a large business with 

 the leading seed establishments of this 

 country in natural and tree seeds, also 

 clovers. 



There should be an excellent demand 

 for tomato seeds of tliis season's crop. 

 Market garden demand increases nearly 

 every year, packet sales mount up, an<l 

 the sales to canners should be large next 

 season, for already the announcement is 

 made that the 1910 pack must fall far 

 below normal. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



PRODUCERS AND 

 WHOLESALE 

 MERCHANTS 



TURNIP 

 SEED 



LarMst Growirs of Peas, Bims uri lirriei 

 Slid. Hcadqairttrt 



W. KMZIE STRECT. C H I C AGO 

 LOWK8T PRICKS ON APPLICATION 



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YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for new Complete Catalogue. 



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The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., '%%'' 



Orowlns Stations at Kaat Jordan, Mlob., Or««n Bay, Wis., Slater Bay, Wis. 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, TOMATO, ETC. 



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George D. Clark, of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Philadelphia, is on the Pacific <:oast. 



The trade hears with equanimity that 

 smut on the onion is blighting the Cali- 

 fornians' hopes for big crops. 



It is asserted that the so-called con- 

 signment box business is not keeping up 

 with the development in other branches 

 of the seed trade. 



Holland bulb growers report that the 

 warm weather in May materially hast- 

 ened the dying down of the foliage and 

 that lifting operations will begin a fort- 

 night earlier than last year. 



A report comes from San Francisco, 

 where W. Atlee Burpee and Howard M. 

 Earl met Luther Burbank June 3 and 

 proceeded to Lompoc, that Burpee & Co-, 

 will introduce Burbank 's new poppy and 

 primrose. 



Edward C. Duncan, president of the 

 IVoU Seed Co., Newark, N. J., was mar- 

 ried .Tune 15. He was for twenty-five 

 years manager for William Henry 

 Maule, Philadelphia. His bride was 

 Miss Perry. 



The Western Seed & Irrigation Co., 

 Fremont, Neb., Wm. Emerson, manager, 

 says orders have been booked engaging 

 about all the acreage of nearly all va- 

 rieties they can expect to receive from 

 the growers under ordinary circum- 

 stances. 



The prospect is for at least a fair crop 

 of Harrisii bulbs, and those who are 

 most familiar with conditions in Ber- 

 muda assert with confidence that the 

 growers will be able to show a still fur- 

 ther improvement in the quality of the 

 stock this vear. 



CROPS SAFE IF LAND OWNED. 



After three years of legal battles it 

 has been definitely decided that where 

 a seedsman owns the land, in the sYate 

 of Nebraska, he can control the crop of 

 seeds grown on it. 



The Supreme Court of the state has 

 .iust handed down an opinion sustaining 

 the judgment rendered in the District 

 Court in favor of the .T. C. Robinson 

 Seed Co. against John Hamilton, H. B. 

 Waldron, Citizens State Bank, et al. 

 This suit was brought under replevin 

 to recover a crop of sweet corn grown 

 by Hamilton in 1907, on plaintiff's 

 ' land, and sold to Waldron et al. As 



S. M. ISBELL ft CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Coat fact Seed Growers 



BEAN. CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squaah. WatermeloB, Sweet Cera 



0OBRE8FONDENCE 80UCITED. 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO ORAMDB. CAL. 



SWEET PEA and NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIALISTS 



WtaolMftle KTowen of fall Uita ot FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



SPSCIALTXXat 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



OOBBSSPONDXNOa BOUOmD/- 



HalB Omee aad 8«ed Fams, OBAlfiBE. OOHH- 



Hew York City Store, 88-84 Dey Street 

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SBATTLS, WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOUND aBBAGE SEED 



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Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY. CAL. 



Wliolesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettaee, Onion, Sweet Peaa, Aster. 

 Cosmos, Mlrnonette, Verbena, in rariety. 

 Oorreapondenoe solicited. 



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Metal Clasp 

 Mailing Envelopes 



LOUIS JEFFRIT 



7«tli SBd Bmnswlek Ate.. PHILADELPHIA. PA* 



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