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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



JOLY 14, 1910. 



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Named Pansies in Separate Colors For Bedding. 



Trade pkt., 2000 seeds. Oz. 



Aiure Blue |0.20 $0.75 



Belsrian Striped 20 .75 



Black ( Faust) 20 .75 



Bronze 20 .75 



Emperor William, lltramarine blue 20 .75 



Fire Draaron. Fiery orange and bronze 20 .75 



French, Larare Flowerins. Finest mixed 20 .75 



Gold Marcined 20 .75 



Prince Bismarck. Beautiful golden bronze 20 .75 



Quadricolor or Pheasant's Eye (Rainbow), beautiful 20 .75 



Snow Queen. Satiny white 2» .75 



Striped and IVIottled. Large flowered 20 .75 



Meteor (new). Bright brown 20 .7.') 



Peacock. Ultramarine blue, deep claret and white 20 .75 



Red Victoria (new). Very fine 20 ,75 



Red RidiofiT Hood. Red, free bloomer 20 .75 



White. Pure 20 .75 



Yellow. Pure 20 .75 



Stokes' Seed Store 



219 Market St, Philadefphia, Pa. 



1. At the same time Henry Field was 

 reolct'ted president and manager of the 

 Inisiness, with Harry Eaton secretary 

 and treasurer. The board of directors 

 consists, in addition, of A. L. P. Thomp- 

 son, G. C. Mitchell, D. S. Lake, E. S. 

 Welch and Elbert Read. Messrs. Lake 

 and Welch are widely known in the 

 nurserj' trade, in which they are en- 

 gaged, Mr. Welch having, in fact, been 

 elected vice-president of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen a^ the con- 

 Aention at Denver in June. 



Shenandoah is proud of the Field 

 Seed concern for the money it brings 

 to the town and largely leaves there. 

 For instance, the Field postage bill 

 helped the local postmaster make a 

 showing to the extent of $^13,000; the 

 payroll last year was .$24,000, and 

 ^45,000 was paid to local farmers on 

 ■corn contracts. 



BUIiB-GROWINQ IN FRANCE. 



Toulon Is the Center. 



Shipments of flowering bulbs from 

 these parts to the United States during 

 the past few years have been larger in 

 number than formerly, but in many in- 

 stances the values of the invoices have 

 been smaller, says U. S. Consnlar Agent 

 F. M. Mansfield in a report made public 

 July 5 by the Department of Commerce. 

 The same, he says, is probably true of 

 shipments to other countries. This has 

 been caused by Ihe shortage in the 

 larger sizes of narcissus and hyacinth 

 bulbs, the prices of which, continually 

 tending to increase, make up the greater 

 sum total of the amount of the in- 

 voices. From this it is to be inferred 

 that the demand for the finest quali- 

 ties is constantly increasing, and this 

 of itself should tend to stimulate the 

 American grower to reproduce the va- 

 rieties which are sought so greatly. 



Growers Seek Direct Market; 



There is a growing disposition on the 

 part of the small grower to find his 

 market direct, without the intervention 

 of the middleman, the wholesaler, or 

 shipper. There are many diflSculties in 

 his way, but, so far as relations with 

 buj'ers in the United States are con- 



PANSY SEED ^^|?f oz. 



Sluls' Superb Mixture 60c tS.OO 



Olant Trfmardeau, separate colors or 



mixed 15c 2.00 



Giant Madame Ferret 15c 2.60 



£nelish Prize, separate colors or mixed.lOc 1.76 

 Good Mixed perlb..t6.00 .60 



Our pamphlet. " How to Grow Pansies." free 

 with every order. 



SLUIS SEED STORE. 544 W. 63rd SL. CHICAGO 



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cerned, there is no reason why a pro- 

 ducer of even so small a quantity of 

 bulbs as 50,000 or 100,000 might not, 

 if he could finance the affair, open up 

 an outlet until the industry in the 

 United States (at Bellingham, Wash., 

 or elsewhere) can actually be made to 

 compete with the product grown here 

 in the south of France. While syndica- 

 tion has been the means by which the 

 bulb-growing and cut-flower industry 

 has been developed in the Department 

 of the Var, it has its disadvantages, 

 and many small growers are beginning 

 to see the advantages of dealing direct- 

 ly with the foreign consumers. One 

 such is known to have sold the first 

 year of such direct business but 50,000 

 bulbs to a dealer in the United States, 

 but for the second year the order was 

 increased to 125,000, and the present 

 year sees a standing order of 250,000 

 bulbs. The order is placed under cer- 

 tain restrictions and conditions as to 

 price and quality, and is intended to 

 cover the grower's entire crop. 



The wholesaler naturally endeavors 

 to hold his source of supply unto him- 

 self. Sometimes he holds the grower in 

 such a way as to make competition out 

 of the question — by advances on the 

 growing crop, by supplying seed bulbs 

 to the small grower for planting, and 

 taking in return all the crop exceeding 

 a certain dimension, leaving the grower 

 the small bulbs for replanting, propa- 

 gating, and developing the following 

 year for his own profit — but, generally 

 speaking, the relations between the 

 grower and the buyer are those of price 

 and quality. 



Expenses and Profits. 



The crop does not always produce the 

 same results, even under similar condi- 

 tions, whether with respect to quan- 

 tity or with regard to quality, but in 



Giant 



PANSY 



Seed 



The Kenilworth Strain 



must not be compared with the flimsy Trimar- 

 doau; it is much larger and of good substance. 

 The immense flowers of S^a to 4 Inches are of 

 perfect form; every tint and shade i.s produced 

 in striking combinations and endless variations 

 of beautiful colors and markings; it is the result 

 of years of selections. The stock plants are 

 selected from many thousands of plants grown 

 for market. It is rich with shades of brown, 

 bronz<>. red. mahogany and numerous others; 

 light, medium or dark mixture. 1910 seed now 

 ready, 2000 see<ls. 50c; "jOOO, $1.00; h oz. tl25- 

 loz.. 15.00: lib.. $.50.00. 



Also the following colors of the KERILWOBTH 

 STRAIN: Yellow; yellow, dark eye; Lord 

 Beaconsfleld, Mme. Perret; white, dark eye; 

 purple black. Masterpiece, red, bronze, dark 

 blue and light blue shades. Trade pkt., 25c- 

 any 5 for $1.00; 12 pkts., 1 of each variety. \ 

 $2.25. 



RAINBOW is a blend of over 50 

 of the latest introductions of giant 

 pansies of the mos]^>eautiful, 

 gorgeous colors, blotchgg^triped. 

 veined, margined, ^c. - Seed, 

 1000, 20c; 2000,30c; % Oi!»,-50c; 

 H oz.. 85c; 1 oz.. IS.OO. 

 Plants, 100. 50c; 1000, 

 $:3.00. 



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general when a narcissus bulb has pro- 

 duced," as the result of a single plant- 

 ing, several seasons perhaps in the 

 ground, say six or seven bulbilles or de- 

 tached bulbs, it is invariably worthless 

 except as a reproducer, the flower that 

 it produces being inferior. On a planta- 

 tion where the bulbs have been planted 

 only one season, and three or four bul- 

 billes have been produced, it is rea- 

 sonable to suppose that, upon replant- 

 ing, all will produce blooms of a satis- 

 fying and even gratifying luxuriance. 

 In general all that is specifically noted 

 with regard to the methods of market- 

 ing the narcissus bulbs applies also to 

 hyacinths, freesias, Lilium candidum, 

 etc. Narcissus bulbs usually produce a 

 first-class crop of three-fifths of those 

 planted (3,000 to the are=119.6 square 

 yards), which approach five inches, and 

 are marketable at an average pric of 

 25 francs ($4.83) per thousand, while 

 the other two-fifths are valued at only 

 12 francs ($2.32) per thousand. The 



