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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Sbptembeu 2, 1909. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN 8BED TBADB ASHOCUTION. 



Prea., J. O Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.: First 

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 Treas., 0. £. Kendel. Cleveland. O. 



The bulb catalogues make the cottage 

 tulips a more prominent feature than ever 

 before. 



The U. S. Department gives eastern 

 grown seed corn a boost in its Yearbook 

 for 1909, just issued. 



The weather west has been unseason- 

 ably cool the last few days and vine seed 

 crops and corn have not advanced as they 

 should. 



The bean crop has been coming along 

 as well as could be expected the last few 

 (lays and crop prospects are somewhat 

 improved. 



F. E. Rawlings, secretary of the Plant 

 Seed Co., St. Louis, Mo., was drowned 

 August 21, while bathing. Further par- 

 ticulars are given in this week's obituary 

 column. 



The Condon brothers, John and Leon- 

 ard, who had planned on starting a new 

 seed business in Eockford, 111., have given 

 upytji^t idea and will continue in the 

 posHiom) they now hold with H. W. Buck- 

 bef.[:v' ' , " ■ ^ [ 



Henry Field, the Shenandoah secds- 

 , ftian^ talked on gladioli September- 1, be- 

 fore the Iowa Florists' Society, of which 

 C. N. Page, of the Iowa Seed Co., is 

 president. Mr. Field's remarks are 

 printed on another page of this issue. 



W. A. Bathbux, referee in bankruptcy, 

 at Springfield, Mo., August 25, adjudged 

 the Planters Seed Co. bankrupt and ap- 

 pointed John S. Farrington receiver, upon 

 the f>etition of both the company and the 

 creditdrs. ilr. Farrington closed the es- 

 tabUshpiejit and later will sell the stock 

 at pubfte auction to the highest bidder. 

 The liabilities approximate $12,000. The 

 , assj^^S ^re not kno\yn. 



During the severe storm tliat ])assed 

 over Chicago August 27 lightning struck 

 an onion set shed on the L. A. Budlong 

 Co. fann and in.stantly killed three men 

 Avho had sought Hheker beneatli it. It is 

 tile custom of the Budlong Go. to hire a 

 large number of men and women during 

 the season of harvest for its onion set 

 crop, giving a check for each basket gath- 

 ered and redeeming the checks in . cash 

 each night. Under this system the iden- 

 titv of the workers seldom i.s known. 



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Onioo Sets °0oioo Seed 



We are exttniive growers of and dealers in 

 Onion Sets and Onion Seed. We are now pre- 

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Thk florists are buying the winter- 

 flowering type of sweet j)eas in large 

 quantities. 



It is stated that at the Colorado Ex- 

 periment Station a cantaloupe has been 

 bred tliat is' resistant to the rust fungus. 



Ernst Bexaky III, of Erfurt, Germany, 

 lias returned to New York after a trip 

 that included the Pacific coast. He was 



NOTICE 



I have purchased all the assets of the 

 A. J. Pieters Seed Co., and will All all the 

 growing contracts of that Company for 



1909 crop Deliveries are now being 

 made and I shall have a surplus list 

 ready in October. Please write me about 

 what you want and let me quote you on 



1910 crop. 



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A. J. PIETERS, Seed Grower, 



HOLLISTER. CAL. 



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S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



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