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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 9, 1900. 



COLORED 



nOWER 



and 



VEGETABLE 



Seed Bags 



Send for CataloKue and Samples 



Herndon & Lester, Inc. 



RICHMOND. VA. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AHEBIGAN BBID TBADK AgSOCIATION. 



Pres., J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; First 

 Vlce-pres., M. H. Duryea, New York; Sec'y and 

 Treag., O. E. Kendel. Cleveland. O. 



Henry Salzer, La Crosse, Wis., was a 

 Chicago visitor September 8. 



Visited Chicago: C. Herbert Coy, 

 Waterloo, Neb., on a fortnight 's trip to 

 New York, Philadelphia and other east- 

 ern cities. 



Henry Field, president of the Henry 

 Field Seed Co., Shenandoah, la., also 

 is president of the Civic Improvement 

 League of his city. 



S. F. Leonard, Chicago, reached home 

 September 4 after a three months' Eu- 

 ropean trip on which he was accompanied 

 by Mrs. Leonard and their daughter. 



The reports from Nebraska are not 

 favorable as regards sweet corn, espe- 

 cially the later varieties, but a great deal 

 will depend on the weather of the next 

 three weeks. 



The frosts in Michigan last week, when 

 the thermometers in the southern tiers of 

 counties registered as low as 28 degrees, 

 certainly have altered the cucumber seed 

 situation if nothing else. 



Work on the principal general seed 

 catalogues is now being pushed. In 

 nearly every case effort is being made 

 for a better book, but in some cases edi- 

 tions will be cut down for 1910. 



The H. F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, 

 occupied 1,000 square feet of space with 

 a display of seeils, bulbs and garden 

 requisites at the recent big farmers' 

 fair at Chestnut Hill park. 



\V. W. Barnakd and Arnold Ringier, of 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, are at 

 present sojourning at Excelsior Springs, 

 Mo. They intend to visit some of the 

 principal western cities before returning. 



The Albert Dickinson Co., Chicago, has 

 carried to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission one of its freight rate claims on 

 which it could not get from the railroad 

 the consideration desired. The complaint 

 was filed September 2. 



The seed bill introduced in the Ala- 

 bama state legislature has been killed in 

 the senate. A member of the Seed Trade 

 Association from the south writes that 

 they are receiving a good many inquiries 

 regarding this bill, and it will be a mat- 

 ter of interest to the entire trade that 

 the bill is dead. 



LEONARD SEED C^ 



CONTRACT GROWERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS . 



ONION SETS 

 FLOWER SEEDS 



Bet Our Prices 



KINZIE STREET, 



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228-230 miCAliO 



IE 8TRKKT. \/iiiX^*«W^# 



Ui Ui MUnSc & uDiy Seed ^(frowers 



48-56 Jackson St., San Francisco* Cal. 



ONION, LETTUCE, SWEET PEAS, and other CALIFORNIA SPECIALTIES 



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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 Catalog 



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Milford, Conn. 

 East Jordaxi, Mich. 

 Sister Bay, Wis. 



THE EVERETT B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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



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Oniofl Sets °Ooioa Seed 



We are extt naive growers of and dealers In 

 Onion Sets and Onion Seed. We are now pre- 

 pared to submit figures on the 1909 crop. Write 

 U8 for prices. 



SCI1ILDERBROS.,Chillicothe,0. 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE. CAL. 



SWEET PEA and NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale growers ol full lists of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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SEATTLE, WASH. 



(Srowers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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Otto H. R. Wiese, manager for David 

 Sachs, Quedlinburg, Germany, is making 

 his annual tour of the principal seed 

 houses in this country. He was at Chi- 

 cago in the early part of this week. 



A British advertiser offers Lilium 

 longiflorum Formosum as "the best Eas- 

 ter-flowering variety, the best substitute 

 for Harrisii or Azorean longiflorums, 

 and the best variety for retail trade." 



Chicago has been the point of attack 

 this week for the travelers of leading for- 

 eign houses, James Comont, E. J. Deal, 

 S. B. Dicks and Otto H. R. Wiese being 

 in the city within a day or two of each 

 other. 



According to trials made at the Kan- 

 sas State Experiment Station, se«d may 

 be protected from burrowing animals, 



S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Grow^ers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Corn 



Correspondence Solicited. 

 ■^^^Wrlte tor prices on Surplus Stocks 

 ^^V for Immediate Slilpment 



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S.D.WoodrufF&Sons 



8PXCIAL.TIX8I 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



OORSKSPONDXMCX 80UCITKD. 



HalB Otflee and Seed Farms, OBANGI, GOKR. 

 Hew York City Store. 8a-84 Dey Street 



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Waldo Rohnert 



6ILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Speciftltles: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Alter. 

 OoamoB, Mignonette, Verbena, In variety. 

 Oorrespondence solicited. 



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PROOF 

 SEED 

 CASES 



NICE 



HELLER & CO., Moiitpelier, 0. 



Or 220 Wiaidotli St., Kaisas CHr, Mo. 



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such as mice, by coating it with an of- 

 fensive smelling substance, such as coal 

 tar. The procedure recommended for corn 

 is as follows: The corn is slightly wet 

 with warm water, and then stirred in 

 the tar; one teaspdonful of tar is to be 

 used for each peek of corn. The seed is 



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