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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Ski'Xembku 1G, 1909. 



Primroses! 



IMPROVED CHINESE KUS;; 



ed. singrle and trouble, Btrong 2-in., $2.00 per 100; 



XXXX strong, lor 4-ln. pots, »4.0O per 100. 



PRIBfUI^A KEWENSIS. The grand cut 



flower yellow PrimrOBC. $2.00 per 100. 



CINERARIAS, large flowering dwarf, 2-in., 



$2.00 per 100. 



XXX SEEDS 



CHINKBS PRIMROSK, ficest grown, single 

 and double, mixed,500 seeds. $1.00; ^ pkt.,SOc. 



CIMKRARIA, large flowering dwarf mixed, 

 lOOOaeedB, Mc.: ^ pkt., 26c. 



SHAMROCK, IRISH, the real thing green; 

 SOW this fall; 1000 seeds, 25c. 



GIANT PANSY l^^^l '•iff. 



etles. critically Belected.eooo seeds. $1.00; half pkt., 

 60c; OS., $2.50; 2^ oz. for $5.00. 500 seeds of Oiant 

 Mme. Ferret Pansy seed added to every $1.00 

 pkt. of Giant Pansy. Our pansy seed crop is 

 extra good this year. 



CASH. Liberal extra count. 



WE CAN PLEASE YOU 



JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



BUPPTON : The Home of Prlmroaea 



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Giant Pansy 

 Seed 



Johnson's Prize Winner Strain 



From the leading English, French 

 and German Specialists. Unquestion- 

 ably the best Giant strain of Paneies in 

 the market. 



1000 seeds, 30c; 8O0O seeds, 60c; 

 6000 seeds, 91.00; per ox., 96.00. 



FULL LINE OF 



French and 

 Dutch Bulbs 



Ready for delivery. See our Bulb 

 offer on page 35 of last issue. 



Johnson Seed Co. 



217 Market street, PHIUDELPHIA, PA. 



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Winter-flowering Swiet Pea Seed 



AU colors. Send for list. 



This trademarlc must be on eacii packet; if 

 not, send it back and order directly from tlie 

 Origiaitor of All Wiater-tliweriig Sweet Pus 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK, Bound Brook, N. J. 



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ful country between Chicago and Denver. 

 Great as has been the development of the 

 business in other sections, the growth is 

 yet more pronounced in the west — the 

 middle west, you call it — and the trade 

 there, it seems to me, is only on the 

 threshold of its expansion, though the 

 demand appears already to have grown 

 faster than it can be coped with under 

 present conditions. 



"But, taking the country by and 

 large, I have noted that, while this is 

 not the busy season, there appears to be 

 a good volume of bosiness passing in all 

 sections, and on all sides I hear of a 

 lack of competent assistants; several 

 houses have stated that they could largely 

 increase their business were it possible 

 to procure competent help short of the 

 long process of training it. 



"Just a word on the tariff. The new 

 specific rates of duty appear to be 

 greatly appreciated as affording relief 

 from many vexations and delays and the 

 changes in rates will have little if any 

 effect upon the quantities of seeds im- 

 ported. ' ' 



Mr. Deal, while he now directs the af- 

 fairs of a nonagenarian firm with world- 

 wide connections, began picking up his 

 knowledge of the business while he, as a 

 boy of 11, also picked up nasturtium 

 s«eds at the munificent wage of 36 

 cents a week. For sixteen years he was 

 with Buttons, at Beading, and for ten 

 years has been in charge of Johnson & 

 Son 's affairs. His present trip was un- 

 dertaken with an eye to the future — 

 "you don't have to travel to sell seeds 

 this year," he said; "in fact, the slower 

 you are about selling the higher the 

 profits rise" — but he has on it booked 

 some excellent business and while at Chi- 

 cago appointed Vaughan's Seed Store as 

 American agents for two new Spencer 

 sweet peas to be distributed this season: 

 E. J. Deal, white, and Colleen, or 

 Blanche Ferry Spencer, the latter being 

 considered a specially good thing for cut 

 fiower purposes. 



FRENCH BULBS. 



The boat arriving at New York Sep- 

 tember 10 brought the following con- 

 signments of French bulbs: 



Consignee. Cases. 



0. V. Zangen 50 



K. M. Ward & Co 25 



Vaughan's Seed Store 88 



Maltus & Ware 41 



Blacliloclc Bros 5 



Total 200 



DEW PONDS. 



In parts of Europe where rainfall is 

 not prevalent, water in quantity is ob- 

 tained by the condensation of atmospheric 

 vapor, in what are called dew ponds, not 

 only for domestic use, but for agricul- 

 tural purposes. 



These methods are by no means a new 

 discovery, as large quantities of water 

 were procured by such efforts thousands 

 of years ago, especially on the crests of 

 the South Downs of England, and to in- 

 dicate the entire practicability of dew 

 ponds will refer to the atmospheric con- 

 densation plant erected by the British 

 government at Gibraltar, high up on the 

 rock, with the satisfactory results of a 

 large supply of absolutely pure water. 



These results of nocturnal radiation are 

 no more astonishing than the making at 

 Calcutta, India, in the open night air of 

 tons of ice for domestic use. 



One authority in England in a scien- 

 tific paper has lately stated that in his 

 (lew ponds on a foggy night in January 



Bulbs 



Narcissus 



Paper White Qrandif iora 



Select $1.26 per 100; I 8 5* per ICOO 



Giants 1.35 1»5« 



Roman Hyacinths 



WWte, 12 to 15 cms., 



$2.50 per 100; $23.50 per lOOO 



Lilium Candidum 



Select $5.00 per 100 



Callas 



Medium Size $10.00 per 100 



Absolutely First Grade. If you don't 

 agree witli us, we will glad ly take them 

 back and pay freight charges going and 

 coming. 



Dutch Bulbs 



Arriving soon. If you are in the 

 market for Selected Stuff, let us figure 

 on your needs. 



Something: unusually 

 good in Primulas 



(To be shipped from Crown Point, Ind.) 

 Primula Chlnen^is, fine, strong, healthy 

 stock from 2i2-in., ready for 4-in., in the 

 following varieties: Dble. white and rose, 

 Daybreak rose. Duchess, white, English 

 rose, giant salmon, extra dark red (fine 

 for Christmas): Stellata, white and pink, 

 $3.00 per 100. To every order we will add 

 a few of onr new aricula flowered 

 strain, gratis. 



WINTEflSON'S SEED STORE 



45-47-49 Wabash Ate , CHICAGO 



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Giant PANSY ^^K 



The KENILWORTH strain 



is unsurpassed: the immense flowers of S^ji to 4 

 inches are of perfect form and substance; every 

 tint and shade is produced in striking combina- 

 tion and endless variation of beautiful colors 

 and markings; it is the result of years of selec- 

 tion; it embraces the largest and best of Bnglisb, 

 French, Oerman and American novelties' 

 1909 seed greatly improved by rich shades 

 of brown, bronze, red and mahogany. Ne 

 seed: 1000, 25c; 2000, 40c; 6000, $1; ^ oz. 

 $1.40; ^-oz., $2.50; oz.,$5. Plants, IGO, 50c: 

 1000, $3.50. 



RAINBOW is a blend of over 

 50 of the latest introductions of 

 giant pansies, of the most beauti- 

 ful, gorgeous colors, blotched, 

 striped, veined, margined, 

 etc. Seed, 1000. 20c: 2000, 30c: 

 ^ oz , 60c; H oz., 85c; oz. 

 $8 50. Plants, 100, SOC; 1000, 

 $3.00. 



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Lilies of the Valley 



Western Headquarters for 

 Pips and Cut Blooms 



Hi Ni DHUNSi Madison St., uHIuAdU 



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New Crop Pansy S 



Our Superb Mixture, oz.. 

 50. 



Glaerarla Grandiflora aad Graadillora Naaa, 



each. tr. pkt., 50c. Hariisiis, Formosums, Rom- 

 ans, Paper Whites, ^'reeslas and Callas, ready. 



Fresh Tobacco Stems, bale of SCO lbs., $1.50. 



Send for Autumn Wholesale List. 



W. C. BECKERT, North Sidi, PITTSBUR6, PA. 



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