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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBKB 7, 1909. 



Western Florists 



Save tlxne and frelarht 

 by buying: 



Fall Bulbs 



FROM US 



We have a car of Dutch 

 and French Stock. 



Aek for our prices before you buy. 



THE BARTELDES SEED GO. 



DENVER, COLO. 



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unless the deep blues are excepted, and 

 we ■will find a big array of flower stalks 

 devoid of anything in the nature of a 

 pod. Oh! for a season like that of 1906. 

 Essex men and midlanders, too, have 

 assured me that more seed was spilled on 

 the ground then, than has been picked in 

 any year since. 



The assured shortage Avill undoubtedly 

 make many turn their thoughts to Amer- 

 ica, if they haven 't done so long ago. 

 Although early reports stated that the 

 .sweet pea seed crop would be short, there 

 is little doubt but that there will be 

 enough to go round, if not all 1909 crop, 

 and it goes without saying that a goodish 

 bit of year-old seed does get about. 

 Wholesalers at home may know some- 

 thing of it. However, year-old seed, if 

 reliable, is better by far than new seed 

 which is not, and 1 can only hope that 

 foreign seed, no matter where it comes 

 from, will improve upon the reputation 

 it has gained. 



I recently had a note from a gentle- 

 man connected largely with sweet pea 

 •eed growing in America, and he says 

 if only your men would cease looking 

 for cheap trash we might hope for bet- 

 ter things. In California there are 

 growers and growers, just as there are 



CHRISTMAS 



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Boddincton's Snowbird, earliest forcinK white 10.20 



Boddlngton's Chrlatmaa Wblte 10 



Boddlncton's Cbrlatmas Pink 10 



Florence Denser (pure white) 10 



Watcbuns (pure white) 15 



Mrs. Alex. Wallace (lavender) 20 



Mrs. Wm. Sim (aalmon pink) 20 



Mrs. Geo. Le'wls (a pure white wavy variety) 60 



Mrs. W. W. BnuOley (liKbt ptaik) 20 



Canary (light yellow) 20 



Flatnlnco (crimson) 60 



Mrs. K. Wild (carmine red) 20 



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Bridgemon's Seed Warehouse 



Established 1824. RICHARDS BROS., Props. 



Importers and Grow^ers of Hleh-erade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, Etc. 



37 Eaat 19th Street, Telephone 4285 Gramercy NEW YORK CITY 



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elsewhere. Personally I hold the idea 

 that the enormous breadths of sweet peas 

 grown by some in California are the 

 cause of the mix-ups we find even in 

 standard sorts like King Edward VII, 

 leaving out the Spencers. 



BURPEE'S LOMPOC FARM. 



Howard W. Earl, business manager of 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., and Edwin Lons- 

 dale, who is to be superintendent of Bur- 

 pee's new seed farms and experimental 

 grounds at Lompoc, Cal., the acquisition 

 of which was announced in the Eeview 

 last week, were in Chicago October 4. 

 When they visited the Eeview oflSce they 



showed the photograph herewith repro- 

 duced, giving an idea of the character 

 of the California farm. It shows in the 

 foreground a field of mustard, with the 

 mustard straw at the left. Both Messrs. 

 Earl and Lonsdale are extremely enthu 

 siastic over this farm, believing it to be 

 in one of the richest spots in the Califor- 

 nia seed growing region. They say it 

 was about the last choice farm which is 

 to be obtained in that district and that 

 the soil seems of inexhaustible fertility. 

 Dry farming can be practiced, but they 

 have an unfailing water supply for irri- 

 gation if desired. Mr. Lonsdale expects 

 to remove to Lompoc and take up his 

 residence on the farm early in November. 



Burpee's New Seed Farm and Experimental Gardens at Lompoc, Cal. 



