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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVKMBBB 30, 1911. 



Between Christmas and New Year 



You have time and room — plant Cold Storage Lilies and get a cut 

 just right for Easter. They will flower easily by April 1st. 



Case of 232, 7-9, $1S.00-Case of 200, 8-10, $16.00 



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C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMESICAK SEED TBASE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Leonard H. Vaughan, Chicago; First 

 VlcePres., M. H. Duryea, New York City; Sec'y 

 and Treas., C. B. Kendel, Clereland, O. 



The catalogue makers who are behind 

 are burning the midnight oil. The books 

 for tlie south should be on the press 

 December 1. 



Isaac Davis, a seed dealer of Findlay, 

 O., recently shipped to a firm in Ham- 

 burg, German J-. two carloads of alsike 

 seed, valued at $12,000. 



Bulb salesmen from Holland are com- 

 ing to America earlier and earlier each 

 succeeding year. Wliere once they came 

 while the last crop Mas in flower, now 

 they come before all have gone into the 

 ground. 



The Board of General Appraisers last 

 week sustained a protest by C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co., Milwaukee, on a last season's 

 importation of hyacinth bulbs. The 

 Breck decision was followed, as in all 

 such cases. 



If those Holland bulb travelers keep 

 on starting their journeys earlier each 

 year, as in the past, they soon will be 

 like the man who stayed so late at the 

 club that, on his way home, he met him- 

 self going down to the office. 



At Chicago Charles Dickinson, of the 

 Dickinson Seed Co., has acquired by quit- 

 claim from the estate of Solomon Aus- 

 trian and Mrs. Mary Austrian, widow, a 

 tract of ten acres at the northeast corner 

 of Thirty-fifth street and California ave- 

 nue, and twenty acres at the northwest 

 corner of Rockwell and Thirty-fifth 

 streets. A nominal consideration is 

 given, but Mr. Dickinson secured $28,500 

 of the purchase money by a trust deed 

 to H. R. Piatt, five years at five per cent. 

 An important industrial project is said 

 to be involved. 



At the recent convention of the Maine 

 Seed Improvement Association, held at 

 Waterville, the following officers were 

 elected : President, W. G. Hunton, Read- 

 field; vice-president, A. P. Howes, Pal- 

 myra; secretary. Dr. Leon S. Merrill, 

 Orono; treasurer, C. M. White, Bowdoin- 

 ham. Executive committee, Guy C. Por- 

 ter, of Houlton; Roland P. Patten, of 

 Skowhegan; Dr. G. M. Twitchell, of Au- 

 burn; Frank Lowell, of Farmingdale; 

 L. C. Holston, of Westbrook. Visiting 

 member, W. G. Hunton, of Readfield. 

 Delegates to state federation, W. G. Hun- 

 ton and A. P. Howes. 



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The Holland bulb salesmen are now 

 crossing the American continent in con- 

 siderable numbers. Several have appeared 

 among the Pacific coast growers, some as 

 early as in October. 



Secretary Wilson has stated that the 

 Agricultural Department in conjunction 

 with Farmers' Institutes conducted 

 seventy-one instruction trains, covering 

 tours of over 4(),rKX) mil©?, during the last 

 year. 



The Dakota Improved Seed Co., of 

 Mitchell, S. D., is erecting an office build- 

 ing, 50x70 feet, at the north end of its 

 property, which is located at the corner 

 of Railroad avenue and Lawler street. 

 The plans and specifications have also 

 been drawn for a warehouse which the 

 firm expects to build next year. The 

 warehouse will cover a space 70x124 feet 

 and will be three stories high, besides the 

 basement. The cost will be about 

 $25,000. 



FIELD SEEDS IN DAKOTA. 



On account of the bad weather just 

 following harvest season, the depart- 

 ment of botany of the North Dakota 

 Agricultural College is making arrange- 

 ments at an early date to aid farmers 

 and seedsmen in attempting to save the 

 best quality of seed grain for sowing 

 purposes. The heavy rains immediately 

 following harvesting time have injured 

 a large amount of the grain in the state 

 for sowing purposes. 



The following has been sent to prac- 

 tically all of the seed dealers and to a 

 large number of growers in North Da- 

 kota: 



The farming lands of the state are not pro- 

 ducing nearly as large returns as they shouldr 

 One feature which accounts for the low return 

 Is the low quality of seed grain used for sowing 

 purposes by the farmers generally. We would 

 like to make this office useful to the state by 



Giant Pera Cncnmber 



grown under irrigation by 



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 Cucumber, Musk andWatermelon, Pump- 

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