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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



The Hamburg steamers are bringing 

 large shipments of grass and clover seeds, 

 practically all consigned either to order 

 or to custom-house brokers. 



It develops that here and there through 

 the country there are quite a few surpluses 

 of Dutch bulbs, and a few French, mostly 

 stock held for retail sale until it was too 

 late to move it at wholesale. 



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The important novelty of the year ap- 

 pears to be a bush melon, catalogued by 

 Peter Henderson & Co. A lot of seedsmen 

 have been looking for something of the 

 kind and are more or less surprised that 

 it has been found. 



When peas are planted under the con- 

 ditions that maintain in the northwest, 

 they make a wonderful growth and the 

 characteristics of the Wisconsin grown 

 stock seed are modified in many ways. 

 Those who have tested the seed think that 

 for one year the western stock will an- 

 swer canners', market gardeners' or any 

 other purposes, but that it probably will 

 be necessary to send Wisconsin grown 

 stock seed west each year or completely 

 lose the type. 



MB. SMITH FINDS JOKE. 



"Progressive" California offers to 

 admiring citizens an exhibition of legis- 

 lative sagacity in the two bills , Senate 

 No. 1 and Assembly No. 1, filed De- 

 cember 23 and 24. For example, these 

 bills require the California consignee 

 of a 5-cent mail packet of field, garden 

 or flower seeds from another state to 

 notify the Commissioner of Horticul- 

 ture, or his deputy, of its arrival, and 

 the packet must be carefully guarded, 

 until inspected for insect pests by the 

 quarantine guardian, or other officer. 

 Also that packet must bear a label giv- 

 ing the names of seed, consignor, con- 

 signee and country where the seed was 

 grown. Nobody ever claimed that any 

 injury from insects, etc., could come 

 from any or at least most of these 

 seeds. For violation, a pleasant penalty 

 is six months in jail and also a fine 

 of $500. 



A nice little joke is that every con- 

 stituent of a California congressman re- 

 ceiving bis packet of free seeds must 

 perform the same duty. 



If state legislatures would use more 

 care in the consideration of these re- 

 strictive regulations of legitimate com- 

 merce, perhaps we would have fewer 

 laws, but those would be quite enforce- 

 able, which can not be said of a single 

 state seed law now on the statute 

 books. It is a sufficient comment on 

 the hapliazard American method of 

 grinding out laws to state that I have 

 a record of ninety-eight state laws de- 

 clared unconstitutional by the highest 

 state courts within a period of two 

 years, 1906-1908. Curtis Nye Smith. 



SUIT OVEB SEEDS. 



From Petersburg, Va., comes the fol- 

 lowing press report: "A verdict in 

 favor of the defendant was awarded 

 last night in the case of Jacot & Mul- 

 lin, of New York, vs. the Grossman 

 Seed Supply Co., in which the com- 

 plainants were suing the Grossman Co. 

 for $1,700, the balance due on a ship- 

 ment of seed which the defendants re- 

 fused to pay for, alleging that the seed 

 was worthless. The court's decision 

 ordered the refund of more than $1,300 

 already paid the claimants. Jacot & 



Lilies of the Valley 



Bruns' Celebrated Chicagfo Market Brand 



Finest in existence. $2.00 per 100; $16.00 per 1000. 



Bruns' Early Forcing Valley 



Florists' money-maker. $1.50 per 100; $14.00 per 1000. 



H. N. BRUNS, 3038-4042 W. Madison St, Chicago 



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LILIUM QIQANTEUM (Dark Stem) 



LILIUM ALBUM, AURATUM AND RUBRUM 



I All sizes and as fine as Japan produces. Write ua. 



S. S. Skldelsky < Co., uisBebBut, PldladeliAia, Pa. 



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XatabUsbed in 1802 



Our New Wholesale Catalogue 



for Market Gardeners and Florists for 

 1912 will be ready early in January. 

 Register yair name for a copy NOW. 



J.N.Tliorbiirn&Co."N£!:^^ 



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Lily of the VaHey 



C'J. & p. Perfect" Brand, new 

 crop three-year pips, tlie kind indi- 

 cated by the aame; grade and 

 quality gruaranteed, at $15.00 per 

 1000, packed 200^ to the case. 



Prompt flhlpment 



JACKSON&rERKINSCO. 



NEWARK, Wayne C«., NEW YORK 



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Cold Storage Valley 



W. & D.'8 Extra Selected Serlln Plpg 

 W.60 p«r box of 600 pipe. W. & D.'g Sure 

 Crop £ncll8n Mashroom Spawn — new 



crop, just received, $8.00 per 100 lU. Cash with 

 order or satlgfactory reference b. 



Weeker & Dan, n^'^G^-o'^w^?.'' New Yaii City 



114 Chambers Street 



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GLADIOLI, 



LILIES, SUMMER FLOWERING 



BULBS AND HARDY PLILNTS. 



SEND rOR FRICX LIST. 



LS. MILLER, Wading River; 14. Y. 



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XXX seeos 



ALYSSVM SNOWDRIFT, most dwarf and com- 

 pact, very fine, pkt. 20c. 



AKTISBHIMXrX, New Giant, white, rose and 

 yellow. Separate or Mixed, pkt. 20c. 



PETUNIA STAR, improTed, finest marked flow- 

 ers, very fine, pkt. 20c. 



FETTINIA, Giant, single fringed, large and fine, 

 very choicest mixed, pkt. 20c. 



PETUNIA, Giant Double XSrlnged, very fine, trade 

 pkt. GOc. Mixtnre of the best ImproTed Tara. 



SALVIA, Bonfire, finest grown, brilliant scarlet 

 and compact. La rge p kt. 20c. 



PHLOX DRUIC. FUXn.A, very dwarf, grand 

 for pots, fine colors, pkt. 20c. 



CHINESE PRIHBOSE, finest grown, single and 

 donble mixed, 600 seeds, $1.00; ^ pkt. 60c.; 

 1000 seeds, |1.B0. Separate colors or mixed. 



PRIMULA XEWENSIS, the grand new sweet- 

 scented yellow Primrose, pkt. 20c. 



CINERARIA, large-flowering dwarf, mixed, 1000 

 seeds, 50c.; Vt pkt. 26c. 



CYCLAMEN GIGA17TEUM, finest gianU, mixed, 

 250 seeds, $1.00; % pkt. 50c.; 1000 seeds, $8.50. 



GIANT PANSY, finest grown, critically selected, 

 6000 seeds, $1.00; V, pkt. 50c. 



C0LEU8, New Hybrids, fine colors. Best New 

 Giants, pkt. 20c. Very brilliant and sbowy. 



HARDY PHLOX, from the newest named giant 

 flowering; mixed, pkt., 20c 



LOBELIA, Blue Ball, dwarf, dark bine, finest of 

 all Lobelias, pkt. 20c. Be snre to fww of this. 



TORENIA FOURNIERI, New Giant, extra fine, 

 pot plant, pkt. 20c. Showy. 



CANDYTUFT, New Giant Hyacinth-flowered, a 

 groat cutter, pkt. 20c. 



SWEET WILLIAM; new colors of large white- 

 centered, fine, pkt. 20c. Newest giants. 



COLUMBINE. New blue with yellow spars, ex- 

 tra, pkt. 20c. Grand Novelty. 



VERBENA, ImprOTed Mammoth, finest gianta 

 grown, mixed or separate of pnxple, white, 

 scariet, pink, atriped, white-eyed. Tr. pkt. 20c. 



HELIOTROPE, finest mixed, pkt. 20c. 



BROWALLIA, New Giant Bine, pkt. 20c. 



CUPHEA. Giant Cigar, fine, pkt. 20c. 



GAILT.ARDIA GRAND, New Giant, pkt. 20c. 



COBAEA SCANDENB, extra fine vine, pkt. 20c. 



THUNBERGIA, mixed (Black-eyed Susan), fine, 

 20c. 



ORIENTAL POPPY COLOSSUS, 10 inches diam- 

 eter, grand and gorgeous, pkt. 20c. 

 CASH. Lll>eral extra connt. 



JOHN F. Rurr, 



Shiremanstown, 

 Pa. 



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sow NOW! 



Get Ready for Karly Sprinc Sales 



«Tr. Tr. 

 Pkts. Pkt. 

 BKGONIA Gracilis Lumlnosa, 



true stock, with large scarlet 



flowere 12.60 $0.50 



KriordU, fine pink variety ... 2.50 .60 



Beddlnc Queen, most beau- 

 tiful pink Wax Begonia 2.50 .50 



Vernon, fine red 1.25 .25 



CTCLAMSM Perslcum Bplen- 

 dens Glcanteum, finest 

 colon, assorted, 1000 seeds .. 5.00 .75 



0. V. ZANffiN, Hibokei, N. J. 



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