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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



Fbbbcabt' 1, 1912. 



Seed Trade News. 



AlCXBZOAir BKED TKASX ABSOOIATIOV. 



Free., Leonard H. Vauerhan, Chlcajro; First Vice- 

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

 Treas.. 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. O. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Chicago, June 26 to 

 1912. 



The Haven Seed Co., Santa Ana, Cal., 

 wrote January 22 : "No rains here yet. ' ' 



The season is starting too dry to suit 

 the California seed growers. Good rains 

 are needed. 



Oscar H. WHiL & Co., Bismarck, N. D., 

 was established in 1884. The twenty- 

 ninth annual catalogue has just been 

 issued. 



Arnold Eingier, of W. W. Barnard 

 Co., who was laid up at St. Paul by an 

 attack of rheumatism, is again on his 

 way west. 



W. W. Tracy, Jr., who started a year 

 ago as seed grower at Kendrick, Idaho, 

 will have considerable company in that 

 section at the rate things now are going. 



This week's obituary column contains 

 a report of the death of Mrs. Emma 

 von Windheim, proprietor of the Nebras- 

 ka Seed Co., at Omaha, Neb., of which 

 H. G. Windheim is manager. 



The Mel K Webster Co., of Waco., 

 Tex., has been incorporated; capital 

 stock, $15,000; incorporators, Mel L. 

 Webster, Dan S. Jones, W. S. Murrell 

 and H. D. Kline. Purpose, growing, sell- 

 ing and purchasing seeds, plants, trees, 

 etc 



L. L. May & Co., of St. Paul, have 

 ffiven a deed of trust to the Security 

 Trust Co. and J. E. Mitchell, of St. Paul 

 as trustees to secure a bond issue of 

 $100,000. The deed covers the Mayville 

 nursery farm, real estate in Lakeland, St. 

 Paul, West St. Paul and acre property in 

 Bamsey county. 



The W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, has 

 worked a transformation in the Madi- 

 son street building formerly occupied by 

 the Hearst newspaper and in which the 

 Barnard interests will be centered within 

 the next few weeks. The new front and 

 the splendid location give promise of a 

 wonderful counter trade. 



Watson S. Woodruff, ex-president of 

 the American Seed Trade Association, of 

 the firm of S. D. Woodruff & Sons, 

 Orange, Conn., was recently elected 

 president of a new bank, the Orange 

 Bank and Trust Co., soon to be opened at 

 West Haven, Conn. The tovni of Orange, 

 which includes in its borders the borough 

 of West Haven, Conn., has a population 

 of something over 10,000 and has never 

 before had a bank. Mr. Woodruff has a 

 wide acquaintance among the garden 

 seed trade, both in the United States and 

 Europe. 



LOS ANOELES SEED NOTES. 



At the time of writing, dry weather 

 still retards business at the retail 

 stores, and also planting and sowing, 

 but the volnme of trade compares 

 favorably with that of last year. Cata- 

 logne making and mailing is taking up 

 quite a little time. 



John Bodger & Sons Co. has already 

 planted about 350 acres, in spite of the 

 drought, and the work is still being 

 pushed. J. Bodger, Jr., has not yet 



HJalmar Hartmann €c Co., Gopenliagen, Denmark. 



Seed Growers for tbe Wholesale Trade 

 Cauliflower, Cabbage and Root Seed. 



NOVELTY 



Copenhagen 

 Market 



Earliest large, 



round headed 



Cabbage. 



Very Solid 



Gontraot 



Now 

 for 1912 



Crop. 



Copenhagen Market. Galvano Free. 



Prices and Descriptive list free on Application. ^ 



'lOCCHNCR & CO.. 11 Wirren St.. New York, Sole Agents for the U. S. and Canada? 



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returned from his annual eastern trip, 

 but Mr. Bodger, Sr., says they are 

 going in for a larger variety of flower 

 seeds than formerly and that their lines 

 will probably include some herbaceous 

 stock as well as the usual annuals. 

 Sweet peas, lettuce and tomatoes are 

 leaders here, the pulp of the tomatoes 

 being made into ketchup at the firm's 

 factory here, as a by-product. Mr. 

 Bodger does not prophesy, but says 

 that the sweet pea seed shortage is 

 likely to continue. 



Lester L. Morse, of C. C. Morse & 



Robert W. MacNiff. 



Co., and J. B. Agnew, of the Pacific 

 Seed Growers' Co., both of San Fran- 

 cisco, were recent visitors to this city. 



H. B. a. 



BOBEBT MACNIFF. 



Although only 34 years of age, Rob- 

 ert W. MacNiff has been continuously 

 engaged in the trade for twenty-two 

 years. Bom at Newark, N. J., Augnsi 

 12, 1877, at 12 years of age he became 

 office boy for Peter Henderson A Co., 

 New York, where the method of doing 

 things systematically was so instilled 



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into him that the result now is one of 

 his best assets in the seed and auction 

 business he has established. Working 

 into the vegetable seed department, he 

 remained with Henderson & Co. for 

 thirteen years, leaving to accept a posi- 

 tion with a Chicago seed house. Un- 

 able to resist the call of the metropo- 

 lis, after six months he returned to 

 New York to accept a position with 

 the horticultural auction house of Wm. 

 Elliott & Sons, an engagement that 

 continued for eight years. Ambitious 

 to test the result of his experience in 

 his own behalf, he formed a partner- 

 ship with Louis Schmutz, a well known 

 wholesale florist in Brooklyn, and Sep- 

 tember 13, 1910, opened as the Mac- 

 Niff Horticultural Co., with headquar- 

 ters at 62 Vesey street. New York. 

 The concern not only conducts an auc- 

 tion business* for the sale of plants, 

 bulbs, nursery stock, etc., but last sea- 

 son established a seed department. 

 Both branches have been a success, the 

 auction department doubling its sales 

 in the second season and the seed de- 

 partment starting so well that it is 

 being materially enlarged for the sea- 

 son now opening. Charles MacNiff, 

 brother of Eobert, and for twenty- 

 three years with Peter Henderson & 

 Co., is at the head of the seed depart- 

 ment. J. A. 8. 



CATALOGUES BEOEIVED. 



Ellwanger & Barry, Bochester, N. T., 

 roses, fruit trees and general nursery 

 stock; Beichardt & Schulte Conine., 

 Houston, Tex., seeds; E. Neubert, Wands- 

 bek, Germany, new ferns, begonias, 

 cyclamen, asparagus, etc.; the MacNiff 

 Horticultural Co., New York, N. Y., 

 seeds, bulbs, fertilizers and insecti- 

 cides; Weeber & Don, New York, N. Y., 

 general and wholesale seed lists; L. L. 

 Olds Seed Co., Madison, Wis., garden 

 and farm seeds; G. H. Hunkel Co., 



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