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The Florists^ Review 



January 30, 1913. 



NEW FORCING GLADIOLUS 



PINK AUGUSTA 



Best early forcing light pink variety, each bulb produces two or three spikes in suc- 

 cession, fine for sprays or decorating. $2 50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000; a few extra selected 

 bulbs, $2.76 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. CASH. Also Augusta; Francis King, Madame 

 Monneret. Taft, Elondyke, Florists' Mixture, etc. Send for Trade List, with testimoiiilt. 



STEVENS GLADIOLI CO., Saginaw, W. S., Ich. 



Read What Our Customers Say 

 About This Grand Commercial 

 Variety: 



EvANSTON, Itr.., Nov. 7, 1911. 

 STKVXM8 Gladioli Co., 



Saginaw, Mich, 

 Gentlemen: I have grown your 

 Fink Augusta for the last two years, 

 and It Is a good Indoor grower. 

 Sells well with us. Please send nie 

 another thousand bulbs. Also a Ust 

 of your other varieties. 

 Yours truly, 



John Wmland. 



in diameter and under should be ad- 

 mitted free of duty, and the bulbs or 

 corms measuring above five-eighths of 

 an inch in diameter should have a duty 

 of twenty-five per cent ad valorem. Mr. 

 Cowee further said: 



"Prior to the tariff act of 1909 for- 

 eign-grown gladiolus bulbs bore a duty 

 of twenty-five per cent ad valorem, but 

 the revision of 1909 reduced this duty 

 to 50 cents per thousand specific. "This 

 revision had hardly gone into effect be- 

 fore American growers were besieged 

 with applications from Holland and 

 German growers for small planting 

 stock. These foreign growers hereto- 

 fore were glad to secure our regular 

 blooming-size bulbs and were to all ap- 

 pearances content with the growing of 

 hardy bulbs, such as tulips, hyacinths, 

 narcissi, etc., for which their soils are 

 more suitable for growing. You can 

 readily appreciate that, with the cheap 

 labor which these foreign growers em- 

 ploy, it was not a hard task for them to 

 make serious inroads upon our Amer- 

 ican growers, returning our own stand- 

 ard., varieties at prices below the reach 

 of the average grower but at handsome 

 profits to themselves. 



"I have several samples of what we 

 call the heart bulblets, or heart corms, 

 which have to be grown from one to 

 three years before they produce bloom- 

 ing bulbs. Some corms, however, will 

 produce blooming bulbs in two years, 

 but rarely in one year. The different- 

 sized bulbs, too, as they are grown 

 from the bulblets, command different 

 prices. For instance, the large bulbs, 

 which you see there, are called by the 

 foreign people 'top size,' and bring a 

 higher price than those which are 

 smaller. 



'**Why this change in the tariff or 

 by whom requested, I am unable to 

 state; suf&ce it to say that American 

 growers of gladiolus bulbs were not re- 

 sponsible, for if they had been, pro- 

 vision would have been made for the 

 different sizes of bulbs, and stages of 

 development would have been taken 

 into consideration and your speaker 

 would have escaped a dilemma which 

 confronted him some three years ago 

 when importing some twenty-three bar- 

 rels of small bulblets, hard and soft, 

 upon which the collector of customs de- 

 manded a duty of 50 cents per thou- 

 iftnd, which duty was prohibitive, com- 

 pelling the return of the stock. Later 

 your speaker had the opportunity of 

 presenting this matter for a different 

 ruling than that made by the port col- 

 lector and a consistent ruling. was made 

 so far as the small bulblets, hard and 



soft, were concerned^ i- i 

 *"** First, we contehd thjft ' 



Mention The Review when you write 



Gladioli 



TO COME RIGHT 

 DOWN TO BUSINESS: 



To those who answer at once with order and cash I will sell: 



AMERICA 



l^-incli and up per 1000, $20.00 



l^tolifl-lnch " " 15.00 



l-inch to m-lnch " " 12.00 



%-inch to 1-inch " " 10.00 



^•inch to %-lncli " " 7.00 



Bulblets per quart, 1.00 



per bushel, 25.00 



MRS. FRANCIS KING 



No. l-m-inches up per 1000, $12.00 



1-inch to IH-lnch " " 10.00 



%inch to 1-inch " " 8.00 



Bulblets.'. per bushel, 10.00 



r^;,v^tfl--^' ^^' ^1-^ } These are fine 

 Cracker Jack.. *-OOVhnlh>! clnan 



Wm. Falconer. " " 5.00 f ^"L''*.'^'®*" 

 Lafayette " " 2.OO ) »°<1 t™®' 



These are my own growing from coimels, not flat old bulbs. 



2.00 

 All will bloom this season. 



GEO. S. WOODRUrr, 



INDEPENDENCE, 

 IOWA 



Mention Th» Review when yon write. 



GLADIOLI 



AMERICA, in good supply. AH sizes. 



Send for 1913 Jrade-lUt 

 ^ j^ of 50 varieties *^ t^ 



E. L STEWART, Rives Junction, Ich. 



Mention The H«Tlew when yon write. 



LikT Ur I lIBi VALLbT Fresh stock-Now ready for use 



Case of 250, $4.25; case of 600, $8.00; case of 1000. $15.C0; original case of 2500, $36.75 



Tubarous-rootad B«Konla*— Colors: Rose, Scarlet. Crimson, White, Yellow, Orange. 



Single, $2.50 per 100; Uouble, $».50 per 100. Single Mixed. $2.25 per 100; Double Mixed, $4.00 per 100. 



Giant Frilled, Single. $7 00 per 100; Double, $10.00 per 100. 



Ullum Auratum . 



Album. 



the gladiolus 



Raaaum. 



8 to 9.$ 5.50 per 100; $ 47.50 per 1000 



9toll, 8.50perl00: 80.00 per 1000 



8to 9. S.OOperlOO; 



9 to 11. 12.00 per 100 : 



8 to 9, S.OOperlOO; 



9toll, S.OOperlOO; 



8to 9, S.OOperlOO; 



9toll. S.OOperlOO; 



Sphacnum Moaa, burlap baled, at $1.50 per bale. 



CURRIE B^OS. CO., los wiscmu st-si2 BrMdwir. Hflwaukee, Wis. 



Mention The ReTlew when yrni write. 



Malpomana. 



v5.00 per 1000 

 110.00 per 1000 

 45.00 per 1000 

 75.00 per 1000 

 45.00 per 1000 

 75.00 per 1000 



Gladiolif America 



Forcing sizes and planting stock. Mrs. 

 Francis King and Augusta, in No. 1 



and No. 2 sizes. Write your needs and 

 let iis^quote you. .,^. 



A. H. ABSTW CO., Waylna, Ohio 



Chllds' Gladioli 



are noted the world over for 

 SUPKRIOR M BRIT 



JOHN LEWIS CHILD8 



Fiowsrflsid, Loiig Island, N. Y. 



