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The Florists' Review 



Febbdaby 27, 1913. 



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GLADIOLUS BULBS 



lOO 1010 

 Ihi to 2 -inch AMBRICA, Rose. . . .$2.00 $18.00 



1 tol»«-iDch '• •• ....180 15.00 



1 to lis-incb HDLOT, Blue 3.00 27.50 



^tol -inch ■' ■' 2.00 17.50 



Caoh with order. 



PHUirOON BROS., Beverwijk, HoUand 



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J. C. McMillan. J. C. McMillan, Jr.. is 

 also connected with this firm. 



The fact that navy beans are selling 

 at good prices is having some effect on 

 the contracting of the garden varieties. 



Some shippers evidently haven't noted 

 that, although cuttings do not come un- 

 der the parcel post, it requires parcel 

 post stamps before they can go through 

 the mail. 



Customers are writing in to the seeds- 

 men advising against the carelessness of 

 putting too much postage on the pack- 

 ages. The rural folia are on to this reck- 

 less waste. They know their zones. 



The 1913 catalogue of the Leonard 

 Seed Co., Chicago, contains what is 

 claimed to be the most complete varietal 

 descriptions of garden peas ever pub- 

 lished in an American seed catalogue. 



The Senate has adopted without de- 

 bate resolutions of Senator Kenyon, of 

 Iowa, calling on the Postmaster General 

 for an estimate ef the expense to the 

 government for the last four years of the 

 carrying of seed&, plants and bulbs 

 franked through the mails under the con- 

 gressional free seed distribution, and also 

 a j-esolution calling on the Secretary of 

 Agriculture for the expense to the gov- 

 ernment during the same period of pur- 

 chasing cr .securing seeds, bulbs, plants, 

 trees, etc., for free distribution by con- 

 gressmen, and the number of packages 

 so furnished, and the expense of prepar- 

 ing the same for such free distribution 

 and delivery to the mails. The resolu- 

 tions do not have to pass the House and 

 the information will soon be forthcoming. 



THE SPENCER SWEET PEAS. 



Lester L. Morse has issued "A Bul- 

 letin on Spencer Sweet Peas, ' ' from 

 notes taken in 1912. It describes sev- 

 enty-nine varieties, as well as pointing 

 out many synonyms and too much alike 

 varieties. Mr. Morse says: 



"The past summer was one of intense 

 interest to me in the development of the 

 Spencer sweet pea. Just before the 

 arrival of the frightful and destructive 

 hot wave at San Juan, where our trial 

 grounds, workshop and fields of sweet 

 peas' are situated, I had taken our pre- 

 liminary notes and a few days latec,. in 

 company with Mr. Burpee and Hugh 

 Dickson, had reviewed and discussed 

 them. Then, a few days later I had the 

 pleasure of a day at Mr. Burpee 's sweet 

 pea trials and experimental grounds at 

 I'Toradale, and in company ' with Mr. 

 Hurpee and Mr. Dickson again. Thus, 

 fresh from our California fields and 



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 WELL SELECTED 



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armed with my notes carefully copied 

 into my note book (which later became 

 known as my 'Sweet Pea Bible'), \ had 

 the pleasure of a visit to the National 

 Sweet Pea Society's Exhibition in Lon- 

 don — July 9 to 12, and to the society's 

 trials at Guildford and to other sweet 

 pea fields at Dobbies', both at Marks 

 Tey and Edinburgh; Watkins & Simp- 

 son's, at Twickenham; Cooper, Taber 

 & Co.'s at Witham; Hurst & Sons' and 

 Bertrand Deal's, at Kelvedon; E. W. 

 King's, at Gog^eshall; Thomas Steven- 

 son's gardens, at Woburn Place; Mr. 

 Christy's, at Ingatestone, and later. 



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German Stock Seeds 



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Angust Rolker & Sons 



import for the wholesale trade : Azaleas, 



Palms, Rhododendrons, Bay Trees. Roses. 



Lilacs. Holland and Japan Bulbs. 



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Ernst Senary 's, in Erfurt, Germany. 

 At all of these grounds, excepting Be- 

 nary's, I was accompanied by Howard 

 M. Earl, and we, and those present with 

 us, discussed, reviewed, re-discussed and 

 re-reviewed sweet peas until we were 

 permeated with the subject. 



"It was after these various visits, 



