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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Ski'xembhb 1, 1910. 



LILIUM FORMOSIM 



7 to 9, $8 per 100, $70 per 1000; 9 to 10, $10.50 per-lOO, $95 per 1000 



Bermuda Lilies. Extra Plump Bulbs 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Lilium Harrisii, 5/7 $5.00 $45.00 



Lilium Harrisii, 7/9 9.50 86.00 



Wllite Roman, extra early, 11/12 ctms 2.26 20.00 



Wllite Roman, extra early, 12/15 ctms 2.75 24.60 



mrlllte Roman, extra early, 13/15 ctms 3.00 28.60 



Paper Wlilte Grandlfflora 1.25 9.00 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 



42 Vesey St., NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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crops worth on the open market at date 

 of delivery a considerable advance over 

 the contract price; in fact, frequently 

 several times as much as they had 

 agreed to grow the crop for. Now, the 

 French farmer is a frugal person; he 

 believes in the old adage, "Watch the 

 pennies and the pounds will take care 

 of themselves"; he is able to finance 

 himself, and he won't grow seeds for 

 one except on his own terms, except 

 one be blessed with extraordinary 

 powers of persuasion. 



V'Some of the continental houses 

 countenance the practice of growing 

 crops at open prices, and make a con- 

 tract with the farmer whereby they 

 agree to take his crop and pay for it a 

 fixed percentage, varying from seventy- 

 five to eighty per cent, of the price 

 printed in the buyers' wholesale cata- 

 logue. 



"Such a custom does not meet with 

 universal approval. Whatever may be 

 said in its favor, it opens the way for 

 unscrupulous dealing, several instances 

 of which already might be cited, and 

 it certainly discourages foresight, the 

 seedsmen 's faculty heretofore of great- 

 est value; it reduces the seedsman to 

 the position of a mere broker, the sales- 

 man of the grower paid a commission 

 for hiis service. 



"Then, to go back to the outlook for 

 the immediate fpturc, there is the mat- 

 ter of stock seeds. Warehouses are 

 bare; supplies are, one would say, down 

 to the irreducible minimum; but the 

 fact is, they can and will go still lower. 

 Take peas, for instance; with the 

 world 's crop this year turning out only 

 twofold, and with peas on hand worth 

 .$7, $8 or probably $10 a bushel in hard 

 cash, who is going to risk them in the 

 ground for seed growing? Of course, 

 stock seed is going to be scarcer than 

 ever it was. 



"In the matter of peas and as show- 

 ing the shortage, before I left home I 

 notified each of our American custom- 

 ers that I was coming to visit them, and 

 asked any who wished to communicate 

 with me to do so at Hotel Imperial, 

 New York. When I reached there I 

 found fourteen letters from American 

 seedsmen, and of the fourteen, eleven 

 asked quotations on peas." 



The point will be apparent, as peas 

 are imported only when extremely 



jr RELIABLE SEEDS 



Per 6 Tr. 

 Tr. Pkts Pkt 

 Beeonia iri'acilis lumlnosa, 



scarlet winterbloomer $2.60 $OJSO 



Calceolaria, tigered and spotted 



Hybrids 2.80 .BO 



Cineraria, dwarf Hybrids in 



colors, separate 2.80 .60 



Cineraria, mixture of dwarf 



Hybrids 2 JSO .60 



Per oz. 

 Dracaena Indlvlsa, clean seed. .$1.00 

 Mienonette Zangen's Tri- 

 umph, for greenhouse 3.00 .50 



Myogotis Zangen's Winter 



Queen, for greenhouse 4 ()0 ..W 



"~i*ansie«Ca8sler's Improved 



aiants, Hnest mixed 5.00 .70 



Stocks IJenuty of Nice, as: Day- 

 break. Carmine, Lilac. White, 



each separate 3.00 .50 



My catalogue will interest you, ask for It. 

 0. Y. Zuven, Secdiman, Hobokea, N. J. 



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Hunkel'sGIANT CYCLAMEN 



Our Cyclamen Seed is grown for u.s by the leading 

 specialist in Europe.and is saved only from perfect 

 plants. The tlowers are of fine shape and giant 

 size and are pure in color. New crop seed. White; 

 CrimRon; Bose; Bo8« Marienthal, Daybreak; 

 Wllite, with (Jarmine Eye. 100 seetls, 70c; 1000 

 seeds, 15.00. All Mixed, 100 seeds. 60c; 1000 seeds 

 »4.50. GIANT PANSY SEED-lineat inixeil" 

 pkt., 250; ^8-oz., 60c: (>/,., $1.00. 

 BULBS 



Freesias, Mammoth, ^j-in. up. UOe per 100 • 

 $8 00 per 1000. .lumho, Sj.in. up. $1.60 per 100- 

 $12.00 per 1000. 



Lilium FormoBum, 7/'J. $7.50 per 100; $6.') 00 

 per 1(H»(); '.I/IO, $10.00 per 100; $<.K).00 per 1000. 



Calla LUies, \^/2, $12.00 per 100. 



Paper WUte Grancllflora,$1.25perl00; $9 00 

 per lOOO. 



Harrisii, Romans, Candidum, etc Cet 

 our prices. 



G. H. NUNKEL CO.. Seedsmen, Milwaukee, Wis. 



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PRIMROSES 



IMPROVED CHINESE ffiJiraS; 



ed. single and double, strong, ready for 4-in., 

 pots. $4.00 per 100. 



CYCLAMEN GIOANTEUM v^^/- 



3-inch, ready for 4 or 5-inch pots, $5.00 per 100. 



PRIMUU KEWENSIS ir'po^rVSS 



per 100. 



XXX SEEDS 



CHINK8K PRIMROSE, finest grown, single 

 and double, mixed, 600 seeds, $1.00i 1000 seeds, 

 $1.50; iflpkt.,50c. 



PRIMULA KEWXN8I8. the great and grand 

 new, Verbena-scented yellow Primrose. Be 

 sure to sow it. Trade pkt., 25c. 



*^!^^*?'^* '*r*f^ flowering dwarf mixed, 

 1000 seeds, Mc ; ^ pkt.. 25c. 



GIANT DAISIES (Bellis). extra large and 

 fine, mixed, trade pkt., 25c. 



GIANT PANSY L'^eKvS 



aea, critically selected, 6000 seeds. $1.00; half pkt 

 50c; OS., $2.50: 2^ oz. for $5.00. 500 seeds of Giant 

 fl^ , FeiT«t pansy seed added to every $1.00 

 Pkt. of Giant Pansy. Our pansy seed crop is 

 extra good this year. 



CASH. Liberal extra count. 



WE CAN PLEASE YOU 

 JOHN r. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 



RUPPTON: Th« Home of Primroses 



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The best strains in existence. Chinensis, large 

 flowering fringed. Obconica Hybrids, unrivaled 

 Ronsdorfer and Lattman strains, large flowering 

 large flowering fringed and Gigantea. 



See plant adv. under classified. 

 |. L. SCBILLEB, 929 Frosty Its.. Toledo. OkU 

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LILIUM GIGANTEIM 



7/9, fine bulbs, $24.00 per case. Ready lor 

 delivery from cold storage as desired. 



8KEDS AND FLORI8T8' 8UPPLIB8 



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Headquarters for 



SPBINC BULBS 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



Floral Park, N. Y. 



Golden Spur - - $ 9.80 

 Emperor - • . . fo.OO 

 La Reine ■ ■ . <s qa 

 Cottage Maid - . eioo 



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