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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sbptbmbisb 16, 1910. 



recleaning can be made fit for seeds- 

 men's use. 



Under another form of contract the 

 farmer agrees to provide a certain area 

 of properly prepared land and, acting 

 under the directions of the seedsman 

 and as his agent, to plant it with the 

 seed furnished and to cultivate, har- 

 vest, and cure the crop so as to secure 

 the largest return of clean and highly 

 viable seed that can be secured by 

 good farm practice and the use of or- 

 dinary farm machinery, it being under- 

 stood and agreed that the stock seed 

 furnished and the seed crop produced 

 from it are, and are to remain, the 

 property of the contracting seedsman. 

 The seedsman agrees to pay the farmer, 

 for the rent of the land and for the 

 labor of growing and harvesting the 

 seed crop, a specific amount for every 

 pound of seed which he may grow and 

 deliver in accordance with the agree- 

 ment. Under such contracts the farmer 

 acts simply in the capacity of a cul- 

 tivator, handling the crop as he would 

 if it were grown for sale as grain, ex- 

 cept that he is called upon to locate 

 and handle it so that the seed will be 

 satisfactorily free from danger of mix- 

 ture with other plantings of the same 

 species. 



In some cases the growing contracts, 

 especially those for peas and beans, 

 provide that the farmer shall rogue out 

 or destroy any plants that seem to be 

 ef a different variety or of noticeably 

 inferior quality, but such roguing is 

 seldom actually done by the farmer, 

 and if done at all it is under the im- 

 mediate, direction and at the expense 

 of the contracting seedsman. Many 

 seedsmen employ large gangs of men 

 to go over seed crops grown for them 

 and remove as many as possible of the 

 rogue plants. 



Elements of Value. 



Seedsmen usually contract for the 

 growing of their supplies of seed of 

 sweet corn, peas, and beans instead of 

 depending upon purchase by sample 

 in the open market, because the ele- 

 ments of value in the case of seeds 

 are different, at least as to their rela- 

 tive importancej from those in the case 

 of most merchandise. 



Appearance. — The good appearance 

 of the seed as to cleanliness, size, 

 plumpness, and color of the grain is a 

 most desirable quality and, in most in- 

 stances, one easily recognized, but one 

 which is often misleading as to com- 

 parative value. An illustration is the 

 case of Bed Valentine beans, in which 

 a plump, full, symmetrical bean of a 

 bright red color is apt to go with in- 

 ferior varietal quality, while a twisted, 

 unsymmetrical shape and a dull color 

 are generally indications of a pure and 

 true stock of the sort. 



Purity of varietal character can rare- 

 ly be determined by even the most crit- 

 ical examination of the sample, and 

 though viability can be readily ascer- 

 tained by germinative tests it requires 

 some days to make these, so that the 

 appearance of the seed gives little in- 

 dication of its comparative value. 



Viability. — That every grain will un- 

 der favorable conditions develop into 

 a healthy plant would be regarded by 

 many, particularly by those of little 

 horticultural experience, as the most 

 important of all qualities, and in the 

 case of a single seed viability is es- 

 sential to its value. However, of two 

 lots of seed, in one of which sixty to 



Lily Bulbs 



The cable reports from Japan just received from 

 our grower state that the Multiflorum and Giganteum 

 will be very short crop, owing to the floods in the Lily 

 Growing Districts. 



In order to offset this shortage, why not grow a few 

 more 



Harrisii and rormosum? 



HARRISII 



The true Bermuda Easter Lily loo looo 



Size 5x7. 400 to case $6.00 HO.OO 



Size (5x7, 335 to case 6 00 50.00 



Size 7 X 9, 200 to case 9.00 75.00 



FORNOSUN 



Extra Fine Stock loo lOOO 



Size 7x9. 300 to cast! t7.5flU $65.00 



Size 8 X 9. 250 to case 8.60 75.00 



Size 9 X 10. 200 to case 9.50 90.00 



For Prices on Gig^anteum, Multiflorum, and all other 

 FaU Bulbs, send for Price List. 



Narcissos Paper White (iraiidiflora 



Of this, the most popular and most profitable of all bulbs for florists' forcing, we have a 

 very large stock, and also of the very best, largest flowering quality. These bulbs we can 

 place in cold storage for our customers and deliver them as wanted up to January 1st, at an 

 additional cost of 25c per 1000 per month (tfter September 1st. 



100 1000 5O0O 10,000 



FIRST SIZE BULBS, 13 ctms. and up $1.10 $ 9.00 $43.75 $ 85.00 



MONSTKR BULBS. 14 ctms. and up 1.30 11.00 53.75 106.00 



JUMBO BULBS, 15 ctms. and up 2.50 20.00 



Roman Hyacinfhs ^oz loo looo 



wmte, 12 to 15 ctms., 2000 to case $0.50 $2.75 $24.00 



White, 13 to 15 ctms., 1500 to case 75 3.25 30.00 



50 Barclay Street, 



NEW YORK 



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V Just Arrived 



CYCLAMEN SEED 



Giant English gtrai*. very finest obtainable. 

 $1.00 per 100 seeds; $9.00 per 1000 seeds. 



PANSY SEED 



None finer offered. $6.00 per ounce; $1JS0 

 per ^4 ounce. 



SKIDELSKY & IBWIN CO. 



1215 Betz BuUdine 

 PHIIiADELPHIA, PA. 



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 writing advertisers. 



Hvnkel'sGIANT CYCLAMEN 



Our Cyclamen Seed is grown for us by the leading 

 specialist in Europe, and is saved only from perfect 

 plants. The flowers are of fine shape and Riant 

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

 Crimson; Bose; Rosm Marienthal, Daybreak; 

 White, with Carmine Eye. 100 seeds. 70c; 1000 

 seeds, S5.00. All Mixed, 100 seeds, 60c: 1000 see^is, 

 $4.50. GIANT PANST SKKD— finest mixe<l. 

 pkt., 25c; le-oz., 60c; oz., $4.00. 

 BULBS 

 Freesias, Mammoth. Vin. up, 90c per 100: 



rS.OO per 1000. Jumbo, %-in. up, $1.60 per 100; 

 12.00 per 1000. 



I.iliiim Formosuin, 7/9, $7.50 per 100; 165.00 

 per 1000; 9/10, $10.00 per 100; $90.00 per 1000. 

 Calla Lilies, 1 V2. $12.00 per 100. 

 Paper White Grandlflora,$1.25per 100; $9.00 

 per 1000. 



Harrisii, Romans, Candldum, etc. Get 

 our prices. 



G. H. HUNKEL CO., Seedsfflcn, Milwaukee, Wis. 



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 MThen 'writing: advertlaers. 



