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March 3, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



39 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 have issued their annual catalogue of 

 forty pages on the premium offers of 

 1909 and 1910. 



The death is reported of Jonathan 

 Cocks, who for twenty years had traveled 

 for Nutting & Sons, the widely known 

 London seedsmen. 



Chauncey p. Coy & Son, Waterloo, 

 Neb., say that in vine seeds nowadays it 

 is much more difficult to get the seed 

 grown than it is to make the sales. 



The well known English seed firm of 

 James Carter & Co., Holborn, has pur- 

 chased a site of twenty acres near 

 Rayne's Park, on the London and South- 

 western railway, and is erecting ware- 

 houses covering about two and one-half 

 acres. 



The well known seed establishments of 

 Conrad Appel, at Darmstadt, Germany, 

 recently were visited by about fifty stu- 

 dents of BUtmore Forest School, under 

 Dr. C- A. Schenck, and twelve forest 

 students of the University of Oxford, 

 England. Both parties were interested 

 to see the extended desiccating establish- 

 ments, cleaning departments, warehouses 

 and testing laboratory of this firm, and 

 were lateif on entertained by the present 

 proprietor, Mr. Heyn, Councilor of Com- 

 merce. 



The Campbell Flower & Se6d Co., Os- 

 wego, N. Y., has incorporated, capitalized 

 at $10,000, divided into 1,000 shares of 

 $10 each. The directors for the first year 

 are Anna R. Partridge, Patrick G. Camp- 

 bell, Charles J. Bellinger, James Kelly 

 and Harry E. Joy. The business, which 

 has heretofore been condueted by P. G. 

 Campbell, will be taken over. The com- 

 pany will soon move from the present 

 quarters at the western terminal of the 

 lower bridge to the new building under 

 course of erection on the river dock. 



LAND OF THE FREE-SEEDS. 



A writer in the Horticultural Trade- 

 Journal (English) thinks the United 

 States must be a good place for seeds- 

 men — to keep away from. This is what 

 he has to say of government by the peo- 

 ple as it bears on the seed industry: 



"Some of our home traders are dis- 

 posed to grumble about competition, but 

 they have the satisfaction of knowing 

 that they have no government free seed 

 scheme, as is prevalent in U. S. A. I ven- 

 ture to think that seedsmen over here 

 would give a howl if their local M. P. 

 was distributing free seed to all and 

 sundry. Just what it means in America 

 will be gathered from the statement that 

 one congressman received no less than 

 sixty-one mailbags, each containing par- 

 cels of seed, which he distributes as 

 largess among the good folk that helped 

 him into congress. These sacks were 

 sent to him at the government's expense, 

 not by the cheapest express rate, but by 

 the regular mail trains, and after the 

 packets and parcels have been addressed 

 by the kind-hearted congressman, they 

 are again sent through the post, again 

 at the government's expense. To cut it 

 short, the government gives the seed, 

 pays the highest rate for carriage to the 

 congressman, and then pays the cost of 

 distribution to the congressman's friends. 

 Well might the postal authorities com- 

 plain of heavy deficits, and yet one kind- 

 hearted postmaster ventured to declare 

 that seedsmen should pay the full letter 

 rate on their parcels, because the seed 



"NOT HOW CHKAP- 

 BUT HOW GOOD' 



HORSESHOE BRAND 

 PRODICTS 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said: "DifiEerent things have dififer- 

 ent degrees of perfection, and the same thing at different times. 

 Thus, a horse is more perfect than an oyster, yet the oyster may 

 be a perfect oyster, as well as the horse a perfect horse. And 

 an egg is not so perfect as a chicken, nor a chicken as a hen ; 

 for the hen has more strength than the chicken, and the chicken 

 more life than the egg; yet it may be a perfect egg, chicken, 

 and hen." 



A Giganteum grown near the top soil is not so perfect as one 

 grown six to eight inches below, although it may be a perfect 

 bulb of that kind; it has not the strength of the deep-planted 

 kind. The kind planted deep down in the soil is of superior 

 degree of perfection, and will undoubtedly produce more flowers 

 per thousand than the top soil or cheaper bulbs. That's one 

 reason why Horseshoe Brand Giganteums are of superior quality. 

 Try them and see for yourself. Count the cut and compare 

 notes. 



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