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Afbil 7, 1910. 



rangements have been made to rebuild 

 immediately. Martin C. Bibsam is the 

 largest seed merchant and cut flower 

 dealer in Trenton. His father, Carlman 

 Eibsam, operates the greenhouses that 

 supply part of the stock used in the 

 store. W. E. M. 



LIVINGSTON'S TRIAL GROUNDS. 



One of the indispensable adjuncts at 

 an up-to-date seed shop is a trisd ground. 

 Time was when this was not a necessity, 

 but nowadays a seedsman must know a 

 great many things he could get along 

 without in days gone by. In the first 

 ■place, competition is so keen, especially 

 for the trade of those who plant for 

 profit, which is by far the most impor- 

 tant end of the business, that the seeds- 

 man must know that his strains are as 

 good as those of his neighbor; he must 

 know before the average planter finds 



VALLEYS and LILACS 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 31 Barclay St., or P. D. Box 752, NEW YORK 



for Florlats' forcing, the best that are grown 

 Imported to order, delivery Fall 1910; tot 

 prices addresi 



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Seed 



CAULIFLOWER 

 A B B A G E 



LILY OF THE VALLEY PIPS 



HJALMARHARTMANN&CO. 



UlMiMliidc 20, Copeahifca, DcuMit 



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$2.12^ to $2.15 per hundred, and sul- 

 phate of ammonia is reported a shade 

 easier, owing to smaller request. West- 

 ern dried blood is firmer, as supplies 

 are low, and $3.25 is asked for Chicago 

 delivery. There are no changes in the 

 various grades of tankage. The potash 



Trial Grounds of the Livingston Seed Qo^ G>lumbus, O. 



out which is best, else he will wake up 

 only when his trade has left him. Also, 

 the various laws which have been enacted 

 to regulate the seed trade, while they 

 have Uttle bearing on garden seeds, make 

 it desirable to know how each lot of seed 

 acts when planted. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 from photographs taken at the trial farm 

 of the Livingston Seed Co., Columbns, 

 O., where there are trials under number 

 of the seeds from all their sources of sup- 

 ply and the same varieties sold by the 

 principal houses in the trade. 



In both the pictures there is to be had 

 a glimpse of the greenhouse establish- 

 ment, which includes some 60,000 feet of 

 glass, used for producing plants for the 

 catalogue trade and for cut flowers for 

 the dty retail flower store, carnations 

 being the principal cut flower crop 

 grown. There also is a considerable aere- 

 age of nursery stock on the farm. 



FERTILIZER MARKETS. 



Demand for fertilizers has slackened 

 noticeably since the middle of March and 

 from all appearances the needs of the 

 large buyers of general farm fertilizers 

 are pretty well supplied. As a result 

 of appreciation that the time for high 

 prices is past for this season, several 

 of the ammoniates begin to reflect weak- 

 ness, and there is some competition to 

 get business, especially in the fish man- 

 ures, and this has had a tendency to 

 bring down prices materially on some 

 late sales. Nitrate of soda is quoted at 



salts are still in low supply, and while 

 prices have not eased oflF, a tame situa- 

 tion exists. Acid phosphate remains in 

 fair request at former prices, but bone is 

 cleaned up and prices are entirely nomi- 

 nal in both steamed and ground. For 

 steamed bone $20 to $21 per ton is quot- 

 ed, and for ground bone $26 to $27, 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest grades of Valley for shipment as 

 desired from New York. 



GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



Palms, Bay Trees, Ficus, Araucarias. Aspidis- 

 tras, etc., of choice quality. 



HOLLAND PLANTS 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees, 

 Clematis, Conifers, etc., at low prices. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



Finest grades of Berlin and Hamburg for 

 import. 



H. FRANK DARROW 



p. 0. Box 1250 26 Battlay SL, NEW YORK 



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ORCHIDS 



Largest Importers, Exporters, Growers 

 and Hybridists in the world. 



SANDER, St. Albans, Eneland 



and 235 Broadwiy, Room 1, New York Qty 



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with the supply not equal to the demand. 

 It is said that the value of bone wiU re- 

 main high so long as the price of live 

 stock holds up and the kill is as light as 

 at present at the stock yards. 



THE MINNEAPOLIS SEED SHOP. 



The Minneapolis Journal can not re- 

 frain from expressing its surprise that 

 some denizens of the city that strives 

 to be known as "making good" still 

 send to such far-oflf places as New York 

 and Philadelphia while there is such a 

 nice man as Jesse Northrup right in their 

 own town ready and willing to supply all 

 local needs in seeds; furthermore, the 

 Journal devotes a column to telling how 

 well Northrup, King & Co. are fixed. 

 These are a few of the things, by no 

 means the most laudatory, that are said: 



"At 26 to 32 Hennepin avenue they 



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Trial Grounds of the Livingston Seed Qa*t Columbus, O. 



