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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 7, 1910. 



occupy their own building, comprising 

 five floors and full basement. In this 

 building are located the general offices, 

 the retail store, and stocks of vegetable 

 and flower seeds. They also occupy at 

 724 First street N, a six-story building, 

 besides two basements where grass and 

 field seeds are stored and cleaned. It is 

 possible to unload a car of seed from 

 trackage in the rear, clean it ready for 

 seed, and load again in the same or an- 

 other car vdthin a few minutes. Many 

 carloads of timothy, clover and other 

 grass seeds, as well as seed com and 

 other seed grains, are handled in the 

 course of a day. 



"In addition to the large buildings 

 mentioned, Northrup, King & Co. have 

 a two-story seed corn warehouse at St. 

 Louis Park, a suburb six miles from the 

 city. In this building the seed corn is 

 cured and is selected before shelling and 

 grading. 



"In these three buildings there are 

 employed from 175 to 200 people. 

 Throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, North 

 and South Dakota, Iowa, Montana, Wash- 

 ington and Oregon, as well as in Canada, 

 there are from 7,000 to 8,000 merchants 

 who are handling Northrup, King & Co. 

 seeds. Throughout the year a large force 

 of traveling men is employed to visit 

 these merchants. 



"Seeds are sold not only in the locali- 

 ties mentioned, but to every state in €he 

 Union, and to all countries on the globe. 

 Large orders have recently been received 

 from the agricultural departments of 

 Russia, China, Japan and various British 

 colonies in Australia and South Africa. 

 A very large edition of a handsome cata- 

 logue is printed every spring and mailed 

 broadcast all over the world. In the 

 preparation of this catalogue is involved 

 a very large sum of money ; four carloads 

 of fine book paper are required each sea- 

 son to print the first edition. It includes 

 between 300 and 400 half-tone illustra- 

 tions made from photographs. The post- 

 age runs to many thousands of dollars. 



' ' In addition to maintaining the ware- 

 houses mentioned, this firm grows every 

 season many thousand acres of field com, 

 sweet com, beans, peas, etc The seed 

 is furnished and is planted and culti- 

 vated under its direction, and its crop 

 experts continually travel from one local- 

 ity to another where the fields are lo- 

 cated to superintend detasseling of the 

 com fields and the roguing of the beans 

 and peas. 



"Special interest attaches to the seed- 

 testing department and the bag-filling 

 machine. Every lot of seed which is sent 

 out is first examined for purity and tested 

 as to germination in a special germina- 

 tor, which is a duplicate of the one in 

 use at the United States Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, D. C." 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Wild Bros. Nursery Co., Sarcoxie, Mo., 

 ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, etc. ; 

 Mrs. Bessie M. Rupert, Portland, Me., 

 dahlias; Felix & Dykhuis, Boskoop, Hol- 

 land, nursery stock; Exotic Nurseries, 

 Santa Barbara, Cal., ornamental plants 

 and general nursery stock for the Pacific 

 coast; Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass., 

 hardy American plants; Hillside Hardy 

 Flower Gardens, Turtle Creek, Pa., hardy 

 perennials; F. J. Grootendorst & Sons, 

 Boskoop, Holland, nursery stock; Peter 

 Henderson & Co., New York, N. Y., 

 "Everything for the Lawn"; the Den- 

 ver Nurseries, Denver, Colo., general nur- 

 sery stock; V. Lemoine & Son, Nancy, 



SURPLUS STOCK 



Lillum AuratumSy 8/9-m. (130 in a oase), $4.50 per oaee. 



LiliuM Speciosum Albums, 8/9-in. (220 in a case), 

 $13.00 per case. 



Cycas Steins, 3/8 lbs. (300 lbs. to a case), $16.50 per case. 



Prioei f . o. b. New York. Sold only in oaie lota. Stock limited. 



Order at once. 



. 



Bamboo Stakes, natural and green, yarious sizes always on 



hand. > . . . 



YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO., Ltd. 



31 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Fine 

 Aster Seed 



Catalogus now ready 



Vick & Hill Co. 



p. 0. Box 613 ROCtlESTB), N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you yrrite. 



France, seeds and plants; the Blue Hills 

 Nurseries, Hartford, Conn., nursery 

 stock; A. J. Lockyeax, Evansville, Ind., 

 seed of Catalpa speciosa. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 

 of New York for the week ending March 

 26 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Annatto 6« I 711 Clover 7 | 167 



Anise 76 5730 Grass 27 1241 



Canary ...2389 5730 Mustard .. 148 1058 



Caraway .. 465 3076 Rape 110 824 



Csrdamon.. 2 66 Other 6842 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$41,763; peas, $3,852, and beans, $36,- 



687. 



Sabina, O. — J. S. Jones is building a 

 new greenhouse here and will soon have 

 it in shape for business. 



Highest Grade Only 



Send for special wlioleeale cata- 

 logue for Market Ghurdenere 

 and Floriata 



J. M. THOBBUKN it CO. 



88 Barslay BtrBAt, thTongb t* 

 88 FKrk Plaea, ITBW TOBK. 



Mention The Review when you write. 

 BOSTON, 



The Market 



Continued abnormally warm weather^ 

 heavy shipments of cut flowers and droop- 

 ing prices have been features of the mar- 

 ket since Easter. The looked for cool 

 spell, which many felt was bound to fol- 

 low the Easter warm wave, has not ar- 

 rived. The heat is seriously affecting the 

 keeping qualities of the flowers, of which 

 there is now a considerable overplus. 

 Roses of the better grades are still selling 

 well, especially Beauties and Killamey. 

 My Maryland is showing up well and 

 promises to be a good warm weather sort.. 



