

Mat 6, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



43 



TURNIP 



SEED BAGS 



CARTONS 

 HANGERS 



HERNDON. & LESTER. Inc. 



KICHMOND. VA. 



Large stock Vegetable and Flower Seed 



Bags always oa hand — Ask for Samples. 



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Pletsrs-Wmeler Seed Company 



HOLLIST ER, CAL IFORNIA 

 Growers of High Grade Seeds. 



Oaion, Radisli, Lettuce, Sweet Peas, etc 



CORRXSPONDKNCK 80LXCITKD 



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BRASLAN SEED 6R0WERS' CO. 



Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade Only 



SsB Jose, California 



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rate branch of the government has been 

 so rapid that seed growing as a distinct 

 industry is now well worthy of the atten- 

 tion of all interested in American agri- 

 culture. Previous to about 1862 there 

 was comparatively little trade in garden 

 seeds, and still less in farm seeds in this 

 country. Sales were practically limited 

 to supplies for new farms and the plant- 

 ing of town gardens, and even the ma- 

 jority of town gardeners endeavored to 

 save from year to year what seed they 

 expected to need for their own planting. 

 There were then no great truck farms, 

 each using vegetable seods by the hun- 

 dreds of pounds, such as are now very 

 conunon. 



Growth of tfie Business. 



One indication of the amount of busi- 

 ness done in seed growing is the number 

 ' of people engaged in it. Eecords of only 

 about forty-five firms that were in busi- 

 ness in this country as distinctly seed 

 merchants previous to 1862 can be found, 

 while a list of American seedsmen pub- 

 lished in 1908 includes the names of over 

 800 American firms whose sole business 

 is the growing and handling of seeds, 

 with more than 650 other firms making 

 seeds an important part of their business. 

 There has also been a great increase in 

 the quantity of seed handled by single 

 firms. In 1820 the fact that he had just 

 received from England 300 bushels of 

 garden peas and over 400 pounds of onion 

 seed was considered by a Philadelphia 

 seed merchant as justifying his advertis- 

 ing that "having received this ample 

 supply," he was "prepared to fill all 

 orders." In 1907 one of our large seed 

 merchants thought it best to contract for 

 the growing of over 120,000 pounds of 

 onion seed and more than 150,000 bushels 

 of garden peas to meet the erpected de- 

 majids of the ensuing season, and his 

 sales showed that he had acted wisely. A 

 single firm of American seedsmen uses 

 for the storing and handling of its stock 

 of garden seeds buildings having an ag- 



7-Top Turnip Seed 



Adyanoe Orders now taken for Choice Gradei of 



Seven-Top Dixie Frost King Prize Taker 



Now in fall bloom on Bloomsdale Farm. 

 Contraot Price, $200 par Tbouaand Pounda. 



Plants from this Seed of hardy Northern breed, yery enperior to the less hardy 

 Southern type, stand any amonntof snow and ice without injury. 



The seed will be haryested about the 20th of June and ready for shipment 

 about the let of July. 



D. Londreth Seed Company, 



Bristol, Penna. 



Also Kale— Dwarf Oerman. |20 per 100 lbs. 



Siberian 18 per lOG lbs. 



Mention The Rpvlew when you write. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



OOMTBACT GBOWXBB AHD WHOLBBALK TtKALKRM 



BEAMS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



CHICAGO 



OWXOH BSTS 

 FLOWXB BBSDS 



Bit lur Prices 



na>uo 



KIHZIB BTBBBT. 



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YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for new Complete Catalogue. 



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The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., "^^SSST* 



OrowlnB Stations at Baat Jordan, Mleh., Groan Bay, Wla., Slstar Bay, Wis. 



BEAIS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION. BEET, TURNIP, TOMATO, ETC. 



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SEATTLK, WASH. 



Gbrowara of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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Waldo Rohnerf 



GIIiBOT, CAIi. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Speoialtiei: Lettnea. Onloa, Sweat Peaa. Aatar. 

 Ooamoa, Mlcnonetta, Yarbana, 1b varlaty. 

 Oorraapondanoa aoliclted. 



gregate floor surface of nearly 700,000 

 square feet, an area equal to more than 

 sixteen acres. 



Previous to about 1850 the greater part 

 of the garden seed used in this country, 

 vrith possibly the exception of a few spe- 

 cies, such as sweet corn and melon, which 

 do exceptionally well here, was imported, 

 but the art of growing seed of the best 

 quality at the least cost of labor is now 

 so well developed in America that we are 

 able to grow seeds of many species of 

 better quality and actually at less cost 

 than they can be produced in Europe, 

 even by the employment of their experi- 

 enced labor at 40 to 60 cents a day, 

 agidnst the $1.50 to $2 a day which Is 

 paid here, and we now export no incon- 

 siderable quantities of lettuce seed and 

 that of such other species or varieties as 

 do exceptionally well in some sections of 

 this country. There are some species, 

 however, wMch can still be grown to bet- 

 ter advantage in Europe, though, thanks 



S. M. ISBELL ft CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. . 



Coatract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER, TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmalon 

 SqoAsh, WatermaloB, Sweat C«vb 



CK>BRESPONDEMCS 8OU0ITED. 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRAMDl, CAL. 



SWEET PEA and NASTURTIUM 

 SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale growers of hill llsta of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeda. 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



Garden Seeds In Variety 



Maine seed potatoea, onion sets, etc. 



0OBBX8PONDIM01 SOUCITXD. 



■ala Otflee aad Seed FarHi, ORAirai. COHH. 

 Haw York City Store, 8S>84 Day Street 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



Metal Clasp 

 Mailing Envelopes 



LOUIS jirrRSY 



f ttk aat Bnaawlak Ave.. PHILlBILPnA, FA. 



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