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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 





Mat 5, 1910. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



W. Van KLEEF & SONS, Boskoop, Holland 



Beg to announce that their Mr. W. Van Kleef, Jr., is again making his annaal trip through 

 America, calling on the trade. Please address all correspondence until June 6th, care of Nessrs* 

 Maltus Sk Ware, 14 Stone Street, New York. Catalogue free for the asking. Will be 

 glad to make special prices for large quantities. 



Specialties: Azaleas, Andromedas, Box Trees, Clematis, Conifers, Hardy 

 Climbers, Hydrangeas, Kalmias, Magnolias, Maples, Peonies, Rhododendrons, 

 Roses, Spruces, Shrubs, Trees, Plants for Forcing, etc. 



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to the great diversity of climatic and soil 

 conditions and to American energy and 

 inventive skill, the number of these is 

 constantly decreasing. With the excep- 

 tion of a greater dependence on hand 

 labor and a less common use of machin- 

 ery, European methods of growing and 

 handling seeds do not differ materially 

 from those of this country, and therefore 

 it will not be necessary to specifically 

 refer to them again in this article. 

 Extent of the Industry. 

 In early times most of the garden seed 

 produced in America was grown by the 

 seed merchants themselves, either on their 

 own farms or on lands in their imme- 

 diate vicinity and under their own per- 

 sonal supervision, while seed growing as 

 a business distinct from that of the seed 

 merchant was unknown. As buyers 

 learned of the superior value, at least tor 

 use in this country, of American-grown 

 seed, the seed merchant's business in- 

 creased until he was no longer able per- 

 sonally to attend to the seed growing on 

 his neighbors' farms or even on his own. 

 The supervision of this work was there- 

 fore handed over to some of the mer- 

 chant's employees or to one of the most 

 capable of the neighboring farmers who 

 looked after the growing and handling 

 of both his own and his neighbors' seed 

 crops, at first under the direction and 

 control of the seedsman and acting as his 

 agent, and then independently on his own 

 account. Thus the business of the seed 

 grower as distinct from that of the seed 

 merchant was established. In many cases 

 there was simply the organization within 

 the original firm of a seed-growing de- 

 partment. Now the growing of seeds and 

 their marketing are q^te as distinct as 

 are the manufacture and the sale of other 



merchandise. ., , . • „ „„ 



It is practically impossible to gl^e an 

 accurate statement of the area in the 

 UnTted States which is annually devoted 

 to raising garden seeds, or even to make 

 a reliabli estimate of the total acreage. 

 Even on farms where the chief money 

 crop is garden seed, only a portion (often 

 bnt^a small portion) of the whole farm is 

 hi a seed crop any single year, the re- 

 .mainder being occupied with ordinary 

 farm crops in order to maintain a profit- 

 ablTcrop rotation. The major portion 

 S American-grown small seeds, like those 

 of onion and lettuce, is the product of 

 iMge farms located in California, though 

 iSny thousands of pounds of such seeds 



DIRECT IMPORTATIONS 



From BELGIUM 

 Froi HOLLAND 



AT FOREIGN GROWERS' PRICES 



From 6ERMANY YA.^''- """'' "' 



Palms, Araucarias, Bay Trees, 

 Azalea Indica, etc. 

 Boxwood, Rhododendrons, 

 pot-grown Shrubs for forcing:, 

 etc. 



From EN6LAND ^n^UshManetti, selected I^ 



Ernm lADAU LUium Longiflorum Gigan- 

 riUni JArUn teum, Multlflorum, etc. 



gjalting. 



roll list of Japanese, Holland, EnKUsb and Frenob Nuraery Stook 



Write for caUlo8;ues, special «,rri* fi sndM R»l^ O""" business is import and wholesale 

 hsU. etc., mendonmg the class RAFrlA Inunnli^ "nl'- Don't write unless you use suffid- 



of stock you *c mterested m, """ '" '"" "*"»• ent to make direct separate importatioaa. 



McHUTCHISON & CO. 



17 MURRAY STREET 



NEW YORK 



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for aprinc or fall delivery. Importtd 

 to order ; for pricea, addreu 



Camellias, Palms, Box anri Bay Trees 



AUQUST ROLKBR & SONS, 31 Barday SL, or P. 0. Box 752, NEW YOW 



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are still grown in the eastern states. One 

 who is very familiar with seed growing 

 on the Pacific coast estimates that the 

 total acreage of vegetable seed annually 

 planted in California is not far from 

 6,000 acres; others have placed the area 

 as high as 10,000 acres, but for one cause 

 or another no usable seed is secured from 

 many of the fields. Practically all Amer- 

 ican-grown cabbage seed is produced on 

 from 600 to 800 acres located on eastern 

 Long Island ^ and in the Puget Sound 

 region. 



Vine crops, such as cucumbers, melons 

 and squashes, are grown for the seed crop 

 in all parts of the United States, some 

 being still grown in the northeastern 

 states and others in Florida, with still 

 others in California; but the great bulk 

 of the supply of vine seeds comes from 

 Michigan and the central western states. 

 It is impossible to give more than an esti- 

 mate of the total acreage actually planted 

 for the seed crop. Often a large portion 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest grades of Valley for shipment ai 

 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 or THE VALLEY 



Finest grades of Berlin and Hamburg for 

 import. 



H. FRANK DARROW 



p. 0. Box 1250 26 Barday St. NEW YORK 



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of the fruit in a field planted with the 

 expectation of marketing it as fruit is 

 used for seed, and other crops which 

 were planted for seed are marketed as 

 fruit. Probably a total of 60,000 to 

 80,000 acres of vine crops is annually 

 planted with the expectation that more 

 or less of the crop will be marketed as 

 seed. 



Seed peas, beans and sweet corn come 

 mostly from the country between central 

 Connecticut and western Nebraska and 

 north of the southern boundaries of those 

 states. There is even greater uncertainty 

 of yield with these crops than with vine 

 seed, and the area planted varies greatly 

 in different years, but it is probably no 



