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48 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 5, lOtO. 



BUDS 



The new seed store ot NEW YORK 



Caki. R. Gi.okcknkk, Mgr. 



98 Barclay Street, Phone 310C Cortlandt. 



BVBRTTHINQ FOR THE GARDEN 



Our Motto: '"Not the cheapest, but the best." 



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much lo-ner rates than it would cost them, 

 even with the use of special machinery, 

 to grow the crop themselves. That they 

 are able to do so is due to the following 

 conditions: 



(1) Though it is true that certain 

 local conditions of soil and climate are 

 essential to the profitable growing of 

 some species of seed, yet such soils are so 

 widely distributed and their total area so 

 much' greater than is necessary for the 

 production of all the seed needed that 

 their possession and use for seed by no 

 means insures a iirofitable crop. 



(2) The growing of seed which is to 

 go to some widely advertised seed firm 

 Seems to many farmers more attractive 

 than the growing of grain for sale in the 

 open market, and these men are so nu- 

 merous and so eager for a contract that 

 by competition they lessen the price the 

 seed grower has to pay for growing his 

 crops. 



(3) A seed crop which can not be 

 rea.dily sold in the open market or used 

 by driblets, but must be delivered at a 

 specified time and place, is often a de- 

 sirable one on farms worked on share 

 rentals. 



(4) There are some vegetables, like 

 melons, which will do particularly well 

 and be enormously productive on new 

 lands and which, because of little need 

 of cultivation or of the necessity of 

 fighting insects and diseases, can be 



fjrown there very cheaply, but because of 

 ack of transportation facilities the 

 heavy, bulky fruit can not be profitably 

 marketed, \\]n\e the more concentrated 

 and lighter seed crop can be profitably 

 grown and delivered at a price much less 

 than the cost of production on older 

 lands. 



(5) Very often a seed crop which can 

 be planted late in the season and with 

 but little special preparation of the soil 

 is a most convenient one to take the place 

 of one of wheat or other grains which was 

 badly winterkilled. This is often espe- 

 cially true of a seed crop of peas and 

 beans, because the seedsman commonly 

 advances the seed, which makes up froni 

 ten to twenty-five per cent of the cost of 

 the crop. 



Only a small proportion of the farmers 

 who now grow seed crops do so because 

 of special facilities or knowledge, or even 

 because they have found them more 

 profitable than general farming, but the 

 majoritv (particularly in the case of peas 

 and beans) do so rather through practical 

 neeessitv, because of inability to secure 

 the seed for planting these crops in any 

 other wav. 



Seed merchants, and even seed grow- 

 ers, refuse to recognize the farmer who 

 grows their seed crops as in any sense a 

 member of the "trade," but regard him 

 simply as a cultivator, with no technical 

 knowledge of the variety of seed he grows 

 and no greater interest in a seed crop 

 than in one of corn or grain. It is not 

 surprising, therefore, that comparatively 

 few farmers continue to grow seed crops 

 for as many as a dozen consecutive years, 

 and seed growers are frequently obliged 

 to select a new location in order to secure 

 a fresh lot of farmers to undertake to 

 •row seed crops. It is not strange that 



GLADIOLI 



Planting stock of Mme. Monneret, Mrs. Francis King 



and other named sorts. 



Planting Btock and bnlblets of fine mixed. Exceptional value. 



Prices on application. 1910 Trade-list free. 



E. E. STEWART, 



Rives Junction, Mich. 



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Flower Seeds, Market Garden and 



Field Seeds, all kinds of Tender 



and Hardy Plants, Tuberoses, 



Dahlias, Gladioli, Small Fruits. 



RUSH ORDERS 



JANES ViCK'S SONS 



ROCHESTER, H. Y. 



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GLADIOLI 



Brenchleyeneis, May, Pactole, Ceres, 

 La Marck, Isaac Bacbanan. 



Cinnamon Vinea, Milla, Bessera, 

 Oxalia, Iris, Liliea and other sam- 

 mer flowering Bulbs. 



—Send for prices.— 



E. S. MILLER 



Wading River, Longr laland, N. Y. 



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M C. Zvolanek 



Originator of all winter flowering Sweet 

 Peai, all colon. New crop seed will be 

 ready about Aug. Itt. Order* booked now. 

 BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY 



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Funkia Unduiata"!;, 



Extra fine pUnti, 

 $4.00 par 100; tSS.OO per 1000. 



Pricei on all tprine bnlbi and plants cheerfully 

 fflTen. 



r. W. O. SCHMITZ 



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under such conditions the growing of 

 seed should not fall into the hands of 

 the best farmers, nor be sufficiently popu- 

 lar to secure the best care from those 

 who do undertake it. 



Get-away Crops. 



AiJothc source of supply, and one that 

 is a factor in lowering the price paid 

 the farmer for growing seed, is the use 



Spring Bttlbs 



TUBEROSES. Pearl Double. 100 1000 



No. 1. large. 4/6 t0.90 $7.00 



ELEPHANT'S EARS (Caladiums) 



I'er rtoz. Per 100 



7/ 9-inch |0.50 $ 3.00 



9/11-inch 85 6.00 



11/12-lnch 1.50 10.00 



12/18-inch , 2.00 15.00 



CYCAS STEMS 

 Fresh, just inlrom Japan. Per lb. 



10-lb. lots 10.10 



25-lb. lots 08 



100-lb. lots 07i« 



Case (300 lbs.) |21.00 



STOKES' SEED STORE 



219 Market Street, PHIUDELPHIA. PA. 



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Fine 

 Aster Seed 



Catalogue now ready 



Vick & Hill Co. 



P. 0. Box 613 ROCHCSTQl, N. Y. 



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RELIABLE SEEDSm 



Alysstim Zangen's Carpet Queen, 6 tr. plrt«., ■ 



$1.25: tr. pkt., 25c. ■ 



Aster Hohenzollem, in colors, separate, or., ■ 



$1.60; tr. pkt., 25c. ■ 



Aster Giant Comet, in colors, separate, oz., ■ 



$1.50: tr. pkt., 25c. ■ 



Aster Branching, in colors, separate, oi., ■ 



$1.50; tr. pkt., 25c. ■ 



AsparaeuH Flumosns Nanns, green- ■ 



house grown, 1000 seeds, $4.50. ■ 



Asparaeus Sprengeri, 1000 seeds, $1.00. ■ 



0. T. ZanKeB, Secdiman, Hobokea, N. J. M 

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LILIUM GIGANTEIM 



7/9, fine bulbs, $24.00 per case. Ready for 

 delivery from cold storage as desired.! 



SKKD8 AND FLOBI8T8' 8UFPLIK8 



Money-saving-price-Usts— Free. 



128 W. 6th St., 



CXNCXIfNATI, O. 



D. RU8C0NI, 



for seed of the "get-away" crops of 

 canners and truckers. Canners endeavor 

 to arrange for the planting of the crops 

 they are to use on such dates that they 



