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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MAUCn 4, 1900. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., WatBon S. Woodruff, Orange. Conn.; 

 Flrit Vice-pres.. J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas.. 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Niagara 

 Falls, One, June 22 to 24, 1909. 



The Holmes Seed Co., Harrisburg, Pa., 

 vFill increase its capital stock from $50,- 

 000 to $75,000. 



H. A. BuNYARD, with Arthur T. Bod- 

 dington, has returned to New York after 

 a most successful western trip. 



A CANVASS of the onion set situation 

 shows the supply to be less than it was 

 at this time last year. The demand is 

 strong and everything points to steadily 

 rising prices. 



The wholesalers are reporting very sat- 

 isfactory trade. Aside from some varie- 

 ties of muskmelon that are hard to se- 

 cure, and some others of the same article 

 that test very poorly, no trouble to fill 

 orders is experienced. 



The mail order seed business is surely 

 good. One Illinois mail order seed house 

 reports the receipt of 29,000 orders dur- 

 ing February. Some other may have 

 done much better than this, but a thou- 

 sand or more orders a day is not ito bad. 



The market garden seedsmen are quite 

 satisfied with the trade they are doing. 

 Some of the good stocks of onion and 

 other standard articles called for by gar- 

 deners are in short supply, but as a rule 

 orders can be taken care of satisfac- 

 torily. 



Tuckeb's Seed House, of Carthage, 

 Mo., has opened a branch store in Webb 

 City, starting business there February 22. 

 It is located at 205 South Allen street, 

 and C. T. Tucker is in charge. The firm 

 hopes to reach much business in the west 

 end of the county through this store. 



William Graff has leased the entire 

 four-story building at Columbus, O., in 

 which his flower store has been located, 

 and will put in a general line of seeds 

 and bulbs. Next season he intends to 

 issue a catalogue and go into the mail 

 order branch of the business. 



Latest reports from California indi- 

 cate that the floods have not done as 

 much damage to the crops as was feared 

 they might do. The worst is now over 

 with and from now on normal conditions 

 are expected, and it is thought that most 

 of the plantings will come through and 

 make fair crops. 



The Catalogue houses say February 

 made a better record than a year ago, in 

 spite of heavy storms that shut off or- 

 ders from a large section of the Missis- 

 sippi valley and lake region for a week 

 or so in the middle of the month. Gen- 

 erally, the month was a mild and pleas- 

 ant one, the kind that makes early seed 

 orders. 



Beans, peas and sweet corn seem to 

 be causing less uneasiness to those who 

 are supplied and to those who are not. 

 The outlook for a good bean trade is 

 bright, most of the canners are now 

 supplied with peas, and sweet corn has 

 not come to the point where it is safe 

 to say whether it is scarce or the reverse. 

 The easy feeling referred to above is 

 therefore due more to a condition of rest 

 than to anything else. 



Graber & Son, Findlay, O., are ship- 

 pers of Kentucky blue grass seed. 



At Philadelphia counter trade has be- 

 gun to pick up and a big season is looked 

 for. 



David C. Frost died recently in Louis- 

 ville, Ky., and was buried in Lexington, 

 Ky. He had been in the seed business 

 in Lexington for several years. 



E. V. Hallock, of Queens, N. Y., died 

 of apoplexy in a train in the subway in 

 New York city on the evening of March 

 1. Further particulars will be found in 

 the obituary column on page 16. 



Last year's pack of cucumber pickles 

 is pretty well cleaned up, especially the 

 medium sizes, and the seed trade is al- 

 ready feeling the call for the planting of 

 a liberal acreage of the pickling varieties 

 for 1909 pack. 



It is reported from San Francisco that 

 Luther Burbank has made an arrange- 

 ment giving the sole right to the distri- 

 bution of his plant discoveries of the 

 future to Herbert Law, Hartland Law 

 and Oscar E. Dinner, who will organize 

 a corporation for the purpose. 



At its nqw store, 518 Market street, 

 Philadelphia, the H. F. Michell Co. has 

 erected a striking glass and iron marquee 

 (canopy or awning) over the sidewalk. 

 Ten large opal glass globes adorn the 

 top and the words, " Michell 's Seeds," 

 stand out prominently, especially at 

 night when the marquee is lighted up. 



Seed for onion sets is said to be pretty 

 well cleaned up. The reports have it that 

 more than usual will be planted and that 

 a good year will bring a great supply 

 of sets. This, however, is always talked 

 of and yet the supply has been below the 

 demand; at least this has been so for the 

 past three seasons. 



G. Hylkema, of Van Zanten Bros., Hil- . 

 legem, Holland, who sailed from home 

 January 28, says the bulb fields have 

 come through the winter in good shape 

 and that prices for the present are about 

 as last season — a little lower on fancy 

 tulips and a little higher on the cheaper 

 sorts. He estimates the number of Hol- 

 land salesmen now in the United States 

 as fifty, representing some thirty firms. 

 Mr. Hylkema says the florists are order- 

 ing bulbs on the whole lighter than they 

 did last year, but that he looks for the 

 seed house trade to show an increase, be- 

 cause of the excellent clean-up made last 

 fall as a result of the good call for bulbs 

 for bedding purposes. 



THE DICKINSON HRE. 



February 26 the Albert Dickinson Co. 

 added one more to the long list of 

 spectacular Chicago fires, when its No. 2 

 warehouse was completely destroyed, with 

 all its contents, imperiling the lives of a 

 large number of girls, workmen, and fire- 

 men, and entailing a money loss that 

 may run up to $300,000. 



Warehouse No. 2 is one of eighteen 

 used by the company at Chicago, and the 

 interruption to business in so large an 

 establishment was slight. The warehouse 

 was built in 1890, originally for flax 

 cleaning and storage, but recently has 

 been used for seed grain and the storage 

 of stock for poultry foods. The only 

 loss in the grass seed and clover depart- 

 ments was a little damage by water in 

 the basements of warehouses No. 1, No. 

 3, No. 4, No. 11 and No. 12 ; also the loss 



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EARLY-FLOWERING 



Sweet Pea Seed 



For CoM Frames and Outdoor Planting 



Wallace, Sim, Dolansky, Den- 

 zer. Marquis and mixture. 

 Price, 1000, $1.00; 6000,94.00; 

 26,000, $12.00; net. 



The stock from which this seed grew 

 was especially selected for outdoor 

 culture and the seed was grown in the 

 Santa Clara Valley, Cal. If sown now 

 in frames, they will bloom in May. If 

 sown outdoors, will begin to bloom two 

 to three weeks earlier than any other 

 late summer sweet peas. 



Ant. C. Zvolanek 



Bound Brook, N. J. 



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we did 



not Mow our 



horn, who would? 



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Send for a Bulb List 



RALPH M. WARD & CO., 

 12 West Broadway, NEW TORK 



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Cow Peas, Cottonseed Meal 



Carload Lots a Specialty. 

 J. T. WALKER, Memphia, Tenn. 



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