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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 4, 1909. . 



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CHICAGO MARKET BRAND. Giving the largest number and biggest bells all 

 the year round. There is nothing better. $1.75 per 100; $15.00 per 1000. 



BERLIN SPECIAL BRAND. Fine for Easter, giving good results. $1.50 per 

 100; $13.00 per 1000. 



Write for prices on large lots. It pays to grow Bruns' Valley. 

 FANCY CUT VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND 



H. N. BRUNS, 140M1 w. Madison St., Chicago, 111. 



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of a few cars on track that were crushed 

 when the walls fell. 



Warehouse No. 2 was eight stories high 

 — ten, including the cupola — and the fire, 

 originating in a friction clutch on the 

 elevator, sprang up the shaft in a mo- 

 ment, so that the building was afife from 

 top to bottom when the fire department 

 arrived. That only No. 2 warehouse was- 

 destroyed the Dickinson Co. gives credit 

 to the fact there was little wind and to 

 the good work of the department, for No. 



2 was separated from No. 1 and No. 



3 only by party walls, and from the 

 big grass seed warehouse by a narrow 

 alley. No. 2 was heavily stocked and 

 the putting out of the fire was all the 

 more diflScult because the building was 

 full of the dry lumber of storage bins. 

 Indeed, one engine was still pumping on 

 the ruins Mar^ 2, more than four' days 

 after the start of the fire and after 

 a good start had been made at clearing 

 up the wreckage. 



When the walls fell, it simply oblit- 

 erated the freight cars on track benealh 

 and the weight of bricks shored through 

 the big steel beams supporting the team- 

 ing level, above the tracks on the south 

 side. One of the items lost was some 

 twenty-five cars of beans, just in from 

 the Danube. 



The building was owned by the Chi- 

 cago Tunnel Co., to which the Dickinson 

 *Jo. sold it some two years ago. The 

 loss on stock is fully provided--for by 

 insurance, it being the policy to] keep 

 everything covered, even to the st6ck in 

 cars waiting to be unloaded. 



FREIGHTS ON JAP LILIES. 



Kobert Fulton, of Henry & Lee, has 

 been in Chicago for a week on his way 

 to New York from his annual trip to 

 Japan. He says the most important 

 change in the Japanese lily bulb situa- 

 tion is the advance in freight rates, 

 which has come as a result of a ruling 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 The shippers of the Pacific northwest 

 filed a complaint with the commission be- 

 cause the freiglit rate from their section 

 to the east was not in proportion to the 

 rates from Yokohama and other Pacific 

 Ocean points to New York. Instead of 

 getting a reduction in the rates from the 

 Pacific coast cities, an increase was made 



FRESH SEEDS READY NOW 



RAWSON'B MAMMOTH VKBBENAS-The most perfect strain. 



Finest Mixed ^4 oz., 30c oz., $1.00 Blue H oz., 30c oz., $1.00 



Pink. •' 30c " 1.00 Scarlet " 80c " 1.00 



White " 30c " 1.00 Striped " 80c " 1.00 



SALVIA SPLBNDKNS 



Grandiflora ^ oz., 25c oz., $1.60 Lord Pauntleroy, dwarf. .^ oz., 75c oz., $4.00 



Compacta "' 40c " 2.50 Zurich " 76c " 5.00 



Bonfire " 40c " 2.50 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 



6 Union Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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on the ocean freights and this year bulbs 

 from Japan will pay 65 cents per hun- 

 dred pounds more freight than they did 

 last season, if shipped in less than car- 

 load lots, and on carload lots the advance 

 is about 25 cents per hundred pounds. 

 This is figured to mean an increased 

 freight of about $1 per case on the en- 

 tire imports of Japanese bulbs. 



Mr. Fulton says there will be some 

 increase in the quantity of Formosa 

 bulbs, which he recently inspected and 

 for which he says there is such an active 

 demand that there certainly will not be 

 enough bulbs to go around, and as a 

 result prices are slightly higher. He re- 

 ports the longiflorum multiflorum and 

 giganteum crops about as usual, with 

 prices averaging about as last year. 



NEW YORK PURE SEED LAW. 



In the New York state legislature the 

 following bill was introduced February 

 22, by Assemblyman Callan, of CdUmibia 

 county, and referred to the conimTl 

 on agriculture: 



Ao Act 



To amend the agricultural law, entitled 

 "An act in relation to agriculture, con- 

 stituting chapter one of the consolidated 

 laws," in relation to inspection and sale 

 of seeds. 



The People of the State of New York, 

 represented in Senate and Assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter Inine of the laws 

 of 1909, entitled "An act in relation to 



agriculture, constituting chapter one of 

 the consolidated laws," is hereby amend- 

 ed by adding at the end thereof a new 

 article to be known as article sixteen to 

 read as follows: 



§ 360. Inspection and sale of seeds. — 

 No person shall sell, offer, expose or 

 have in his possession for sale for the 

 purposes of seeding, any seeds of cereals, 

 grasses, clovers or forage plants in quan 

 titles exceeding one pound, unless every 

 receptacle, package, sack or bag contain- 

 ing such seeds, or a label securely at- 

 tached thereto, is marked in a plain in- 

 delible manner as follows: 



a. With the full name and address of 

 the seller. 



b. With the name of the kiild or 

 kinds of seeds.- 



c. The per centum of purity of tiie 

 s.aniple. 



d. With the common name or names 

 of the weeds, the seeds of which, if any, 

 are present in the seed sold, offered, ex- 

 posed or held in possession for sale. 



For the purposes of this act such seed 

 so offered or exposed for sale shall be 

 deemed to be free from prohibited seeds 

 if they do not exist in greater proportion 

 than five of any one kind to 1,000 of the 

 seed being sold, offered, exposed or held 

 in possession for sale. The provisions 

 of this act shall not apply to any person 

 selling seeds direct to merchants to be 

 cleaned or graded before being offered 

 for sale for the purposes of seeding, nor 

 to seed that is held in storage for the 

 purpose of being recleaned and which 



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