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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 18, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICUf 8BBD TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., WatBO* 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, Ont., June 22 to 24, 1909. 



The Hollander cabbage, if the demand 

 for it keeps up, will be in the sold out 

 class before long. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, New York, 

 will remove May 1 to the corner store 

 across the way from 14 Barclay street. 



The Burpee's Bush Lima bean is too 

 scarce for comfort. The same may be 

 said of Lazy Wife and Kentucky Won- 

 der in the pole varieties. 



Mail order seed business keeps coming 

 right along, and from all reports it looks 

 as though March will hold its record as 

 being the best month for the seedsmen. 



A COLONY of fifty Italian families re- 

 cently left Chicago to locate in Clare 

 county, Michigan, and grow beans. A 

 similar colony of sixty families is form- 

 ing for the same purpose. 



Cucumber seed for pickling purposes 

 is high in price and decidedly scarce. It 

 is thought that a great deal of business 

 is yet to come from the pickle men for 

 this year's supply, as many have held 

 off for lower prices. 



The canning trade now is a large user 

 of beet seed, as well as the other sorts 

 that are known as canners' varieties. 

 There seems to be no limit to packing 

 and canning of vegetables and the canner 

 is now looked upon as one of the best 

 customers of the seedsman. 



Trade in all lines of the seed busi- 

 ness is reported entirely satisfactory. 

 Many of the standard sorts of garden 

 seeds are short of the demand, accord- 

 ing to the wholesalers, but other kinds 

 are taken in place of them. The mar- 

 ket gardeners' seedsmen report an espe- 

 cially large call for cabbage seed, carrot, 

 beet and tomato, with a holding off 

 on onion, celery and some other 

 items for which there has not been a 

 ready sale of the product wintered over 

 from last year's plantings. It is hoped 

 that the onion market may advance in 

 time to induce the market gardeners to 

 buy their usual quantities of seed, as this 

 article cuts quite a figure in the market 

 garden seedsman's business. 



Considering that Montgomery Ward 

 & Co. were not able to find a profit to 

 justify maintaining a seed department, 

 and dropped it this year, after operat- 

 ing quite heavily for several seasons, one 

 can imagine the pleasure it will afford 

 the heads of that great concern to read 

 in the government Crop Reporter that in 

 1908 they sent out adulterated Kentucky 

 blue grass seed. The government bought 

 two samples of them, each of which con- 

 tained less than twenty-eight per cent of 

 the real article, and more than forty-six 

 per cent of Canada blue grass, with more 

 than twenty-three per cent inert matter. 

 Those in the trade can well believe that 

 Ward & Co. find themselves in this posi- 

 tion through some employee's slip, with 

 absolutely no thought they might place 

 themselves in such a predicament, but 

 this doubtless will make no difference 

 to the country editors, who lie awake 

 nights thinking up some way of taking 

 a crack at the big Chicago mail order 



LEONARD SEED C2: 



CONTRACT GROWERS AND WHOL.X8AI4K DKALKRS 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



ONION SETS 

 FLOWER SEEDS 



Get Our Prices 



79 and 81 

 E. KINZIE STREET. 



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CHICAGO 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia, — for new Complete Catalog 



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Mllford, Conn. 

 East Jordan, Mlell« 

 Sister Bay» Wis* 



TBE EVEREH B. CLARK SEED CO. 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, ETC. 



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PEAS ^ BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS. - - MICH. 



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Waldo Rohnerl 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettnce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster 

 CosmoB. Mignonette, Verbena, in varietv. Oor 

 respondence solicited. 



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LANDRETHS' SEEDS 



BLOOMSDALE FARMS 



Bristol, :: Penna. 



If yon want Seeds for filling in, name 

 varietiee and quantities. 



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JAY J. UTTER, S?^H^° 



Contract grower of Beans, Peas, Sweet Com, 

 Squash, Cucumber, Watermelon and Muskmelon. 



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Cow Peas, Cottonseed Meal 



* Carload LAta a Specialty. 



J. T. WAIiKER, Memphis, Tenn. 



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houses. They haven't had so fine a 

 chance in many a day. 



The frontispiece of No. 3 of The Pro- 

 gressive Planter, the house organ of the 

 Texas Seed & Floral Co., Dallas, Tex., 

 is the portrait of H. W. Fisher, the 

 editor, who formerly was manager of the 

 seed department of Montgomery Ward & 

 Co., Chicago. 



The pea and bean growers are ar- 

 ranging for their usual acreages for the 

 coming year. Scarcity of stock seed of 

 peas will cause some trouble, probably. 

 No trouble to get enough acreages is re- 

 ported, but higher prices, to the farmer, 

 have been given in many cases. 



S.M.iSBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contraot Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 

 ■^^^Write for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 i^^ lor Immediate SUpment 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE. CAL. 



SWEET PEA .»> NASTURTIUM 



SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale growers of full lists of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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Onion Seed ^"" 



We are extensive growers and dealers. 

 Write for prices. 



SCHILDER BROS., Chillicothe, 0. 



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SEAT^iXE. WASH. 



Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



SPKCIALTIKS: 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



COEEKSPONDKNCB 80LICITKD. 



Main Office and Seed Farmi, OBANGK, CONN. 

 New York City Store, 88-84 Dey Street 

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