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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 18, 1009. 



Seed Merchants 

 ■nd Qrowers 



WEEBER & DON, 



114 Chambers St., NEW YORK 



Asparagus Rooti, 2 and 3 yr. old. Seth 

 Low Muekmelons. Ailsa Oraig Onions. Asb- 

 leaf Kidney Potatoes. Mushroom Spawn, 

 Knglish and Pai e Culture. 



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foil seed and its subsequent use as an 

 adulterant of red clover and alfalfa seed 

 has practically ceased, 214,000 pounds 

 being imported in the three fiscal years 

 1905 to 1907, and only 10,000 pounds in 

 the fiscal year 1908. 



"Only one-half as many lots of or- 

 chard grass seed were found to be adul- 

 terated in 1908 as were found in 1905, 

 when the last collection of orchard grass 

 seed was made. 



"In 1908 only thirty-nine samples of 

 Kentucky blue grass seed were found to 

 be adulterated or misbranded, as con- 

 trasted with 110 samples in 1907. 



"As has been previously stated in its 

 publication, the Department of Agri- 

 culture, through the Seed Laboratory, 

 will examine and report promptly as to 

 the presence of adulterants and dodder 

 in any samples of seed submitted for that 

 purpose. ' ' 



SEED FOR LAWN. 



I am about to construct a lawn of 

 10,000 square feet. Could you tell how 

 much grass seed to put in to make it 

 nice and bushy the first year? A. C. L. 



The best landscape gardeners figure 

 that a pound of properly mixed lawn 

 grass seed will sow 400 square feet. To 

 get a nice, bushy lawn the first year 

 from seed it would be well to sow some- 

 what heavier than this. On this basis, 

 which I may add is the seedsman's basis 

 also, thirty-five pounds of properly mixed 

 choice lawn grass seed would be suflB- 

 cient to sow 10,000 square feet. J. C. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



The J. L. Mott Iron Works, New 

 York, N. Y., vases, fountains, and other 

 furniture for lawns and parks; John D. 

 Imlay, Zanesville, O., seeds and plants; 

 Fraser Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., 

 list of surplus stock; I. N. Kramer & 

 Son, Cedar Kapids, la., seeds, plants, 

 cut flowers and supplies; Ellwanger & 

 Barry, Eochester, N. Y., nursery stock; 

 W. W. Kawson & Co., Boston, Mass., 

 vpecial catalogue of dahlias. 



dNONNATL 



The Market. 



A slight improvement in business can 

 be reported for last week. Perhaps it 

 was due to a large amount of funeral 

 work, or can it be that as Lent pro- 

 gresses the general public are less prone 

 to observe it? At any rate, there was a 

 better demand and fairly good prices, 

 and on Saturday afternoon there was a 

 clean-up that left scarcely a flower in 

 the wholesale houses. All the traveling 

 men from the eastern states report a de- 

 cided improvement in the tone of busi- 

 ness in that locality, beginning just be- 

 fore the holidays. Perhaps that condi- 

 tion has just moved westward this far. 



We have been having some poor grow- 

 ing weather. It has been warm and 

 springlike one day and cold and raw the 

 next. This has a tendency to shorten the 

 cut and to soften the growth to such an 

 extent as to greatly lower the quality of 



You Need These Seeds 



They are the right kinds for Florists, produced in the right way by the world's best growers. 

 To have choicest cut flowers during the summer, sow now:— 



PIIIMFn TFin^lA Reld's Perfection, a dazzling scarlet of great beauty. E«ch "plume" 

 ■ LvinLi/ vLLvuin produced Is a small bouquet Itself, and 8 or 4 will make a large, 

 brilliant bunch. Trade packet. 25c; per oz., 91.60. 



ASTFR FARIIFST SNOWDRIFT I'he bebt for early cutting: very free flowering. 

 noiLn, LnnuLji JllUTTl/mi I This sort win grow money for the florist who plants 

 it. Trade packet, 25c; H oz., 75c. 



SWEET PEAS IVew Orobld-nowerlne Sorts, Mixad. Rhould be planted largely for 

 critical trade. Your customers will like those lovely, wavy, gigantic flowers 

 much more than the smaller ones of the older sorts. 16c per oz., 80c per pound. 



You'll Want SOME of These BULBS 



They sell readily in your store, and the customer who buys them will be reminded of you 



throughout the growing season. 



CALADIUM ESCULENTUM (Elephant Ear). Extra fine, sound bulbs for high class, 



$2.50; 100, $12.00 

 3.60 " 25.00 

 My Floracroft 



retail city trade : 



Small doz , $0.60; 100, $4.00 Very large doz 



Medium " 1.50 " 8.00 Monsters (average 4ifl in. diam.) " 



GLADIOLI I'he best bulbs that expert care and suitable soil can produce. 



Mixture No. 1 contains the choicest sorts, not usually found in mixtures. 

 $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 1000. 



Everything offered comes up to the STOKES STANDARD of quality. 



Wholesale Catalogue for Florists free on application. 



219 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Summer Blooming Bulbs 



GLADIOLUS 



Per 100 Per 1000 



America $4.00 



May 1.75 



Augusta 1.75 



White and Light, extra 1.75 



Pink 1.50 



Scarlet and Red shades 1.25 



Grofl's Hybrids 2.00 



Giant Childsii. mixed 2.00 



TUBBROBKS 



Mammoth Excelsior Dwarf 

 Pearl 1.00 



$35.00 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 12.50 

 10.60 

 18.00 

 18.00 



8.00 



BEQONIAB 



Per 100 Per 1000 

 Giant flowering, tuberous, single 



rose, scarlet, crimson, yellow, 



white, orange $2.50 $22.50 



Double rose, scarlet, crimson, 



yellow, white, orange 4 50 40.00 



GLOXINIAS 



Separate colors, red. white, blue 3.50 



CALADIUMS 



5 to 7 2.00 



7 to 9 3.50 



9 to 12.... 6.00 



30.00 



15.00 

 30.00 

 65.00 



8KND FOR TRADK CATALOG 



CURRIE BROS. CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



An Excellent Forcing Winter Flower is 



Rawson's New Pink Beauty Lupin 



Seeds sown now will produce immense spikes of beautiful 

 pink blossoms inside of three months. 



FRESH SEEDS ARE READY NOW I Per oi., 80c; 4 oi., $1.00. 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 



6 Union Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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stock. The supply in carnations has been 

 heavy, but there have been signs of a 

 let-up in it. Eoses are not coming so 

 strong. Lilies are fairly scarce and sell 

 well. Violets are not quite so plentiful 

 and good single ones sell well. Sweet 

 peas are good property and find a ready 

 market most of the time, but the price 

 does not average as high as it should. 

 White carnations are all ordered up now 



till after St. Patrick's day. This de- 

 mand has doubled the price of them and 

 there are not enough to go around. 



Green goods of all kinds are selling 

 well. This is a good market for cheap 

 green goods. 



Gub Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Society, 

 held Saturday evening, March 13, in the 



